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PUTTING ON LIP LINER OR EYE
LINER AGAIN, OR PLUCKING YOUR
EYE BROWS.. LATER ON THE
NIGHTBEAT, WHETHER PERMANENT
MAKE UP CAN*REALLY DELIVER
THAT FRESH FACE ALL YEAR LONG!
YOU'RE WATCHING W-P-T-V,
SOMEONE WHO WEARS PERMANENT
MAKEUP? YOU MAY NOT EVEN
REALIZE THEY DO. WHY DO
WOMEN AND MEN USE PERMANENT
MAKEUP? AND IS IT RIGHT FOR
YOU? NEWSCHANNEL FIVE'S TANIA
ROGERS SET OUT TO FIND OUT WHY
SOME THINK PERMANENT MAKEUP IS
MORE THAN JUST A FAD.
--"Come on
in Lara. Are you excited? Yes.
Good. Have a seat, we are
going to talk for a few
minutes first, ok". LARA
SOCCORSO WANTS TO ENHANCE HER
LOOKS WITH PERMANENT MAKEUP ON
HER EYEBROWS.
--"Now the
first thing I am going to do
Lara is I am going to take off
the numbing off this side".
SHE IS AMONG THOUSANDS EVERY
YEAR OPTING FOR PERMANENT
MAKEUP... WHICH IS PERMANENT
PIGMENTATION OF THE SKIN, LIKE
A TATTOO. PEOPLE DO IT FOR
VARIOUS REASONS.
--"I do use
a pencil every day on my
eyebrows, so it's nice not to
have to do that little extra
step and it's there all the
time and I do have some areas
of my eyebrow that were a
little lighter than others".
JOANN GERSH, A
MICROPIGMENTATION SPECIALIST
SAYS PERMANENT MAKEUP HAS BEEN
AROUND FOR YEARS... BUT THESE
DAYS IT'S BECOMING MORE
POPULAR. SOME WOMEN WANT
PERMANENT EYEBROWS, EYELINER
OR LIP LINER TO AVOID WASTING
TIME PUTTING ON THE MAKEUP ON
THOSE AREAS EVERY DAY.
--"For
cancer victims as well they
lose their hair. I also do it
on skin tones, any scars that
you have that are white
facelifts, moles that have
been removed. I also work with
plastic surgeons in my field
for those women who have had
breast reconstructive
surgery". SHE SAYS IT'S NOT
LIMITED TO WOMEN... MEN ARE
EVEN DOING IT.
--"Skin
cancer, moles they may have
removed out of their eyebrows
it leaves a little chunk
missing". WHAT GUIDELINES
SHOULD YOU KEEP IN MIND IF YOU
WANT PERMANENT MAKEUP? GERSH
SAYS MAKE SURE THE FACILITY IS
SANITARY AND THAT THE
DISPOSABLE NEEDLES ARE NOT
REUSED. SOME PEOPLE COULD BE
ALLERGIC TO THE INK, MAKE SURE
AN ALLERGY TEST IS DONE FIRST.
--"What I
would do is do a little test
spot behind the ear because it
is a permanent ink". WHAT
ABOUT PERMANENT MAKEUP IN THE
AREAS WHERE SKIN TENDS TO
WRINKLE OR SAG?
--"Where
eyebrows are supposed to be no
matter where that's going to
go naturally with time anyway,
that's where it is going to
be". GERSH SAYS PERMANENT
MAKEUP LASTS BETWEEN THREE TO
FIVE YEARS... SHE SAYS SHE
USES LIGHTER COLORS SO
PATIENTS HAVE NO REGRETS ABOUT
MICROPIGMENTATION. SO HOW DID
LARA LOOK AFTER HAVING A FEW
SPARSE SPACES OF HER EYEBROWS
FILLED IN? THIS IS HOW SHE
LOOKED LIKE BEFORE THE
PROCEDURE... AND THIS IS HER
45 MINUTES LATER.
--"I am
really happy with the results,
so I am going to be really
excited in a couple of weeks
when I see what the color is
really going to look like".
-- THE COST FOR
PERMANENT MAKEUP CAN RANGE
FROM SEVERAL HUNDRED DOLLARS
TO 800 DOLLARS. GERSH SAYS YOU
CAN EXPERIENCE SOME SWELLING
AFTER THE PERMANENT MAKEUP IS
APPLIED, BUT IT'S TEMPORARY.
THE U.S. FOOD AND DRUG
ADMINISTRATION HAS SOME
THOUGHTS ABOUT THE RISKS
INVOLVED IN USING PERMANENT
MAKEUP. FOR THAT, YOU CAN GO
TO OUR WEBSITE AT WPTV.COM.
I'M TANIA ROGERS, NEWSCHANNEL
FIVE. COMING UP IN SPORTS.
TWO WORLDS COME