Pigments Facts
Did you know that yellow pigment is…
Yellow is the most important color in permanent cosmetics? It adds all the golden hues to our most important correction pigments and eyebrow colors. Without it everything would look gray or pink.
Colorful Pigments…
Blues and greens can add versatility to the permanent cosmetic technician’s palette? Blended and muted with dark grays and dark browns, blues and greens can become beautiful smudged eyeliner colors.
Green Color…
Green was the favorite color of Napoleon and the green wallpaper in his exile home in St. Helena is what killed him? His premature death was not the work of a poisoner but was caused by the noxious fumes emanating from the bright green copper arsenate wallpaper.
Jet Black Pigment for eyes…
Compared to black iron oxide synthetic, the natural pigment grade is a grayer black, having a weaker tint strength and a larger particle size? This is why the synthetic black is the most desirable black and the black most often used for pigment manufacturing purposes.
Brown Color for permanent makeup…
When describing a two toned color such as brown/black, the second word carries the bulk of the color? For instance, a brown/black is a black with brown in it. A black/brown is brown with black in it. Pink/gray is a gray with pink in it. And gray/pink is a pink with gray in it.
Brown pigment for eyebrows…
There is really only one classification of browns that work in permanent make-up and those browns are inorganic iron oxides? The most universally used browns are found naturally in or on the earth. It is the “undertone” of the pigment that makes all the difference. With the correct undertone, the procedure will fade a lighter version of the original color; not pink, orange or gray residual colors which is what happens to pigment with undesirable undertones.
Inks vs Pigments…
In the tattoo industry, no dyes are used? Dyes are soluble and lose their crystalline structure in a solution, as in the orange dye in soda. Pigments are insoluble and separate in a solution. Pigments stay in the skin, dyes do not.
