Precise skin stimulation
What is Dry Tattooing?
Dry Tattooing microneedling is used to reduce scars, stretch marks, burns or deep lines and wrinkles. We use a digital tattoo machine, working at needle depths up to 1.5mm
The treatment has been known within the medical community for almost 30 years as MCA Micro Needling, Collagen Induction Therapy and more.
Today we might know the treatment as the Inkless Method. However for both clients and professionals, it’s still relatively unheard of to use a tattoo machine to improve scars and stretch marks, with needling pens and rollers mostly used
Advanced Skin Treatments
MCA Microneedling
After my initial skin needling training in 2013, I didn't like the term MCA Micro Needling, and researched around the world for what better name to call this treatment. I saw that one or two techs said MCA was also known as Dry Tattooing or Collagen Induction Therapy (CIT), but in fact no-one was calling the treatment Dry tattooing, so I decided to!
Under the name Dry Tattooing the public, and techs around the world, either wanted to have a treatment, or learn how to do it from me. Early 2015 I began offering Dry Tattooing training, having already carried out 250+ treatments on clients. For me, this is an advanced medical needling treatment, and I required students to have permanent makeup experience
realities & possibilities
Why did this work?
Being a curious kind of person, and wanting my clients to know I was as invested as them in the results we could achieve, I learned a lot, quickly!
Clients with stretch marks were booking a course of 3 treatments with me, and as Dry Tattooing appointments can be several hours, we chatted, they shared, I learned. Why did one client gets results quicker than another... patterns developed
Realising this helped me prepare clients for possible results, and how we could help their skin get the best results
a last resort, not first
skin camouflage treatments
This photo shows results I was able to achieve naturally, with one dry tattooing treatment. No camouflage pigment was used
Yes, tattoo pigments have evolved over the years, and are now less likely to fade to the pink, russet, orange and yellow colours we used to see, but pigment colours still change over the years, and what was once a good colour match, ends up looking less so
Tattooing skin coloured pigments to hide these superficial, barely indented stretch marks has unfortunately become the norm
Shiny white stretch marks can easily and naturally repigment for many clients. Let me explain how!
Working with fresh scars
Scar Prevention
Wanting to have a fully rounded treatment offering, I needed to check truths and bust a few myths about skin healing, and when to offer treatments for best results
It comes down to a basic understanding of what we're doing with these skin needling treatments. You'll spot I don't get very technical, that's because my learning was hands on, with instincts based on logic and theories, plus respecting a client enough to share my reasoning with them, allowing them to give an informed consent to any treatment
Again coming back to how I learned the realities and possibilities of this treatment, applying much of this knowledge into developing Botched Ink, the serum and training
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