Permanent makeup has come a long way since the ’very saturated, solid Khoki-pen eyebrows of the past’.
“‘You will also find that everyone has one orphan eyebrow and one head-girl eyebrow.’
Liza had breast cancer in her 30s, and chemo damaged her hair follicles. ‘A lot of the hair on my body just didn’t grow back,’ she says. ‘My eyebrows, especially, have never been quite the same, and it bothered me a lot. I’m not good with makeup, so even when I try to fill them in they don’t look quite right.’
Liza sought advice from Reneé de Wit, a Cape Town makeup artist she’d worked with on photo shoots. ‘Reneé referred me to Lisl Boshoff, a permanent-makeup artist who does a lot of work on people with alopecia. So it’s more than just a brow touch-up; she works on people who don’t have any eyebrows.’
Powder brows
Lisl is quick to point out that microblading – the two procedures are (ahem) arch-rivals.
