Colour in your lips, not on them.

WHAT LIP BLUSH IS

A tone chosen for your skin, and a border that does not need drawing.

Lip blush is soft colour worked into the lip to even out the tone and define the border. It is not lipstick and it is not a block of colour: the finish sits closer to a stain that has been worn in all day.

The tone is chosen to sit with your own colouring rather than against it, and it is agreed with the shape in the mirror before anything is opened. Where the natural lip has darkened, the work is neutralizing first and colour second, which is what the four tiers below are measuring.

What changes is the morning. The liner and the tube come out of the routine, and your lips look the same at six in the evening as they did at nine.

This is semi-permanent makeup. It is made to fade, slowly, over years rather than to sit unchanged for life, and that is the reason a touch up exists at all.

A touch up follows three months after the appointment, once the colour has settled. Its cost is confirmed at your consultation.

THE FOUR TIERS

One price. Yours is one of these four.

Your tier is set by your starting lip pigmentation, not by the number of sessions.

Severe dark-lip neutralization

$1,088

DEP $100

Before and after

Moderate dark-lip neutralization

$988

DEP $100

Before and after

Mild dark-lip neutralization

$788

DEP $100

Before and after

Pale or naturally pink lips

$688

DEP $100

Before and after

Choose the tier closest to your natural lip colour when you book. It is confirmed with you at consultation, before anything is drawn, and it does not change afterward. A touch up follows at three months.

CORRECTIVE

WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS

The appointment, in the order it happens.

Nothing on the day is a surprise. This is the sequence the appointment runs, from the paperwork at the door to the balance settled on the way out, and the point at which you can still change your mind is written into it.

1. CHECK IN The waiver, the service agreement and the marketing agreement are signed before the consultation begins. Nothing is drawn and no numbing cream goes on until they are.
2. BEFORE PHOTO The before photograph is taken first, before any numbing cream and before anything is drawn on. It is the natural lip, unmarked.
3. THE STYLE You choose the finish from the styles the studio works in, and the tone is chosen with it, to sit with your own colouring rather than against it.
4. THE MAPPING Laney draws the proposed border on with a pencil, over your own lip, and adjusts the shape against your own features.
5. THE MIRROR The drawn shape is handed to you in a mirror. If it is not right it is wiped off and drawn again, and that repeats until you agree to it.
6. YOUR CALL You may still walk out at this point and nothing is tattooed. The deposit is not returned, and that is the only cost of stopping.
7. NUMBING Numbing cream over the area for 10 to 15 minutes.
8. THE WORK One hour to one and a half hours, depending on the style and the level of detail you have asked for.
9. THE MIRROR AGAIN The mirror comes out a second time at the end, so the finished shape is confirmed with you before you leave the chair.
10. PAYMENT The remaining balance is paid on site, immediately after the work is finished. The agreed price is the whole price.

The aftercare is explained in the room before you go and sent to you afterwards as a PDF. The short version: for the first 48 hours no sauna and no high intensity exercise, the supplied cream through that window because the needle opens the skin, and do not pick at the area while it settles. The colour settles to its true tone by about week six.

SEMI-PERMANENT

Three months to the touch up. Two to three years after it.

Lip blush is semi-permanent. It is made to fade rather than to sit unchanged for life, which is why the sequence below exists and why the tone and the border are settled in a mirror before any pigment goes in.

THE DAY IT IS DONE

Day one is not the colour you keep.

Both frames below were taken in the chair with the work just finished, gloves still in shot. Lip blush is at its loudest in the first days and lightens by roughly half as it settles, which is why the studio chooses the tone against the settled result rather than against the one in the mirror on the way out.

These two are photographs of clients of the studio, taken on the day. Neither is a healed result and neither is barred as one. What a settled result looks like is the band below.

WHAT A SETTLED RESULT LOOKS LIKE

Tier is set by your starting lip pigmentation, so the same work reads differently on different skin. These three are illustrations of a settled result, not photographs of clients. Client lip photography goes up as it is taken.

BOOKING / AS PUBLISHED, ALL SERVICES

1. 01 Appointment only. Please book at least 3 days in advance.
2. 02 A $100 deposit is required to confirm the appointment and counts toward the balance. It is non-refundable. $200 for Signature Hyperrealism only.
3. 03 Cancelling within 24 hours, or arriving 20 minutes late, releases the appointment and the deposit.
4. 04 The balance is due at your appointment. The agreed price is the whole price.

Semi-permanent makeup is not for everyone. Read the contraindications before you book.