In August, Mister Valentine was networking and finding referrals for a marketing company.  One of the referral clients he was working with offered him a very discounted deal for eyebrow tattoos since she knew our anniversary was coming up.  She knew me already and she was being really nice by offering this. 

It seems to take a while for me to use gift certificates.  I'm not sure why.  I have one from last year at Christmas for Old Navy which I still haven't used. 

So it took me until December to use the gift certificate for the eyebrow tattoos.   I guess I was a little nervous and a little busy.

While I was at the salon, the woman offered to do my eyeliner, as well.  Even though my eyebrows turned out great and the process was not terribly painful, having the tattoo needles so close to my actual eyeball seemed like it would hurt too much, so I skipped the eyeliner part. 

The ink used for permanent makeup is composed differently than regular tattoo ink.  It fades a lot over time and to keep it up you really need to get a touch up every couple years or you'll barely be able to see any remants of the actual tattoo.

I can tell you that it's saved me a good 20 minutes each time I do makeup and the trade off was worth it in the time I can spend with the kids rather than putting on makeup.  I wake up with eyebrows now and don't have to try to struggle to draw straight lines with the eyebrow brush while my kids hang on me. 

Would I suggest you do it?  I would....if you struggle with thin eyebrows daily.  If having eyebrows on when you wake up is going to save you A LOT of time, I'd suggest doing it.  My eyebrows have always been very thin and don't have the downward curve - even when I've tried to let them grow in I just don't seem to have much hair in that area.  Now they are perfectly shaped and arched.  I love them.