Cosmetic Tattooing Colors For Eyes

I used to wonder why cosmetic tattooers saw value in creating so many different colors in eyeliner tattooing. Most times it looks terrible, especially after fading. I personally believe it is more of a ploy for the pigment manufacturers to sell more product. They are the ones who promote all the different eyeliner colors - far more than the trainers out there. Just because the client wears green or blue eyeshadow and liner all the time does not mean that is what we need to tattoo there. They can add these colors in a subtle fashion on their own and change them as needed.

Most times these women require some education as to what they should be applying, anyway. If they are fashion or trend conscious it is not a tattoo procedure they should be thinking about unless it is subtle and basic.

Basic black eyeliner - most of us wear black mascara, anyway - is the starting point. It heals into the skin so it is never going to look like harsh liquid eyeliner. If it is kept within the lashline, it is going to give a natural, but defined appearance. What this will do is make the whites of the eyes look whiter, and blue and green eyes will pop right out dramatically.

If you put brown tones into the skin, the red in and around the eyes will be enhanced instead. This is not cosmetic counter magic, this is tattooing pigment that reflects from within the skin. If you want to go thicker with it or are extremely fair, then it is various shades of gray that you are looking for.

DO NOT be adding white to get this gray. I cannot understand why cosmetic tattooers or manufacturers do this - cut their blacks with white to make a heavy murky product (other than to sell my eyeliner colors) when the tattooer only needs to dilute the black to varying degrees, depending on how light they want the gray to appear. I have spent too many years trying to touch up that heavy look of matte battleship gray eyeliner people walk into my studio with.

So now you will say you cannot use black because it fades to blue. This does not happen so often in the eye area as it does in the brow area (black in brows in a no no but that is another topic.)Most manufacturers have adjusted their "eyeliner black" to prevent this and a soft fade to a gray that carries a bit of blue is not unappealing for eyeliner- they will still have to have far less touching up to do when using black rather than browns.

Black is where it is at, boys and girls.