PRE-CARE
EYEBROWS:
To achieve the most beautifully natural brows for your face, you will get the absolute best results by prepping for your appointment and properly following the after care. Your eyebrows & lips must be healthy, strong, non-sentisitive, and non-irritated.
Here's how to get your skin ready for an amazing treatment and healed results:
1 MONTH BEFORE:
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No Botox or fillers near the treated area 3 weeks prior
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No Lasers & Chemical peels for 1 month prior
2 WEEKS BEFORE:
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No Retin-A, Retinol, Glycolic acid and/or AHA products near the treated area 2 weeks prior (brows & forehead)
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No Microdermabrasion or Dermaplaning 2 weeks prior
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We do not recommend treatment 15 days prior a Big event or Vacation, due to the healing stages and process
1 WEEK BEFORE:
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No tanning or intense sun exposure
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No Tinting, Waxing, or Electrolysis (for sensitive skin)
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No Retinol/ Retinoid products
Most importantly: To prevent bleeding or poor color deposit
24 HOURS BEFORE:
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No alcohol
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No caffeine (Coffee and caffeine teas)
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No excessive sweating or working out
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Vitamin E or Fish Oil supplements
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No Aspirin, Advil, Niacin, Ibuprofen (especially blood-thinners)
ON THE DAY OF YOUR TREATMENT:
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We also recommend that you wash your face and hair before your appointment
LIPS:
You’ve booked your appointment for a LuvLips treatment, but now what? Luciana has specific pre-care information in place to ensure that you have the best experience during your appointment and healed results after. To achieve the most beautifully and natural LuvLips that will help to boost your self-esteem, your lips must be healthy, hydrated and non-irritated. Here's how to get your lips ready for an extraordinary treatment and healed results:
MAKE SURE YOUR LIPS ARE SMOOTH AND VERY HYDRATED:
It is vital to come to your appointment with smooth, moisturized lips for the best results. Please use a sugar and honey scrub that you can easily make at home for 3-4 nights prior to your lip blush treatment. Scrub your lips for 2-3 minutes and wipe off the excess. Moisturize lips right after with a thick mask of shea butter or Bepanthen cream. Let that sit for 15-20 minutes. You may alternatively purchase a lip scrub from your local drugstore or on Amazon.
COLD SORE:
If you have a history of cold sore, seek for medical assistance and prescription of an anti-viral medication. As a necessary precaution, if you have ever had a cold sore in your life, you will be required to take an anti-viral prescribed by your doctor (i.e. Valtrex). Cold sore outbreaks are often triggered by stress or trauma to the lips and skin and can effect the healing and results. Therefore if you are a carrier, LuvLips will likely cause an outbreak if you do not take an anti-viral medication prior. The medication should be taken for a total of 5 days (1 day prior to procedure, 1 day-of, and 3 days post-procedure). There are absolutely NO exceptions to this rule! This rule holds true for every time you have any lip blush session.
KEEP YOUR LIPS MOISTURIZED AND STAY HYDRATED:
Drinking at least 8-10 glasses of water per day will keep you and your lips well hydrated. Please avoid any matte lipsticks for 72 hours prior to your appointment as they tend to dry out the lips. Use a hydrating lip balm like Nivea or Aquaphor instead!
What to Avoid
1 MONTH BEFORE:
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No Botox or fillers near the treated area 4 weeks prior
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No Lasers & Chemical peels for 1 month prior
2 WEEKS BEFORE:
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If you use exfoliating products at home, such as Vitamin C serums or Retinoids we recommend taking a break from these for at least two weeks prior to and after your appointment.
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No facial waxing, lasers, botox, and chemical peels.
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Avoid tanning and excessive sun exposure for 2 weeks before and after the procedure.
24 HOURS BEFORE:
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No alcohol
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No caffeine (Coffee and caffeine teas)
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No excessive sweating or working out
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Vitamin E or Fish Oil supplements
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No Aspirin, Advil, Niacin, Ibuprofen (especially blood-thinners)
ON THE DAY OF YOUR TREATMENT:
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We also recommend that you wash your face and hair before your appointment
AFTER-CARE
LIPS:
LuvLips after-care is very important to the appearance and longevity of the color of your lips and represents 50% of your healed results.
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Gently wash your lips with Baby shampoo, like Johnson&Johnson, as soon as you get home.
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Apply Bepanthen cream for the next 7days, every 1h. Before going to bed, apply a thick layer of the cream for the next 7days.
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After the first 7 days make sure you keep your lips moisturized. You can use regular lip balm. We suggest Nivea Lip Balm, the blue one.
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Keep your lips VERY moisturized after your LuLips treatment to avoid dry and chapped lips. The ointment will help to keep the scabs more soft, taking away less implanted pigment.
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The MORE moisturized the lips are the better will be your healed results.
During the healing process you should avoid:
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Avoid lipstick and makeup on top of the lips for at least 15days after your treatment.
