About a year ago, Elaine Pichet's name came up while I was getting a nail manicure. I asked who she was and was told she did permanent makeup. Now I only had the spelling of the first name, and they gave me what they thought was her last name. I got home and started on a Googling venture. I found her name and called to set up for a consultation. I had always wanted to have permanent makeup and I was told she was the best.  When I met Elaine, I remember asking "O.K. what makeup are you wearing?"  She smiled back at me and said, "Nothing."  Her eyes and lips were beautiful. I was totally taken back by her beauty and kindness.  So the process and friendship began. When I came in for my procedure, I was a bit nervous and excited all at the same time. She made me feel so wonderful and all my anxious feeling went away. She took care of making my eyes, liner (top and bottom), and brows look absolutely beautiful. My brows were very thin and she filled them all in.  A couple weeks later I went back to have my lips totally done.  I really had never had a top lip (so to speak, very thin), but Elaine gave that to me. She was able to give me the appearance of having a lip like others have.  I could hardly believe when it was all over and I had such perfect beautiful lips.  Even with the swelling (which was gone in a couple of days). She has given me a new lease on life.  It is so wonderful to wake up in the morning and know that the majority of my makeup is already on.  I really like being a walking billboard for her.  I tell everyone I meet about Elaine, especially when they ask how do you keep your liner looking so nice and why doesn't your lip color ever go away. Elaine thank you so much for changing my life for the better. You are not only a wonderful artist, but a wonderful person.  I want to thank you, Elaine. for a talent beyond belief… You are awesome, and you have changed my life.

Sincerely,

- Terri B

 

I am absolutely delighted with my new lip color. With aging, my natural lip color was gone. Without lipstick, I truly looked "faded out". I now have beautiful natural-looking lips. Elaine is an expert in choosing the right shade of lip color for my skin tone. I love not having to apply lipstick, although I do use a lip balm with sunscreen daily. Thank you, Elaine.

- Judith Berkman

Elaine, I just love my eyes.  Numerous comments on how folks cannot believe they are enhanced.  I brought my mom over for eyebrows, which are just PERFECT for her face, age, and color.  I have others lined up to come over for the same enhancements, based on the wonderful outcomes! Thanks for all you do!!

- Maria

I had the pleasure of meeting Elaine several years ago. I was teaching overseas and was in Tucson visiting my family. Elaine had done my mother's eyebrows and they were absolutely beautiful so I decided to get my eyes, eyebrows, and lips done. Elaine is fabulous! She guided me with picking colors that would best compliment my coloring and I was more than 100% satisfied with the end results. I just went back and had a complete touch up on lips, eyes, and brows. This procedure took about three hours. At first I was a bit anxious, however, Elaine is so gentle, and after a few minutes I was totally relaxed. What Elaine does is so personal for us women, and I feel so blessed to have found her. I was swimming with my three year old grandson, and I was holding him in my arms while he floated on his back, he was so relaxed as he knew grandma had him. I than thought of Elaine, and how I felt when she was doing my make-up. I felt so safe, and confident. The environment she creates is so safe. I just want to say Thank you Elaine, you truly are one in a million.

- Jan Hester-Brychta

The year was 2000. I noticed that a bald spot was beginning to form on the back of my head. Within a couple of weeks, more hair was falling out, until a short time later I had lost all of it. The diagnosis was alopecia, a disease of the immune system that causes some or all of your hair to fall out all over your body. That was eight years ago.

This upset my world in a major way. You don’t realize how much your hair defines you until it’s no longer there. I experimented with a variety of wigs until I found a style and color that suited me well. It was with the help of my girlfriends that we discovered the best type, and several trips to Phoenix to get it right.

One day the four of us were celebrating something – maybe it was just enjoying our retirement and each other; who knows as we are always celebrating. We took a picture and I noticed how different I looked without eyebrows. It was a real eye opener. I concluded that my next task was to get some eyebrows. I tried drawing them on – my husband’s response to that was “what have you done to yourself?”. That was no good. I then tried some fake ones but after 20 minutes one of them fell off. They looked better in the box than on me! I was encouraged by both husband and girlfriends to come up with something better. Somewhere along the way I heard about tattooing of eyebrows.

