$650 · two sessions
Nano hair strokes
Individual strokes made with a very fine needle on a digital machine, following the direction your own hair grows. Up close they read as hair rather than as shading.
This is the newest of the three brow techniques here. It is the right answer for some people and the wrong one for others, and which one suits you is a question about your skin and the brows you already have.
Where this sits in the practice
Most of Mugi's work is shading, and most of the healed record being built is shading. Nano is available, it is bookable, and it is the part of her craft that is still developing.
It is worth saying because the decision lasts years. If you want the technique with the longest healed record here, that is shading. If nano is what suits your skin, you are choosing the newer of the two, and it is better to know that before you book than after.
When there is a set of healed nano cases she would stand behind, they will go on the results page and this section will change. Until then, if you specifically want to see healed work before committing, powder brows are the more established option here.
Who it suits
Nano may be right if
- Your skin is normal to dry with fine pores.
- You still have a reasonable amount of your own brow hair.
- You want texture rather than a filled look, and you look at your brows closely.
- You have no existing permanent makeup underneath.
Nano is probably not right if
- Your skin is oily or your pores are large.
- Your brows are very sparse and need coverage, not texture.
- You have existing pigment that strokes would sit on top of.
- You want the lowest-maintenance option that ages most predictably.
If the honest answer for your skin is shading, you will be told that, even though the shading option is the cheaper one.
Questions about nano
No. They do different things. Nano makes individual strokes that read as hair up close; powder makes a soft gradient that reads as brows from conversational distance. Which one is right depends on your skin and on how much of your own hair you still have, not on which technique is newer.
The stroke is made with a fine needle on a digital machine rather than a hand-held blade. A blade makes a cut; a machine makes a line of very small punctures. The machine gives more control over depth, which matters because strokes placed too deep are what spread and blur later.
That depends mostly on your skin. On dry to normal skin with fine pores, strokes hold their definition reasonably well. On oily skin or larger pores they soften and can blur into one another, which is why shading is often the better fit. She will tell you what she thinks yours will do.
Because it takes longer in the chair and uses different consumables. Price reflects the time and materials, not a claim about the result.
Not yet. There is no published set of healed nano cases here. If seeing healed work is what you need before deciding, powder brows are the more established option here and the results page is where that record is being built.
Yes, and for a lot of people that is the better answer: hair strokes at the front where definition matters, soft shading behind. That is the combination brow, and it is $600 rather than $650.
The side-by-side with blade microblading is here, the price list is here, and how the appointment runs is here.
Not sure whether strokes or shading?
It is the most common question and it is genuinely not answerable from a website, because it depends on your skin and your own hair. Send a photograph of your bare brows and you will get a straight opinion about which one Mugi would actually do.
A question, and a photo only if you want to. Mugi reads it and answers herself.