Semi-permanent brows & lip blush · Burnley
Brows you do not have to draw on, and a lip you do not have to keep topping up.
morning make-up, already done
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Semi Permanent
Brows
Wake up with confidence
Semi-permanent eyebrows enhance your natural beauty, save you time and give you perfectly defined brows every day.
Why choose semi-permanent?
Saves time
Wake up ready to go with perfectly shaped brows 24/7.
Perfect shape & definition
Creates fuller, balanced brows tailored to your face shape and style.
Smudge & sweat proof
Long-lasting results that won't smudge, fade or wash off with daily activities.
Long lasting results
Enjoy beautiful brows for 12–18 months with minimal maintenance.
Enhances your features
Frames your face and enhances your natural beauty.
Boosts confidence
Feel more confident in your natural look, every single day.
Lips
Blush
Lip blush is a semi-permanent cosmetic tattoo that enhances your natural lip colour with a soft tint, improves shape, and brings balance and harmony back to your face.
Lip blush examples
Six shadesmatched to you
Your healed colour is your own lip colour plus the pigment — so the shade is matched against your lip in daylight, never picked off a card. Bring the lipstick you reach for most.
Semi-permanent make-up enhances you — it's not a make-up replacement.
Alison's own work
Before & afterthe same brows, one appointment apart
Softer, fuller and beautifully shaped — designed around her face and matched to her own colouring. Still entirely hers, just enhanced.
One of Alison's own clients, before and after her semi-permanent brows. There are plenty more to look through together at your free consultation, and on Instagram.
In the studio
One artist, start to finish
The person who talks it through with you is the person who maps the shape, mixes the colour and does the work — and the same person you see again at the perfecting session four to six weeks later. Nobody is handed on to anybody else.
Needles are single-use and opened in front of you, and Alison is licensed by Burnley Borough Council for semi-permanent skin colouring and insured through Professional Beauty Direct.
Book a free consultationWhatsApp AlisonHer own workevery one a real client
Alison's own clients, photographed straight after treatment — which is when the colour is at its boldest. It softens as it heals, and the healing guide shows exactly how.
The person doing it
Alison
Semi-permanent make-up is what her clients travel furthest for, so it now has its own name and its own unhurried diary — the same person, in the same room, at the salon she has run on Briercliffe Road since 2009.
Licensed by Burnley Borough Council and insured through Professional Beauty Direct. And if a treatment is not right for you, she will say so at your free consultation — which is rather the point of having one.
The treatmentsbrows and lips, nothing else
Two treatments, so every appointment has all the time and care it deserves.
Powder brows
A soft, powdery brow with a light front and a defined tail — the look of a brow pencil applied by somebody who is very good at brow pencil, except you wake up with it already done.
£295Ombré brows
The same technique as powder brows, worked to a deliberate gradient — barely there at the front, building through the arch, strongest at the tail.
£295Combination brows
Fine hair strokes drawn through the front of the brow, with powder shading behind them. The most realistic finish, and the most work.
£325Lip blush
A soft wash of pigment through the whole lip that brings the edge back, evens out the colour and makes the shape read — without the hard liner-and-lipstick look.
£195
Colour boosts
Semi-permanent means exactly that. Every so often the colour needs putting back, and a boost is a fraction of the time and cost of starting again.
£150How it worksstep by step
Nothing is permanent until you have looked in the mirror and said yes.
A free consultation, first
Alison talks through shape, colour, your skin and your health, and whether the treatment is right for you at all. It costs nothing, commits you to nothing, and your patch test is done at the same visit.
Mapping, before any pigment
Measured, drawn on with pencil, adjusted, handed to you in a mirror, adjusted again. People change their minds at this stage constantly — that is exactly what it is for.
Your appointment
Two to three hours, numbed and lying down, with a drink and a blanket if you would like one. Most people find it far gentler than they expected — a fair few drift off.
A week of healing, and you will know what to expect
They look darker at first, then they flake, and in the second week the colour seems to fade right back. All of it is completely normal, all of it passes, and you will have it in writing so nothing takes you by surprise.
Your perfecting session, included
At four to six weeks the shape gets its final adjustment and anything that healed light is topped up. It is part of the treatment, not an upsell, and it is already in the price.
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Is it right for you?Find out in a minute
Six questions about your brows, your lips, your skin and your health, and you will get a straight recommendation plus anything that would stop you being treated. Your health answers never leave your device.
Take the suitability checkGood to knowbefore you book
A few things worth reading, so you arrive knowing exactly what to expect.
What it costs
Brows are £295 and lip blush is £195, with the perfecting session already in the price. The useful part of this page is what sits behind those numbers.
Read this →Does it hurt?
Not as much as you are imagining, more than nothing, and lips are worse than brows. The long answer is more useful than the short one.
Read this →How healing goes
There is a week in the middle where it looks like it has all gone wrong. It has not. Knowing that in advance is the single most useful thing on this page.
Read this →Questions
What is semi-permanent make-up?
Cosmetic pigment placed into the upper layer of the skin with a fine needle, to shape and colour brows or lips. It is not a tattoo: the pigment is designed to break down and fade over twelve to eighteen months so the shape can be adjusted as fashions and faces change.
How long does an appointment take?
Two and a half to three hours for brows, two and a half for lips. Around 45 minutes of that is spent on shape and colour before any pigment goes in.
Do I need a patch test?
Yes, at least 48 hours beforehand, every time unless you have had one here within the last twelve months. It is free and it takes five minutes.
Is the consultation really free?
Yes. Consultation and patch test cost nothing and carry no obligation to book. It is also the appointment where you might be told the treatment is not right for you, which is worth having for free.
How much does it cost?
Powder and ombré brows are £295, combination brows £325, and lip blush £195. Brows and lips together are £450. Every one of those includes your consultation, your patch test and the perfecting session at four to six weeks.
Will it look obvious?
Not if the colour is matched to you and the shape is mapped to your face. The single biggest cause of obvious-looking work is pigment chosen too dark. The advice here will always be to start softer than you think you want, because depth is easy to add at the perfecting session and hard to remove afterwards.
Can I have it done before a wedding or holiday?
Yes, with time to spare. Allow at least six weeks before the event so healing is finished and the perfecting session is done. Two weeks before is too close.
What if I do not like it?
Say so at the perfecting session, which is what it is there for — shape, depth and symmetry can all be adjusted then. The stage that prevents this problem is the mapping at the start: nothing is applied until you have looked in the mirror and said yes.
Do you take a deposit?
Yes, and it comes off the price of your treatment rather than sitting on top of it.
Where are you?
Inside Escape Hair & Beauty at 152 Briercliffe Road, Burnley BB10 2NZ, by the hospital roundabout, with parking on the street outside.
Book a free consultation
It starts with a free consultation — shape, colour and your patch test, with nothing to pay and nothing to commit to.