Beauty: Micro-shading, The Perfect Brow Option For People With Sensitive Skin

Meet the new brow technique softer and gentler

Traditionally, microblading is done by tattooing super fine lines throughout your entire brow to look like natural hairs. It can be used as a way to fill out super sparse brows, or add extra oomph for an even fuller look. ( microfeathering, is the same idea except pigment is only applied to the sparse patches in your arches.) 
But it always a different story or experience with people that has sensitive skin .


According to a report from New Beauty, there’s a new technique in town that promises to put sensitive skin fears to rest. Microshading is the same basic idea — permanent pigment applied to your arches with the use of teeny tattoo needles — but with a twist in technique. “Microshading, often referred to as the 'Shadow

Effect,' gives the brow a gradient appearance with small pin-point dots,” brow expert Nadia Afanaseva of Eye Design New York, told New Beauty. “Microblading leaves tiny, natural-looking hair-strokes, whereas microshading leaves small, pin-point dots.”

It sounds a little weird — like the signature teeny dots found in Roy Lichtenstein's iconic art — and at first, the result looks like what you'd get if you drew on your brows with harsh lines. But in about a week, the block of colour fades, giving way to a softer, fuller looking arch.

So why go with microshading over microblading? Experts say it’s better for sensitive or oily skin. “I recommend microshading for clients with oily skin because the microshading technique takes better to their skin type,” Afanaseva told New Beauty. Just like microblading, microshading will last anywhere from one to three years.


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