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permanent makeup consent form
Permanent makeup is a tattoo on the most visible part of the body.
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Permanent makeup consent
Full name
Date of birth
Email
Phone
Are you pregnant or breastfeeding?
YesNo
Isotretinoin
Why this form, specifically
It puts the healed-colour and top-up wording in front of her before the deposit, which is what prevents the day-four review that costs you the next three bookings.
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Permanent makeup consent
Your details
Full name
Date of birth
This is where your aftercare instructions go.
Phone
Health questions
Are you pregnant or breastfeeding?
Have you taken isotretinoin (Accutane) in the last 6 months?
Skin stays fragile for months after the last dose.
Do you take blood thinners, or aspirin daily?
This is the form you get
Not a sample, not a preview of a preview. Every question below is in your account ten minutes after you sign up, with the flags already set and the aftercare email already written.
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The 9 answers that should stop you
Permanent makeup is a tattoo on the most visible part of the body. Everything that applies to tattooing applies here, plus a set of facial-specific risks - injectables, cold sores, brow position - that generic tattoo forms do not cover.
Do not treat
6WhyFragile, thin skin that will not hold pigment and will not heal predictably.
What goes wrong if you treat anywayPoor retention, patchy healing and scarring on the face.
What to doTwelve months is the common professional standard for PMU, longer than for other treatments. Check your insurer's number.
The question that catches itHave you taken isotretinoin (Accutane) in the last 6 months?
WhyUnsettled product distorts the anatomy you are mapping to, and brow position changes as Botox settles.
What goes wrong if you treat anywayBrows mapped to a face that then changes shape. Permanently.
What to doFour weeks after Botox before brow mapping, two weeks after lip filler. Insist on the actual date.
The question that catches itHave you had Botox or fillers in this area in the last 2 weeks?
WhyContinuous bleeding dilutes and rejects pigment as it is implanted.
What goes wrong if you treat anywayPigment that does not take, extensive bruising on the face, and a result that needs redoing.
What to doPostpone and ask them to speak to their prescribing doctor before rebooking. Never advise stopping a medication yourself - that is a doctor's decision, and putting it in writing is a liability.
The question that catches itDo you take blood thinners, or aspirin daily?
WhyPigment safety is unstudied, infection risk is unwelcome, and pregnancy hormones change how pigment heals.
What goes wrong if you treat anywayUnpredictable healed colour, plus a risk with no upside.
What to doDecline. Nearly every PMU policy excludes it.
The question that catches itAre you pregnant or breastfeeding?
WhyCompromised barrier plus repeated trauma, and psoriasis can Koebnerise into the treated line.
What goes wrong if you treat anywayA flare in exactly the place it is most visible, with pigment loss through it.
What to doPostpone until the area is clear and settled for several weeks.
The question that catches itDo you have eczema, psoriasis, rosacea or active breakouts on this area?
WhyImmune suppression and unpredictable skin behaviour during treatment.
What goes wrong if you treat anywayInfection risk during a period of low immunity.
What to doRequires oncology clearance, and is usually deferred until well after the course finishes.
The question that catches itDo you have a condition, or take medication, that affects healing or immunity?
Proceed with caution
3WhyLip tattooing reliably triggers herpes simplex reactivation in anyone who carries it.
What goes wrong if you treat anywayAn outbreak across healing lip pigment, which causes pigment loss and can scar.
What to doAntiviral prophylaxis arranged with their doctor before lip work is standard practice, usually starting a few days beforehand. Ask, and record the answer.
The question that catches itDo you get cold sores?
WhyRepeated dermal trauma, thousands of passes of it, on the face of someone whose skin answers injury with excess collagen rather than with a flat scar.
What goes wrong if you treat anywayA raised, firm ridge following the shape of the work, which is permanent, difficult to remove, and sits in the most visible place it could possibly be.
What to doSmall test patch, review at six weeks, and be willing to decline.
The question that catches itDo you scar badly, or get keloids?
WhyElevated blood glucose slows the wound healing that pigment retention depends on, and raises infection risk on an area that cannot be covered while it heals.
What goes wrong if you treat anywayPoor retention and a longer, riskier heal.
What to doOnly if well controlled, with the client's doctor aware.
The question that catches itDo you have diabetes?
What you actually get
Nobody buys a consent form
They buy the fifteen minutes back at the start of an appointment. They buy the phone call they did not have to make, because the contraindication turned up two days early instead of two minutes late. They buy an insurer who pays out, because the patch test has a timestamp rather than a memory attached to it.
The form is the mechanism. What you are actually buying is the record it leaves behind.
That is the whole argument, and it is why the questions matter more than the software. A blank form builder hands you a canvas and calls it flexibility. This hands you the nine questions that a waxing client should be asked, in the wording that gets an honest answer, with the risky one already flagged in red.
What this saves you
Not what the form contains - what it gives you back. Every number below is arithmetic you can check on the calculator further down the page.
4 seconds
from signature to aftercare email
The aftercare for their treatment lands in their inbox before they have left the chair, written for that service and editable in your words. Clients who follow aftercare heal better, complain less and rebook more - and you did nothing.
Before they sit down
not halfway through
A form that collects answers and does nothing with them has solved the wrong problem. A risky answer turns the submission red and names the reason at the top, at the only moment the information is worth anything.
A defensible claim
instead of a disputed memory
Most professional policies in these trades condition cover on documented screening, and a patch test you can describe is not a patch test you can produce. A timestamped record is the difference between a claim your insurer defends and one they decline.
