$600 · two sessions
Microshading, which is the combination brow
Hair strokes at the front of the brow, soft shading behind them. One service, two textures, and the same price as the powder brow.
It is booked on Vagaro as “Microshading (Combination Brow)”, and it costs the same as the powder brow, because the choice between them is made with Mugi, looking at your skin, rather than from a menu.
What it looks like
One of Mugi’s own, before and at the end of the same appointment.
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.
What the strokes are for
The head of the brow is where a shaded result can look solid if it is taken too dense. A few strokes there break the edge up, so the front reads as hair going in a direction rather than as a block of color. Behind the arch, shading does a better job than strokes at anything resembling fullness.
That is the whole idea. It is not a more advanced technique or a more expensive one. It is a sensible combination of the two things a brow needs, in the two places it needs them.
Whether it is right for you depends mostly on your skin. Strokes are the part most often reported to soften on oily skin and larger pores, and if that is you, Mugi will say so and suggest shading only. It is the same price either way.
About microblading specifically
Blade microblading is not sold as its own service here. It exists inside this option, at the front of the brow, and it is used selectively. If you came looking for microblading, that is the honest answer rather than a redirection: the strokes are available, they are part of something else, and for most skin types Mugi will steer you toward powder.
If you already have microblading and it has gone patchy, grey or uneven, the page you want is about working over previous work, and the first step there is a photograph rather than a booking.
Questions about the combination brow
As sold here, "microshading" is the combination brow: hair strokes at the front with soft shading behind them. Ombre powder brows are shading only, with no strokes. They are the same price and they take about the same time.
Inside this. Blade strokes are not sold as a standalone service here, and they are used selectively, at the front of the brow, where a bit of texture stops the shape reading as solid. On oily skin or larger pores Mugi will often advise against strokes, because that is where strokes are most often reported to blur.
You mostly do not, and you are not expected to. It is decided in the first hour, looking at your skin, your pores and how much of your own brow hair is left. Booking either one gets you the same first hour; the technique is settled there.
The shaded part behaves like a powder brow. The stroked part at the front is the part that softens first, and how quickly depends on your skin. That is the trade you are making for the texture, and it is worth knowing before rather than after.
Six hundred dollars, the same as powder brows. It is booked on Vagaro as "Microshading (Combination Brow)".
Prices for everything are on one page, the machine-stroke alternative is nano, and what happens in the appointment is here.
If you are still deciding
You do not have to know what you want before you get in touch. Send a photo of your brows and what is bothering you, and you will get an honest read back - including if the answer is that you should wait, or choose something else.
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.
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