I just received a noticed that Julie Nguyen who is a permanent makeup artist will be moving on to work at Sass Salon! Julie is absolutely amazing! She saved my brows. I never have to fill them in and worry about them smudging while working out and getting them wet ever again. I recommend that you give her a try for your permanent and semi permanent make up needs. I will now be her forever customer. I had contemplated having my eyebrows microbladed for years, but always talked myself out of it because, it can be painful, very costly, only semi-permanent, and etc. After doing LOTS of research and looking at the work and reviews of other permanent makeup artist in my area, I decided to take a chance on Julie and give her a try. I was very nervous going into my appointment with Julie while she worked at another nearby salon but, she made me feel very comfortable right away. She had a very clean relaxing room set up in the salon reserved for just permanent makeup procedures and she followed all proper infection control and blood borne pathogen protocols. I wasn't really sure of what shape or thickness I wanted my eyebrows to be since I have had them very thin for almost 21 years and struggled with filling them in to look natural (over plucked 90's trend teenager here) so, I trusted and went with Julies professional expertise. She spent time taking measurements and drawing up the perfect customized eyebrows that went with my brow bone structure, and face shape. She made sure that I was happy with them before she proceeded with the microblading process. The process was a little painful even after getting numbed up (I am sensitive to pain on my face) but, it was tolerable. Right after my procedure I admit that I was a very shocked with mixed emotions about my brows even though I had realistic expectations of how they might look like. I did not love them right away since they appeared very dark and thick due to the freshness of the pigment and post procedure swelling. They did not look like the perfect microblading pictures that I saw on-line which were probably taken once they were fully healed from the first session and touched up. (I HIGHLY recommend that you look up and research post microblading procedure expectations before you go in for your appointment). Julie reassured me that the swelling will go down in the next day and the eyebrows will fade in the next few days as they heal by 20-40%. My eyebrows healed very quickly and nicely and I can not wait to see her again to have them touched up. They have never looked better. I have received so many compliments on them and they look very natural as compared to when I used to fill them in myself. I highly recommend Julie. She does amazing quality skilled work and her prices are very reasonable as compared to other artists in the permanent make up industry that will cost you 45% and more of what Julies current prices are. Thank you so much Julie!