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Avoid dark colored drinks and foods touching your lips for the first days like: red wine, coffee, grape fruit juice, coke, acai. In case you want to consume them, use a straw for the first 3days.
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Avoid high acid and high fat foods like: orange, lime, lemon, vinegar, pork, bacon, fried food for the first 3days.
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Avoid hot food touching your lips for the first days as well.
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No kissing for 5 days in order to prevent any cross contamination or infection on the treated area.
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No sun exposure for 15 days.
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In case of cold sore, seek for Medical assistance and prescription.
What to expect after your treatment:
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DO NOT PANIC, the lip color you see on the first days will lighten up around 50%.
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Dryness, flaking and itching in the area may occur, DO NOT PICK .
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Mild tenderness, swelling or mild bruising around the area may occur on the first day.
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In case of poor hygiene, an infection can occur and medical treatment may be necessary.
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Touch-ups may be done 5 weeks after your LuvLips treatment, but not sooner.
EYEBROWS:
LuvBrowsNanoblading after-care is very important to the appearance and longevity of your new eyebrows and represents 50% of your healed results.
DO NOT let any water, lotion, soap, or makeup touch your eyebrow area during the first 3 days ONLY after your treatment.
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For the next 24hours after your treatment:clean the excess of lymph with a damp gauze (use bottle of water or Evian Facial Spray)
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Apply a thin layer of ointment provided 2 times a day (morning and evening) with a clean finger tips or Q-tip for 5 to 7 days
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Keep your brows dry for the next 3 days only. Please use a neutral baby shampoo and wash your face carefully around the eyebrows without getting water on the treated area. During the shower, keep your face away from the head shower or take a bath.
During the healing process you should avoid:
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NO workouts, hot sauna, hot bath, or jacuzzi for 7 days (avoid high sweating activities)
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DO NOT apply makeup on top of the treated area - brows or lips - for 15 days
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NO tanning for 15 days
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NO facials for 15 days
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NO swimming in chlorine or saltwater for 15 days
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NO double dipping
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DO NOT touch the procedure area unless applying ointment
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NO scratching, rubbing or picking of the procedure area. DO NOT pick, peel or scratch of the micro pigmented area in order to avoid scarring of the area or removal of the pigment
What to expect after your treatment:
- DO NOT PANIC, THE COLOR you see on the first days WILL LIGHTEN around 30 to 40%.
- Dryness, flaking and itching in the area may occur, DO NOT PICK .
- Mild tenderness, redness or mild bruising around the area may occur on the first 2 or 3 days.
- In case of poor hygiene, an infection can occur and medical treatment may be necessary.
- After your skin is healed, usually after 15 to 20 days, remember to ALWAYS wear a sunblock 15 or stronger when outdoors.
- Touch-ups may be done 4 weeks after your LuvBrows Microblading treatment, but not sooner.
STAGES OF NANOBLADING AND HEALING PROCESS:
Entire healing process will take from 4-6 weeks depending on your body regeneration and age. Your new eyebrows will go through several phases during the healing cycle. The pigment will appear very natural looking immediately after the procedure. The color of the pigment will appear much darker the next day.
Note that because of natural skin regeneration, after the recovery period (peeling), brows might appear lighter than original. This might give you the impression that color is fading too quickly. Often, even with proper care, clients may lose original hairstrokes which make brows look uneven. It is absolutely normal. That’s the reason why most customers need a touchup after 4 weeks.
Once the healing of the skin starts taking place, it will look like dandruff flakes or dry skin. However, this is just superficial color and dry skin being naturally removed from your eyebrows. The final look of your eyebrows will be apparent approximately 30 days after your procedure.
NEVER RUB THE TREATED AREA as it will disturb the skin from natural healing.
Once completely healed, always apply a layer of sunscreen SPF 30 up to SPF 50 on your eyebrows when exposed to the sun. Sun exposure might cause the color pigment to fade away more quickly. When using foundation, be aware when applying it - avoid your healed eyebrows. If foundation covers healed brows, your eyebrows will appear lighter.
FROM DAY 2 TO 7:
All the strokes that we have applied have started to scab and the scab will be thicker than the actual strokes themselves and sometimes the scabs themselves merge into one, making it look like a block scab. It will not heal like this. Please, DO NOT PANIC and DO NOT SCRAB. The scab will fall off naturally and then it will appear very light.
FROM DAY 8 TO 21(can occur earlier):
At this stage your skin is still healing and changing, like all new scars. The skin will appear a different color whitish/opaque which will make it very hard to see the pigment under the nanobladed skin/scar (imagine wearing a nude pair of tights over your body tattoo).
FROM WEEK 3 ON:
The skin/scar starts to become "normal" again (because the pigment is emerging again) meaning more clear or transparent with pigment/strokes becoming visible. Please, we insist, DO NOT PANIC if it "disappears" as this is quite NORMAL for some. Please wait the full 4 weeks for the color to fully settle and show up again. We will redo any strokes that haven't taken or faded at your Touch up appointment.
