Lip Blushing enhances your natural lip color and definition using cosmetic tattoo techniques to create a soft, refreshed, and youthful lip appearance. I help choose colors tailored to your skin tone and desired style. There are a lot of artists out there advertising they can make your lips bigger and overline your lips. If an artist guarantees that they will overline and make you lips bigger you need to make sure to ask more questions.
- Can you make my lips bigger?
- Do you overline the lips?
- Do you tattoo on just the lips or past it?
- Will I ever be able to remove with a laser?
Now I will answer what the questions should be. Now everyone answers questions differently and so someone's answers might actually mean the same or might not understand the question if they are new or have a language barrier. I have seen some scary results that I would recommend removing. Before you choose your artist and go in to get this procedure done I want you to be prepared what are answers or questions that you should be careful of how you ask and how they answer.
There are a lot of artists that could answer to the question of yes to can you make your lips bigger so that doesn't necessarily mean they should be a no go. The follow up questions should give you a more definitive answer. If they say yes than ask do you overline my lips? or can you? and if they say yes ask how do you know how far you can go out? If they answer with I just see what looks best, or how far you want me to go, or anything other than "Technically you can't go outside of your lip skin, but if you have lost pigment in your lips or they are imbalanced we can go out to your vermillion border."
 What that means is NO ARTIST should go outside of the vermillion border for any reason. And how you can look is if you look closely you can see peach fuzz, pores and sometimes the texture of your skin goes in lines up to the skin and stops sometimes you can have fine lines that go past your lip skin. ALL of these things can help tell you where your lip skin ends. If they try to map your lips and draw past any of those things Pores, Peach fuzz, lines and texture look different, If you see dots those usually are your pores.
The rule is if you want to balance your lip size, shape, or make them more symmetrical or any bigger you can go up to a certain point. If one side is higher than the other you need to choose the highest point of your lowest side because if you go on the highest side of the highest side in order to match that side you will be tattooing on non lip skin. I hope that makes sense when you read this. You never want to draw on non lip skin they heal differently. You can't laser colors that have white or titanium mixed in or it can turn gray so usually saline or glycolic removal is best around the lips or on the lips.Â
I personally as a makeup artist of 19 years don't like overlining the lips even with makeup, but with permanent makeup you definitely don't want to have that permanently on your face. It can look smudged, fake, too big, and that you drew on your lips not on your lips. you also don't want to take the outer edges or corners of your mouth to wide or you can look like those claymation animations. Don't do it and don't let someone do it to you. So in the same regard you can't go outside of your vermillion lip border you don't have to tattoo all of the lip skin. Create a beautiful shape within the lip skin that you can see.
When choosing a color remember with lip blushing you lose anywhere from 60-80% of lip blushing color depending on how pigmented and how much the artist implants the color during the procedure. The more passes over the same area the more pigmented and darker it can be when it heals. If you want a more natural color you can do a more sheer look and have them do less passes or dilute the color. The one complaint I have had with people that have gotten lip blushing is they wish they had gone darker or brighter. Remember that when choosing a color. If you are worried you can always do two sessions.
Taking all of that into consideration can you get your lips to look more defined, fuller, and a brighter or darker color. Absolutely. But everyone starts out with so much lip space and lip skin. Appreciate what God gave you and if you want a better color, more definition, and possibly slightly fuller looking lips; lip blushing might be a perfect fit. Just make sure you choose the right artist.
If you are at all unsure really look at healed results. See if they have any videos of healed results. See if any of their clients tag them in after pics or healed results. I know everyone is looking for the best deal and cheapest option. Just remember you might regret not paying a bit more when you have to pay almost double to get removed and do it again. I just want to make sure everyone chooses the right artist for them and gets the results that they want :) Hope this helps
Angela Lealaogata
Professional Makeup Artist
and Permanent Makeup Artist
