Let’s be sincere, tattooing lips is usually a main problem for any artist!
Not like different areas of facial pores and skin corresponding to brows or eyeliner, the lip tissue is definitely an energetic mucous membrane. The floor is lower than paper skinny and the feel is usually delicate, bouncy, and wrinkled. Lips are additionally blood-filled, able to leak lymphatic fluid/plasma, and sometimes lubricated with saliva – which may all intrude with a easy tattooing course of. The lips are additionally extremely delicate, making it very tough for the purchasers to endure the method of tattooing.
For very best outcomes, artists should proceed with warning and discover ways to deal with this advanced tissue.
Errors are widespread until you perceive each what to do and what to not do.
Listed here are the most typical errors and learn how to keep away from them:
1. A poor stretch will have an effect on your potential to implant pigment
If the lips will not be stretched flat and held tautly, your needle will bounce on the floor prefer it’s leaping off a trampoline, thus inflicting undue trauma as an alternative of pigment deposit. That is most evident while you tattoo then wipe, and are left with no hint of pigment deposit within the pores and skin. It doesn’t matter how lengthy you’re employed, the pigment won’t correctly and uniformly implant till your stretch is perfected.
Earlier than the needle even enters the pores and skin, it should be fully easy and devoid of any gathering of the lip tissue. Understand that skinny, mature, or dehydrated lips might require much more stretching than youthful pores and skin, since they might have much less collagen. Make sure you stretch further nicely in order that the pores and skin is taut.
Stretching strategies by Ramona Krusinskiene, courtesy of The Collective course: Airbrushed Aquarelle
Hold these useful suggestions in thoughts to additional enhance your stretching method:
- Concentrate on stretching the world flat sufficient so your needle can enter the pores and skin between 80-100 levels for minimal trauma. Your machine and needle needs to be comparatively perpendicular to the floor of your stretched lip part.
- Enhance the effectivity of your stretch by utilizing lip guards, lip rolls, or gauze within the mouth. As an alternative of stretching and urgent the lips in opposition to your consumer’s tooth, the mouthguard or gauze will supply assist and stretch out the lip tissue to “prop it up” and flatten the lip out. You’ll save a lot effort in your stretching hand because the lip guard/ gauze is doing lots of the stretching job for you!
- This method considerably eases the burden in your stretching hand. Cotton rolls or lip guards grow to be particularly helpful when engaged on purchasers with uneven tooth, as these boundaries assist to even out the underlying floor you might be stretching on.
Jasmine Diebelius demonstrates learn how to execute this method
- Stretch the lips between two fingers in small 1-3 cm stretches to manage the lip tissue. It’s quite a bit simpler to make a small space taut vs. a bigger space. This contains horizontal and vertical stretches whereas holding and rolling the lips. Scale back your stretching and maintain measurement and watch the colour deposit quite a bit simpler!
- Modify your finger positioning and transfer your remoted stretch as you enter every new part. Oftentimes, individuals neglect to isolate and transfer.
- When you can’t stretch the lip flat, gently pinch the lip as an alternative. Pinching the lip tissue will create the flat floor rigidity it’s essential to deposit into the pores and skin with out bouncing. The “squeeze and pinch” stretch is completed by gently pinching the pores and skin collectively right into a roll to create rigidity within the pores and skin. This method will “bunch” the pores and skin collectively tautly. It’s primarily used when tattooing the lip define the place a decent stretch is tough to realize.
Jasmine Diebelius demonstrates the pinching method whereas utilizing a 5U CF to stipulate
2. Inconsistent working steps adopted by inconsistent hand actions
In case your general method is inconsistent, you will notice an inconsistent outcome like a blotchy implantation of colour.
Possibly you end up leaping round to totally different sections of the lips whereas working, attempting your finest to fill in numerous areas of undersaturation as they catch your eye. Maybe you might be shifting your hand pace as you method totally different anatomical areas, or making use of extra stress in sections which might be more difficult to implant. You might even begin with a clear define solely to later lose monitor of it, altering up your method mid-procedure from an outlined lip to a borderless lip.
Any of those inconsistencies in your working steps or actions can result in uneven pigment distribution, irregular colour saturation, and an general lack of concord in your completed outcome.
To treatment this, attempt to comply with these constant working steps, so as:
- Define the higher lip adopted by the decrease lip in two passes, ranging from the left to the correct aspect.
- Then, fill the higher lip adopted by the decrease lip in 2-3 constant passes, ensuring to solely work 1-2 cm sections at a time.
- Lastly, do one remaining move to fill in any weak or lacking spots.
Diagram by Ramona Krusinskiene, courtesy of The Collective course: Airbrushed Aquarelle
Your needle actions needs to be regular and constant, along with your sections overlapping one another by 50%. Work from one finish of the lip to the opposite, being cautious to not leap round. Your pendulum actions ought to settle to a steady and monotonous tempo. You SHOULD NOT fluctuate your pace and actions from space to space, part to part. Your hand ought to preserve a gentle and fixed back-and-forth motion.
Your stress additionally must be mild and uniform all through. Bear in mind, we’re not digging or pushing, however solely sweeping the very tip of the needle taper throughout the pores and skin. It’s best to simply barely be capable of really feel the vibration out of your machine in your stretching fingers. To observe this delicate stress, strive on an inflated balloon! If the balloon pops, you might be too heavy-handed and could be inflicting harm to the lip tissue.
It’s regular to pause to change needles or change actions throughout transitions. Nonetheless, working in an unplanned method with rushed and erratic actions will end in blotchy outcomes. It is possible for you to to obviously see proof of an absence of constant actions as soon as the lips are healed. Don’t neglect to take your time and breathe!
