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Licensing & Regulation by Region

How permanent makeup is regulated in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia and Canada — and what a health inspection of your studio looks for.

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Licensing & Regulation by Region PMU Regulation in the United States There is no single federal licence. Tattoo and permanent-makeup practice is regulated state by state — and often county or city — covering practitioner licensing, bloodborne-pathogen training, facility inspection and pigment records. The FDA oversees pigments as cosmetics. November 11, 2024 · 6 min read

Licensing & Regulation by Region PMU Regulation in the UK Cosmetic tattooing is regulated by local councils. In England and Wales artists and premises must register under the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (or the London Local Authorities Act in London); Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own licensing schemes. November 8, 2024 · 6 min read

Licensing & Regulation by Region PMU Regulation in the EU Member states license practitioners and premises individually, but pigments are now governed EU-wide by the 2022 REACH restriction, which bans many substances in tattoo and PMU inks and prohibited Pigment Blue 15:3 and Green 7 from 2023. November 5, 2024 · 6 min read

Licensing & Regulation by Region PMU Regulation in Australia and Canada Both regulate through sub-national health rules rather than a national licence: Australian states/territories set skin-penetration and infection-control requirements enforced by local councils; Canadian provinces and regional health units do the same, with federal oversight of pigment safety. November 2, 2024 · 6 min read

Licensing & Regulation by Region Health Inspections: What They Look For An environmental-health or public-health inspection checks your licences and certificates, your sterilisation and single-use practice, sharps and clinical-waste handling, surfaces and hand-wash facilities, pigment and client records, and your written infection-control plan. October 30, 2024 · 6 min read

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.