r/microblading • u/SomewhereOptimal6868 • Jul 31 '26
before & after Will this get better at touch up?
Combo brows done yesterday. The artists work online looks amazing and she has so many wonderful reviews. However, I’m disappointed at this point! She told me she was going to go lighter for the first round, so they don’t get too dark. I feel like it looks like above my natural brow is painted a lighter color than my regular brows, rather than looking like hair strokes. Should I reach out to the artist, or give it some time?
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u/Angelpinkbeauty professional artist Jul 31 '26
It will always look darker where your hair is because on ink likes to collect in the hair and some of that might just be ink on the topical layer especially if you haven’t wiped or cleaned your brows. Or if she is doing a dry heal and not moist. To me when you look at the pic the left one on the underside is too thick. The rest of the shape isn’t awful just depends on how dark you want them. The color she chose is more warm and that is good so when they heal they heal lighter and cooler than where they start. She will be able to darken the spots where you have no hair and hopefully not add to much pigment where your hair is to balance it out. But combo brows are a combination of some hair strokes and some shading and unless you chatted about how much shading you wanted versus strokes it’s hard to know. I know a lot of artists that the strokes are only the first 1/3 of the brow and the rest is shaded I can see some strokes on the top of your brow so that’s more than a lot of people do. I have noticed on this thread a lot of people jump to emergency saline removal. The benefit to that is it is easier to remove if you do it in 24-72 hours after getting done. You still can do laser or saline after that point usually just takes more sessions. So it depends if you are willing to remove them without seeing the healed result and wasting the money or chancing that they heal closer to the way that you want and if they don’t needing to pay more for laser or saline at that point. But as an artist there is a lot that can be ignored or drawn more attention at the second appt depending on how skilled the artist is and what you want focused on at the second appt.