Kate Kanner PERMANENT MAKEUP · SALCEDO VILLAGE, MAKATI0917 186 9217

What Kate does

Eight treatments, all on the face, all with a touch-up visit built into the plan. She does not do microblading, nanoblading, combo brows or hair strokes; the reason is on its own page.

How an appointment goes

1. Free consultation, twenty minutes. Kate looks at your skin, your face and any old work. You tell her what you want to stop doing every morning.
2. Mapping. She measures and draws the shape on you with a pencil. This takes about forty minutes and nothing starts until you have said yes to the mirror.
3. Colour. Pigment is mixed against your skin and hair, and for lips against your own lip tone. It looks too dark on the day. It is meant to.
4. The session. Numbing cream first, then the work. Brows take about two and a half hours in total, lips and eyeliner a little less.
5. Healing and retouch. Colour peaks, flakes, fades to almost nothing, then comes back true by week four. At six to eight weeks Kate refines the shape and colour.

Signature artistry

About Kate Kanner

One artist. Every step by her own hand.

Kate Kanner is a permanent makeup artist based at Reverie in Salcedo Village, Makati. Clients come to her for brows, lips and eyeliner that heal soft and still look like their own face.

• Internationally certified permanent makeup artist
• Russian Standard permanent makeup training
• 10+ years of experience
• Internationally experienced, now in Makati

Forty minutes of drawing before a single dot

Clients mention the mapping more than anything else in their reviews, sometimes with surprise. Kate measures the brow against your bone structure, draws it, photographs it, and hands you the mirror. The pencil is the last cheap moment to change your mind, so she spends the time there rather than at the correction stage.

The same rule applies to lips. She draws the border and shows you the colour mix before any pigment goes in. One client who had lip tattoo done five times before wrote that this was the first time anyone had shown her the shape first.

Certified, and the paper to show it

Powder and ombre instead of hair strokes

Kate lays brow pigment in as thousands of fine dots. On oily skin in Manila’s humidity, dots fade evenly and keep their shape. Hair strokes cut into the skin blur into a soft smudge within months on the same skin. That is the whole reason she does not offer microblading, and most people who arrive asking for it leave with powder brows once they have seen both drawn on. Read the full explanation, or Kate’s longer article: microblading vs powder brows on Filipino skin.

Who should wait

Pregnant or breastfeeding. Active eczema, psoriasis, dermatitis or open skin on the area. Uncontrolled diabetes or a clotting disorder. Chemotherapy or radiation without a doctor’s clearance. A history of keloids. Isotretinoin in the last six to twelve months. Allergy to pigments or to lidocaine. Botox, filler or a peel on the area in the last two to four weeks. None of these ends the conversation at the consultation; most change the timing.

Before and after

Powder brows

Brows, mapped then done

Brows, eyeliner and lips

Lip blush

Lip blush, close

Healed photos where we have them. Fresh work always looks darker and sharper than the result you live with.

What clients say

More reviews, or read all of them on Google. Google groups them under shape correction, detailed aftercare, powder brows and lip care.

Kate’s guides

• Powder brows healing stages: what day one, day ten and week four look like, and why nothing is lost in between.
• Lip tattoo prices in the Philippines: what a quote should include and the questions that expose a cheap one.
• Permanent makeup before a wedding: the calendar that leaves room for healing and the retouch.
• Eyeliner tattoo healing and aftercare: swelling, flaking, the pale week and the rules that decide the result.
• Dark lips and permanent makeup: why a pink blush alone heals muddy on dark lips, and what neutralization does.
• Old brow tattoo turned grey, blue or orange: cover, correct or lighten first.
• All guides.

Longer reads by Kate

• Microblading vs powder brows in the Philippines: why one blurs on oily skin and the other fades instead.
• Lip blush on Filipino lips: what the colour does once it heals, and why a warm shade can heal muted.
• Lash line or powder eyeliner: which one you want, decided by eye shape rather than skin.

Where

G/F Office 4, Plaza Royale, Salcedo Village, L.P. Leviste Street, Makati City, 1227 Metro Manila. Kate works inside Reverie Esthetic & Hair Center on the ground floor. Salcedo Village sits on the quiet side of the Makati CBD, a short walk from Ayala Avenue, with street and building parking nearby. Open in Google Maps.

Permanent makeup enquiries go to Kate directly: 0917 186 9217, also on WhatsApp. For hair and skin treatments at Reverie, use the salon’s own number on the contact page.

Questions Kate gets asked