Training

Nano hair strokes, taught one artist at a time.

A course for permanent makeup artists who are already working and want the stroke to hold. I teach it myself, in my own studio, on live models.

Twelve years of my own client work sits behind what I'll show you. So do the corrections I've had to make on other people's.

What you'll learn

Needle selection and depth, and how to tell by feel when you're in the right layer rather than by watching the skin and hoping. Depth is where most nano work is won or lost.

Pigment choice for oily skin, mature skin, and skin that has been worked on before. Which families shift warm as they heal, which go grey, and how to read what's already in the skin before you add to it.

Stroke pattern and direction that follows real hair growth instead of a template, so the brow reads as hair from twelve inches away and not just from across a room. Spacing that survives healing, so what you leave the room with is still a stroke six weeks later rather than a soft shadow.

We'll spend real time on what goes wrong, too: strokes that heal grey, strokes that spread, and the retention problems that send a client back to you unhappy. That conversation is worth more than any drill.

Who it's for

Licensed, practicing artists. You should already be tattooing brows and taking paying clients.

This is not a fundamentals course and I don't teach beginners. If you've never held a machine, there are people who teach that well and I'm not one of them. If you're partway there and unsure whether you're ready, write and tell me what you're working on — I'll tell you straight, even if the answer is not yet.

How it runs

One artist at a time. Hands-on from early on, on live models in the studio, with me beside you rather than at the front of a room. You'll work, I'll watch your hand, and I'll correct it while you can still feel what you did.

Dates are set around your calendar and mine. The course fee is quoted directly, because the shape of it depends on where you are in your practice.