Classic, hybrid, or volume, mapped to your eye shape and your own lash line. Light enough that what is underneath keeps growing. Come back every two to three weeks and they stay full.
Waxing
Brows to full body. Hard wax where the skin is delicate, quick and matter of fact everywhere else. Most people walk in nervous and walk out wondering why they waited.
Permanent Makeup
Brows, eyeliner, and lip blush. Shaped to your face, color matched to your skin, and built in thin layers across two sessions so it heals into something people read as yours.
The idea
Bold hides the mistakes.
A heavy lash line covers a bad map. A dark brow covers a bad shape. When the work is loud, nobody can see what is underneath it.
Soft has nowhere to hide. Every lash sits where it was placed. Every stroke of color is the one she chose. That is the whole job, and it is why it takes as long as it takes.
The compliment she is going for is not “who did your brows.” It is “you’re glowing.”
Permanent makeup, lip blush
Drag to see it.
One client, before and healed. Same lips, no filler and no injections, just color
worked into the lip in thin layers until it reads as her own.
BeforeHealed
Her client’s photograph, used with permission.
What to expect
No surprises.
01
All three services
She talks it through first.
Shape, color, and how much is too much for you, decided together before anything starts. If she does not think a service suits you, she will say so.
02
Lash extensions
Plan on about two hours.
A full set takes roughly two hours, a fill about an hour. You lie back with your eyes closed the whole time, and most people sleep through it. Come back every two to three weeks to keep the set full.
03
Waxing
Quick, and over sooner than you think.
Brows take about fifteen minutes. A full leg or a Brazilian takes thirty to forty-five. Come with the hair about a quarter inch long, skip the lotion that morning, and that is all the preparation there is.
04
Permanent makeup
Two sessions, then it settles.
The first appointment runs two to three hours. It looks too strong for the first few days, which is on purpose, then fades back by roughly a third as it heals. A touch up six to eight weeks later sets the final result.
The work
Her hands, her room.
A volume setBrows, permanent makeupChristine at workLip blush, before and afterAftercare on the shelf
The studio
Somewhere you can actually relax.
A room on South Lincoln with soft pink walls, warm lamps, a fireplace, and a macrame wall taking up most of one side. It was put together to feel like somewhere you would want to sit down, which is not how most treatment rooms feel.
The table is made up with heated sheets. You are lying still for two hours or more, so comfort is not a small detail here, and a fair number of people fall asleep.
Christine’s favorite part is not the work itself. It is the bit at the end, when someone looks in the mirror and sits up a little straighter.
Questions
The ones people actually ask.
Lash extensions
Not when they are applied properly. Damage comes from extensions that are too long or too heavy for the lash they sit on, or from glue used too generously. Every set here is mapped to what your own lashes can carry, and one extension goes on one natural lash. If your lashes have been through a rough set somewhere else, say so at the start and she will build back gently.
Every two to three weeks for a fill. Your natural lashes shed on their own cycle and take the extension with them, so a fill replaces what you have lost and keeps the set full.
You will not want to, and that is rather the point. Skip mascara on the extensions, keep oil based products away from the lash line, and brush them through in the morning. That is the whole routine.
Waxing
No. She does this all day. There is nothing you can show up as that she has not seen, and the parts that sting are over in seconds. Most people walk in nervous and walk out wondering why they waited.
About a quarter of an inch, which is usually two to three weeks of growth. Shorter than that and the wax has nothing to hold on to. Do not shave in between, because it comes back thicker and blunter and the next wax works less well.
Permanent makeup
They will look too dark for the first few days, and that is how it is supposed to go. Fresh pigment sits dark and sharp, then fades back by roughly a third as it heals. The color is matched to your skin at the start, and the shape is drawn on and agreed before a needle touches you.
Numbing goes on first and again partway through. Most people call it scratchy rather than painful. Lips are the most tender of the three.
One to three years depending on the service, your skin, and how much sun it gets. It fades slowly rather than disappearing, and a color boost brings it back.
This is why the shape is drawn on and agreed before anything permanent happens, and why the color goes in lighter than you might expect. Nothing is finished on the first visit. You see it healed, and the touch up six to eight weeks later is where it gets adjusted.
Come see her.
102 S Lincoln Dr, Troy, Missouri · By appointment only
