Colour changes

Colour Changes

If your client complains that the pigment has changed colour, check these things out with your client:

During the healing process, did the client?

1. Follow the aftercare properly?
2. Pick off any of the scabs?
3. Use any form of lightening products such as AHA’s?
4. Touch the area with their fingers whilst the area was healing?
5. Smoke while the lips were still healing? The paper on the cigarette filter may pull out the colour on the lips as the area is healing.
6. Start taking any new medication?
7. Become ill?
8. Go in Saltwater or Chlorinated pools?
9. Expose the area to UV Light either outside without proper protection, or did they use a sunbed?

After the procedure had healed, did the client?

1. Get a tan?
2. Change jobs and now working in different lighting conditions?
3. Take, add or change any medications, including vitamins and herbs?
4. Use a total sunblock on the area?
5. Use any lightening products on their skin or have IPL, Laser or Micro-dermabrasion treatments?

The pigment has completely disappeared?

If the procedure is under four weeks old, then it may be that the skin is still healing, and it’s not uncommon for the colour to re-appear after four weeks.