Microblading

The art of making artificial hair on the brows, identical to the real ones, to fill in gaps, in a strategic way to make them unnoticeable.

The reality is very different. I see microbladed eyebrows that are completely artificial and without using the technique correctly. Today I will help you to understand and know how to identify basic principles in microblading, to have a better knowledge and be able to choose a good artist.

Microblading eyebrows is done with a hand tool, and a blade with 0.18mm wide pins. There is also nanoblading, made with a 0.15mm blade. To the naked eye this difference in width is imperceptible. The 0.15mm blade causes less trauma to the skin when used correctly. However, because it’s thinner, it can penetrate deeper and turn into a tattoo if not handled carefully. When microblading is done correctly, you shouldn’t be able to distinguish the strokes from the natural hairs. To achieve this, three factors are important: the eyebrow structure, the type of hairs, and the hair pattern.

When I talk about eyebrow structure, I'm talking about this:

brow structure

Initial hairs, transitional hairs, ascending hairs and descending hairs.

After identifying these points, we need to analyze the type of hairs: It is long? Short? Curved? Straight? In S?

brow hairs type

and finally, the pattern that these hairs does to be able to mimic them.

All these identifications need to happen before starting microblading eyebrows, so that the hairs do not cross. The procedure is only imperceptible when the strokes made imitates 100% the real hair.

Look at the difference between a procedure without technique:

My first microbladed eyebrows:

And a procedure with technique:

There's still a lot more behind microblading eyebrows. Like hand weight, skin depth, stroke passes, hair thickness, color choice...

These other topics will be for the next posts. Let me know if you have questions and tell me what you want to know! I'll be happy to help. s2