Microblading
tattooing technique
Microblading is a tattoo technique used on eyebrows to create, enhance, or alter their shape and color. To apply this form of semi-permanent makeup, a technician uses a small handheld tool made of several tiny needles to add semi-permanent pigment to the skin. Microblading differs from the most common process of tattooing as each hair stroke is created by hand with a tiny needle that creates fine slices in the skin, whereas eyebrow tattoos are done with a tattoo machine. Microblading deposits pigment into the upper region of the dermis, so it fades more rapidly than machine tattooing techniques. Microblading is also referred to as eyebrow embroidery, eyebrow feathering, microstroking, 3D eyebrows, nanoblading or hair-like strokes.
History
Eyebrow tattooing was originally developed for eyebrow restoration, as a medical tattoo to minimize the appearance of hair loss in the eyebrows (madarosis). Along with other forms of permanent makeup, cosmetic eyebrow tattooing became more common in the 1980s and 1990s in the United States and Asia, including in Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore. Some dermatologists offered early forms of this service for both medical and cosmetic purposes, and trained cosmetologists on it. Practitioners used a tattoo machine or a fine needle to apply dye by hand.
The microblading technique for eyebrows, typically called eyebrow embroidery in its early years, became popular in Singapore by about 2007.
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