A Natural Look Permanent Make-Up: Articles

ARTICLES WRITTEN BY
GeeGee Morgan & Stephanie Tarver

10 Compelling Reasons to Have Permanent Makeup
Palm Beach Post

Grandma has a Tattoo!
Sun-Sentinel

A Labor of Love
Tribune

If It's Good Enough For Cleopatra…
Macon Telegraph

Is It Really Permanent Makeup?
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

10 Compelling Reasons to Have Permanent Makeup

1.      It's a Time Saver.
2.    Convenience.
3.     Vision is not what it used to be.
4.    You'll have more confidence in your appearance.
5.     You'll be able to enjoy any sport and know that your makeup is not smeared.
6.    The cost is insignificant over a 24 month period. It comes out to be the same or
         less than the cost of a tube of lipstick a month.
7.     You are not really skilled in applying you makeup or choosing the right color.
8.     You have a handicap or receiving long term treatments of chemotherapy,
         Parkinson's Disease, arthritis.
9.     Be impeccable at every business meeting.
10. To correct uneven eyebrows, lips, or make small eyes appear larger and lashes longer.

You can look naturally attractive all the time because it make you feel good about you.

Grandma has a Tattoo!
By Stephanie Tarver

As the final touches were made, Mildred Goldberg of Boca Point was handed a mirror.

"Oh, I could never do that, I LOVE IT! You gave me an eyebrow arch. It looks so natural."

Anxiously waiting in the cozy front room was her husband, Irving Goldberg.

He asked to come back for a final approval. "Mildred, it looks great, so natural. Did it hurt?"

"No, not really," she replied.

Gee Gee Morgan, permanent makeup technician and self-described perfectionist, said "Let me do one more thing," as she artfully sketched in a soft, dark brown eyeliner on Mildred. As Mildred looked in the mirror she was impressed even more.

"It makes my eyes more defined and my eyelashes look thicker and longer."

Irving turned to Gee Gee and said, "You do love your work, she looks great! Do you have the time to do her eyeliner?"

"Please," Mildred said, "I would be so gratified."

Mildred has been diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease. She is now blind in her left eye and her right eye is starting to fail. Her estitician, Janet Robbins of Estitica Institute in Palm Beach Gardens, referred Mildred, after a successful procedure of her own, knowing that this would help her with her everyday troublesome routine of trying to apply her eye makeup.

Afterwards, as Mildred and Irving were leaving, Irving gave Gee Gee a big hug and kiss, and said, "You have made us so happy. It's worth every dime."

"I don't know what I'm going to tell my grandchildren," Mildred said as she also gave Gee Gee a warm hug and a smile. Gee Gee replied, "There is not that old-fashioned stigma that there used to be, and more women, from movie stars to your friends, have Permanent Makeup. When done natural and done well, you can't even tell.

"Tell them Grandma got a tattoo, and guess where it is!"

A month later, on Mildred's scheduled follow-up, touch-up appointment, Gee Gee asked how did it go? Mildred replied, "It looks so natural, everyone thinks I got up early to put on some makeup. Can we schedule to do my lips next week?"

While playing at her usual bridge game, Mildred's best friend leaned over and whispered, "You did it didn't you? You got permanent makeup… You look fantastic!"

Mildred just smiled.

A Labor of Love
By GeeGee Morgan

I started my hair salon on February 14, twenty-eight years ago. It has been truly a love affair. My clients have taught me to become humble but strong, to be a good listener and compassionate. They have trusted me with their deepest secrets and shared their most joyous moments.

I love my business because I believe that I have given my clients an insight into their own beauty inside and out… there is no such thing as an unattractive woman.

I have been in the beauty business for 30 years, and the time has come to change my beat a little.

My salon has offered permanent makeup since 1990 and, at the time, we were pioneers in the art. Through some recent encounters I have rediscovered my passion for permanent makeup and I have become very active in perfecting my skills. Those recent encounters were with previous clients and I was able to see their joy for my work, years after their procedures.

Some of my clients were elderly women who had poor sight due to degenerative eye disease. The convenience of permanent makeup made their poor eyesight a non-issue. One woman, who had been lucky enough to survive an auto accident, had lost part of her eyebrow and was thankful for the reconstructive benefits. Even women who were disabled with arthritis or Parkinson's found that permanent makeup diminished some of the sting of being dexterity-challenged.

I have applied permanent makeup on ladies that were undergoing chemotherapy and were stressed about the hair loss of their brows and eyelashes. The procedure helped to relieve their anxieties.

I had my permanent makeup applied 10 years ago after suffering from continuous eye infections and skin allergies that were traced to my use of regular makeup. I did my mother soon after and she was very happy with her results. It has relieved her of my daughterly nagging that her eyebrows were too dark or uneven.

My love for style, color and balance has branched out to enhancing the face. The very nature of makeup is a highly personal, individual art and it requires an applicator with a cultivated sense of individual beauty. In my career, I stared out in theatrical and stage makeup and have worked on several movies, TV series and movie stars. I guess I have come full circle.

I am semi-retiring from hair and starting a new facet of my career. February 14 will be another new business beginning for me and with it, a rejuvenation of what is important in life. My personal philosophy is simple… Live for today. Dance without music. Create your own internal motivation to push your limits. Lift other people's spirits. Advance your community by giving back to it. Develop a passionate purpose for life and live with it daily.

If It's Good Enough For Cleopatra…

Permanent makeup harkens back to the ancient Egyptians when Cleopatra actually wrote an instructional guide to cosmetics. Both Egyptian men and women wore makeup. They would line their eyes heavily in black, they used malachite to color their eyelids green or blue and they used carmine on their lips. To give their cheeks color they would mix red clay with saffron.

While the principle of makeup as an aid to beauty remains, we have permanent solutions that would make even Cleopatra jealous. At A Natural Look Permanent Makeup, located in Today's Headlines Salon in Lantana, we have been applying Permanent Makeup for over 12 years. Our extensive experience in color and technique has generated a long list of referrals from area doctors and their caring staff.

Is It Really Permanent Makeup?

Permanent Makeup is the perfect gift for yourself! It's the gift that keeps on giving throughout years of life.

A Natural Look Permanent Makeup Center located in the Today's Headlines Salon, in Lantana, was a pioneer in this unique art form 12 years ago when only people "in the know' were aware of its benefits. Now, while Permanent Makeup is widely known as a care-free alternative to "the morning ritual" care should still be exercised in choosing which salon will perform this highly skilled, but safe procedure.

Many physicians recommend A Natural Look Permanent Makeup Center for their clients.

"We perform a very natural enhancement, not a 'made-up look,' " says Gee Gee Morgan, owner of A Natural Look Permanent Makeup Center and Today's Headlines Salon.

"My mother was one of my first clients and I did her drastically thinning eyebrows 10 years ago. She loved it so much that she asked for eyeliner and lip color soon after. She is very active with dances, exercises, and performs water aerobics, but unskilled when it comes to her makeup."

Find out what Permanent Makeup can do for you.