I mentioned to my girlfriends that I was considering this and in their usual manner, before I could change my mind, they had identified a resource and I scheduled an appointment. Together we descended upon Elaine Pichet’s Artistic Touch, Inc. She graciously allowed all four of us to participate in this experience – me in the chair and the rest peering in as Elaine worked. Her kind, gentle manner, and her artistic talent made this a very pleasant experience for me. Her brushstroke technique with the needle gave me beautiful eyebrows. Later I opted to have the eyeliner on both upper and lower lids.

We had another picture taken and this time I looked great, according to my girlfriends. Special thanks to Elaine for making this happen and for helping my friends and I turn this into a special event!

I love my eyebrows and eyeliner.

- Kaye

I just want to say, that my experience from the time I walked into your office to the time I left, has been the most exhilarating experience. You as a professional not only show a great deal of enthusiasm and preciseness in your work, but you also show a genuine concern for your patients as well. This I commend you highly for. Seldom do we find in our professional business world today people like yourself. And last but not least, let me thank you for the great job you did with my procedure. You are a True Artist.  Thank you so much.

- Priscilla Mulligan

I have been going to Elaine for 5 1/2 years. I was scared to death at first but I had 3 good friends who had gone to Elaine for permanent make-up and they looked fabulous and so natural. Being the type that wears make-up to get the mail I thought this would be a dream come true. Elaine’s warm and caring personality set me at ease immediately. I started with my eye liners (top and bottom) then the lips and finally the eyebrows. Elaine takes the pain out of it because she is so gentle and explains every procedure she is doing.

I love to go back for touch-ups because Elaine always fusses and makes me feel so good. And she always has wonderful new skin enhancers—her office is warm and inviting with all her artwork—she is a true artist and I love to refer her because she knows how to treat each patient individually.

- Jayne Henninger
 

I walked in her office, she greeted me with a warm caring smile. AT that moment I knew she (Elaine) cared. Elaine carefully took the time to "LOOK" at me and saw what had long been missing for some years now, COLOR and she could restore it! Her talent is remarkable. Her creative ability to perform the "art" work is just revitalizing. A simple procedure that took no time. The result: Beautiful! Elaine then took me step by step in what she was doing and the whys. Not only did she make me very comfortable with doing my permanent make up on my brows and eye liner, she was very informative as well. Soft natural color to restore my look. Now I wake up in the morning and look and the mirror and love what I see. I do not have to bother with make up on my eyes everyday. Her work reflects her beautiful natural talent. Simplicity equals beauty and color. Thank you Elaine for adding color back into my life.

Love
- Susan, Sarasota, Florida

I had my eyeliner and eyebrows tattooed at age 77. I look really good when I get up in the morning; just need some lipstick. The only maintenance needed now is a regular brow and lash tints. Elaine was extremely aware of my state of mind during the procedure. The soft music in the background really relaxed me. I would not hesitate to recommend Elaine for those procedures.  Thank you.

- E.W.S.
 

Elaine performed my eyeliner permanent make-up and it is great! I love it and I get many compliments. She is very professional and it didn't hurt at all. I would recommend it without hesitation.

- Kathleen M. Duerksen, MD, FACS

I was treated elsewhere and the results were not what I hoped for. The initial procedure was painful and my eyebrows were too dark and were not shaped correctly for my face. Elaine knew right away how to make my face look softer and more natural. The change is subtle but enough for people to notice and comment on my improved appearance. Thank you, Elaine!

- Best Regards,  Lise

Thanks to Elaine's talent, I feel like a priceless work of art. I feel polished and professional first thing in the morning, and after a long days work. I have received countless compliments on how beautiful my brows look, and questions about why I look so much younger. The best compliment came from my husband who loves the results. Thank you for sharing your talent Elaine.

