Permanent makeup is a set of cosmetic makeup techniques which employ sterile tattooing (permanent pigmentations of dermal layers) as a means of producing effects that emulate makeup, such as eyeliner and other permanent colouring to the facial skin, the lips and the eyelids. 

Used also to produce permanent eyebrow effects, most often with people who have lost them as due to old age, illnesses such as alopecia, chemotherapy or a genetic disturbance, and to disguise scars and white spots in the skin such as in vitiligo. 

It is also used to restore or enhance the breast's areola, such as after breast surgery.

Most commonly called permanent makeup and cosmetic tattooing, also referred to as derma-pigmentation and micro-pigmentation,  I also offer dermal needling and dermaplaning in Auckland and Hamilton.