After contemplating the above-named treatment from the above-named shop over numerous sporadic moments across a span of a year or so, I nose-dived into its Raffles City basement outlet and got myself involved with 7 + 2 sessions (the 2 being "complimentary" follow up sessions offered during the Singapore Sales period) at a price that I wish-not to disclose or in any other way remind myself. All price information is easily retrieved from multiple public sources.
All that action happened before I left my previous employment, as a vain excuse to pamper myself a little better after being booted from the job.
New beginnings, new brows. Intriguingly named Brow Resurrection, I envisaged a phoenix emerging from the ambers, with its wings looking curiously like a pair of wispy, brand new brows.
6th November was my first consult with a Miss Lydia at the store. I requested for a set of Korean brows that's all the rage now. L carefully painted on a suggested brow shape with a fine ink brush for my go-ahead. Then L explained that because I had once before done another brow embroidery job with a different brow shape, the colour (though much faded) shows up as a shadow. The brow shape she's suggested had to overlay the bluish-grey shadow and had to consist of a stronger tone of brown.
I was pretty happy with her efforts and agreed with the brow shape so L proceeded to apply a layer of numbing gel. It was chilled and supposed to make the treatment significantly painless. The application required a sitting time of 10-15mins so during the wait one of their customer relations cum sales guy appeared and did a lengthy briefing of the dos-and-dont's, and made me sign some acknowledgement and indemnity forms. His fringe was funny and I detected a hint of cigarette breath while he talked. Glorious!
The next step was for L to colour in the drafted brow with the 'organic-semi-permanent-deep-brown' dye that the shop was so proud of. Thankfully the numbing gel worked - what I felt was a series of needles pricking lightly into my skin. And then the numbing effect wore off.. and then it really hurt!
At this point I'd like to recommend for the boys and girls who plan to undergo this treatment to do a thorough check on the symmetry of your brows after the colouring is completed. Despite the skills and experience of the beauticians, they are having to work with your face tilted to one side only and with the lighting focused on one part of your face more than the others.
Well it happened to me that my after my first round of pricking my brows were not symmetric. I pointed them out to L and she made a few extra pricks to balance out the height of the brows. And then I thought it was a rather good job done! It was a good job done that hurt-a-hella-lot at the end!
Feeling wounded, I was easily persuaded to purchase a post-treatment kit that consisted of a soothing liquid and a water-proofing balm. L explained that the kit would last me a few months as it could be used after future follow up treatments. I decided very quickly that for that money to be apportioned over the months it was okay. POW!! Extra money thrown in.
Over the next several hours the pain gradually crept up as the numbing effects wore off completely. And then my brows throbbed and swelled up. I didn't even even dare touch my brow by accident.
The worst experience post-treatment is that I'm disallowed from washing my brows for the next 5 days. Rationale was that with the dye being natural and organic it gets washed off pretty easily. To allow time for my skin to absorb it I needed to leave my brows untouched while they performed their natural peeling after being stabbed repeatedly. Also during this period I should apply the post-treatment product twice daily to retain the dye for as long as I could.
Obediently I let all that happen to avoid the need for scheduling a follow up that is too closely spaced to the first one. It was a rather traumatising experience for me.
Now at Day 16, the dye has significantly faded. I stopped applying the post-treatment product. The skin is no longer feeling injured and I can scratch an itch on the brow bone as per normal. I did however notice that there is still asymmetry in my brows. One being more rounded and than the other. The issue didn't fall away together with the dead skin during the peeling phase.
I think this is how it's gonna look for the next several weeks. It doesn't reduce my effort in colouring my brows since I need to continue to mask the asymmetry. This I will not miss in asking L to fix in our follow up appointment.
How Glorious!! So do you think it was worthwhile...?
♥
All that action happened before I left my previous employment, as a vain excuse to pamper myself a little better after being booted from the job.
New beginnings, new brows. Intriguingly named Brow Resurrection, I envisaged a phoenix emerging from the ambers, with its wings looking curiously like a pair of wispy, brand new brows.
6th November was my first consult with a Miss Lydia at the store. I requested for a set of Korean brows that's all the rage now. L carefully painted on a suggested brow shape with a fine ink brush for my go-ahead. Then L explained that because I had once before done another brow embroidery job with a different brow shape, the colour (though much faded) shows up as a shadow. The brow shape she's suggested had to overlay the bluish-grey shadow and had to consist of a stronger tone of brown.
I was pretty happy with her efforts and agreed with the brow shape so L proceeded to apply a layer of numbing gel. It was chilled and supposed to make the treatment significantly painless. The application required a sitting time of 10-15mins so during the wait one of their customer relations cum sales guy appeared and did a lengthy briefing of the dos-and-dont's, and made me sign some acknowledgement and indemnity forms. His fringe was funny and I detected a hint of cigarette breath while he talked. Glorious!
Numbing gel settling in
The next step was for L to colour in the drafted brow with the 'organic-semi-permanent-deep-brown' dye that the shop was so proud of. Thankfully the numbing gel worked - what I felt was a series of needles pricking lightly into my skin. And then the numbing effect wore off.. and then it really hurt!
At this point I'd like to recommend for the boys and girls who plan to undergo this treatment to do a thorough check on the symmetry of your brows after the colouring is completed. Despite the skills and experience of the beauticians, they are having to work with your face tilted to one side only and with the lighting focused on one part of your face more than the others.
Well it happened to me that my after my first round of pricking my brows were not symmetric. I pointed them out to L and she made a few extra pricks to balance out the height of the brows. And then I thought it was a rather good job done! It was a good job done that hurt-a-hella-lot at the end!
Feeling wounded, I was easily persuaded to purchase a post-treatment kit that consisted of a soothing liquid and a water-proofing balm. L explained that the kit would last me a few months as it could be used after future follow up treatments. I decided very quickly that for that money to be apportioned over the months it was okay. POW!! Extra money thrown in.
Over the next several hours the pain gradually crept up as the numbing effects wore off completely. And then my brows throbbed and swelled up. I didn't even even dare touch my brow by accident.
About 2 hours after treatment
The worst experience post-treatment is that I'm disallowed from washing my brows for the next 5 days. Rationale was that with the dye being natural and organic it gets washed off pretty easily. To allow time for my skin to absorb it I needed to leave my brows untouched while they performed their natural peeling after being stabbed repeatedly. Also during this period I should apply the post-treatment product twice daily to retain the dye for as long as I could.
Obediently I let all that happen to avoid the need for scheduling a follow up that is too closely spaced to the first one. It was a rather traumatising experience for me.
Day 16 - Blog conclusion
Now at Day 16, the dye has significantly faded. I stopped applying the post-treatment product. The skin is no longer feeling injured and I can scratch an itch on the brow bone as per normal. I did however notice that there is still asymmetry in my brows. One being more rounded and than the other. The issue didn't fall away together with the dead skin during the peeling phase.
I think this is how it's gonna look for the next several weeks. It doesn't reduce my effort in colouring my brows since I need to continue to mask the asymmetry. This I will not miss in asking L to fix in our follow up appointment.
How Glorious!! So do you think it was worthwhile...?
♥
