Micropigmentation

Sounds like a computer term or something to me. It certainly never told me it was cosmetic tattooing. I can easily deal with permanent cosmetics - even more than permanent makeup, because cosmetic tattooing is what we do. We provide a cosmetic effect when we tattoo.

Micropigmentation is something someone made up so they would not have to use the "T" word. (This now edited: I read that it was because MICROSCOPES were used in the tattoing process...oh boy, we sure all use those, don't we??) When I went to a useless two day training (that's all they did back then) I was told that if you poked the color into the skin with a single needle (they say pointillism) it was micropigmentation. Anything else was tattooing (ewwwwww - not THAT!) Of course over the years they had no choice but to accept other methods of tattoo like how most everyone tattoos (other than pointillism) but the name still stuck.

So this sounds very much like it was taken from the day when people could not be happy with what they really did..like an embarrassment. So they made up names that were esthetically more pleasing and in the end, they looked foolish. (This now edited too...people got pissed off that I used the word micropigs here...a term those of us "affectionately" called ourselves who bought into that whole scheme years ago...most of us got beyond that...many have not - such a shame!)