Micro Blading Vs Brow Shading

One of the most common question today - What is the difference between Brow Shading and Microblading?  Though Brow Shading and Microblading seem like the same kind of thing, they are extremely different. In the semi permanent makeup industry, Microblading has just recently gained popularity. It is fairly a new technique. Both Microblading and Brow Shading can be highly beneficial to those people who are suffering from cancer (chemotherapy), alopecia, vitiligo, genetic anomalies, and scars. A person who lacks full eyebrow hairs or simply cannot produce eyebrow hair is a perfect example. Let us clear up the confusion between the two procedures -

Permanent Makeup - Brow Shading

Brow Shading is a kind of Permanent Makeup, and it is a form of cosmetic tattooing known as derma-pigmentation, micro-pigmentation, and permanent cosmetics. Lips, eyeliner, and eyebrows are the traditional areas where the permanent makeup is applied to. Getting a permanent makeup is a kind of the same thing as a permanent tattoo. Generally a permanent makeup artist uses a tattoo machine to lodge ink into the dermis, which helps them in keeping the control on exactly how deep a tattoo will penetrate. There are few complications that are attached to permanent makeup like allergies to pigments, skin peeling / cracking, scars, blistering, infection, keloids, and granulomas. It is highly recommended to go for a permanent makeup artist who has required certification of different brow shading courses.  Many inexperienced permanent makeup artists use regular tattoo ink while shading the eyebrows which can not only change colour over time but also have dangerous minerals like mercury and cobalt in them. An experienced and well informed permanent makeup artist will always use safe techniques and inks. When it comes to permanent makeup that involves the eyebrows, generally a powder fill technique is used to give the brows a fuller and denser look. The only issue with brows shading is its lack of ability to provide a full and natural look which Micro blading achieves within no time. Generally unknowing clients go to a traditional permanent tattoo artist who ends up outline eyebrows and fill them with colour that gives the eyebrow very unnatural look.

Semi Permanent Hair Strokes - Microblading

A manual method of inserting pigment giving hair like strokes in the epidermis is called Micro Blading, it is used to give the brows a fuller look. In Micro Blading the natural-looking eye brows are achieved with a hand-held, sharp manual blade made up of micro needles. It not only outlines and completely fills the outline of the eyebrows with colour, but also allows for the inserting the hair strokes into the skin. In traditional tattooing, an artist uses a needle on a coil / rotary machine to implant pigment up to 7 layers deep in the skin, whereas in Micro blading a manual blade is used only up to 3 layers of skin. Since the pigment are implanted in the skin the hair like strokes look crisp, sharp, and they look a lot like  real hair!