Is your microblading getting saturated after multiple colour boosts?
If you had multiple microblading colour boosts over the years, such as 3 or more sessions, you might need to refresh or correct/neutralise often oversaturated, discoloured, or blurred pigment to restore your eyebrow tattoo.
While initial sessions focus on creating hair strokes, multiple “boosts” often requires changing technique to avoid over saturating the skin with pigment, which can cause it to turn blurry, grey, blue, or red, or become thicker as it fades out.
You might need to consider the following transitioning techniques going forward to maintain the quality of your eyebrow tattoo:
1. Switch over to an ombre powder or powder brow to shade faded pigment and to blend the old microblading strokes. Often neutralising pigments are used to correct old, faded pigment that shifted in colour. Typically an orange based pigment is used to neutralise grey/blue tones and green based pigments are used to neutralise red/pink tones.
2. To prevent pigment build up and the skin getting too saturated after multiple colour boosts, you can wait for the pigment to fade out naturally over 24 months (or longer) before you attempt another colour boost to achieve crisp hair strokes.
3. You can also consider laser tattoo removal or salt saline lightener that speeds up the process and you can get back to a fresh set of microblading eyebrows quicker.
In conclusion, a third + colour boost is rarely a simple “refresh” of the original strokes, it is an assessment, colour correction or lightening process aimed at correcting, rather than just adding more pigment.