Ramona Krusinskiene demonstrates a easy, regular hand pace, courtesy of The Collective course: Airbrushed Aquarelle
3. Inflicting extreme trauma to the lips
Extreme swelling and tissue trauma occur while you work over the identical areas repeatedly, resulting from lack of pigment deposit.
To keep away from this trauma, the needle should enter at a constant angle over lips which might be taut so the needle could make a easy, direct entry out and in of the pores and skin. The extra effectively you get the pigment into the pores and skin, the much less tissue trauma is brought on, and the higher the end result.
To additional decrease trauma, make sure to hone your needle and stretching strategies so you may maximize your pigment deposit per move.
Understand that swelling is regular and easily unavoidable for some purchasers. Some individuals will simply naturally swell greater than others! One method to assist scale back swelling is to finish a complete part of the lips with a number of passes in a single space earlier than transferring on to the subsequent part, with out returning to that first space.
Ramona Krusinskiene demonstrates shading, courtesy of The Collective course: Airbrushed Aquarelle
Extreme trauma can even result in extreme bleeding. When you see important bleeding, be certain that to reassess your stretch and your method. Within the occasion of extreme fluid (ie, saliva, blood), you may strive holding tissue or gauze on in your stretching hand to soak up the fluids and forestall slipping of your fingertips whilst you’re stretching.
You can even use a cotton spherical or tissue in your stretching hand to forestall “slip” in your fingers and supply a approach to shortly clear up the slip/fluids as you’re employed.
- Place the cotton or tissue straight underneath your stretching fingers as you progress alongside the world
- Continuously change out the cotton or tissue so you might be all the time working with a dry one and instantly discard it as soon as it’s moist
Jasmine Diebelius demonstrates this anti-slip method, courtesy of The Collective course: Lip Magic
On-line programs are a implausible approach to refresh your information and introduce new suggestions and strategies. Nonetheless, when studying lips, in-person coaching is totally vital. To shorten your studying curve, make sure to get 1 on 1, real-life instruction, and suggestions from a seasoned artist who has a monitor document of nice outcomes. The coach will be capable of information you thru correct method, stretches, physique place, and extra.
4. Poor ache administration results in a poor consumer expertise and subpar outcomes
Ache management is without doubt one of the most hectic issues for artists to take care of as a result of if the consumer can not tolerate the ache and discomfort of the process, it’s exhausting for the artist to focus and full their job.
Everybody will expertise some stage of discomfort, however the ache needs to be delicate and short-lived (no more than 3 hours). Setting expectations for consolation and controlling the ache through the course of makes the process extra manageable for each artist and consumer.
Listed here are some tricks to preserve your consumer as comfy as doable:
- Apply a main, topical anesthetic corresponding to Zensa with 5% lidocaine for 20 minutes earlier than the process. This may be carried out earlier than or after you full the sketch. Occlude with a barrier/cling movie to forestall it from drying out.
- As well as, apply a secondary numbing gel/liquid with epinephrine, like Tag #45 or Extremely Period, 1-2 instances all through the process to take care of ache management and scale back bleeding.
- *Don’t overuse the secondary product, as epinephrine constricts blood stream and might trigger the lips to really feel “hardened’ and stiff which makes it exhausting to tattoo.
- Alternatively, you may go for a 2-in-1 most power numbing product with lidocaine and phenylephrine like IceCream™ Topical Anesthetic, which is efficient as each a main and secondary numbing resolution. IceCream™ may be utilized as a pre-numb on closed pores and skin and re-applied as wanted all through the process with none pores and skin hardening.
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- Hold a chilly compress useful to appease the lips and convey down swelling. Ensure to wrap it fully in barrier/cling movie, after which with a delicate tissue or clear paper towel. Apply the compress for 3-5 minutes throughout breaks to appease your consumer and preserve them calm. They are going to actually respect this. You may even do that after the process so your consumer walks out with little to no swelling and decreased stress.
After the process, you may take away the wrappings, sanitize the compress with alcohol, and ship it residence with them of their aftercare bag to reuse on and off all through that first day of therapeutic.
For a disposable possibility, simply fill a small ziplock bag with water and 2-3 ice cubes to make a relaxing baggie. Use and toss!
Don’t neglect to set reasonable expectations by way of form and colour, and put together your consumer for the therapeutic course of by exhibiting them loads of earlier than, therapeutic, and after pictures forward of their process.
Submit lip blush therapeutic course of by Jasmine Diebelius, courtesy of The Collective course: Lip Magic
Take a look at a few of our favourite healed lip transformations beneath! 
Healed lips by Jasmine Diebelius created with Lust Pink Coral & Envy Cinnamon with PIXL 3RL 0.25mm
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Earlier than & healed lips by Ramona Krusinskiene created with Envy Nude, Dusty Pink, & Wine with PIXL 0.25mm 1RL LT
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Earlier than & healed lips by Jasmine Diebelius created with Envy Dusty Pink, Cinnamon, & Nude with PIXL 0.25mm 1RL LT & 3RL
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Earlier than, after, & healed lips by Ramona Krusinskiene created with Envy Dusty Pink, Lust Flame, & Envy Wine with PIXL 0.25mm 1RL LT & 3RL
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Earlier than, after, & healed lips by Jasmine Diebelius created with Envy Nude & Dusty Pink
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Earlier than, after, & healed lips by Ramona Krusinskiene created with Lust Comfortable Crimson & Peach with PIXL 0.25mm 1RL LT & 3RL
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Earlier than, after, & healed lips by Jasmine Diebelius created with Envy Cinnamon & Dusty Pink
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Earlier than & healed neutralization after 1 and a couple of periods by Jasmine Diebelius created with Lust Excellent Pink & Orange Coral
*Lip neutralization is a complicated method that requires specialised coaching, beneficial for artists with at the very least 1 12 months of lip expertise.
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