About half of Anna Bokhan’s clients come to her south Charlotte studio for cosmetic tattooing or semi-permanent makeup, which involves placing pigment into the skin to enhance eyebrows, eyeliner, and lips. It’s an increasingly popular beauty trend for anyone who doesn’t want to apply makeup every day, and it can last one to three years, depending on technique and skin type.
The other half come to her after doctors have told them nothing more can be done for their scars or facial disfigurements. “This is often the last resort,” Bokhan says. “A lot of clients born with cleft lips want symmetry. Some have dog bites or injuries from car accidents. Post-cancer, when people have lost all their hair, I can do a brow tattoo.”
Restorative cosmetic tattooing, also known as paramedical tattooing, uses pigments to improve the appearance of scars, disfigurements, and other skin imperfections that result from medical conditions or injuries. “It’s not an alternative to Botox or fillers,” Bokhan says. “It’s its own kind of enhancement that uses color to create an optical illusion on the face.”…