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Iris Y. Garcia
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SofTap® HAND METHOD GUIDE SofTap® permanent cosmetics is the easiest and gentlest way to implant permanent color into the skin. The SofTap® needle configurations are designed to provide maximum comfort, fast healing, complete control, little or no touchups, and most important of all, the most natural look in the world. The SofTap® hand method provides you with a lot of versatility so that your end results will be completely soft and natural looking. Many of the procedures that can be done with the SofTap® hand method are as follows: You can design individual hair strokes in the eyebrows, fill in brows lightly, fill them in solidly, do thin, fine lines for eyeliner and lash enhancement, smudgy effect for eyeliner, combination smudgy liner and lash enhancement, thick upper and lower eyeliner, full lip color, lip liner, lip extension, any of these combinations for lips, scar camouflage, beauty mark, or nipple areola reconstruction. How does the SofTap® method work? It is very simple. The SofTap® needle configurations come in groups of 3's, 5's, 7's, 9's, 12's, 28's, 42's, 56's, 84's, and 114's. The signature trademark of the SofTap® TM technique is the 12, 28, 42, and 56 needle assemblies. All of your permanent cosmetic procedures can be done with the 12 prong needle assembly. Through years of testing, we have found that the 12 prong needle is the right length to create a natural length hair in the brow area, the right length to go around the curves of the bow in the lips, and a great length for doing eyeliner and lash enhancement. The needle configurations are tightly set next to each other flat at an angle like this .The needles are gently placed on the skin, scooted slightly forward, and then gently rolled and lifted from the front needle to back needle off of the skin to deposit color. EXAMPLES OF NEEDLE SIZE USES Needle configurations for eyes: Thin line, 5,7,9,12 Medium liner, 28 Medium -thick line, 42 (good for uppers) Thick liner, 56 Soft smudgy thin line, 3 round Soft smudgy medium line, 8 round Soft smudgy thick line, 15 round Needle configurations for brows 12 prong needle for medium brows 7 or 9 prong if thinner eyebrows 8 or 15 round for soft fill in Needle configurations for lips Lip Liner: 10 point, fine line 24 point, fine/med line 18 round, med line. Fillers 84 horizontal slant, small lips 114 horizontal slant, med/large lips USE NEEDLES ONLY ONCE Never reuse needles. It is against U.S. Federal law to re-use needles. Show the client that you are throwing them away in a sharps container. This is your best defense against anyone trying to accuse you of reusing needles. Some technicians like to save their needles and reuse them on the same client. This is not acceptable. You are leaving yourself open for litigation if you do so. You never want anyone to be able to point a finger at you and say that you gave them some disease. Also when moving from brows or liner to lips, change your needle. You do not want to be accused of a brown color from the brows being implanted into the lip when the cause of the brownish tone was hyperpigmentation. Do not leave yourself open to this. At the same token, do not use the same needle that you used on the lips for the brows and eyes for the same reason, but more importantly that you do not want to transfer the herpes virus into the eye area from the lip. COMPLETE CONTROL Because this is a machineless method, there is no loud noise, and no worries about putting color in the wrong places because you will have complete control with the SofTap® hand method. Color will not be deposited into the skin until you gently roll and lift the needle assembly off of the skin. If you set your needle assembly onto the skin and decide that that's not exactly where you want the color to go down, then no problem! Just take away the needle assembly from the skin and no color will be deposited. Furthermore, you can have exact precision in all of your work with SofTap®. The two procedures where precision is an absolute must are the eyeliner and the lips. SofTap® allows for ease of exact placement of pigment. Eyeliner can be done as thin as this line with the SofTap® method. Because of such precision and control, you can target the most discriminating clients. MAXIMUM COMFORT The first question that your client's friends and family ask them is "Did it hurt?" The most common answers are "It wasn't bad at all", "I fell asleep", "Tweezing hurts more", I'm going back to get everything else done". SofTap® provides the maximum amount of comfort for all of your procedures. It is so gentle. You have to feel it to believe it. FAST HEALING TIME Because SofTap® is so gentle, little or no topical is required for your procedures. Brow procedures can be done without any topical at all. This is great because the less topical you have to use, the faster the skin will heal. What topical does is block the message to the brain that there is pain. Therefore, since the brain is not receiving that message , it does not send out its armies to begin healing the area until after the topical has worn off. With SofTap® , you can control any discomfort with the speed at which you are rolling and lifting off of the skin. If your most sensitive client becomes slightly uncomfortable, you can quickly put her at ease by slowing down your lift off. In addition, to expedite the healing process, we strictly use the SofTap® post treatment ointment. It is fabulous! It immediately traps the color into the skin and begins the healing process immediately. LITTLE OR NO TOUCHUPS If you are doing the SofTap® technique correctly, you will have little or no touchups. One of the biggest problems that the permanent cosmetic professional faces is having to do so many touchups. The reason why there are so little touchups to do with SofTap® is because for the eyeliner and brow procedures, there is little or no blood. What does this mean? This means that the blood supply is in both the papillary and reticular layers of the dermis. SofTap® is gentle enough so that you do not have to draw blood. The SofTap® TM method places pigment at the surface of the dermal layer. This makes the procedure permanent. The gravity of the color particles then brings it lower into the dermis without unnecessarily traumatizing the reticular and papillary layers of the dermis. Too much blood will help to wash away any color and if blood comes to the surface, so will the macrophages of the immune system which help to engulf any foreign matter that enters the skin. THE MOST NATURAL LOOKS The SofTap® hand method provides you with a lot of versatility so that your end results will be completely natural looking. You can design individual hair strokes in the eyebrows and thin fine lines for eyeliner and lash enhancement. Make sure that when you are setting your needles down that all of the needles are touching the skin. As you roll the needles off of the skin, the skin should fall off of the needles like dominos. Practice this slowly so that you can see this effect. Click here to go Browse the SofTapWebsite |
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