It’s important to wait until your lips are properly healed (after your 6 week touch up appointment) before making a final judgement about them. This treatment is a two-step process requiring patience (with some clients needing a second touch up) to get the full desired look which won’t be achieved until after your 6 week touch up. At your touch up appointment, we can make any changes you want - a lot of clients go bolder as they have had time to adjust to their new lips and feel more confident with the process.
This is a video of the day to day healing process :
✔ Do • Follow the aftercare properly to allow your lips to heal as well as they should. • Keep your lips as clean and dry, but moisturised, as you can for the first 5-10 days. • Keep your lips moisturised with Aftercare Ointment (Aquatat or whatever is provided) (provided) and a light lip balm for extra moisturizing for the whole healing process • Use an icepack (wrapped in something clean) or take ibuprofen if your lips feel swollen and there is bruising present. • Use a straw whist drinking and avoid salty or spicy food if your lips feel tender for the first few days. ✘ Don’t • Touch, bite or scratch your lips – touching or picking could cause irritation, infection & loss of pigment. • Exercise for at least 2-5 days after your treatment due to sweating. Gentle exercise is okay after the first few days. • Put lip liner, lipstick, lip gloss, cleansers, lotions etc. on or close to your lips for 1-2 weeks to avoid irritation & cross contamination. • Use saunas, steam rooms or swimming pools for 1 week due to sweating, risk of getting your lips wet & hygiene. • Have facials or other face beauty treatments done for 1 week to avoid irritation & cross contamination. • Have lip fillers or use sunbeds, chemical peels or any strong face treatment for 4 weeks as your skin will not be healed enough. • Use anti-aging creams, chemical peels, acids or retinols on or close to your lips ever! These products strip the skin / change your skin and the chemicals in them will react and affect with the pigment / retention. Other things that can contribute to premature fading: Frequent exercising & sweating / Oily skin / Fast metabolism / Iron deficiency / Hypo/er thyroidism / Hormone replacement medications / Other daily medications / Smoking / Sunbeds & sunbathing / Not using sun protection / Excessive exfoliating / Harsh cleansers or anti-aging products - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Cleaning – Immediately after until end of tomorrow With your lip blush complete we want to prevent a build-up of lymph fluid on your lips. Lymph build up on the lips looks like little yellow / white bubbles which can also be mistaken for small cold sores. To prevent this from happening use a wipe whenever you feel your lips need cleansing and then dab dry (probably 4-5 times a day). Apply After Inked throughout the day as often as needed. Cleaning - Day 3 until the film has lifted Your lips should have a thin film on top of them by now and will be feeling pretty tight and possibly sore (this won’t last long). The film indicates that the skin underneath is healing. At this point, you no longer need to clean your lips unless you want to give them a wipe after eating / drinking, but you will want to keep your lips moisturised with After Inked / other lip balm throughout the day. After the film has lifted Your lips may stay dry for a few weeks but keeping them moisturised will reduce the feeling of them being tight / chapped / itchy / cracked. Although your lips may feel healed, lipsticks tend to dry your lips out, so if you must wear something on them, a tinted gloss would be the better option. It’s not uncommon to have a ‘second peel’ with lips so just keep your lips hydrated. Your lips will look lighter than when freshly done. Do not panic – you have healing skin over your lips which is thicker than normal skin. You should see some colour pop back through around week 4 once your healing skin has settled. You can return to your usual face washing / make up routine but you still need to be careful with your lips. Although your skin will look healed, it is still recovering under the surface and you need to be gentle for the full 6 weeks. Your skin will be fragile and may still be a bit tender, so don't exfoliate or use anything harsh that may damage your regenerating skin. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Top tips • When cleaning, make sure you are cleansing firmly enough so that you are actually cleaning your lips, but not too hard that you’re hurting yourself, irritating the tattoo or pulling the peel off. • If you're getting closer to day 10 and still have a lot of flakes left, you probably haven't been cleaning firmly enough or keeping them moisturised enough and you'll need to cleanse and moisturise more to assist the film coming away.