Which treatment is which
Straight comparisons of the treatments people confuse with each other, including the ones Alison does not offer.
Semi-permanent make-up is sold under a dozen different names, and a good number of them describe the same treatment. Others describe completely different ones that happen to sound similar.
These pages set them side by side plainly — what each one actually does to the skin, how long it lasts, who it suits, and what it costs. That includes treatments Alison does not offer, because the useful answer is sometimes that a different treatment, or no treatment, is the right one for you.
The comparisons
Powder brows vs microblading
Both put pigment in the skin to build a brow. Almost everything else about them is different — including who they suit.
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Lip blush vs lip filler
These get confused constantly, and they do completely different jobs. One is pigment. One is volume. Plenty of people have both.
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Semi-permanent vs permanent
The words are used loosely by everyone, including the industry. Here is what is actually going on under the skin.
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Lip blush vs liner tattoo
If your mental image of tattooed lips is a hard brown outline around a bare lip, you are picturing a technique that has been out of use for twenty years.
Compare →SPMU vs brow lamination
One of these needs you to have brow hair. If you do not, the choice makes itself.
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