![]() When you become familiar with working with different skin types, you start to understand if you need to treat your canvas like tissue paper, a paper towel or a piece of cardboard. ![]() Skin structure breakdown from Ombré Brows online courseĪnother good way to think about correct depth is to contrast slicing a piece of tissue paper, slicing a paper towel or slicing cardboard. In order for the color to stay, you’ll need to microblade to the upper dermis, but no further. ![]() The truth is, it’s very tricky as every client has a different skin type and often the skin will be much thinner at the tail of the brows than the bulb of the brow. So how do you figure out the perfect depth? If you go too deep, you can cause scarring and the color will heal too ashy. If your technique is proper, you should get to the correct depth in 2 consecutive passes.ĭepth is critical because if you go too shallow you will only land in the epidermis, and the color won’t stay. A tell-tale sign that you’ve hit the “ sweet spot”, is when you see a fine split in the skin and/or very slight pinpoint bleeding. Once you know your client's skin 'food' profile, you will know its tolerance and will automatically adjust your pressure to the proper depth or what I call the " sweet spot". For a more detailed understanding of how to qualify your clients properly, check out our blog post: Am I A Good Candidate for Microblading? The most important part is to understand knowing how deep you should make your strokes, is how thick your client's skin is, and this has a lot to do with qualifying the other aspects of a client's overall health -which can have a lot to do with the way the client's body reacts to a microblading procedure. The client's assessment should be looked at as a whole picture and each individual piece does not necessarily deem them a good or bad candidate for microblading, it is all of the factors working together that will help you determine your client's skin type, profile, and tolerance. Image from Tones of Perma Blend online course Especially when it comes to mature skin, as this is more likely to be thinner. The Fitzpatrick skin type is just one piece of the puzzle when assessing your client's skin overall. You can have Latin or Asian skin that is sensitive as well. Note: Don't let the Fitzpatrick skin type fool you. These skin profiles will have A LOT to do with how deep you will be making the strokes on your client once you have fully assessed their skin. ![]() The orange skin, oily due to the large pores makes it difficult to retain pigment as well. The egg skin is difficult because the client is likely to bleed very easily which can dilute the pigment that you are placing into the skin and therefore, the strokes will not retain as well. The most difficult skin to work on is the EGG and the ORANGE. Translucent with barely any upper skin layerĬould have or be susceptible to Rosacea or dermatitis I like to classify my client's skin according to these foods: It took me years to figure out and quickly identify the different skin types and then to match just the right stroke depth. In order to create beautiful clean strokes that don't blur over time, it is critical to understand the thickness and tolerance level of the skin. In my experience, in working with thousands of clients, the skin comes in 4 different thickness varieties or profiles as I like to call them. This is a very difficult question to answer because the answer is: "It depends" and it boils down to how thin/thick is your client's epidermis? One question I get a lot from new and experienced artists and see on so many microblading forums and groups ALL the time is: "How deep should I stroke when microblading?"
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