Rae’s Blog
12 Top Tips to Camouflage your Scars or Pigmentation on your Summer Holiday
If you've booked a summer holiday and are nervous of unveiling your scar, birthmark, pigmentation or other markings, here are a few pointers to making sure your camouflage products last through the hot, sunny days. 12 Top Tips for Camouflaging Make sure the area is...
Winner ‘The Life Changing Procedure’ Award (Medical Tattooing)
I'm delighted to accept this award for the Best Life Changing Procedure (Medical Tattooing), presented by The Finishing Touches Group. My two entries were regarding nipple/areola tattooing and scalp tattooing, both of which were truly life changing for both of these...
Medical Tattooing: 3D Nipple and Areola Tattoo
Nipple and Areola Tattoo I met this patient after she had a left mastectomy and DIEP / nipple reconstruction. 4 years later she needed a right mastectomy and LD flap reconstruction. She had fully healed and was no longer receiving treatment. The next stage was...
Scalp pigmentation for women
A patients story: "If I could regain and harness all the time and energy I've ever spent agonising over my hair (or lack of) I could probably power the whole of London for over a year. I've literally spent hours painstakingly clipping it up in obscure ways in the...
Presentation on Medical Tattooing and Camouflage
Presentation at a Rotary club last night. It had 3 main points: 1. My career background, from design to medical tattooing 2. Case Studies with supporting Before and After photographs 3. The charity I support and why this work has a positive impact on people. This was...
Medical tattooing for Scar in Eyebrow (male)
Lovely patient. Only needed 2 treatments and 9 months later he just sent me this: "The procedure has left me feeling more confident and comfortable with my appearance. The quality of the care I received was excellent and you were very caring and professional, yet...
Camouflage for Vitiligo
Patient with Vitiligo wanting coverage with camouflage cream. Worked on his elbows today to create a colour match thats easy to apply, is waterproof and as transference proof as possible. I used a mixture of 2 colours so he is coming back to see me in 2 weeks with the...
The Katie Piper Foundation
Another great Camouflage appointment through The Katie Piper Foundation. Nice to use Keromask, great products for sheen, coverage and ease of use. Client went away happy. Good results.
Semi-Permanent Makeup – Brows & Lash-line
Healed photos of my patient Katharina. Post chemotherapy, her brows and lashes had only partially grown back. She wanted a subtle, yet defined look. Katharina said... “Rae did brow and lash semi-permanent makeup for me as my eyebrows had not regrown fully following...
When you’re a perfectionist and you need your brows doing; You just have to do them yourself!
When your patients go home for the day, and your own brows are looking a bit sparse and undefined, what else to do but tattoo them yourself. I anaesethised my brows for 30 mins, chose the colour; a mix of 2 browns, 4 drops of a cool brown and 1 drop...