Cost
What this actually costs
There is no comparison table on this page. What another studio charges tells you nothing useful on its own, because the number rarely covers the same things.
What is here instead: exactly what is charged, exactly what that includes, and the six questions that will tell you what a cheaper quote is leaving out.
The prices
- Soft powder and ombre brows
- $600
- Combination brow (strokes and shading)
- $600
- Nano hair strokes
- $650
- Touch-up, 1 to 3 months later
- $100
- Touch-up, 3 to 6 months later
- $150
- Touch-up, 6 to 12 months later
- $250
- Touch-up, 1 to 2 years later
- $300
These are the prices the booking system charges. If anything on this site ever disagrees with the booking page, the booking page is right.
What is in the price
- —The design hour: mapping, drawing and adjusting until you approve the shape
- —The appointment itself, two to three hours, unhurried, one client at a time
- —Topical numbing, applied and reapplied as needed
- —Single-use needles and cartridges, opened in front of you
- —Written aftercare you take home, not instructions said once
- —The six-week second session, where the density is actually built
There is no consultation fee. How the follow-up works is set with Mugi at your appointment. Touch-up prices are published separately and depend on how long it has been.
Six questions to ask anywhere you are considering
Including here. If the answers are good, the price is a reasonable thing to compare. If they are not, the price is meaningless.
Is a second session part of this price, or quoted afterwards?
This is the single biggest difference between a low quote and a real one. Brow tattooing takes two sessions. If the second is charged separately, the number you were quoted is not the price.
How long is the appointment, and how many do you do in a day?
The design hour is what decides whether the shape suits your face. A studio running four brows a day cannot spend an hour drawing on each of them.
Who is doing the work, and will it be the same person at the second visit?
In a multi-artist studio, the person who consults is often not the person who tattoos.
Can I see healed photographs, at a stated interval?
Fresh work all looks good. Healed work at six weeks and at a year is the only thing that tells you anything, and almost nobody publishes it.
What happens if I do not like the shape you draw?
The answer should be that it gets redrawn until you are happy, and that nothing starts before you say yes.
What does a touch-up cost later, and how is it priced?
A studio that will not tell you until you are in the chair is telling you something.
The expensive version is the one you have to fix
People who come in about existing work have usually had it done cheaply, and were happy with it on the day. What went wrong was almost never the technique. It was a shape mapped in five minutes, or pigment placed too deep, or a second session that never happened.
Working over that costs more than doing it once, takes longer, and sometimes needs lightening somewhere else before it can start at all.
If money is the constraint right now, the honest advice is to wait and save rather than to spend less. That is not a sales line; it is the cheaper option in the long run.
Questions about cost
Soft powder and ombre brows are $600. The combination brow, which is hair strokes at the front with shading behind, is also $600. Nano hair strokes are $650. All of those are published in advance.
No. The design hour is the first part of the appointment and it is not a separate line item.
Touch-ups are priced by how long it has been since your last session: $100 at 1 to 3 months, $150 at 3 to 6 months, $250 at 6 to 12 months, and $300 at 1 to 2 years. Those four numbers are set in advance rather than quoted in the chair.
Because it is one person in one room with no front desk and no build-out. There is no comparison table on this page, deliberately: what another studio charges tells you nothing about what they include, how long they spend, or who does the work. The questions above are more useful than a price.
The booking system takes Visa, MasterCard, Discover.
Not here, and that is worth saying plainly. There is one published price for brows. If cost is the deciding factor, the honest advice is to wait and save rather than to have cheap work done that later needs correcting, because correcting it costs more than doing it once.
The full price list is on one page, what the appointment involves is here, and how to choose an artist goes further into the questions above.
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.
A question, and a photo only if you want to. Mugi reads it and answers herself.