Art & credits

Lip Blushing Decoded uses 25 photographs from Wikimedia Commons — each one downloaded, re-hosted here (nothing is hot-linked) and downscaled — alongside 39 original vector art plates made for this site and released under CC0. Full attribution for every image is below.

Microblading de Cejas: Antes y Después

Wikimedia Commons — File:Microblading de Cejas.png | David Saiz O | CC BY-SA 4.0
Cosmetic tattoo in microblading technique done by maniple with R1 needle

Wikimedia Commons — File:Microblading Melbourne Box Hill.jpg | EVACARMAT | CC BY-SA 4.0
Procedimiento de Microblading realizado por Veronica Montaño

Wikimedia Commons — File:ProcedimientoMicrobladingVeronicaMontaño.jpg | Veronica Montaño | CC BY-SA 4.0
Nyx Intense Butter Gloss Swatch in Chocolate Crepe Model

Wikimedia Commons — File:Nyx Intense Butter Gloss Swatch in Chocolate Crepe (16686338003).jpg | Jamie | CC BY-SA 2.0
Portrait of Sutherland Macdonald (1860–1942) from The Sketch, Vol. VIII, No. 104, January 23, 1895, page 633

Wikimedia Commons — File:Sutherland Macdonald (1860–1942).png | York House Studio (no individual credited) | Public domain
Tattoo design by Sutherland Macdonald (ca. 1905)

Wikimedia Commons — File:Tattoo design by Sutherland Macdonald (ca. 1905) 02.jpg | Sutherland Macdonald | Public domain
Axys Valhalia pen rotary style tattoo machine Wrapped in plastic for sanitary practice and tape rapped around tattoo machine to increase hand stability and ergonomic health

Wikimedia Commons — File:00A-Axys Valhalia pen rotary style tattoo machine, wrapped for sanitary practice.jpg | Myotus | CC BY-SA 4.0
Axys Valhalia pen rotary style tattoo machine Tape wrapped around the tattoo machine to increase hand stability and ergonomic health.jpg

Wikimedia Commons — File:00B-Axys Valhalia pen rotary style tattoo machine with tape wrapped around tattoo machine to increase hand stability and ergonomic health.jpg | Myotus | CC BY-SA 4.0
14-stretching the skin to create stable surface area Work done by tattoo artist Jenna Haas

Wikimedia Commons — File:14-stretching the skin to create stable surface area.jpg | Myotus | CC BY-SA 4.0
17-contining work on applying colors to skin Work done by tattoo artist Jenna Haas

Wikimedia Commons — File:17-contining work on applying colors to skin.jpg | Myotus | CC BY-SA 4.0
19-Loading rotary tattoo machine needle tip with ink Work done by tattoo artist Jenna Haas

Wikimedia Commons — File:19-Loading rotary tattoo machine needle tip with ink.jpg | Myotus | CC BY-SA 4.0
Prehistoric pigment. Cantabrian Lower Magdalenian layer (15 000 before present) of the Altamira cave. Excavations Edouard Harlé 1881

Wikimedia Commons — File:Altamira Ocre MHNT.PRE.2012.0.611.jpg | Didier Descouens | CC BY-SA 3.0
Cycladic Phiale (Bowl) containing yellow ochre pigment residue Marble Amorgos 2800-2300 BCE NAM Athens

Wikimedia Commons — File:Cycladic Phiale (Bowl) containing yellow ochre pigment residue Marble Amorgos 2800-2300 BCE NAM Athens.jpg | Mary Harrsch | CC BY-SA 4.0
Fragment of red pigment Ochre - Museo Egizio, Turin S 9927 p02

Wikimedia Commons — File:Fragment of red pigment Ochre - Museo Egizio, Turin S 9927 p02.jpg | Unknown | CC0
Pouring ground limonite into water. Start of levigation

