Our Lip Neutralization is Lip Blushing for heavily pigmented lips, especially lips with drastic variation in tone. Your artist first evens the pigmentation to one consistent base, then lightens, adjusts and adds color. The result is one natural, even lip color with a defined lip line.
Our Lip Neutralization is a specialized form of Lip Blushing for heavily pigmented lips, and especially for lips with drastic variation in pigmentation: a dark upper lip and a lighter lower lip, dark borders, or patches that are noticeably darker than the rest. First, your artist shades a corrective pigment into the darker areas to bring the whole lip to one even baseline tone. Once that has healed, we add color the same way as a standard Lip Blushing.
Your first session takes about 2 hours, and the sessions that follow are shorter. At your first session, your artist will:
At your next session, 6 to 12 weeks later, your artist mixes your custom lip color and adds it over the healed baseline, the same way as standard Lip Blushing. As the lips heal, the pigment stays, and each session builds toward one even, natural color.
Only clients with heavily pigmented lips. If your lips are a fairly even tone, standard Lip Blushing gives you the result you want in fewer sessions, and we will tell you so at your consultation. A few things rule out any permanent makeup procedure. You are not a candidate if:
Because we use the first tattoo session to create a baseline tone in your lips, dark Lip Neutralization may take more sessions than standard Lip Blushing. The first session we create the even baseline. The second session we add the color. A third session may be required to add additional color or adjust any areas that heal too lightly. Just like the Initial Touch-up, these sessions will be spaced 6 to 12 weeks apart. Your artist gives you an honest estimate at your consultation, and we never promise a two-session fix.
In every other way, Lip Neutralization follows the same process as Lip Blushing: the same mapping, custom color mixing, healing and aftercare, the same pricing per session, and the same Periodic Touch-up every 1.5 to 3 years. Following our aftercare instructions helps it last. You book it as a Lip Blushing appointment, and your artist confirms at your consultation whether neutralization is the right approach for your lips.
This is permanent makeup, and we treat it that way. Any pigment placed in the skin should be considered permanent, even though it softens over time. Be wary of anyone who calls it "semi-permanent."
Please read our before you arrive instructions so you come in ready. Our Lip Blushing aftercare instructions explain how to care for the area and what to expect each day of healing.
Natural results don't happen by accident. They come from skill and technique, refined over thousands of clients. Six things we do at every appointment make the difference:
Pigment is placed in the upper layer of the lip: deep enough to last, shallow enough to heal soft. Too deep and color spreads past the lip line and heals dark or uneven. Too shallow and it fades in months. At the proper depth you get lasting color without oversaturating, and it softens evenly over the years instead of changing color.
Your artist maps your lip line from your natural measurements, enhances the cupid's bow for definition, and evens out any asymmetry. Then it is drawn on. You look in the mirror, we adjust it together, and no pigment goes in until you approve it.
Your pigment is mixed from your natural lip tone, your skin tone and your undertone, so it heals to one even, natural color. Most clients choose a custom matte pink. We keep close track of your formulation, so your color matches at your return, even years later.
Your artist works at a high machine speed with a whip technique, which layers pigment softly across the whole lip in fewer passes and carries it carefully to the waterline, which maximizes fullness without creating two tones. Less trauma means minimal scabbing and itching while you heal, and a softer result.
Lips heal light and uneven in places, so we take a conservative approach in session one. Your Initial Touch-up, 6 to 12 weeks later, evens out any areas that healed light and gives you the opportunity to go a little deeper or warmer if you want it.
We use only pigments and needle cartridges manufactured in the USA, and we have refined what we use over thousands of appointments to the products that deliver the most natural, longest-lasting healed results. Every cartridge is single-use and disposable, discarded after your appointment.
More than 8,000 clients have had permanent makeup at KNS, from all 50 states. Our artists have 25+ years of combined experience and do permanent makeup full time. As a team, we are constantly improving our craft: every week we review client cases together to develop best practices, study where to improve, and hold ourselves accountable to the natural, healthy healed results we promise.
It is a form of Lip Blushing with an extra stage. Standard Lip Blushing adds color to lips that are already fairly even in tone. Neutralization first evens out heavy or uneven pigmentation, then adds color. You book it as a Lip Blushing appointment and your artist confirms the approach at your consultation.
Not yet. The first session creates an even baseline tone across your lips. Color is added at the second session, and a third session may be needed to add more color or adjust any areas that healed too lightly. Sessions are spaced 6 to 12 weeks apart.
Lips are more sensitive than brows, but with topical numbing most clients describe it as pressure and vibration rather than pain. More on comfort during the appointment.
Yes. We use a topical numbing cream at both studios, and numbing is optional. Michigan requires a signed physician's approval before we can apply topical numbing during a tattoo service, so if you want it at our Brighton studio, request the letter from your doctor before your appointment. Here is how to request it.
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