Tips for selecting the Softap colors using The Fitzpatrick scale

Tips for Selecting Softap Colors for Eyebrows

By taking the time to assess your client's skin tone and choosing the appropriate pigments, you can ensure that your client will be thrilled with the results and come back to you for future touch-ups or services.

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First at all, you need to determine the effect your client want. It determines if you select a color that matches their natural eyebrow hair color, or you need to find a color to balance their skin type to get the ideal brown color.
In general if you want individual hair strokes you need to select a color that matches your client's hair, but if you want to get a shading o a more solid effect you need to select it according with your client's skin type.
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The color selection is one of the four key factors to succed in permanent makeup.

To get the best color for your client's eyebrows you need to envision what you want to achieve. Imagine the color, the texture and the shape of the eyebrows, you are designing, on her face; and how that composition will armonize with her anatomic feaures.

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According to Fitzpatrick, skin types are classified from 1 to 6, considering the characteristics of hair color, skin color, and eye color. These structures are used because they have melanin in common.

The classification known as the Fitzpatrick skin type (or phototype) depends on the amount of melanin pigment in the skin. This scale was described by Dr. Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, an American Dermatologist and father of modern dermatology, and is often used in PMU since the pigment implanted in the skin interacts directly with melanin determining the final result of the color. This table summarizes the characteristics of skin types according to Fitzpatrick:

The following images and charts help you identify this classification and color selection more straightforwardly.

FOR SKIN TYPE 1

Strawberry blondes, redheads, or auburn hair color with green eyes, light skin, and eyebrows

FOR SKIN TYPE 2

Blondes, gray, or white hair with blue eyes, blond hair, blond eyebrows, and light skin.

FOR SKIN TYPE 3

Brunettes of Dark, Medium, and Light Brown hair with honey or light brown eyes, light skin, and light eyebrows.

FOR SKIN TYPE 4

Dark skin, brown eyes, hair and dark brown eyebrows.

FOR SKIN TYPE 5

Darker skin, black eyes, hair and black eyebrows.

FOR SKIN TYPE 6

Darker skin, black eyes, hair and black eyebrows.

For you as a Permanent makeup artist, It is essential to get familiar with this information.The final result is the sum of the color you are applying and 30 % of the melanin in your client's skin. This is why the same pigment sets differently in each different person.Please practice analyzing each of your clients and take note of the colors you use on each client; it will be a great help in following up on your procedures.