Wikimedia Commons — File:Levigation of ochre pigment in water Waclaw Wantuch 01.jpg | Wacław Wantuch | CC BY-SA 4.0
Suspension stage during the levigation of ochre pigment in water. The finest and lightest particles remain in motion before settling, forming a gradient from clear to dense layers. Traditional pigment purification techni

Wikimedia Commons — File:Levigation of ochre pigment suspension Waclaw Wantuch 02.jpg | WantuchWaclaw | CC BY-SA 4.0
На изображении владелец сети студий татуажа Shade's. Девушка имеет заживший татуаж бровей и губ, свежий татуаж межресничного пространства

Wikimedia Commons — File:AxeHMmt8tCQ.jpg | Bvrvh | CC BY-SA 4.0
Composite permanent makeup

Wikimedia Commons — File:Composite permanent makeup.jpg | Ohmargieg at English Wikipedia | CC BY 3.0
Client after her 2nd treatment of permanent make-up, or medical pigmentation

Wikimedia Commons — File:Diana na 2de beh.JPG | Irma Hulscher at Dutch Wikipedia | CC BY-SA 3.0
Dot-Art: voor- direct na- genezen na slechts 1 behandeling bij een klant welke bloedverdunners en ontstekingsremmers gebruikt

Wikimedia Commons — File:Dot-Art resultaat.jpg | Kim Daalder | CC BY-SA 4.0
Een herstelbehandeling van foutief geplaatste permanent make-up op een getinte huid, gezet met de Dot-Art behandelmethode. Het resultaat voor - direct na - genezen na slechts 1 behandeling

Wikimedia Commons — File:Herstelbehandeling van foutief geplaatste permanent make-up.jpg | Kim Daalder | CC BY-SA 4.0
Julia Mechenici formatrice Microblading

Wikimedia Commons — File:Julia mechenici Profil Linemakeup.jpg | Julia Mechenici | CC BY-SA 4.0
Trucco permanente labbra

Wikimedia Commons — File:Labbra-lip-blush-trucco-permanente.png | Thepioneer87 | CC BY-SA 4.0
Permanent lip makeup for men

Wikimedia Commons — File:Lips man 110.jpg | Ivanka11123 | CC BY-SA 4.0
Een klant van mij, ook te zien op mijn website, met haar goedvinden! dit is de foto voor de behandeling.

Wikimedia Commons — File:Permanent makeup - before.jpg | Irma Hulscher at Dutch Wikipedia | CC BY-SA 3.0
Original vector art plate.

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Original vector art plate.

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Notes

Lip Blushing Decoded uses 24 photographs from Wikimedia Commons. Each one was downloaded, re-hosted on this site (nothing is hot-linked) and downscaled for the web. Every photograph is listed above with its photographer and licence, and the file name on this site is kept the same as the original file name on Commons so it can be found.

Photographs are used under their own Creative Commons licences (CC BY / CC BY-SA / CC0 / public domain). Attribution and licence for each are given above; no endorsement by the photographers is implied.

The remaining 39 illustrations are original vector artwork made for this site and released into the public domain under CC0 1.0.

Typefaces: Playfair Display and Cormorant Garamond (headings and accents), Poppins (body) and Parisienne (script), served under the SIL Open Font License.

Built with Blazor WebAssembly (.NET) and styled with Tailwind CSS. Motion is progressive-enhancement JavaScript and fully degradable. Content is the work of the editors and is educational information only.

About this project

Lip Blushing Decoded is an independent, ad-supported encyclopedia of lip blushing and the wider craft of permanent makeup. It gathers, in plain language, what is actually known and practised: where cosmetic tattooing came from, how lip tissue and implanted pigment behave, how colour is chosen and corrected, how the procedure is performed and healed, how it is kept safe, and how the training, certification and licensing around it work.

It is written for three readers at once — the artist in training who wants the reasoning behind each step, the working practitioner who wants a reference to check against, and the prospective client who wants to know what they are signing up for.