Lip Appointment Prep

Day of Your Appointment:

Make sure you eat something, have consumed no caffeine, and are well rested! Do not exercise the day of your appointment.

Feel free to bring any photos of lip blush you love for reference. Instagram is a great place to find this inspiration! Search hashtags like #lipblush #healedlipblush

Remember that the initial outcome is bright but the healed result will be more soft and natural.

24 Hours Prior to Your Appointment

Avoid caffeine and anything else that can thin the blood and/or raise blood pressure. This includes: coffee, caffeinated tea, energy drinks, alcohol, aspirin, ibuprofen, niacin, and vitamin E. Tylenol is OK. This is very important. Not only because it makes it easier for us to work on your brows, but more importantly, is imperative for your best healed results. Excess bleeding = ashier results as well as poorer pigment retention.

* All of these 24 hour prior guidelines also apply to the day of your appointment.

72 Hour Prior to Your Appointment

No waxing directly around the lip area or intense UV exposure.

1 Week Prior to Your Appointment

Exfoliate your lips daily with a sugar scrub to slough off any dryness. Dry lip skin will create issues performing the lip blush procedure as well as the potential for patchy healed results.

Please use a sugar scrub, you can easily make your own, for 3-4 nights prior to your treatment. Scrub lips for 2-3 minutes wipe off the excess and then apply a thick mask of Vaseline or Aquaphor.

Avoid any lipsticks as they tend to dry out the lips and keep them moist with a nourishing balm instead for 5 days prior to your treatment.

2 Weeks Prior to Your Appointment

All lip filler treatments must be performed at least two weeks prior to your lip blush procedure to allow time for them to fully heal.

Optional: Start on an arnica regimen (2-3 times a day sublingually) to help reduce the possibility of bruising. You can find arnica online or at your local pharmacy or drugstore.

30 Days Prior to Your Appointment

Make sure you have planned to see your doctor for a prescription for Valtrex (antiviral) if you have ever had a cold sore, even if it has been years. The virus that causes cold cores can lay dormant but will be activated from the the lip blush treatment itself. This is imperative!

You will need to take the prescription beginning at least 2 days before your appointment until 2 days after your lip blush appointment (as prescribed by your doctor!). You will also need to take the antiviral in the same manner before and after for your touchup appointment. Let your provider know you will need enough of this prescription for both services.

6 Months Prior to Your Appointment

If you have had chemotherapy you must wait a minimum of six months and provide a doctors note to clear you for your cosmetic tattoo procedure.

1 Year Prior to Your Appointment

You must be off Accutane for one year prior to your appointment.

Other Considerations

We cannot continue with your procedure if you have an active cold sore outbreak on or around the lip area or are on antibiotics (must wait 2 weeks after finishing a round of antibiotics).

Please note: If you are currently on your menstrual cycle you may experience pain differently than you typically would and may be more sensitive to pain. Although we use topical anesthetics before and during the procedure, it is possible you may still experience pain to a greater degree due to this. Please schedule accordingly.

Failing to follow these instructions will affect your results in many ways, one of which being, if you consume caffeine (or anything that thins the blood) during the time frame stated above, it becomes much more difficult to implant pigment into your skin. This can greatly affect your healed results, resulting in more fading and patchy/uneven healed results.