General precautions
For the first 7 days avoid washing your eyebrows directly and avoid direct contact with the showerhead.
If contact with water happened, gently dry your eyebrows with a clean cotton pad to make sure the tattoo area is completely dry.
Avoid excessive sweating for the first 2 weeks as the skin is still open and can reject the pigment.
Avoid any kind of skincare product and makeup on your eyebrows; as most of these products have regenerative factors inside and may cause infection during the healing or faster fading after the healing.
After that your healing is fully done, the only cream that you can and should use on your eyebrows is sunscreen. Whenever you put it on your face put a good amount on your eyebrows as well.
Day 1
The first day is probably the most exciting of the whole process. You have new eyebrows and you want the world to see them. You may experience some redness, which is normal, but will be gone in couple of hours.
Depending on the time of your treatment (a.m. or p.m.) in the first and second days clean your eyebrows gently every 2 hours right after with those special damp cotton pads that your artist gives you. This prevents the formation of thick crusts.
Day 2-4
After day 2, there should be no more blood. Here, your brows will appear a bit darker than the day before, but don’t worry. The pigment will fade 20% to 40%, which means it won’t be as sharp and strong as it might appear at this time.
Keep the eyebrows still dry and clean.
Day 5-7
This is when everything starts to change. The eyebrow area dries out and begins to flake off. The first thing you will feel is itching.
It is extremely important NOT to scratch your eyebrows at all. You can just push your nails around the eyebrows to decrease the itchiness.
Do not pick the scabs off and let them fall off on their own.
Day 8-10
This stage is probably the hardest days of the whole process. During these days, the crusting process will be even more dramatic. You will see big scabs on your eyebrows, and a faint, hazy and light tattoo appears underneath, because another thin layer of dead skin still covers the area at this stage, which contributes to the blurring, but don’t worry, the dead skin will continue to flake off over the next few weeks.
It is still very important not to pick them.
Day 14-28
This is when your eyebrow tattooing healing process slowly comes to an end.
You will gradually realize that the scabs are gone, your brow color is back and they look better than ever however, there could be some strokes which are missed during the healing process and they still look a little patchy.
The upper layers of skin heal faster than the lower layers. Although your tattoo may look great at this stage, your skin is still healing.
No additional precautions are required at this stage.
Day 30-60
The skin is already healed and this period is the best time for touchups to fix whatever is missed, redo all the strokes, one by one, and put pigments in the same spots to make your eyebrows last longer.
Remember that any permanent makeup is done in a two-sessions procedure and you’ll see the final result after the healing of the second session. It takes patience, and trust, and your artist appreciates your collaboration.