Is permanent-colour tattoo on eyebrows and as eyeliner safe?
As women get older their brows can become ragged, thin, and have patches of baldness (especially those who have over-plucked over many years). Tattooing, when done well, can be life-changing. But those two words “done well” are important. “The brow should end at the corner of the outer eye, where it meets a line drawn from the side of the nose past the end of the eye,” says Sophie Thorpe who, to my mind, is queen of permanent eyebrows. Thorpe tattoos in each “hair” individually, building the brows up and matching the colour to the natural hair. She uses semi-permanent mineral (rather than lead- or carbon-based) pigment so the colour is stabilised in the skin (then there’s no chance of it going black, purple or green). “The reason there are so many disasters,” she says, “is because therapists tattoo them in a solid block or an exaggerated shape, or don’t keep sitting the client up and checking.” It is not cheap, and you may need top-ups every couple of years (approx £550, 020 7589 5899,
