Doctors and cosmetic medical professionals seeking this procedure for their patients

Using micropigmentation techniques to camouflage skin tone imperfections is an advanced skill acquired only through professional training, significant knowledge and experience. Specialty procedures necessitate that the technician develop an especially keen aptitude for colour, anticipate how colours heal in the skin, what the resulting colour will be, and how the colour will fade over time.

Technicians’ must be able to analyse the skin’s texture taking into account any elevation or depression that will affect how the colour is perceived. Raised and depressed areas may cast minute shadows on the skin making it appear darker. The ability to evaluate the skin’s health, elasticity, thickness, opaqueness or translucency will determine the methodology used to micropigment the area.

It is important to understand the anatomical and physiological differences of skin of different races and how these differences effect the way colouring agents heal in the skin.

Technicians’ must have an in-depth understanding of how the tissue responds to injury, and how certain chemicals, products and environmental factors affect the skin’s healing process and pigment retention. It is important to note that placing pigment into scar tissue is very different from normal tissue because scar tissue accepts and retains colour differently than normal tissue.

Doctors and Cosmetic medical professionals seeking this procedure for their patients should only consider technicians with significant experience performing paramedical camouflage procedures.

Debra Robson-Lawrence, with over 30 years of experience, has successfully performed thousands of paramedical camouflage procedures, has lectured for the British Association of Cosmetic Doctors (BACD), receives referrals from some of the leading cosmetic surgeons in the UK, and trained other medically qualified practitioners on the procedures.