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Photo caption: various styles of mapping I've used over the years, depending on the technique I'm going to be using. Most artists treat mapping like admin. You do it because you have to, you do it quickly, and then you get to the actual thing, the machine, the colour, the technique. I did this for longer than I'd like to admit. Mapping isn't the warm-up. It's the most technically demanding part of the appointment, and how you approach it will determine the ceiling of your res

Something changes when you start taking the healing phase as seriously as the treatment itself. We're all taught the basics : avoid water, no picking, use the aftercare. We pass that on to our clients and consider it covered. But the healing phase is where your work actually resolves, and what happens in those two to six weeks is influenced by far more than whether or not your client remembered to apply balm. Skin type matters enormously. Oily skin heals differently, faster b

Let’s be honest about something: the pricing conversation in PMU is tangled up in a lot of things that have nothing to do with pricing. It’s tangled up in how much you believe in your own skill. In whether you feel like you’ve “earned” it yet. In what your local market seems to be charging. In not wanting clients to think you’re greedy or out of reach. In the fear that if you raise your prices, the bookings will dry up. I’m not going to pretend those feelings aren’t real. The

Year one of PMU, you're surviving. You're learning what questions to even ask. You're just trying to get through each client without something going wrong. Year two is different. You're past survival, but you're not yet where you want to be. You can see the gap between what you're producing and what you know is possible. That gap is uncomfortable in a new way because now you know enough to recognise the problem, but not always enough to fix it. If I could go back and sit wit