What is Lip Blushing?
Lip blushing is a softer and more refined version of lip tattoos or permanent lipstick. Our focus is on enhancing your natural lips with pigment, rather than creating a strong makeup look.
Our artists will carefully define and balance your lip shape for a fuller and even appearance.
Depending on the chosen color and lifestyle, touch-ups are required every 2-5 years. Sun bathing, certain skincare products, and
Can you overline the lips to make them look bigger?
Unless you have a lip deformity that you are trying to correct, we usually don't recommend overlining the lips. Your lip tissue is different from your regular skin, and color will absorb and hold differently. If the lips are overlined, the color placed beyond your lip tissue will fade less and be more noticeable. As your lips fade, it will begin to look like you have lip liner on without lipstick.
However, many people's lip color doesn't extend all the way to the edge of their lip tissue, making their lips appear thinner than they actually are. Lip blushing can help to enhance the lips and make them look larger without overlining them by adding color to the full lip.
What kind of pre-care is required?
As a precaution, you will be required to take an anti-viral prescribed by your doctor (i.e. Valtrex). Cold sore outbreaks are often triggered by stress or trauma to the lips and skin and can affect the healing and results. Therefore if you are a carrier, lip blush will likely cause an outbreak unless you are taking an anti-viral. The medication should be taken for a total of 5 days (2 days prior to procedure, 1 day-of, and 2 days post-procedure). Since many people don't know that they are carriers until their first outbreak, there are absolutely NO exceptions to this rule!
Other than that, we recommend no alcohol or caffeine for 24 hours prior to your procedure, and to keep the lips as moisturized and hydrated as possible for a smoother service.
Aphrodite's Secret serves the Greater Lansing Area including East Lansing, Lansing, Okemos, Meridian Charter Township, Bath Township, Holt, and beyond. Contact us for more details or schedule your appointment today!