A Very Sad Tale of Eyebrow Tattoooing

I recently saw a cosmetic tattoo client who came to me with red crooked, hooked eyebrows - they were so bad, she would not sign her consent for me to use the pictures, ever. Here is what happened: she has a tattoo artist who has done quite beautiful work for her. For some reason, she insisted he tattoo her eyebrows. He did what he only knew to do - shaved the hair!

Yup, took her eyebrows right off - well that is what we do on the body, so why not the face? Gotta shave off that hair to keep the skin as clean as possible, no needles tangling with those hairs, etc. Well it just does not work that way with cosmetic work. We tattoo brows to compliment existing hair - to make it appear as natural as can be.

So my fellow tattooer has a very small selection of brown tones - many are heavy in a red base. While this might be fine for drawing hairs on that grizzly, when they fade on the face and turned maroon, who is going to be happy then? I cannot figure out how the shape turned into tadpoles going off in different directions - quite possibly she was lifting one side of her forehead more than the other, which is quite common. He would not know about that, I guess.

So by doing her a favor, and at bargain basement rates - (I won't even state the fee, it was obscenely LOW - would not even cover my supplies) - he created a tremendous amount of work for me. We don't know what we don't know, sometimes!