Standing Still Is Not an Option: Zahra’s Next International PMU Training
In Permanent Makeup, the biggest risk isn’t trying something new. The bigger risk is repeating the same technique for years while the entire industry moves forward around you.
Pigments change. Machines and needles become more precise. New insights into skin types, pigment retention, and healing patterns emerge constantly. Techniques that were considered modern five or ten years ago are often no longer the professional standard today.
For Zahra, the conclusion is clear: experience alone isn’t enough. Anyone who wants to work at a consistently high level has to be willing to question, expand, and rethink their own knowledge again and again.
International Training as a Fixed Quality Standard
Zahra has worked in Permanent Makeup for around ten years. At the start of her career, she completed several foundational trainings. In the years that followed, further courses and specialisations came almost annually – not as an obligation, but as a deliberate choice for continuous growth.
Over the past two to three years, this standard has shifted once more. Instead of many smaller courses, Zahra now focuses deliberately on intensive international trainings with highly experienced Grand Master artists – trainings that no longer just teach technique, but real depth.
These trips are planned to continue at least once or twice a year going forward. The goal isn’t to collect as many certificates as possible. What matters is genuinely understanding techniques, practising directly on models, and refining her own results through honest professional feedback.
Two Specialisations from July 13 to 24, 2026
From July 13 to 24, 2026, Zahra is travelling for two multi-day intensive trainings in one of the world’s leading countries for modern, advanced Permanent Makeup education.
The trip includes five intensive training days focused on brows, one travel day to transfer to another city, and four further days focused on lips.
During this period, Zahra will not be available for treatments. Appointments for the new and refined techniques can be booked starting July 25, 2026.
Brow Training: Not Every Skin Needs the Same Technique
A central focus of the brow training is the individual selection of the right technique. Not every skin reacts the same way to Permanent Makeup. Dry, oily, sensitive, mature, or large-pored skin absorbs and retains pigment very differently. Needle size, machine, working speed, and pigment mix all need to be adjusted accordingly – what works perfectly on one skin structure can lead to weaker retention or an unexpected colour shift on another.
During the training, Zahra works on the precise analysis of different skin types, the selection of suitable machines and needles, individual pigment mixing, different brow structures and spine patterns for male and female brow shapes, as well as pigment retention and colour changes after healing. Another important part is the detailed analysis of already healed work – it’s not just the result immediately after treatment that counts, but how shape, colour, and hair strokes develop over weeks and months.
Zahra will treat two live models during the training, with every stage of the work directly supervised and corrected. The trainer also demonstrates her own technique on a separate demonstration model.
Why Live Training Cannot Be Replaced by Video
Online courses and videos can teach theory. What they cannot show is how real skin actually behaves during a treatment.
Working on a live model, you see immediately how the skin reacts to the needle, how quickly redness or lymph fluid appears, how pigment is absorbed, and when pressure, speed, or needle choice need to be adjusted. Direct feedback during the work itself is invaluable here: small uncertainties can be caught and corrected immediately, before they turn into a fixed habit. This is exactly why Zahra travels for this knowledge instead of trying to learn it from a distance.
A New Approach to the Early Healing Phase
A particular focus of the brow training is a refined approach that also makes the early healing process easier to assess.
During the first days after a PMU treatment, the top layer of skin renews itself. Small pigmented crusts and dead skin particles gradually loosen and shed – and during this phase, brows often appear uneven, very light, or almost faded in places. This so-called ghosting phase, which we’ve also described in our article on the PMU healing process, can be unsettling for many clients.
With this refined approach, this early phase is observed more precisely. Once surface skin particles loosen naturally on their own, the result underneath can already be assessed more accurately after roughly five to seven days. This doesn’t mean the brows are fully healed at that point, and it doesn’t replace the final assessment once the full healing process is complete. The real advantage is that clients can get an earlier sense of where the result is heading, making the often unsettling transition phase easier to understand and get through.
What remains essential: crusts or skin particles should never be scratched off or removed prematurely by the client. The exact approach always depends on the individual aftercare instructions.
Lip Training: Colour Is More Than Choosing a Pigment
The second part of the trip focuses on advanced lip blush techniques and individual colour analysis. Zahra deepens her skills in Watercolor Lip Blush, Ombre techniques, and the Lipstick Effect method, alongside precise lip mapping and shaping, colouristics and colour theory, pigment analysis and pigment blocking, individual colour mixing, and the neutralisation of dark lips and correction of unwanted tones.
Here too, Zahra works on two live models after intensive practice on latex, having first observed a full demonstration by the trainer.
European and Asian Lips Require Different Colour Strategies
BBZ Bali works with a very international clientele. As a result, Zahra encounters a wide range of skin undertones, natural lip colours, and pigmentation every single day. European lips can require different colour mixes than Asian lips, and very pale, cool, warm, or more heavily pigmented lips all need to be assessed differently. A colour that heals fresh and harmonious on one client can heal too cool, too dark, or too orange on another.
This is exactly why BBZ Bali will introduce an Advanced Lip Color Consultation after Zahra’s return, taking factors such as natural lip tone, skin undertone, existing pigmentation, desired intensity, and suitability for Watercolor, Ombre, or Lipstick effects into account even more precisely. The goal isn’t to give every client the same trending colour – the colour should match the person, the skin, and the desired result.
A Deliberate Investment in Quality
Both trainings, the travel, and the entire organisation together cost nearly a five-figure US dollar amount. We’re not mentioning this to impress anyone with a number. It simply shows how much value BBZ Bali places on continued education – and that trips like this aren’t a one-time event, but a fixed part of how things are done here.
Zahra’s Goal for 2030
Zahra describes her own standard like this:
“In this industry, you can never stand still. There are constantly new techniques, pigments, machines, needles, and new insights into skin and healing. I want to keep improving continuously, and by 2030, I want to be working at a level that reflects the international Grand Master standard.”
This goal doesn’t mean that a single training is enough. It’s a long-term path made up of continued education, daily practice, honest self-assessment, and the willingness to question even successful ways of working, again and again.
What This Means for Our Clients
After Zahra’s return, the new insights will be gradually integrated into the work at BBZ Bali. Clients benefit from even more precise skin analysis, a more individualised choice of technique, needle, and pigment, better-tuned Nano Brow results, more transparent healing processes, new lip blush techniques, and an advanced colour consultation that addresses both European and Asian lip types specifically.
The new techniques won’t simply be adopted because they’re new. Zahra will test them, practise them, and carefully align them with BBZ Bali’s quality standards.
Introduction Starting July 25
Starting July 25, 2026, appointments for the new and refined brow and lip techniques can be booked. For the first two weeks after Zahra’s return, there will also be a limited-time introductory offer – the exact details will follow shortly.
When booking, please add one of the following notes depending on your desired treatment: “Nano Brows – New Technique Offer” or “Lip Blush – New Technique Offer.” This allows us to match your booking directly to the right introduction.
The Second Part Follows After the Trip
This article is the announcement. After Zahra’s return, we’ll publish a second post with real impressions from the trainings: photos and videos from both masterclasses, glimpses of the work on the live models, Zahra’s certificates, her personal experience, and the key professional insights she brings home.
Because for us, continued education isn’t just a trip or a new certificate. What matters is what it ultimately brings to the daily work itself.
Standing still is never a neutral choice in Permanent Makeup. Anyone who wants to deliver consistently excellent results has to be willing to keep learning. That is exactly Zahra’s standard – today, and on her way toward her goal for 2030.