Summer skin joy: Subtle sunburn, shiny skin, and the very important flicker of sun-kissed freckles.
Freckles are spending a moment in the sun. Women who once desperately put on makeup and erased with a laser are embracing natural pigmentation.
The famous freckled face includes Megan Markle, who ensured that her wedding make-up did not hide her “favorite feature.” She also says she doesn’t like them being removed in her photos, telling a magazine:
Kylie Jenner and Lindsay Lohan also reveal them.
Talia Kadi, who had freckles tattooed on her face four months ago, was inspired by her mother.Talia is mixed race and has some natural freckles, but she wanted more
Some have gone a step further with artificial freckles, and cosmetologists claim they can give them a fresh and youthful look.
And most radically, as you can see in the picture above, you’re spending hundreds of dollars to tattoo a semi-permanent freckle on your face.
It’s a dramatic change from the days when freckles were considered scars, and is often the focus of playground provocation.
Take the red-haired Paula Jones. She has natural freckles, but she misses them when she fades in the winter, so she has tattoos on her nose and cheeks so she can see all year round.
“I grew up with red hair and freckles, and I had to deal with a little bullying, but as I got older, I accepted both, especially freckles,” said Catering, living in Manchester. 33-year-old Paula says. She has two children, 11 and 2 years old.
“But they only look a few months a year, then fade and I’m much less confident.”
Perri Allington-Green, 28, is an independent hair stylist with nicely scattered freckles on her face.But they don’t belong to her — she tattooed them a year ago
Paula has been putting semi-permanent make-up on her fair-skinned eyebrows since she was 21 years old. So she inferred that someone had to make sure to provide a freckle tattoo.
She claims she wasn’t worried about the risks of tattooing the delicate skin on her face.
“If I don’t like them, the worst scenario is that they will decline after a year or two,” she says.
Fortunately, she worshiped the results and wouldn’t have been without them.
“The practitioner I go to also does tattooed nipples for breast cancer patients who have undergone reconstructive surgery. She is very experienced and understands that her skin is more than just a shade.
“In my consultation, she got an eyebrow pencil and made a dot where she asked for freckles. Next, she used three different colors to give it a natural look, about 40. They had a tattoo of. They were very obvious and a little slapstick when they were fresh, but she warned me that this would be the case at first, so I was ready. Now they are completely calm, people think they are natural.
Depending on the practitioner, the cost of treatment is about £ 150, and Paula reports that the tattoo needle feels like a “pin prick.”
“I get so many compliments,” she adds. “I really don’t make up. I only wear mascara and gorgeous freckles. When they decline, I’ll definitely replenish them.” Usually it’s a year later, but after 18 months, Paula is okay. But what exactly are freckles? They are caused by the overproduction of melanin, our skin pigment. There are two types.
More common is eferid. This is a flat, light brown mark that tends to fluctuate with the seasons. Next, there are spots, also known as liver and spots. Here, the skin is rich in melanin-producing cells and usually does not change with sunlight.
Practitioner Kseniia Vasileva has seen increasing demand for freckle tattoos at her private clinic in Geller’s Cross, Buckinghamshire.
“It’s fashionable to have freckles, whether natural or not,” said Kseniia, a bachelor of fine arts and qualified as a semi-permanent make-up artist after the birth of her second child. say.
“Some clients already have them and want more. Others love the look or want to hide the pigmentation of the skin. Shoulders, decollete, eyelids, Cheeks and lips are popular areas.
Of course, tattooing something on your face carries risks. It is important to first verify the practitioner’s qualifications, as anyone can advertise applying a semi-permanent makeup.
Kseniia’s clients fill out a health questionnaire and patch test the dyes she uses in case of an allergic reaction. Like other semi-permanent makeup, freckle tattoos are not suitable for women with eczema, diabetes, cancer and other conditions or pregnant women.
Redhead: Paula Jones boosted her natural freckles.She says she misses freckles in winter
“The location of the freckles and the number of tattoos can make all the difference between a natural look and an artificial look,” she says. “I don’t recommend it for people with oily skin, as it tends to be difficult to remove.” Perri Allington-Green, 28, is an independent hair stylist with nicely scattered freckles on her face. But they don’t belong to her — she tattooed them a year ago.
Perry, who lives in Manchester, said, “I don’t do much makeup with mascara alone. I clean my eyebrows professionally, but I loved the idea that freckles give a healthy impression.”
Perry started by drawing freckles with an eye pencil for a year — and loved them so much that she decided to plump for a semi-permanent watering of 150 pounds last spring.
“They didn’t work very well at first, so I refilled after six weeks, and they followed brilliantly,” Perry adds. “The practitioner used a cream that paralyzes my skin, but I still felt a little pain.
“I asked them to randomly place them on their nose, under their eyes, forehead, cheeks, etc. so that they look natural.
“The therapist first drew them to show where they were going. She made a dot on my face when I first saw them in the mirror after the process. I warned that it might look like I had, and I thought, “Oh, my god, are they still like this?”
Freckles are spending moments in the sun as women embrace pigmentation.The latest trend is to permanently tattoo freckles on the skin
“But after a week, they calmed down. They gave me a lot of confidence, and I look healthy all year round.
Talia Kadi, who had freckles tattooed on her face four months ago, was inspired by her mother. Like Megan, Talia is mixed-race and has some natural freckles, but she wanted more.
“I had never seen a brown-skinned person or freckles like me, so I covered it with makeup when I was young,” said 22-year-old Talia, who is studying English literature at King’s College London. say.
“But my relationship with freckles has changed slowly, partly because mothers with a lot of freckles are often white and we often don’t realize we’re mothers and daughters.
“I realized that freckles were actually very special. When they jumped out in the summer, I started to love them, and when they disappeared in the winter, I missed them.
Talia went to a clinic in Xenia last January and had 10 freckles tattooed on her face. She was sold out and she returned for another 20 a month later. She took an hour for each session. The total cost was £ 250.
“She was horrified when I told my mother about my plans,” Talia continues. “But she loves her results — and I finally look like her.
“I didn’t have to wear makeup during the winter, as freckles give me a very fresh look.
“It’s nice to feel like summer all year round. I’ll definitely get it replenished within a year.”