Automatic
guardian co-sign and ID capture
Under-18 forms require a guardian signature before they can be submitted, and ID photographs attach to the record rather than living in a separate file. The control does not depend on a busy Saturday going well.
Same week. One thing changed.
The left-hand column is most studios today. The right-hand one is the same week with the form sent at booking instead of handed over on arrival.
- Day four, and her brows are at their darkest
- She is convinced something has gone wrong
- You explained the healing process at the appointment
- There is no record that you did, and the review is already up
Nothing here is negligent. It is just undocumented.
- She signed a line about the dark phase before the deposit
- The healing-stage aftercare arrived four seconds after she signed
- Day four brings a message you can answer with her own signature
- Day ten, the brows heal to the colour you planned
Same treatments, same clients, same you. Different record.
Try the flag
Answer these as if you were the client
Answer honestly and nothing happens. Answer yes to the one that matters and watch what lands on your side.
What the client sees
Have you taken isotretinoin (Accutane) in the last 6 months?
Have you had Botox or fillers in this area in the last 2 weeks?
Do you get cold sores?
Do you scar badly, or get keloids?
What you see
Answer honestly and nothing happens. Answer yes to the one that matters and watch what lands on your side.
In your submissions list
Permanent makeup
What goes wrong without it
The complaint arrives on day four and it is always the same.
The client sees her brows at their darkest - which is normal, expected and temporary - and concludes they have been done wrong. She posts about it before the flaking stage, and by the time they have healed to the intended colour ten days later, the review is up and the studio has lost bookings. The artist explained the healing process at the appointment, thoroughly and correctly, and has no record of having done so. A signed line reading 'I understand my brows will look significantly darker for the first week and that the healed colour will be lighter' costs nothing and prevents almost all of it.
What a permanent makeup consent form has to cover
The actual field list, and why each group is on this particular form.
Identity and age
- Full legal name
- Date of birth
- Photo of government ID
- Address
- Phone
Permanent makeup is legally tattooing in most US states, which means the ID and retention requirements of the tattoo code apply - a fact that surprises a large number of PMU artists who came from beauty rather than from tattooing.
Medical screening
- Isotretinoin in the last 12 months
- Blood thinners or daily aspirin
- Cold sore history
- Botox or filler in the treatment area in the last 4 weeks
- Keloid or scarring history
- Diabetes
- Skin conditions on the area
- Chemotherapy or radiotherapy, current or recent
- Pregnant or breastfeeding
- Allergy to lidocaine or numbing agents
The four-week Botox rule is specific to PMU and appears on almost no generic beauty form. Brow position moves as Botox settles, and brows mapped to a temporary position are made permanent.
The procedure
- Area: brows, eyeliner, lips
- Technique
- Pigment brand, colour and batch number
- Needle configuration
- Numbing products used
- Mapping photographs
Batch number is the field that separates a professional record from a beauty form. If a pigment is ever recalled or a client reacts, the batch is the first question and the only one you cannot reconstruct later.
Understanding and consent
- This is a tattoo and it is permanent
- Healed colour differs from the colour applied
- A perfecting session is usually required
- Colour fades and needs periodic refreshing
- Laser removal may not be an option later
- MRI disclosure
- Consent initials, photo permission, signature
The healed-colour line is the single most valuable sentence on a PMU form. Almost every dissatisfaction complaint in this trade is a client seeing day-four colour and believing it is the result.
Is a digital signature legally valid?
Exact time signed
IP address
Device and browser
The exact form they saw
Yes - the US ESIGN Act and the state UETA adoptions give it the same legal effect as ink. What makes it hold up is the evidence stored beside it, and a paper form in a drawer carries none of this.
Sign with your fingerDraw a signature with your mouse or trackpad
Where you stand legally
In most US states permanent makeup is classified as tattooing and regulated under the same code, which brings with it the requirements PMU artists most often miss: bloodborne pathogen certification, health department registration or permitting of the premises, age verification with retained ID, and record retention for a statutory period. Some states additionally license permanent cosmetics separately or require a specific practitioner permit. Pigment is a second area of exposure: recording brand, colour and batch number per client is standard professional practice and becomes essential if a pigment is recalled or a client develops a delayed reaction, which can occur months later. The third consideration is the healed-result expectation. Because PMU is judged aesthetically and permanently, the consent wording around healed colour, the perfecting session and future fading does more practical work than the liability wording does - most PMU complaints are dissatisfaction rather than injury. Verify your own state's classification; this is not legal advice.
Paper, PDF or digital?
Paper
Fine when you are small
- Signed before they arrive
- Flags contraindications
- Findable by name in seconds
- Proves when it was signed
- Sends aftercare automatically
- Costs nothing
Emailed PDF
Worst of both
- Signed before they arrive
- Flags contraindications
- Findable by name in seconds
- Proves when it was signed
- Sends aftercare automatically
- Costs nothing
Digital
Earns its place at scale
- Signed before they arrive
- Flags contraindications
- Findable by name in seconds
- Proves when it was signed
- Sends aftercare automatically
- Costs nothing
Three clients a week? Print it and staple it in a binder. That is genuinely fine, and software would be an expense with no return. Digital earns its place around ten to fifteen clients a week, when finding one form again matters more than the minutes it took to file it.
Questions people actually ask
In most US states, yes, and it is regulated under the tattoo code - which brings bloodborne pathogen certification, premises registration, age verification with retained ID, and statutory record retention. Many PMU artists coming from a beauty background are unaware of this.
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