Her work
Mugi’s work, on the day
Photographed at the end of the appointment. Every frame is labeled, and none of them is healed yet.
- Beforebefore any pigment
- Fresh, same daynot healed
On the face
Whole photographs, published with each client’s agreement. Open one to see it larger, beside a close-up of the brow.
Fresh, same day · not healed
Fresh, same day · not healed
Fresh, same day · not healed
Fresh, same day · not healed
Fresh, same day · not healed
Fresh, same day · not healed
Before and after
The same brow, before and after
Before
Fresh, same day
Not healed.
The same brow, the same appointment, photographed from the same angle before and after. The strokes follow the direction the hair already grows.
Before
Fresh, same day
Not healed. Microshading, as Mugi labeled it.
Labeled microshading by Mugi on the original. Shading fills between the hairs rather than drawing over them, which is why the lower edge reads as a line and the top does not.
Before
Fresh, same day
Not healed.
Pale at the head, built up through the arch. That gradient is the whole idea of an ombre brow, and it is what stops a shaded brow reading as a block.
About these photographs
They were taken in the room, on the day the work was done. Fresh brows are darker, sharper and more defined than they will be once healed; that is what pigment does in the first fortnight, not a trick of the light.
The whole photographs are published with each client’s agreement. The close-ups are cropped to the brow so the work can be judged at its own scale, and a crop is not treated as a substitute for a client’s permission.
Not here yet: the healed record, the same brows at six weeks and at a year, with the interval in the frame and written permission on file. There is more of her work on Instagram meanwhile.
Close up
Closer, on the details that decide whether a brow reads as drawn
Fresh, same day
Not healed.
The tail is where a brow either looks drawn or does not. This one narrows to a point rather than stopping.
Fresh, same day
Not healed.
The front is kept deliberately lighter than the body. A hard edge at the front is the thing that reads as makeup from across a room.
Fresh, same day
Not healed.
A warm-based pigment on deeper skin, which is the convention rather than a promise: a cool base is the one associated with healing ashy.
Fresh, same day
Not healed.
Both brows in one frame. Sisters, not twins, is the usual phrase: they are matched to each other, and to a face that was never symmetrical to begin with.
Fresh, same day
Not healed.
A warm tone under fine, light hair. The hairs still show through the shading, and the head of the brow breaks up into separate dots rather than starting on a line.
Fresh, same day
Not healed.
Soft brown, even through the body, with the upper and lower edges left soft rather than outlined.
Send a photo of your own brows
A photograph of someone else's brows tells you what Mugi's work looks like. A look at your own tells you what she would do with yours. Send what is bothering you and a picture, and you will get an answer from Mugi rather than a booking link.
Not sure yet?
Ask Mugi
Send a question, and a photo if you like. She replies herself with what she would suggest. Free, and it books nothing.
Ask Mugi about your browsDecided?
Book the procedure
On Vagaro, from $600. Pick the service and a time; the appointment still starts with the drawing.
Book on Vagaro (opens the booking system)