New breed of Tattoos...Cosmetic Tattooing

Today tattoos are very popular and have multiple purposes. Tattoos can cover up a birth mark or scars on a person's body, tattoos can even add special touchups to a person’s face. This is exactly what is happing in the cosmetic industry. It is essentially taking makeup to the next level, by making permanent tattoos on a person’s face, like adding fake inked eyebrows or adding color to the lips.

 Permanente makeup has been around since the early 1980’s, also known as micropigmentation or cosmetic tattooing. This process of tattooing was created to treat people with alopecia, burned victims, or cancer survivors. Now these procedures can alter a person face image for them to look beautiful without adding any makeup. People are finding the outcomes very satisfying, but there are setbacks to this alteration.

If not properly admitted there are serious side effect in the short and long run for the individual. The fact is that it is easy to get the machines and ink; one can buy all the tools online. The challenge is to administer the ink properly into the skin. All the ingredients in the dye pigment should be FDA approved, if not allergic reactions can occur after the procedure. Reactions like swelling, burning, serious discomfort are the main symptoms to occcur.

The focus here is  the technology which is developing so fast and has infinite uses, therefore the procedures that are administrated need to be regulated and controlled. The purpose of technology is to help society as a whole not make things worse, therefore people have to be trained and informed about the procedures of cosmic tattooing.

I found it very interesting how tattoos can help people lives, if done properly. At the same time cosmetic tattooing is more easily accepted compared to body art tattooing. Everybody has a negative correlatoin to classic tattooing on hte face or neck, but when a cosmetic tatoo is seen in public, nobody makes a big to-do aobut it. But I guess that is how as a society we accept things in small portions and it takes a long time to come in terms with the full aspect of the situation, especially when it comes to tattoos.