- Lips -

• Do bring pictures or your favorite lipstick shade to your appointment.
• Avoid taking vitamin E, aspirin, and Ibuprofen 48 hours prior to your appointment.
• Make sure you do not have sunburn, chapped cracked or sore lips before your appointment.
• 3 days before treatment exfoliate your lips and keep them well hydrated by using either Vaseline or a lip balm.
• If you have had any fever blisters please take l-lysine one week before your lip procedure.
• If you have had definite cold sore outbreaks when you stress or get sunburned obtain a prescription for antiviral medication before your treatment, this will counter the possibility of having cold sores/fever blisters after your lip treatment.

Why can fever blisters happen after a lip procedure?

If you have had chickenpox or a herpetic Outbreak the virus is in your system, even if you have had a cold sore when you were 5 there is always a chance you will develop one after a lip blush procedure as lip trauma is caused. In order to avoid this occurrence, it is suggested you start taking antiviral medication one week Prior to your lip treatment.

• Apply the lip balm given as after care after your appointment, your lips will be very dry while healing.
• Do not pick your scabs, if a scab is protruding you may cut the excess hanging with a nail clipper or a small scissors.
• Avoid spicy foods.
• If you are a smoker buy plastic filters to put over the cigarette filter, normal filters have shown to pull out pigment.
• Try not to get toothpaste on your lips while brushing your teeth.
• Avoid sun exposure and exercise for 2 weeks.
• drink lukewarm or hot beverages through a straw for the first few days.
• Avoid lip liners, lipsticks, lip gloss, cleansing lotions for a one to two weeks to avoid contamination.
• Avoid swimming pools for one week.
• Avoid having lip fillers 4 weeks post your lip blush treatment.
• Avoid chemical peels or any strong facial treatments for 4 weeks.

It is important to review this list prior to your booking at beauty evolution, clients who have any of the listed contraindications will not be good candidates for permanent make up procedures, I take the proper precautions to ensure the best possible outcome before and after your treatment and your safety is my first priority.

• Under 18 ( parental consent needed)
• Pregnancy
• Breastfeeding
• Cancer
• Chemotherapy, usually 6 months, needs a patient release form from the oncologist
• Leukemia
• Glaucoma ( no eyeliner)
• Allergy to anesthetics ( lidocaine, tetracaine, benzocaine, epinephrine)
• Blood-thinning medication/Anticoagulant medications eg (warfarin)
• Acne medications ( isotretinoin, Roaccutane, Retin A, Differin gel
• The use of Accutane within the past year.
• Retin A and Retinol should be stopped 7 days before, and should not be used 3 weeks after your procedure. Using it too soon can cause your pigment to fade
• Severe acne outbreak in and around the brow area
• Diabetes type 1 (doctors approval required if insulin resistant )
• Bleeding disorders ie. Hemophilia A or B (doctors approval required)
• Active herpes outbreak ( cold sores )
• Psoriasis or eczema on or around the area to be treated
• Epilepsy (doctors approval required)
• Nickel allergy

Please notify me if you have had any previous work done and send me a picture of your brows without any make up on so I can assess , your brows need to be 50% faded for correction to be done. If your brows are still saturated with a lot of pigment or have unfavorable color saline or laser removal would be the best option to lift the old pigment and create new brows.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free contact me.