Planning for the summer may not be the first thing on most people’s minds in February, especially as the snow falls all across the country. However, the very fact that this is a chilly time of year is a good reason to undertake one bit of preparation now.
If you have not undertaken microblading before but are keen to do so to improve the look of your eyebrows, especially for the summer, you might be surprised to learn that you should be thinking about it at this time.
However, there is a very good reason for this. The best way to understand the process is that it is both a form of tattooing and also involves tiny cuts in the skin around your brows, in order to get the ink bedded into your skin.
The process itself is a brief one of about half an hour, but because it does involve a series of cuts – albeit very small – it will take time for this to settle down and give you the look you want. This is not something you want to happen in spring or early summer, because you will need to stay out of the hot sun to protect your tender skin.
Healing is not an overnight process, but one that takes around 25-30 days. Initially, you may feel some discomfort in terms of soreness and tightness and then some flaking and itching. Swelling and redness may also be experienced and possibly even a feeling of being a little bruised. The good news is this will all soon pass.
Indeed, the flaking and itching is the same process you would experience with any small cut or graze on nearly any part of your body, so it is nothing to worry about and the changes in the colour you will see on your brows is part of that. Once they have healed, you will get to see the final look that should last for 18-24 months.
The key thing about this process is that there are certain do’s and don’ts while the skin around your eyebrows goes through the healing process.
For instance, you should avoid getting them wet or sweaty for the first week, so be careful how you wash and skip exercise. You should also avoid skin care with potentially irritating active ingredients.
If faced with warm and sunny weather, adding sun cream after the first week would be very helpful. But of course, this is where the great advantage of having the work done now comes in: you won’t have to lurk indoors and dodge the sun.
For that reason, getting it done in the last month before spring starts is a wise move. That 25-30 day recovery takes place just as the last of the winter ebbs away and the daffodils, crocuses, frogspawn and lolloping lambs start to appear.
Once that is over, you can look forward to rocking a wonderful new look in the summer, whether to impress on holiday or at big events, or, most importantly (since you’ll get photographed a lot), weddings. The latter is especially true if it is your own!
