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PRECARE

Brows, Lips, and Saline Lightening precare instructions are all listed below. Please follow pre-care for best results.

BROW TATTOO PRECARE

2 WEEKS PRIOR

AVOID:

  • Eyebrow waxing, threading, plucking, or tinting for 2 weeks before the appointment. This can affect your results.

  • Exfoliating, chemical peels, and retinol 2 weeks prior to your appointment

  • Suntanning since this can alter your results

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72 HOURS PRIOR

AVOID:

  • Coffee and alcohol. This includes coffee, boba, tea, energy drinks, pre-workout, beers, wine, hard liquor, seltzers, and etc.

  • Blood thinning medications - Ibuprofen (Advil), aspirin, Niacin (Vitamin B3), fish oil. Blood thinners that may cause skin to be hypersensitive, bleed, and bruise easily

  • Smoking

  • Tweezing or waxing the area

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THINGS TO NOTE:

  • You will be more sensitive when on menstrual cycle

  • Eat before the appointment to ensure the blood sugar levels stay balance

SALINE LIGHTENING TREATMENT PRECARE

ONE WEEK PRIOR:

DO:

  • Moisturize daily, all throughout the day

  • Exfoliate the area to be treated one week prior

  • Drink plenty of water - hydrate the body = hydrate the skin

AVOID:

  • Tweezing, waxing, threading as this may irritate the skin

  • Vitamin E & fish oil - blood thinners

  • Blood thinning substances

  • Suntanning as this increased sun exposure may alter the skin


72 HOURS PRIOR:
AVOID:

  • Alcohol & caffeine - blood thinners that may cause skin to be hypersensitive, bleed, and bruise easily

  • Blood thinning medications - Ibuprofen (Advil), aspirin, Niacin (Vitamin B3), fish oil

  • Caffeine - coffee, boba, tea, energy drinks

  • Smoking

  • Tweezing or waxing the area


THINGS TO NOTE:

  • You will be more sensitive when on menstrual cycle

  • Eat before the appointment to ensure the blood sugar levels stay balance

LIP TATTOO PRECARE

1 MONTH PRIOR:

  • No lip fillers or botox around the lip area.


1 WEEK PRIOR:

  • Keep lips moisturized at all times

  • NO tanning beds

  • NO chemical peels, laser facial, facial procedures (I.E. hydrafacials, microneedling, etc.)

  • NO waxing around the lips


3 DAYS PRIOR:

DO:

  • Exfoliate lips

  • Keep lips hydrated at all times

  • After exfoliation, use a hydrating moisturizer such as lip oils/masks, aquafor, vaseline, etc. Basic chapstick is not hydrating enough & will cause the lips to become more chapped.

  • If you are prone to cold sores you need to take an antiviral prescription 3 days before & 3 days after the lip procedure. You can get a prescription: from your doctor, order from hellowisp.com (no prescription from MD needed.), or take OTC L-Lysine vitamin to help prevent or alleviate cold sores from occurring (antivirals are more effect).

AVOID:

  • exercise

  • caffeine or alcohol (coffee, decaf, tea, boba tea, soda, energy drinks, pre-workout, wine, seltzers, coolers, hard liquor, beers, etc)

  • blood thinners: fish oil, vitamin E (ingested), niacin, aspirin, ibuprofen, Advil, etc. Tylenol is okay!

  • smoking of any substances.


PLEASE NOTE:

  • If you drink caffeine or take blood thinning medications daily, please discontinue them for 1 week prior to your appointment to allow your body to clear these substances from your system. Please consult with your doctor before discontinuing any major medications.

  • You may be more sensitive when on your menstrual cycle.

  • Please eat a small meal or snack before the appointment.

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