How to prepare, and
what happens afterwards

Before your appointment

• Come to the consultation ready to go through your health history, any medications you take and any allergies — we do that before anything is booked.
• Tell me if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. There are situations where I will not proceed, and I would rather know at consultation than on the day.
• Bring your goals in plain language. If what you are describing would be better served by a different treatment, I will say so.
• Set aside about an hour for the appointment itself.
• Lips are a sensitive area. If you would rather take the appointment slowly or stop partway for a moment, say so — we work at your pace.

After your appointment

• Ask me anything you are unsure about before you leave. Specific instructions for your lips come from me at the appointment, not from a page.
• This is a treatment people maintain over time rather than have once, so it is worth thinking about it as a routine rather than a single event.
• How your lips hold the result depends on you — your metabolism, your lips and your habits. We will talk through a realistic interval for you rather than a quoted average.
• If anything about how your lips are settling concerns you, message me. I would always rather hear from you than have you wondering.

Before your appointment

• Come ready to talk about your skin rather than about a photo. Skin type decides most of the technique choice — oily skin blurs fine strokes, so powder or nano tends to hold better.
• Tell me about any previous brow work, existing pigment or scarring in the area. It changes what I can do and how I approach it.
• Think about how much upkeep you actually want. Some people want to forget about their brows entirely; others enjoy the ritual.
• Set aside about three hours.
• Nothing is tattooed until the shape is mapped to your face and you have looked at it and agreed. Take your time at that stage — that is what it is there for.

After your appointment

• Expect the brows to look considerably darker and sharper than the finished result for the first week. That is pigment sitting in the upper layers of skin before it settles.
• Around days five to ten the surface flakes and the colour underneath looks patchy and far too light. This is the stage where people worry. It is normal.
• Give it four to six weeks before you judge the result. The colour comes back up as the pigment settles into the deeper layer.
• Plan for a follow-up appointment several weeks after the first session. Skin does not always take pigment evenly on the first pass, and the second visit is where the work gets refined.
• Sun exposure is one of the things that decides how long your brows last, alongside technique, skin type and aftercare — so sun protection is part of keeping them.
• Follow the specific instructions I give you at the appointment. If you are worried at any point during healing, message me rather than sitting with it.

Before your appointment

• Shave the area beforehand. You do not need to grow the hair out the way you would for waxing — the laser needs the pigment below the surface, not above it.
• Avoid sun exposure and tanning in the run-up to your appointment.
• Do not wax, pluck or thread the area between sessions. Those remove the follicle the laser is aiming at.
• I will give you the full list of what to do when you book, and it is worth following it as written.

After your appointment

• Keep to the spacing we plan. Hair grows in cycles and each session only affects the follicles that are in their active growth phase that day, which is exactly why a single session cannot finish the job.
• Shaving between sessions is fine and expected. Waxing, plucking and threading are not.
• Sun and tanning matter in the run-up to every session, not only the first one.
• Expect meaningful thinning partway through the series rather than a finished result after one visit.
• Anything specific to your skin and the area treated comes from me at the appointment.

Before your appointment

• Come in, or send photos first, so I can see the piece. Nobody can give you an accurate estimate from a description.
• If you are coming about cosmetic tattooing that did not go well elsewhere, tell me what was done and roughly when.
• Expect a realistic session estimate before you commit to anything, including an honest read on whether the piece will fully clear.
• Allow up to about an hour per session, depending on the size of the piece.

After your appointment

• Give it time between sessions. The fading continues after you leave as your body carries the broken-up ink away, and rushing the next appointment does not speed that up.
• Judge progress across sessions rather than on the day of one.
• Colour matters to how it goes. Black ink generally responds most readily; some greens, light blues and certain white or flesh-toned pigments are genuinely stubborn.
• Follow the specific aftercare instructions I give you for your piece and your skin at the appointment.

Before your appointment

• Which of the two suits you depends on your skin, the area you want treated and what you are trying to achieve. We work that out at consultation rather than in advance.
• Set aside about an hour for the session.
• You do not need to clear your calendar afterwards — you can go back to your normal day straight after the appointment.
• Come with realistic expectations. This is lifting and tightening for mild to moderate laxity, not a facelift, and I will tell you honestly if it will not deliver what you are picturing.

After your appointment

• Some redness or mild tenderness in the treated area is normal and settles quickly.
• Do not judge the result in the first fortnight. You are not seeing the effect of the machine, you are seeing your body rebuild over the following weeks and months.
• Most people notice the change somewhere between two and three months out, and it can keep developing after that.
• Some people notice a mild tightening early on, but the real result is the slow one. That is worth knowing before you start looking in the mirror on day three.
• Anything specific to your skin and the area treated comes from me at the appointment.