Medical Use of Permanent Cosmetics

Medical tattooing was practice in WWII. This outdated procedures provided social security numbers and blood types to be tattooed on military personnel in case of injury or death. In today's technology, there is a new medical procedure known as Corrective Pigment Camouflage. This procedure is especially effective in the repigmentation of skin lightening from scarring due to illness, injury, birthmarks, surgical scars, disfigurement in burn survivors and cancer patients.

Persons who need to wear corrective make-up to mask vitiligo or alopecia, for, instance, or who have physical impairments preventing them from applying make-up benefit from these procedures. Persons who have allergies or wear corrective lenses will benefit from permanent makeup.

Corrective Pigment Camouflage (CPC), also known as Microdermal Pigmentation, is a process of inserting insoluble opaque pigment into the papillary and reticular layers of the skin to camouflage visible scar tissues and blend skin tones.

Procedures such as full up color camouflage will benefit both men and women who have burn scars. Lip deformities (including clef lip), scars from accidents, surgery and even post-inflammatory hypo-pigmentation from a fever blister or scars from infection can be improved. Hair simulation, especially in the area of the eyebrow and head lost to trauma, disease, or natural thinning will also be beneficial. Re-pigmentation of the skin includes correcting the skin tones and color mismatch in persons with vitiligo, which is a well known condition whereby the patient loses pigment in random areas on the skin. It is well documented that paramedical tattoos can camouflage this condition and when properly applied the artist can match the pigment to the skin color. However, Vitiligo is not the only medical procedure that can benefit from permanent makeup. A medical doctor attempted to remove a tattoo using a laser. The procedure was not successful and left the dark skinned patient with not only with the tattoo but with dispigmented skin. Permanent makeup camouflaged the problem.

Reconstructive camouflage on mastectomy patients may include creating the coloration of the aureole, nipple and masking of the incision scars. Hyper and hypo-pigmentation and mottling from second-degree burns can be camouflaged with corrective pigmentation as well.