3 weeks at least lets us see where your hair follicles are actually still producing hair.

4-6 weeks gives us a cleaner wax because hair cycle has had a chance to drive all the hairs up to the surface to be pulled out. This will give you longer lasting results. If you are a new client and we are doing a full rehab on you, you may find that keeping your appointments closer to the 4-week mark helps to keep you on track towards your new shape. If you are having a hard time getting used to the new areas of regrowth in your brows, you may find that 3-week appointments help get you through this awkward stage.

Yes!

Of course sometimes life gets in the way, maybe we are coming from work or just forgot and that’s OK. We can clean your lashes here but honestly, we never get them as clean with our removers as you can at home with soap and water. Also, when we have to give them an additional rub to get that mascara off, there’s a chance of causing more irritation when we need to put our solutions on after.

Water or moisture should not come in contact with your lashes for at least 24 hours after a lash lift because water will alter the disulphide bonds in the hair’s cortex once they have set via chemical change.

There are two main ingredients that are responsible for breaking the bonds in the lash so that it can be reformed- Thioglycolic Acid (aka perm salts), or Cysteamine.  Thioglycolic Acid (TGA) is very fast acting and produces a very strong lift in the lash, but it’s a less controlled process as it aggressively breaks down the lash bonds in a short amount of time.  This can lead to damage, the need for aftercare, and a messier grow out.   Popular brands that  use Thioglycolic acid but still call themselves a “Keratin Lift"  include Yumi Lash lifts and Inlei Lash.  Cysteamine is a gentler ingredient, it has a slower more controlled processing time which produces sometimes a gentler looking lift but with far less potential damage.   

At Brows by Robin we only use Cysteamine based lifts.  I’m continually trying to source the gentlest, most effective lifts that I can find within a sea of new lifting products, and for this reason, it’s very important for myself and any lash lift technician to understand the ingredients, how they work independently, and how they work together.      We utilize both a Cysteamine HCL (the most popular type of Cysteamine based lift- and a Free based Cysteamine, which is an even gentler form that is alkaline free with a lower PH that creates less swelling of the hairs in the debonding process.

The two most popular techniques used are Microblading and Powder Brow or Machine Brow. But Artists come up with different Service Names to describe these techniques all the time. Basically Microblading is done with a hand tool and makes small slices in the skin and the pigment is implanted into the skin with the blade. Powder Brow or Machine Brow is done with a Tattoo Machine and using needles to implant the pigment.

Powder Brow has come to be known as the “Makeup” style brow, leading clients to believe that it’s not natural looking. In fact there are many different artist techniques that dictate how natural looking any form of PMU will be. Because my technique is soft and light, it’s very natural looking, in fact more natural looking than microblading which is often implanted deeper into the skin because of the technique used with the blade. If any pigment is implanted at the right depth, it’s going to wear better in the skin over time and not turn grey or blue.

Different pigments dictate how a brow will age over time and sometimes even how long the pigment will last in the skin. I go over this in my consults.

One very important fact that clients usually don’t know- is what type of pigment is being used on them. The pigment used is very important in the outcome of the healed brow. This is colour but more importantly pigment composition and type of pigment formulation. I go over this in the consult.

Machine Brows generally do not hurt anymore than having tweezing done. Some numbing is used to make it even more comfortable for the client. The form of PMU that hurts the most is Microblading and that is because the skin is being sliced. The two techniques should not be compared in terms of discomfort.