Happy Holidays!!!

Happy Holidays to ALL my loyal clients and friends!

It's been quite a year with lots going on... and now this BIG MOVE (the first in seventeen years!) from my old location in Pt. St. Lucie to the new place (in a wonderful old building) in Ft. Pierce.

The new location is at 1005 W Midway Rd., Ft Pierce 34982 and you can even get a map to the location on my website. I haven't opened officially yet, but I am making appointments with folks, so give me a call at my new phone number 772-466-BROW (2769) or drop me an email from the website.

I'm really excited about this new location... it's a wonderful old building that I've spent the last several months remodeling and redecorating to fit just the kind of place you expect from "The Fish Lady." Please give us a call and come by to say hi.

While you're at it... why not consider a "no-surgery makeover" for the holidays, a special new look (new brows, full lips) for the new year, or maybe just a spruce up to get you ready for the next new adventure.

What better time than the new year to kick in to a NEW LOOK?

I'm Moving... But Not Very Far

After 16 1/2 years, I'm ready to make a move. I first opened in Ft Pierce in 1979. Then shops in Jensen Beach and Port St Lucie, now I'm headed back to Ft Pierce also known as "White City." The new address is 1005 W Midway Rd., Ft Pierce 34982

The new location is in a house that is 100 years old. Like me it's a piece of South Florida history. That's one of the reasons I like it... History... I'm a piece of history in this area too! Combining age and beauty with "permanent make-up."

When I first opened Always Perfect Permanent make-up on Prima Vista Blvd. People would come in and ask "What is Permanent Make-up?"

"What do you mean permanent eyebrows, eyeliner, full lips?"

I did a lot of consultations and had to educate people to the many benefits this process has to offer. "Is it a tattoo?" they would ask. "Ow.... I won't do that," then they would say, but then they'd give it another thought as they looked in my magic mirror and say, "Oh, I don't care, I just won't tell anyone!"

But before they knew it, they were telling everyone!

My clients would come back in just to tell me how wonderful everyone would tell them they looked. They loved it. They would come back and say " Do you know great this is?" I'd say "yes, I told you so!" And then I'd just smile.

I did so many newspaper and magazine articles I lost count. The stories explained the many benefits my work had to offer. I used the TV to eduacate the public. The medical professionals even appreciated what I was doing for people. They refered clients to my office. People would say, I've read about you that I feel I already know you.

My landlady was the late Mrs Tanner. Mr & Mrs had owned Tanner pharmacy on the end of the plaza years earlier. She would come for her rent each month and socialize. She never raised my rent for 11 years. Nor did we need a lease after the first year. It was a nice relationship. Another owner's husband in the shopping center in 1994 was a doctor who passed away. His wife sold me some of his medical supplies. She was a client of mine and I just spruced her up last week , 16 years later.

I was here as Dear Abby attacked permanent make-up. She didn't like or understand permanent make-up. Nor did she want to know. She didn't even answer the letters.

I watched the economy go racing upward with the housing boom in Port St Lucie and come crashing down .

I dealt with the hurricanes one after the other.

I lost my sign into the neighbors yard. I lost electric, and cleaned -up the mess , my clients calling me " Are you still there?"

One year recently, road construction blocked my plaza, so I ran a protest that was all over the news (with TV coverage even!). It got them to finish work before Christmas. That's the kinda gal I am. I take action and I get things done.

I've run my shop solely as a one women entrepreneur. My clients would come in just to exchange their experiences they encountered with my potential clients.

My new location is set far off the road, so word of mouth has been my best advertisement. I have worked hard at what I do to make my clients happy. That's why I'm still doing what I do best.

With this new location, I'm really not changing anything. I'm just offering a better atmosphere, in a wonderful historical location. It's in the comfort and warmth of a home enviroment in a country setting.

Please give me a call at 772-466-BROW (2769) to make an appointment in my new shop.

Safety... Cleanliness... and Care

Back in the day of my Grandfather, when he had his tattoos applied, Charlie Wagner was his tattoo artist in New York.

Charlie did tattooing in the back room of the "barber shop". That's the way it was at that time; tattooing was hidden in the back room.

These days - after working so hard to bring tattooing to a higher standard over my 31 years experience in this business - I just can't seem to understand how anyone could justify having permanent make-up applied in the back room of a "hair, nail or facial salon."

With this new approach to Permanent Makeup, we have gone full circle back to unsanitary working conditions for applying tattoos. People simply don't seem to comprehend that this is applied in the skin it is NOT like having a facial. We don't get our hair & nails done in a tattoo studio nor should we have permanent make-up applied in a hair salon.

Additionally, you simply cannot master permanent make-up if you are only going to be practicing it on a client 1-2 times a week after a 3 day seminar. You can't switch back and forth between pedicures, facials, massage, or other services of that nature. Permanent makeup is a process that needs care and attention, cleanliness and quality training and experience.

After my many years of experience in the business and more years of studies leading up to it. I have come to the conclusion it take extensive practice and years of education to master applying permanent make-up properly to a persons face. I have even stepped back from applying traditional tattoos since it takes away from my focus of mastering just the face. I feel blessed to have experienced the years I have been able to work with my clients aging process and counteracting their aging looks. I still do my portrait paintings since this is a part of my studying the face, but it is still only a small part. As we know a canvas does not move, but a face has movement.

Permanent makeup has become an non-surgical face lift for my clients, and I've been fortunate to be able to share these experiences with them. And I'm still young enough to share many more years of this exciting business and what it has to offer to me also.

My ladies are still coming to me even from the nursing homes. They feel better about themselves even into their 90's being Always Perfect!

