Enhancing Your Natural Beauty with Expert Lip Tattooing
Explore how our specialized lip tattooing services address common concerns, delivering lasting color and definition.
Long-Lasting Lip Color
Our permanent makeup technique ensures vibrant, smudge-proof lip color that enhances your confidence every day. A followup session may be necessary at 6–8 weeks to refine the shape and color once healed.
Customized Shade Selection
We personalize pigment choices to complement your skin tone and preferences, creating a natural, flattering look.
Comfortable and Safe Procedure
We use a pre-procedure numbing agent and reapply during the procedure . We want your experience to be comfortable. Natural red heads may not experience the full affect of the numbing agents.
💄 Service Description: The Lip Tattooing Process
Pre-Procedure Preparation
If you get cold sores you will need an antiviral prescription. Physician usually instructs to begin taking it 3 days before procedure, for a 7-10 day course.
Follow these steps for the best comfort, color retention, and healing:
Eat a light meal before you arrive; this keeps you relaxed and comfortable during the procedure.
Hydrate well for several days before your appointment. Soft, moisturized lips absorb pigment more evenly.
Gently exfoliate your lips 24 hours before using a soft toothbrush and baking soda or sugar scrub.
Avoid alcohol, caffeine, and blood thinners (aspirin, ibuprofen, fish oil, vitamin E) for 5 days before unless prescribed by your doctor.
Do not use lip plumpers or retinol products near the lips before your session.
Avoid tanning, chemical peels, or facial treatments within one week of your appointment.
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Consultation & Design
Shape & Color: We begin with a thorough consultation to discuss your desired color, shape, and overall look.
Items to bring: You may bring your favorite lip color or a picture of your desired color and you may bring a friend with you.
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The Tattooing Session
Numbing & Preparation – A topical anesthetic is applied to keep you comfortable. Most clients describe only mild pressure or vibration.
Pigment Implantation – Using a cosmetic tattoo machine, pigment is gently layered across the lips for even, natural color.
Final Check – Once finished, we review symmetry, color balance, and aftercare together before you leave.
The full procedure usually takes 2–3 hours, including consultation and numbing time.
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What to Expect After Your Appointment
Lips will appear brighter and darker immediately after—this is normal and will lighten 30–50% as they heal.
Mild swelling, tightness, or tenderness may last 24–48 hours. Your lips will feel dry.
Expect light flaking or peeling within the first week. Avoid picking or peeling to prevent pigment loss.
Healing time is typically 7–10 days, with full color settling after 4–6 weeks.
You will be given detailed aftercare instructions and products to aid in healing. Use the products for 2 weeks.
Contraindications
For your safety, lip tattooing is not recommended for clients who:
- Have active cold sores, fever blisters, or open wounds on or near the lips
- Have taken Accutane within the past 12 months
- Are pregnant
- Have uncontrolled diabetes, bleeding disorders, or autoimmune conditions that affect healing
- Tell us if you are taking blood-thinning medications, (consult your doctor before stopping any prescription)
- Have had recent lip fillers or injections (wait at least 4–6 weeks before tattooing)
- Have skin infections, rashes, or sunburn in the lip area
- are prone to cold sores, please take an antiviral medication (such as Valtrex or Famvir) prescribed by your physician 2–3 days before and after your appointment to help prevent an outbreak.
- have had any type of lip surgery, consult with the physician about how long you should wait before having a permanent makeup procedure on the lips. Most physicians are giving a 3 week ok after lip filler injections like collagen or Restylane.
- Permanent makeup artists have noticed poor color retention in lips that have received collagen injections within the previous 6 months, longer for restylane. There has even been a little pigment migration along lip edges with Restylane. It may be best not to have lip filler injections and permanent lip color within the same year. If the lip surgery involves an incision (like a lip implant), the incision needs to mature about 6 months before tattooing on top of it.
- Oral prosthesis dentures/ partials/ braces and tongue piercing bars may increase risk of getting bacterial and/or fungal infection from the mouth to the lips. Frequent or recent sinus infection puts lips at risk of infection. Denture wearers generally carry a higher candida/ yeast count. Cutaneous candidiasis/ candidosis is more common in older women (angular stomatitis – perlèche, angular cheilitis).
- Recent antiobiotic therapy can be responsible for a high candida count. Steroid medications and antacid drugs can allow candida to overpopulate. Smokers tend to have a high count also. Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t there. The bacteria-yeast balance in the mouth can get out of whack, and the oral saliva will get in the holes made by tattooing lips. Lips can get infected easily. Bacterial infections clear up more quickly than Candida Albicans infections. It is possible to have a co-infection when both bacteria and fungus are involved. It is possible to get a candida infection right after clearing up a bacterial infection.
Lip Tattoo Healing-
In Depth
This section describes the details about the lip tattoo healing process.
After the numbing wears off your lips will feel sunburned for a few hours. You may take ibprofen if approved by your doctor.
Lips will ooze for a couple of days. 4x a day use Block Tonic and reapply Skin Candy ointment especially upon waking, after eating and before bed. In between using Block Tonic and Skin Candy blot with a paper towel.
Drink through a straw. Choose foods you can place in your mouth with a fork without touching your lips.
Do not excessively stretch lips while they are healing with big smiles, or pucker lips with smoking. Those motions push and pull against the lip edges, applying tension and friction between the strong normal skin surrounding the mouth and the broken inflamed lip edges. Lip skin is a continuation of the delicate mucous membrane in the mouth. It is not strong like normal skin.
On the third day, lips stop oozing and start peeling. This is when the chapped lip feeling is strongest. You may relieve the chapped lip feeling by lightly massaging the lips with a thick coating of Vaseline and making gentle circular motions with one finger. Blot the Vaseline off with a paper towel and apply a thin layer of Skin Candy. (The light, wet massage helps get loose skin off that is ready to come off without yanking out skin that is not ready to come off. The massage relieves the chapped feeling for several hours, then it returns, and you can massage again.)
Lips will peel for a week. Other than the massage mentioned above, allow it to flake off on its own. Picking and pulling off skin that is not ready to come off will cause pigment loss and can pull out deeper tissue. The edges or lip liner will be the last to fall off. Pulling this off will result in an uneven splotchy line or an indented scar (like messing with a pimple).
Try to keep toothpaste off lips while healing.
Do not have teeth bleached while healing.
During the peeling process it may look like there is not much color there. Color is more apparent by the second week. Final result is not judged for 2 months.
It is normal to have discomfort or a feeling of pressure the day of the lip procedure. The next day should be minimal. If you begin having pain on the 3rd or 4th day after being pain-free, it is a signal that something is wrong. It is usually one of three things: 1) Infection, 2) Cold sore,
After the lips are healed over and all is well, they still feel more chapped than normal. The chapped feeling subsides over a period of weeks to months. Certain lip balms create the problem. Do not use anything made for cold sores or blisters (carmex, blistex) because although they initially feel moisturizing, they turn around and dry the lips out. Some do more damage than that, especially if applied on broken lip tissue during the healing process. Applying vitamin E will usually help.his is the first feature description.