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On this episode of Macro Beauty, we witness a delicate eyeliner tattoo. This form of permanent makeup has come back in style because of artist Dominique Bossavy. Watch this week's Macro beauty to see how this precise procedure is done!

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Transcript
00:01You can call it whatever you want.
00:03It is still a form of tattooing.
00:10I absolutely love the concept of giving this freedom to a woman
00:14to be able to wake up, not look like they had a ton of makeup,
00:18but yet look very fresh and very natural.
00:21I have gotten tattoos. I have quite a few.
00:24Two on my wrists. I have a little ghost.
00:27And I have two stick and pokes that my friend did.
00:30One on the back of my ankle, it's an evil eye,
00:32and the other a silhouette of a woman's body.
00:34I am a little hesitant and concerned that I am getting a tattoo on my eyelid.
00:40My name is Claudia, and I'm getting permanent eyeliner today.
00:43Doing my makeup every day is sometimes a little bit of a struggle.
00:47When I'm running from appointment to another appointment,
00:50I don't really want to have to worry about maintaining my looks.
00:54I started doing this back in the late 80s in Paris.
00:59I really love the concept of a woman looking beautiful and not having to put makeup,
01:06but I really didn't like the results because everything was so obvious and unnatural.
01:11I actually found that it was disfiguring the real freshness of youth.
01:16I found a way to give the woman that concept without making her look like she had done anything.
01:24Bonjour, je m'appelle Dominique Bossavi.
01:26Je suis la créatrice du concept de la beauté naturelle permanente.
01:31Some of my elite clients include Lina Denham, Jenna Dewan, Julie Bowen, Michelle Williams, and Megan Fox.
01:45When I first found out about Dominique, I was so fascinated.
01:48I loved the work that she did with her other clients and how incredible it just made the eye pop.
01:53I'm going to a wedding tomorrow and I'm definitely going to feel very flawless and fabulous after this whole procedure.
02:08Overdoing permanent makeup is never a good idea.
02:11The number one advice I give to my client is to go for the useful look rather than the glamorous
02:18look.
02:18If you go that way permanently, you'll never have that opportunity to look fresh again.
02:25There are different techniques and different tools for different procedures.
02:31For the eyeliner, we will use a less invasive needle that will be very gentle to the fine skin.
02:42It's very important to seek out a qualified expert with this procedure becoming such a trend.
02:50A lot of people with as little as a month's training are offering this service.
02:55The percentage of unhappy women who come to me in the hope to get fixed is rising.
03:02And it's hard-wrenching to see the damage that's been done to those women.
03:08And the disfiguration sometimes is beyond repair.
03:13I think there are definitely some misconceptions around permanent makeup because there are those horror stories.
03:20My biggest fear is I hope it doesn't bleed or fade or possibly not fade if I don't keep up
03:26with going in for retouches.
03:31I could do this with my eyes closed. Do you want me to show you?
03:34Oh, no, no, no, no, no. This is going to be a piece of cake.
03:39First, I am going to clean the area.
03:44I then place a little knob in cream with the Q-tip.
03:51Once I put my magnifying glasses and gloves, then I will custom blend the pigments in the tray.
04:00I'm going to stop very gently. If there's anything, you tell me, I stop right away.
04:07We just want to create the illusion of thicker lashes.
04:12The little blade does the work and you hear a slight buzzing noise.
04:20Tiptoeing in to make the lightest puncture possible to implant the pigment in a gentle manner.
04:31The feeling range from feeling the vibration to a little scratch on their eyelashes.
04:43I go over each section two or three times.
04:52This will ensure the proper amount of pigment implanted into the lash line.
05:03After I completed the procedure on Claudia, my first reaction was how open her eyes became.
05:11But I felt that she could use a little bit more on the tail to give her that soft, dull
05:17look.
05:21We went back and I added a little bit on the corner and it was just perfect.
05:28The great thing with this procedure is that right from the get-go, you can start racking up the compliments.
05:34Go to a red carpet event and nobody will ever know you had anything down to your eyes.
05:40When I looked at the final results, it looked amazing.
05:44I didn't have any mascara on.
05:46My eyes instantly popped.
05:48I felt really beautiful and confident and I owned who I was.
05:52It wasn't as scary as I thought it was going to be.
05:55It was actually really relaxing.
05:56Dominique is really gentle and I didn't feel a thing.
06:00All of the built-up anticipation and stress that I was creating in my head was for nothing.
06:06It's extremely important to follow the aftercare to ensure a good result.
06:12The permanent eyeliner has faded.
06:14It's practically gone, to be quite honest.
06:17But Dominique's technique is she does it lightly the first time around because she wants to see how your skin
06:24and your body reacts to the procedure.
06:26Which I actually respect and appreciate because everyone's skin complexion and DNA is different.
06:34I'm actually going in next week when I return from my vacation to get the second round done and I'm
06:39so excited because I enjoyed it so much the first time around that I can't wait to have it done
06:45the second time.
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