Beginner lip
blush

Before you commit to anything, you're welcome to come and observe a treatment with Gemma at the Newton Abbot studio. You watch a full procedure from consultation through to aftercare, see how the room runs, how clients are handled and what the work actually looks like up close. You can ask as many questions as you want, meet your trainer before you book, and get a feel for the environment you'd be working in. Most people find it answers the question they can't answer from a website: whether this is really the career they want. There's no charge and no obligation to book afterwards.

Your online modules open on booking. For lips the theory weighs differently to brows: you spend more time on lip anatomy and the vermilion border, on how undertone and melanin change the healed result, and on colour correction for lips that are naturally cool, uneven or already tattooed. It also covers contraindications, cold sore protocol and prophylactics, consultation and consent, hygiene and blood-borne pathogens. Arriving with that already understood means the three practical days are hands-on rather than theoretical.

Day one is design and colour: measuring and mapping lip shape, correcting asymmetry, and mixing to a shade that will heal the way the client expects rather than the way it looks wet. Day two is machine work on faux skin and then on live models, building the soft blush wash and learning where to hold back. Day three covers fuller, more defined finishes, border definition and ombré lip, plus managing the nerves that come with a face that swells visibly while you work. All models are provided.

You complete your case study sets in your own space, at home or wherever you plan to practise, and send before, after, healed and topped-up photographs for each. Lips heal more dramatically than brows, so the healed photograph matters more here than anywhere else, and we look hardest at retention and border cleanliness. You get written feedback on every set. Once the standard is consistent you return for your assessment day, and your ABT-accredited certificate follows.

You leave with a full professional toolkit and carry case, not a starter sample bag. That means your digital machine, a pigment set, cartridge needles in the gauges you've been trained on, mapping tools including callipers, thread and pencils, practice latex, PPE and barrier film, aftercare products to give your first clients, and your printed manual. It's specified so that when you finish your assessment you can take a booking the following week without buying anything else. Consumables are yours to keep and we'll tell you exactly where we reorder ours from, at trade, rather than leaving you to guess.

For an artist already doing brows, lip blush is the highest-value service you can add for the least extra chair time. It attracts a different client, it rebooks on a predictable cycle, and it photographs extremely well, which does your marketing for you. Lip treatments commonly sit in the same £300 to £450 band as brows, so a handful a month moves your turnover meaningfully without needing more clients through the door.

It is designed for complete beginners as well as existing beauty professionals, and no prior machine experience is assumed. Lips demand a steadier hand and a calmer client manner than brows, because the work is more sensitive and the immediate result looks far more alarming than the healed one. If you can hold your nerve, reassure someone well, and work methodically to a plan, this will suit you.