Before & After Care

Your dream brows deserve a little extra love before and after your appointment. Following these simple care tips will help ensure your results heal beautifully, last longer, and keep that fresh, flawless look you've been wishing for.

Top Things to Remember: Before and After Care

Before Care

Avoid alcohol and caffeine for at least 24-48 hours before your appointment.
Avoid blood thinning medications and supplements (aspirin, ibuprofen, etc) for 24 hours before your appointment.
NO facials, chemical peels, or retinoids 1-2 weeks prior to your appointment.
No use of products with AHA, BHA, or retinol 1-2 weeks prior to your appointment.
Avoid botox or fillers for at least 2 weeks prior to your appointment.

After Care

During the first 7-10 days, keep your brows dry. Avoid getting your brows wet, including with direct water, steam, and sweat.
Apply aftercare ointment once a day/as recommended to keep the brows moisturized.
Avoid scratching, rubbing, or picking at your brows until they are fully healed. Let the flakes naturally fall off to avoid pigment loss or scarring.
Avoid facial treatments, peels, or lasers near the brow area during the healing process.

Before Care Details

What are the Before Care Instructions for semi-permanent brows?

Following these instructions carefully will reduce skin sensitivities and limit bleeding during the appointment. Excessive bleeding during the procedure can dilute and reject the pigment, leading to poor healed results.

4 Weeks Before Appointment:
- Avoid Botox and fillers around forehead and brow area (advised to get semi-permanent makeup first)
- Avoid sunburns
- Avoid lash/brow growth serum on brow area
- Drink at least 6-8 glasses of water a day up until your appointment date

2 Weeks Before Appointment:
- Avoid laser treatments, microdermabrasion, chemical peels, electrolysis on the face.
- Avoid facial ingredients: retinols, retinoids, glycolic, any exfoliating acids, anti-aging creams

7 Days Before Your Appointment:
- Discontinue multivitamins, vitamins C & E, turmeric, ginger, gingko biloba, flaxseed & chia seed oil, fish oils (you may continue with iron supplements) *please consult your doctor before stopping if you use as daily medication
- Discontinue antibiotics *please contact us immediately if currently on antibiotics, 14 day window required between last dose and your appointment
- Avoid tanning beds, brow tinting, brow waxing

48 Hours Prior To Your Appointment:
- Discontinue any anti-inflammatories: Advil, ibuprofen, naproxen, Aspirin (Tylenol is OK), warfarin
- Avoid caffeine (coffee, caffeinated teas, Coke, Diet Coke, chocolate, energy drinks, bubble tea, etc
- Avoid alcohol consumption
- Avoid recreational drugs
- Smoking

Day Of Your Appointment:
- Lightly exfoliate to be treated area
- Avoid exercise
- Avoid caffeine at all cost (coffee, caffeinated teas, Coke, Diet Coke, chocolate, energy drinks, bubble tea, pre-workout , etc)
- Fill in your eyebrows as you normally if you’re looking for a very similar tattoo result
- Feel free to bring a couple eyebrow reference photos to showcase your preferences

After Care Details

What is the Aftercare for permanent brows like?

General Aftercare Tips

Avoid for 10-14 days or until brows are done peeling (healed):
- Water contact
- Sweating
- Facials and peels
- Makeup and skincare products on the eyebrows
- Touching/picking at the brows
- Apply SPF 30+ on the brows daily once it is healed

Avoid for 1 month:
- Tanning / being in the direct sun without a hat
- Intense facial treatments (chemical peels, acid peels, microdermabrasion, micro-needling, etc)
- Light therapy

Stages of Brow Healing

Your new brows will go through a few completely normal phases as the skin heals. Colour will look bold at first, then soften, and the skin may get a little dry or flaky before everything settles. Full healing takes approximately 4-6 weeks, revealing your true, fully healed colour.

Stages of Brow Healing: Best Practices

🪄 Day 1-2 — The Awakening of the Brows

Colour appears darker and sharper than expected (up to 30-40%)

Care:

Blot away the “magic dew” (lymph fluid) every hour with a clean tissue.
Do not let water touch them—keep them dry.
Avoid sweating and makeup.

🪄 Days 3-5 — Drying Out

Brows feel tight; light scabbing or flaking begins
Strokes and shape can appear thicker.

Care:

Avoid direct contact with water.
Gently cleanse once daily if instructed by your artist, using only the gentlest potion (fragrance-free cleanser). Pat dry—never rub.
Apply a whisper-thin layer of the enchanted healing balm your brow artist gave you. More is not better; brows must breathe.
Do not pick, scratch, or peel the flakes.

🪄 Days 6-10 — The Sacred Protection Period

Flakes lift; brows may look patchy or too light in some areas. This is normal!

Care:

Hands off!
Continue to gently cleanse once daily if instructed by your artist, using only the gentlest potion (fragrance-free cleanser). Pat dry—never rub.
Avoid creams/acids in the brow area.
Do not pick, scratch, or peel the flakes.

🪄 Days 7–14 — The Fading Illusion

The brows may seem pale, "too light", or patchy—fear not! This is the camouflage stage.

Care:

Still avoid intense heat, moisture, or exfoliation. (No tanning, saunas or swimming).

🪄 3-4 Weeks Later — The Colour Returns

Pigment resurfaces and evens out.
Texture feels normal again.

Care:

Resume regular skin care routine, but protect with SPF to prevent fading.

🪄 6 Weeks Later — The Healed Result

True colour and shape are visible.
Book a touch-up service to perfect any light or uneven ares, if applicable.

🪄 6–10 Weeks Later — The Touch-Up

Return for your second spell-casting (touch-up) to lock in the magic for years.

🪄 Eternal Brow Charm (After Fully Healed)

Shield with SPF to protect from the fading sun sprites.
Keep acids and retinoids far from the enchanted zone.
Refresh the magic every 1–2 years.