“Bad Permanent Lip Makeup Scares Hospital” – Part 2

  (Permanent lip makeup photo below) Well, it seems I started something of a soap opera. Since writing a post about “Joanne’s Journey” last month, some of you have written to me asking me how she is doing. If you thought the first part was an amazing escapade, wait until you hear the latest twists and turns.

 tattoo ink If you aren’t familiar with the story, click on the link here to see the original post, “Bad Permanent Makeup Scares Hospital.” It will catch you up on the unusual story of how this woman’s bad permanent lip makeup turned gray blue had a hospital staff treating her for a heart attack when she was there for something else.

Part 2

I was looking forward to seeing Joanne two weeks ago. It was her second scheduled appointment to fix bad permanent lip makeup done by a technician not qualified to work on mannequins. Joann is a delightful woman and I was up to the challenge of helping fix her lips after the poor thing spent a dozen years hiding the botched permanent makeup job which grew worse over time.

Usually the follow up lip procedure is to retouch the lip color to get it just right. It is much better to do it this way because the color fades some after the initial application. And it is always safe to not be too heavy handed since permanent lip color lasts a long time. You want to be wearing perfection, right?

In Joanne’s extreme lip makeover case, I told her it would surely take more than two applications to get her lips right. How many? I honestly couldn’t tell. She didn’t care either. All she cared about was finally having great looking lips. We agreed together we would get it done.

So the third Wednesday rolls around, but Joanne does not. No show. No call. No email. No text.

I left her a voicemail message. Was she upset? No. Was she disappointed with our first step? No, quite the opposite actually. Did she simply forget our scheduled appointment? No. Impossible. She was so looking forward to it. Did something happen to her? Yes.

Joanne wound up back in the hospital.

Did she actually have a heart attack this time? No. She had an adult stroke, thankfully a mini one.

Joanne called me from her hospital bed and gave me the news. She apologized for missing her appointment and as usual had a great attitude. She joked about it and said the only good thing about the whole hospital process this time was her permanent lip makeup didn’t work against her. We were able to make enough improvement in one application with her scary gray blue lips that no one on the hospital staff even questioned her about it.

Joanne was treated and released. Two weeks later she was cleared to come back to me for her second application. We used some orange to warm up her lips and were able to minimize the gray blue color significantly…much to the amazement of both of us.

Joann is scheduled to come back again in 3 weeks. That’s a long with this girl. Who knows what could happen next?

Stay tuned for another thrilling episode of “As the Permanent Makeup World Turns.”