Changing lives one face at a time

Back in 1999 I had a lady client call me stating she had heard about me through her doctors. She stated that they told her to get in touch with me for corrective work on her cleft lip.


She had this lip problem for 60 years and there wasn't anything the doctors could do for her. She flew down to Florida so I could see her scarred lip, and after I worked on her lip, she became teary eyed. She said that she had lived with this defect for 60 years of her life. A man could camouflage with a mustache, but being a women she couldn't cover her upper lip nor could she wear lipstick.

When she came back in 4 weeks, she said she couldn't believe how it had changed her life. She felt like a normal person. I was blessed to see her again a few years later. Her color was still there, her lip still looked normal and it felt so good to see her smile. She stated she never wanted to go back to the way it had been. Her old look was now part of her past and she never wanted to return there.

So I added more color to her lip and down the road she went.


Permanent makeup isn't just about being able to "wake up with make up," it's also about life-changing moments like hers.

All those years ago...

I worked on a client named Linda last week.

It has been 14 years since I first applied her eyebrows , eyeliner and lips, and it was a real pleasure to see her again.

She was featured in one of my news articles all those years ago and she told me that this was the first time that she felt like she needed a "touch up."

She also figured that since her friend was interested in having new make-up applied, she might as well come in with her and have hers spruced-up a bit too.

I have always kept records and photos over the years and it's once of my great pleasures in this work to go back and look at all these women I have known for so many years. It is a wonderful experience to watch how my ladies have aged and still look good over time.

They would never have looked like they do today if they hadn't had the permanent make-up applied then. Some of my ladies look better now, than they did then and all of them look GREAT! We can see it in their photos.

Not Just For Women Only

I've said for a long time that Permanent Makeup is for everyone. Sometimes I have men come into the shop with their wives or girlfriends, but it never crosses their mind that this procedure could make them look better too!

Once I had a 38 year old male client that came into my shop and I will never forget him, because he had asked me to repair his lower lip that he had lost due to a bad burn when he was only 1 1/2 years old. He had gone through 36 years of life feeling embarrassed by the disfigurement of his lip and he was about to go to a family reunion. He was hoping that before this event I could help him with his problem.

It was a wonderful experience to help this man, and when we were finished with the procedure he was delighted. Several weeks later, when he returned from his family reunion, he shared his experience with me. His family rejoiced with him over his new look. His mother even cried with joy after upon seeing his transformation and his own newfound happiness in his look.

This is only one of the many joyful experiences I have encountered over the years, but it's a great example of why, every day, I love my job!

Thanks for the Memories...

My friend, and client, Anne passed away last week.

She was 96 years old.

I worked on her when she was 92 years old.

Anne was one of my typically "reluctant" clients... When she first started coming to my shop it was 10 years ago, and she was there simply to accompany her daughter and friends. The girls would be having their make-up applied at my studio and - as usual - we were all laughing and joking and having a generally good time. Anne would sit in the shop and talk and laugh while I worked on her daughter and her friends; and the fact of the matter is that these girls were looking pretty darn good! Anne would compliment them and they would in turn ask her to have her eyebrows applied, but she would always say that she didn't need it.

The girls would push her, but Anne would always say no.

For YEARS, she came into my studio and never had her eyebrows applied. UNTIL, she started living in a nursing home. Then... one day, she and her daughter came in and Anne said, "I'm ready!"

I asked her "why now Anne" and her reply was, "I looked at everyone in the nursing home and they look so bad, and I don't want to look like them."

So she had her eyebrows applied.

Anne's daughter wrote me a wonderful letter last week, thanking me and letting me know that her mom had passed. "Thank you for your kind words," she said. "She looked great till the end and those wonderful eyebrows framed her pretty face. "

When people ask me why I LOVE my job... all I have to do is point to Anne.

Thanks Anne! You look marvelous!

Lookin' Good!

I was talking to one of my clients today; she had just recently had an accident that landed her in the emergency room of the local hospital.

Everybody knows that being in the emergency room is not exactly a picnic. I don't know anyone who would just GO to the emergency room for the fun of it. You don't call up your girlfriends and say, "Hey... I've got some time, why don't we go down and spend the afternoon on a gurney?" But evidently the folks at THIS emergency room must have thought that people do that... or at least that this particular woman did that... because my client said that she stayed for several hours waiting in that emergency room, while people walked in and out, looked at her, evaluated her condition (and her state of mind) and then moved on thinking tht she must be feeling just fine.

This started to really bug her! "What's a person gotta do to get some attention in this joint?" she thought to herself. Then it dawned on her... I probably don't look like I need help. She realized that she looked to happy... too contented... too good. She didn't look like she was needy, or hurt, or in pain. Her permanent makeup made her look TOO GOOD!

The next time someone stopped in to check on her, she let them know that her pleasant disposition wasn't due to the fact she was just feeling all peachy keen... It was due to the fact that her permanent makeup made her look that way. People were amazed... and apologetic. It had never crossed their minds that someone lying in pain in the emergency room could look the way she did, but now that they knew, they attended to her right away.

In most circumstances, looking TOO good is not exactly a problem you might worried about having, but I guess at the hospital it's best to let them know. I've always joked that you need to tell your doctor that you're wearing permanent makeup, but this is the first time I realized how true it is.

Looking Healthy... Looking Well... Looking Too Good!

Now that's a problem I can live with!

Happy New Year!

Here I am surrounded by my loves... ready to roll into a new year and a new decade of excitement and good times!
Don't forget... Permanent Makeup is GREAT for riding too!