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The Society of Permanent Cosmetic Professionals, Inc. is the internationally known
professional organization for the permanent
cosmetic industry. We are a non-profit
organization who provides education and sets ethical standards for the worldwide field. Our organization has worked with many
American states and counties to develop acceptable legislation to ensure proper standards
of sterilization and sanitation are met by those practicing in the field. Our members now are from many countries
throughout the world, including Australia.
Color can fade due to many factors, including over-exposure to the sun, a
person’s own body chemistry, and the degree of care taken to maintain the work. Any process involving the skin such as facials,
peels, or certain medications such as acutane can adversely effect color integrity. However, the lifetime integrity of
the color has nothing to do with the permanent nature of any form of tattooing. Color is injected in molecules and the molecules
remain the in skin permanently,. Even when
you hear about removals via laser, the pigment molecules remain in the skin but the color
has been bleached, which is the same thing that happens, to a much lesser degree, from
exposure to the sun. Therefore, to properly classify this
industry, using the word “permanent” is entirely appropriate and in fact recent
legislation on state and county levels throughout the USA requires clients be informed
that tattooing in any form is permanent in nature.
Other countries throughout the world should begin to use these standards, as they
are based on fact and law. By Susan Preston - Co-Founder, Society of Permanent Cosmetic Professionals, Inc. and President, Professional Program Insurance Brokerage
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Permanent cosmetics are a form of cosmetic tattooing which should
be thought of as being “permanent”, however as is also true of body tattoo work,
the degree of “permanency” varies with each individual.