Lips.
Lip blush and lip liner. Colour, shape and definition built on your own natural lip tone, so it reads as your mouth on a very good day rather than as makeup.
We discuss your optionsin your consultation.
Lip work depends heavily on your natural lip tone and condition, so we look at both before deciding anything with you.
Lip Blush
A soft wash of colour through the whole lip, correcting tone and giving the look of fuller, more even lips.
£330Lip Liner
Definition to the lip border only, redefining a shape that has softened or become uneven.
£190Comfort is managed with a topical anaesthetic only, applied and reapplied through the appointment.
Two appointments,five to eight weeks apart.
Lips heal faster than they look like they will, and they're the treatment people worry about most. The second appointment is where the work is finished, and it's included in the price.
Consultation and shaping
We assess your natural lip tone and condition, then draw the shape on. Nothing starts until you've seen it and agreed it.
Colour
Pigment mixed to work with your own lip tone, which is why two people asking for the same colour rarely get the same mix.
The treatment
Topical anaesthetic, applied and reapplied throughout. The lip is vascular and sensitive, and we go at your pace.
Retouch, five to eight weeks
Included. Lips take pigment unevenly the first time round, and the retouch is where the colour is evened out.
The first forty eight hoursare the hardest.
They will be sore and tender at first, and considerably bolder than the healed result. Healing can take up to ten days. This is all completely normal.
- First 48 hours
- Sore, tender and swollen, with colour far bolder than you expected. This is all completely normal.
- Day 3 to 7
- Flaking begins and the colour looks patchy. Please don't pick or help it along.
- Day 7 to 10
- Flaking finishes. Lips often look far too light at this point. Again, completely normal.
- Week 2 to 4
- Colour rises back up through the skin and evens out.
- Week 5
- The healed result, and the point from which your retouch is planned.
Preparation and aftercareare as important as the treatment.
We look after the treatment itself. Everything either side of it is yours to look after, and it matters more than most people expect.
Before you come
- If you're prone to cold sores, tell us at your consultation. We advise starting antivirals a week beforehand.
- Dry or chapped lips are assessed at your consultation. Sometimes the answer is to treat them first.
- No alcohol the night before.
- Go easy on caffeine on the day.
- If you take aspirin or blood thinners, speak to your doctor first.
Afterwards
- Avoid spicy, salted and citric food while they heal.
- Follow the aftercare you're given. Lips are individual: some clients do better kept balmed, others heal better dry.
- No lipstick or lip products for seven to ten days.
- No steam rooms, saunas, public baths or extreme heat for seven to ten days.
- Drink through a straw for the first couple of days if it's easier.
- Please don't pick the flaking. It'll cost you pigment.
Every twelve toeighteen months.
Your colour boost date is taken from your last appointment with us, so the sooner you come back the less it costs. Multiple treatment colour boosts taken at the same appointment attract a ten per cent discount.
- Within six months
- £110
- Seven to eighteen months
- £180
- Nineteen to twenty four months
- £240
The DPC Colour Boost Club. Exclusive to our existing clients. You pay monthly by direct debit, on the first of the month, for a cycle of twelve months. Your annual colour boost is covered once all payments are completed. Uno is £15 a month and entitles you to your seven to eighteen month colour boost, worth £180. Duo is £27 a month and covers both colour boosts taken in the same session.
Once you're ready to book, a pass appears on your account so you can book online with no deposit, or by calling or messaging us. There's nothing more to pay on the day.
This isn't a credit agreement. You're paying for the year ahead of your colour boost, not afterwards. You can keep the membership running or cancel it after twelve months.
We're always happy to colour boost another technician's work, but please assume your first appointment with us will be charged at the full new treatment price. It usually involves a full consultation, a redesign and a retouch, so it isn't eligible for colour boost pricing at that first appointment.
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Does it hurt?
The lip is one of the more sensitive areas we work on, and we're honest about that. A topical anaesthetic is applied and reapplied throughout your appointment, and we go entirely at your pace. Most clients describe it as very manageable.
How do you keep it comfortable?
A topical anaesthetic, applied before we start and reapplied through the appointment. Most people find lips the most sensitive of the three, and we go at your pace.
I get cold sores. Can I still have it done?
Usually yes, but tell us at your consultation. There's a small chance the treatment triggers an outbreak, and we advise starting antivirals a week beforehand.
My lips are quite dry. Is that a problem?
It depends on the extent of the dryness. You're always welcome to book a consultation and we'll say if that wants treating first.
Will they look overdone?
Absolutely not. Lip blush is a wash of colour, not a filled in lipstick, and the shape is drawn on and agreed with you before any pigment goes anywhere.
How long does it last?
Anywhere between one and five years, depending on your skin, your lifestyle and sun exposure. A colour boost every twelve to eighteen months keeps it where you want it.
How long is the appointment?
Allow around two hours for a new treatment, including your consultation, the mapping and the colour match. Your retouch at five to eight weeks is shorter.
Do I need a patch test?
Patch testing is arranged per treatment, so it depends what you're having done. We'll tell you at your consultation whether yours needs one and when it has to be done.
What if I need to cancel?
Permanent makeup appointments need five working days' notice. Without that notice the £30 deposit is forfeited and payable again on rebooking.
Start with afree consultation.
You leave with a plan, and you take as long as you need to decide. Once you step through our door the time is all about you. Phil is in clinic Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, nine until six.
Consultations with Phil are free.