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| From the Desk of Joyce Cirasuola | Spring Fling | What I Know is True | Winter |
Winter 2006
Winter is here! Now’s the time to take stock
of your inventory and your method of working! We all need to renew
our way of doing certain procedures. On eyeliner you can offer a
dimensional eyeliner by adding a second color to the top lid. This
can be done with Peacock, Purple Sunset or Hazel Khaki and a shadow
effect can be added with our new Hi’Liter pigments. They come in a
variety of colors from Blu’ Moon to Plum Mist. See our color chart.
For Brows. We can create beautiful brows with
hairstrokes adding different colors in the brow for a natural look.
Designing the brow with the Universal Brow pencil assures us that we
will pick the right pigment for the client’s skin tone. This pencil
shows different colors on each skin type. It is the best tool that
we can use. Measuring the brow with the caliper is also advised to
get the proper placement.
Lips can be difficult because doing a whole lip procedure can
get us into trouble. My thought on doing lips is to do the liner
first. This enables you to see what the healed results look like. If
the color isn’t right, then you have a chance to darken it, lighten
it or change the color altogether. This will save you from doing the
entire lip over when the wrong color is chosen. There can be hidden
blue in lips, especially with the blue-eyed blonde clients. I always
tell my clients that lips are a process. When I am done with the
liner I take the rest of the pigment and add it to some Vaseline to
make a gloss and they put that on after using the after care. This
keeps the client happy while the lip liner is healing. This method
has saved me from having lip problems.
Winter is also the time when we can do inventory and set
aside some of our out-dated topicals or pigments. I am still giving
$9 trade in value for pigments that are sitting on your shelf not
being used. Half full or full bottles can be traded in for the
Kolorsource pigments. Look at your equipment and see if it is
working properly. We can recondition the KP 96 and KP 1100 as well
as tattoo machines. Making sure you have a good power unit and foot
pedal is very important. Sometimes your equipment is not working at
full power and speed but we don’t notice it because it happens
gradually. Take stock of your needles also. We have a lot of great
needles and sometimes we get used to using only the 3’s or 5’s. Some
techs use one needle size for every procedure. Depending on the
machine you’re using, we have a variety of needles that are really
great for eyes, brows or make doing the lip liner & fill so easy.
For the KP 96 and the Midas some of my favorites are the 4 square
for eyeliner… it is the best needle for eyes that I have ever used.
Of course for the brows I love my flat needles which are the 3F and
the 4 Flat. They put in awesome hairstrokes and can also be used for
coloring in the full brow. For the lips, I love the 5 round, 533 LT
to be exact. I also find the 9 Magnum makes a wide liner when used
vertically on the lip. This is a fabulous needle that puts in lots
of pigment. For the digital machine I love the 4 flat for brows, the
3r or 3 outline for eyes, the 5 round for lips and the 9 magnum for
the lips.
Let’s talk about the new Boca Digital. I find that using this
machine has taken PMU to a different level. We are all computer,
iPod and cell phone savvy & plugged in to the universe via the
Internet. In PMU the latest German digital machine has forever
changed the way we do PMU. A new tech learning eyebrows, eyeliner
and lip liner now has more confidence. The precision and quietness
of the digital gives both the client and the technician the
assurance they need to
do the procedure. There is no overflow of pigment and the tech can
see clearly the line they are working on, so important when doing
liners. The ease of the cartridge that simply clicks in and out of
the hand piece prevents needle stick and also needles can be changed
easily during the
procedure(i.e. #5 for top liner and #3 for bottom liner). There is
no chance of needle stick because the needle retracts when removing
it from the handpiece. Cross contamination is not an issue with the
handpiece or the base.
I use a plastic shower cap to cover the base… replace for each
client in a second. The variable speeds and precision depth of the
digital machine assures that the pigment takes whether on the eyes
at a speed of 100 or the brows at 120 or the lips at 140. You'll get
perfect hairstrokes every time. Lip liner can be done on a low speed
also & the fill on a higher faster speed.
When I was introduced to the new digitals, I like everyone else I
asked, “Why would I pay that much for a machine?! $2595! I could buy
10 of any other machine…. but I was enticed to buy one and just take
it for a test drive. Have you ever driven a junk car and then get
into a Mercedes and just “feel” power, smoothness and class that car
has? Well that’s the feeling I got with the digital machine. It was
pure class and love at first try. I knew I had turned an important
corner in my PMU career. I knew this was the best and I was going to
teach with it and use it because the best is what I want for my
clients and students. I have never looked back and I learn new
things about this machine everyday and it has put joy in doing PMU
Picture this in your mind: Crisp lines, no puddles, no stress, and
working with ease in a relaxed manner. Your client is very peaceful
and even may fall asleep. Put on some soft music and the
aromatherapy and you will see how fabulous it is to work with the
Boca Digital machine. All of my clients are amazed at the
pleasurable sessions they have and also praise the work of the
students. This is the PMU of the 21st Century! Bring yourself into
the new wonderful world of the
digital. It has the power of a coil if you want it for body tattoo
or scars & areolas and the gentleness necessary for around the eye.
Dial the
depth and dial the power. No guess work.
So in closing I would like to invite all of you to April Spring
Fling in Phoenix, Arizona we will cover pigments and color
theory, eye shadow and using the hand tool, lips, lips, lips, small
elegant body tattoos, blush, saline & salt removal and we will
answer all your PMU questions and trouble-shoot some of the problems
we come across in our practice. Go to
www.micropigmentation.org. Sign up for the class now because
we are only taking 100 reservations.
Priced @ $199 for the 3 days so you can’t afford not to come.
The AAM Boards will be given also. See you there!!!
From the Heart, Mind and Desk of Joyce Cirasuola
Joyce 352 529 0211. or you can email me using the link below.
Joyce