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.