Wave: Beautiful Ink
Lisa Henning discusses scar therapy
This month I’ll be introducing you to MediTatu®, my treatment to improve scars and stretch marks. I’ll also detail a simple post-surgery or trauma scar prevention method. Finally I’ll explain what happens after an eyebrow tattoo removal treatment.
Ok, so what is MediTatu®?
Scars and stretch marks are stuck and damaged skin that are often fibrous and thick. They are also often miscoloured red, purple, pink or white.
I’m one of those logical people, and when I researched a treatment called ‘skin needling’, which helps the body grow new skin as a result of gently damaging it, I realised that the most intense and precise way of needling the skin is to use a tattoo machine. Wouldn’t that be a perfect treatment to help improve scars and stretch marks?
So from my initial skin needling training, I developed and trademarked MediTatu®. I can help smooth and fill stretch marks, which for some people also return to a more normal colour. I can also help to improve scar tissue with red and itchy scars and I am able to normalise thick hard tight scars. Again for some people the colour of white scars are normalised afterwards.
It has to be said that large scars are easier to improve than some small ones, but I offer very honest and clear consultations over the phone, so when a client arrives for a treatment, they know exactly what to expect. Beautiful Ink is a private home studio, and there’s only me, who deals with you from initial phone call to carrying out all your treatments.
I’ve just had an operation; the stitches are being removed in a few days. How can I minimise any scarring?
Once the stitches have been removed and any follow up medical advice has finished, you can begin to use this simple method to achieve the best looking scar. MediTatu® must not to be used on wounds or skin that has any broken surface. This advice does not replace that of your surgeon or hospital.
Simply tape over your scar with micropore tape, I recommend using 3M tape, 5cm wide.
• The width of the tape you use should completely cover and support the scar, surrounding it by about 1cm.
• The tape should be applied to a clean scar with no greasiness on the surrounding skin. Apply the tape firmly.
• The tape must be left on until it comes off naturally (five to seven days), and replaced. Do not remove daily as this will cause irritation.
• Continue taping until the scar matures, becoming pale and flat. This may take a couple of months.
Eyebrow tattoo removal must be easy since it is only a small area?
Unfortunately, in recent years there’s been a rise in people not only having tattoos, but wanting them removed. What used to be considered permanent, no longer is. To remove pigment from the skin, it either needs to be zapped by a laser so it’s absorbed by the body, or something needs to be tattooed in which will draw the pigment up and out. The latter method of removal I offer at Beautiful Ink. I use saline solution or Rejuvi, which is a mixture of oxides that bonds with the iron oxide of the tattoo.
These methods bring the pigment out of the body. Nice and simple until you realise that means a nice big scab on your eyebrows that you aren’t allowed to get wet until it naturally comes away! (approximately seven to 10 days). Your skin is then likely to be red as there has been a deep graze. Just like with laser removal methods, there’s an unknown number of sessions required as it’s unclear how deep the pigment is, how much pigment is in there, and how readily your body will remove the pigment.
I advise prospective clients to budget for three removal sessions, at £150 per session. Then I re-evaluate whether full removal is possible, or if enough colour has now been removed so that the remaining eyebrow tattoo can be reworked. If it’s now easier to cover with makeup, simply allow the remaining colour to fade.
Next month more on MediTatu®. I can be contacted on 07530 978856 or visit www.beautifulink.co.uk for permanent makeup, or www.skin-confidence.co.uk for scar & stretch mark treatments.
