The studio
One lip, one artist
A cosmetic tattoo studio that works on lips only. Narrow by choice, because lip tissue behaves differently from brow and eyeline, and the colour theory that governs it is its own discipline.
Position
Specialist, not a salon menu
Lips are mucosa. They move constantly, they heal faster than facial skin, they hold pigment unevenly, and they carry an undertone that will argue with the wrong colour for as long as the work lasts. Treating lips alongside twelve other services makes it hard to build the reading time this work needs.
So the studio does one thing. Consultation, assessment, colour, shape, treatment, healed review and touch up, all with the same person, all recorded to a file that outlives the appointment.
How decisions are made
Colour is judged in daylight, never under a ring light, because ring light flatters everything and tells you nothing. Photographs are taken at a fixed distance and angle so that two visits can be compared honestly. Nothing published is retouched, and nothing is published without written consent.
What is said out loud
Some lips need a staged plan. Some need old pigment lightened elsewhere before anything new is added. Some appointments have to move because of a cold sore, recent filler or a medication. All of that is discussed at consultation, in writing, before a deposit is taken.
Hygiene
Single use needles and cartridges, opened at the chair. Barrier film on every contact surface. Sharps disposed of to Australian standards.
Records
Shade formula, needle configuration, pigment batch and lot numbers, healing notes and consent are kept for every client.
Claims
No medical claims, no invented review counts and no result photographs that are not real client work shown with permission. If a number is not stated here, it is because it has not been earned yet.
Sterile by protocol
Consumables unsealed in front of you and discarded at the end of the appointment.
Time to decide
Consultation and treatment sit on separate days, so a patch test can be read first.
Daylight decisions
Shade approved next to a window, not under studio lighting that flatters pigment.
Aftercare that continues
Written plan on the day, a check in on day three, and a healed review at week five.
Next step
Come in for an assessment
The fastest way to know what your lip can do is to have it read in person, in daylight, by the artist who would do the work.