Permanent Makeup Removal

Saline removal is a method of tattoo and permanent makeup removal that involves tattooing the pigmented area with a highly concentrated saline solution.

The salt in the solution is implanted into the skin and will start to pull water out of the skin. The pigment molecules get picked up by the water and leave the body through the scab. 

Sometimes clients will feel a burning sensation when getting removal done, and some feel nothing at all.

After the session, it may feel like sunburn. The soreness usually only lasts for a few hours.

You can expect a bit of redness, puffiness and soreness at the area that was treated. The swelling and redness normally goes down within a few hours.

It will scab after a few days. This can be very light to crusty. 

It's very hard to say exactly how many sessions will be needed to remove a tattoo or permanent makeup. This will depend on the colour(s), the depth of the pigment and the saturation (how dense) it is.

Results will vary from person to person. It is normal to not see very visible results after the first session, so we always recommend starting with 2 sessions.

Even though the skin may appear to be healed, we want to make sure that your skin is completely healed before working on it again.

Because everyone heals at different rates, we like to be on the safe side.

Nope! This is one of the benefits of getting saline removal over laser.

Nope! All of your brow hairs stay the way they are. You won’t need to shave them off and they wont fall out because of the treatment. If any hair does fall out, it's because it is the end of it's life cycle and it will come back. In fact, sometimes saline removal helps hair grow back better.

Nope! All of your brow hairs stay the way they are. You won’t need to shave them off and they won’t fall out because of the treatment.

Yes, saline removal is best for small tattoos. If they are bigger ones and you wish not to have laser, it will be done in sections of around 8cm x 8cm.

Saline removal is great for pieces of tattoo that you need lightened or removed too as laser is not as precise.

Yes! In cases where you would like to keep permanent makeup on your brows, but want to change the shape or colour, we can do removal until it's light enough to fix.

Dana can walk you through how it works and make recommendations for the best course of action for you.

The treatment itself will not scar you, however if there is scar tissue left behind from previously, this may be 'uncovered'.

For those with darker skin tones, there is a risk of hyper and hypo pigmentation, so be sure to tell us if you have scars that are lighter or darker than your natural skin tone.

Emergency removals can only be done up to 48 hours after the treatment was originally done. It can be used on tattoos or permanent makeup.

No machines are involved in emergency removals as the skin is still 'open' from the treatment. The saline solution will be applied to the area and within a few days, it will scab and lift. 

There is never a guarantee as to how much pigment will come out, but emergency removals tend to be quite effective and will usually remove much more than a regular removal session.

There is always a risk of scarring anytime the skin is broken, however,  unless you have existing scars (covered by pigment) or do not follow after care, typically saline tattoo removal will not cause scarring.

Those with darker skin tones are more susceptible to keloid scarring. It's important to let us know if you've had keloid scarring before. 

We use Li-ft saline solution for lightening/ removing tattoos and permanent makeup.

Water, Pacific Sea Salt, Orange Flower Extract, Lemon Extract in Water, aloe barbadensis leaf juice, calendula extract, hydroxyethylcellulose, sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate.