Lip blushing is a cosmetic tattooing procedure that uses colorful, natural pigments to enhance your lips’ natural color, shape, and definition.

Also known as aquarelle lip blushing, a lip blush tattoo helps enhance your natural lip color and shape by creating the illusion of fullness. This soft tattoo technique works by adding color to the skin for a healthy flushed look. The result is a bright and youthful appearance to the lips – a velvet lip blush.

The lip blush process involves minimal pain, easy healing, and no downtime. Do you want a slight reshape, more volume, the look of naturally blushed lips or a lipstick appearance? Our expert artists will make your velvet lip dreams come true.

Most people think lip blushing is for 20-somethings, but this is not the case. Sure, lip blush is a fun addition to your look. That’s especially true if you’re hoping to add volume, shape, and color (with or without fillers).

However, lip blush is also amazing for those whose lips are fading or thinning due to age. A good candidate for lip blush may meet one or all of the following criteria:

• Clients of all ages who’d like to add color back into their lips, so they appear healthy and full.
• Mature clients hoping to reshape and redefine their lips for a youthful look.
• Anyone hoping to cover discoloration, scarring, or asymmetry.
• Clients with filler who have lost their natural shape and color.
• Clients who may wish to have a bold lip color and ditch the makeup!
• Clients in the service industry who are far too busy to apply lipstick all day.
• Clients with busy schedules who want to wake up and look refreshed daily. 

Proper preparation is key to achieving the best results from your permanent makeup appointment. Preparing for lip blush tattooing is essential. It can help prevent complications or issues during the procedure. The right preparation also ensures your lips are in the best possible condition, which leads to a longer-lasting outcome.

Prepare for your lip blushing treatment with these simple steps:

• Hydrate and exfoliate a few days prior.
• 24 hours prior, stay away from alcohol, caffeine, and other blood thinners. This is important as they can cause excessive bleeding, which can stop the pigments from setting. 
• You should be free of antibiotics for 4 weeks and not pregnant or breastfeeding.
• Fillers or Botox should heal a minimum of 4 weeks in advance of your lip blushing appointment.
• If you are prone to cold sores, please talk to your doctor. They can prescribe cold sore medication for before and after the appointment.

A lip blush tattoo appointment will take 2 to 2 ½ hours from start to finish. This includes consultation and shape drawing.

Before your artist begins the lip blushing procedure, they will apply a topical anesthetic cream to your lips. This prevents you from feeling pain during the process.

Most guests do not feel any discomfort during the lip blushing procedure itself. Some experience a mild scratching or pinching sensation.

With that said, all guests have unique pain tolerance thresholds. Our most sensitive guests rank the experience between 2 and 4 on the standard pain scale. Many of them rank getting a traditional tattoo much higher. In fact, several have said getting their eyebrows waxed was more painful!

It is normal for your lips to feel sensitive for several days following your appointment. To reduce sensitivity, avoid hot drinks and salty or spicy foods.

A lip blush tattoo cared for properly will last anywhere between 1-3 years.

Lip blush tattoos are not completely permanent because our lips constantly regenerate. This is a good thing because as our lifestyles change, so do our lip color preferences.

For example, if you go from red hair to blonde, you may wish to change the undertones of your lips! 

You can apply a lip blush tattoo every 6 months after your initial appointment. A touch-up allows the ultimate flexibility for color direction or sheerness level. 

While a lip blush tattoo can last for 1-3 years, lifestyle and skin type can impact how long the effects last. 

Things like smoking, sun exposure, excessively oily skin, exfoliation, and iron deficiencies can speed up the loss of color.

Also, those with dark lips or deep purple undertones may need refreshers more often to keep the color strong. In these situations, having your lip blush tattooed every 6-12 months will keep those lips constantly beautiful.

Dark Lip Neutralization is a specialized treatment series for those with cool or dark lips in which we neutralize the darkness in the lips to reach a desired color. We look at your lips and neutralize them by cancelling out the original color. With dark lip neutralization, we include the initial appointment as well as 2 touch ups, if needed. Each session is spread out at least 6 weeks apart. It may take 1-3 sessions to achieve your look, and there are special cases in which additional sessions are needed. Typically, we will do dark lip neutralization in those who are Fitzpatrick Scale 3 and up.

Permanent lip liner and lip color treatments can improve the appearance of lips for both women and men. It helps the lips to appear more defined and fuller, without surgery or fillers. These lip treatments can also aid in restoring color to lips that are too pale or need that extra something!