Enhance your reputation and retention in your PMU Business
In the Permanent Make-up industry, your reputation is your currency, and retention is your compound interest. We want to help you elevate your brand and keep your reputation in check, so here are our top tips and product recommendations...
1. Be the Master of Healed Results
A beautiful photo taken immediately after a procedure is great for Instagram, but a beautiful, healed result is what builds a reputation. As a PMU artist, it is important to ensure you are managing your clients’ expectations and explain the whole process of healing. Let them know about the fading stage, and show them examples of healed work, so that they do not panic.
Encourage your clients back for a 6-week top-up for you to perfect your work and ensure your client is 100% satisfied. As advanced PMU artists, it’s important to note that if the skin holds pigment quite well, a top-up might not be necessary because it can block the overall appearance. Remember, if the skin is a block colour with pigment, then laser removal can help change the shape and remove the pigment.
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2. The Power of Social Media
Your potential clients are looking for reasons to trust you. Make sure that searching your business is easy for them.
Your Instagram needs to be very professional and include lots of information on preparation, healing and what your clients need to do for their touch-up. Create a dedicated highlight of healed work, post procedure, to prove your technical skill and pigment knowledge.
In order to stand out on social media, client photos must look very professional. Try and use a dedicated area within your clinic with bright light and show the face with the best angle. Edit the photos to remove any hair, redness or blemishes. Your client will be much happier to post a flawless photo of themselves.
A social media feature that we often overlook is the ability to direct message new followers. This is a great way to attract new business.
Video testimonials are a brilliant way to stand out on social media and is worth much more than ten static before and after photos. Don’t forget to ask your clients to leave you a Google review to build immediate trust and promote your local SEO.
3. Excellent Client Retention
Retention in PMU isn’t just about the yearly colour boost; it’s about the relationship you build with your clients. Send your new clients a pre-care guide before their appointment to reduce anxiety and show your professionalism.
During the procedure, focus on your client comfort. Invest in high quality numbing creams and provide a physical after-care kit to protect your work. After the appointment, ask how they are healing and this will set you apart from other artists.
When discussing the clients’ concerns, give them an idea of the other services you provide. Hanafy Pigments are great for brow, lips, blush, scalp and areola PMU treatments. Hanafy Permanent Makeup Pigments – ID Liner Pro PMU
4. Advanced Training
The PMU sector is the fastest growing sector in Beauty and trends are always evolving. From lip blush, permanent eyeliner, microblading through to intermediate training like scalp tattooing, 3D Areola, Melanin Rich Lip Neutralisation and Hyper-realism brows and Hanafy removal systems, it is important to stay ahead of the trends and invest in further training to stay at the forefront of technique and safety.
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By improving your skillset, you learn how to recognise mistakes and how you can fix them. This advanced experience will help you evolve and give you advanced experience such as knowing what needle you need to use for each skin type and the different configurations of needle.
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5. Professionalism & Sanitation
In a post-pandemic world, your ‘sterile’ game must be visible and vocal. Set your tray up in front of your client and open sterile needles and disposables where they can see them. Display your health department permits and insurance and signal that you are a legitimate business.
Clinisept+ Skin should be used before all aesthetic treatments to provide unsurpassed levels of hygiene and microbial control. It is award winning and the only skin prep to be recommended by the Joint Council for Cometic Practice (JCCP) and the Aesthetic Complications Expert Group (ACE), it is suitable for use prior to all cosmetic and aesthetic treatments - including Permanent Makeup. Due to its skin neutral pH and unique gentle oxidising action, it can also be used to maintain effective hygiene during and after a procedure without causing discomfort.
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