Lip line tattooing, lip red effect
Currently, "medical aesthetics" indeed carries out this kind of work, mainly targeting the lip red or lip red line that is not neat due to congenital factors, damaged, too thick, too thin, or has other morphological or color defects. Lip line or lip red tattooing is used to make it less visible.
Suitable population for lip line tattooing
1. Unclear or misaligned lip red line after trauma scars
2. Poor alignment of the lips or scarring after cleft lip repair surgery
3. Ordinary people with unclear, irregular, or uneven lip red lines who want to enhance their lip lines for a more three-dimensional and aesthetic effect
4. Those with unattractive shapes wanting to correct thick, large, small lips, crying-shaped lips, drooping lips, or indistinct lip peaks through lip tattooing
Contraindications for lip tattooing:
1. Skin diseases, infectious diseases, allergic constitution, scar constitution
2. Infection in the lips
3. Abnormal mental state or psychiatric patients
4. Hesitant or overly demanding patients whose relatives disagree
Principles of lip line tattooing:
1. The lip line should be smooth and neat with clear contours, so the lip contour line should be outlined before the surgery. First, five marking points should be marked: the lip valley (center point), the lip peak (two highest points on both sides), and the lip slope (two over-marking points) to check whether the height and spacing on both sides are equal. The thickness of the upper and lower lips is usually about 8:10 mm.
2. Unsatisfactory lip shapes can be changed through lip tattooing, making small lips larger, large lips smaller, thick lips thinner, and thin lips thicker. Just expand or reduce according to the original lip red edge.
3. Lip tattooing should follow the principle of being lighter rather than darker and narrower rather than wider.
4. The shape and color of lip tattooing should vary according to age, skin color, occupation, and temperament.
Precautions for lip tattooing:
1. The instruments used should be strictly sterilized to avoid infection and other infectious diseases. Postoperative care should focus on antibacterial and anti-inflammatory measures while reducing various stimuli.
2. The lips have rich nerve endings and capillaries, making them highly sensitive. Surface anesthesia is required during the surgery to prevent pain-induced trembling of the lips, which could affect the operation.
3. Due to loose tissue in the lips, the lip tattooing liquid can easily diffuse, causing uneven coloration and forming patchy changes. Once this happens, it is difficult to correct.
4. There are certain limitations; it restricts changes in lip color and lacks luster. Moreover, these lip tattooing liquids contain harmful ingredients that can cause adverse effects over time, leading to other lesions.
5. A hospital or beauty salon with complete medical equipment and technical conditions should be carefully chosen to reshape an attractive and charming appearance.
Psychological care for lip line tattooing:
Some recipients may experience abnormal psychological phenomena after lip tattooing due to internal or external factors, such as being overly suspicious, depressed, or criticized by friends and family, severely affecting their physical and mental health. Therefore, it is essential to do a good job in consultation and explanation.
Daily care for lip line tattooing:
1. Intermittent cold compress within 24 hours postoperatively, antibiotics, and local application.
2. Avoid hot, spicy, and irritating foods for 7 days after surgery. Eat more fruits and vegetables.
3. Rinse your mouth with diluted salt water after meals to keep your mouth and lips clean. Let the scabs fall off naturally without peeling them off manually.
Local reactions to lip line tattooing:
After lip tattooing, a few recipients may feel burning, itching, and mild tension around the lip edges within 3-5 days. This is followed by redness, clustered papules, or small blisters the size of millet grains, occasionally presenting as a single yellow bean-sized blister. After the blisters rupture, they dry and form scabs, healing in about a week. Recipients should be advised not to scratch and to drink more water and eat more fruit. Pay attention to oral hygiene and wound cleanliness. When cleaning the wound, gentamicin and metronidazole solution can be alternately used every 2 hours, each time for 20 minutes; or take Niuhuang Jiedu tablets twice daily, 4-5 tablets each time, and Virulizin once daily, each time one tablet, for 3-5 days.
Infection treatment for lip line tattooing:
Prevention is key. If the infection is severe, 10% glucose 250ml plus metronidazole 100ml and 10% glucose 250ml plus dexamethasone 5mg can be administered intravenously, or other effective antibiotics. For those with allergic reactions, besides local application or wet dressing with gentamicin solution mixed with dexamethasone, appropriate antiallergic drugs and antibiotics can be given. Eliminate allergens as soon as possible, and promptly treat herpes simplex virus with oral Virulizin, Vitamin C, Niuhuang Jiedu tablets, or intravenous acyclovir.
Dietary precautions:
Avoid spicy foods, beef, mutton, seafood, eggplant, mango, milk, soy milk, etc.