- Chere Benson Hall, RN

I went to Elaine at the recommendation of a friend of mine after years of suffering with no eyebrows.  In my younger years (teens and twenties), I tweezed my very thick eyebrows into very thin narrow lines, which was the style at the time, and they never grew back.  As I have grown older (forties), what little remaining eyebrow hair I had has begun to fall out (thinning eyebrows appear to be a genetic defect in the female side of my family!).  My vision is very poor and I must leave my glasses on in order to draw my eyebrows on with a pencil, which makes this extremely difficult to do and pencil washes off every time I get my face wet.  Therefore, I had gotten into the habit only "putting on" eyebrows very rarely for special occasions.  For the last five to ten years I have felt much older than my age (which is currently 50) because of my lack of brows.  I visited Elaine on my friend's recommendation for a consultation, but was extremely leery about the procedure as I am a perfectionist and was afraid that my idea of what I wanted and her idea of what I needed would not be the same and I would be stuck with something I was very unhappy with for the rest of my life.  Although still scared, I built up the courage to let her do my brows and I have to say that I am thrilled to death with the results.  I have gotten so many complements on how young I look.  People want to know if I got a face lift, a new hair style, hit the lottery, etc., but nobody even realizes that my eyebrows are tattooed on because they are so real looking ad the color matches my hair perfectly.  Elaine took my facial features into consideration when she applied the brows and they look even more natural than my real brows did.  Elaine includes a follow-up visit in her price, but she did such a good job the first time that there was virtually nothing to touch-up on the return visit.  I highly recommend Elaine for any of your permanent cosmetic work.  My eyebrows were a birthday gift from my husband, who was tired of hearing me complain about how old and ugly I looked.  Now he's saving up for next year so I can get my eye-liner done.

Elaine, I can never thank you enough.

- Betsy A. Hazel, Ph.D., MT(ASCP)

I am writing this note to express my gratitude for the interest you have shown me.  Your expertise and professionalism toward correcting a botched up job on my eyebrows has been the greatest thing that I had hoped for.  I feel very fortunate that I, through another friend of mine, found you.

I, like so many others, went to a woman in Hereford, AZ, who did the work in her home.  She obviously wasn't qualified and certainly wasn't under the best sterile conditions either.  I called the Health Department and the Cosmetology Board - there is no one out there to regulate that type of activity.  Needless to say, I was just lucky to have been directed to Artistic Touch.

Thank you so much Elaine.  I am so pleased with what you have done for me and what you will do in the future.  Sincerely,

- Edie Costa

I have been so pleased with the outcome of my eyeliner. I had never really liked the way eyeliner looked on me and was very nervous about how it would turn out to have something so permanent. I had seen others who had had their liner done at tattoo shops and it really was just a line drawn around the eyes. But although nervous, I had developed a trust in Elaine and her talent. She took a moment to look at the shape of my eyes and told me that if she followed the line of my lashes all the way from corner to corner my eyes would look droopy at the outside corner. THAT was it! That was why my eyeliner always looked a little off to me!! To look straight on at me you can't tell it but my eyes slightly slope downward. Elaine stopped about 1/8 of an inch from the outside corner and I couldn't be more pleased with how it looks. My eyes look alert and open and look even more rich in color than before. I have had so many compliments....even without a bit of "make-up".  My mother liked the look so much she got her eyes done for her 60th birthday.

- Dar M.

Elaine's incredible artistic ability is an added bonus for your permanent make up procedure. She makes it look so natural, people think you were just born with perfect eyes and lips! The products she uses are of such premium quality, I didn't need a touch up for 3 years.

This was the best value for the money spent and the wisest choice I've made for enhancing my self-esteem. Tucson is so fortunate to have someone of her talent doing permanent make-up locally.

- Debra Armijo

I am thrilled with the results of my new eyebrows and eyeliner. No matter how many products I purchased in the past, I always managed to look unfinished, uneven, and washed out. As I aged, the problem got worse.

With Elaine's artistry, I now look younger and more attractive. My eyes, always one of my good features, have finally come into their own!  Elaine combines an artist's eye with superb technical skills.

- Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins

I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for the success of the results of your very talented hands, your expert advice on laser treatments for my face, and a greatly improved complexion. I have been told that my eyebrows are "elegant", something I've wished for for many years. As a result of the laser treatments and Intradermal Treatments, my complexion is literally glowing.

Your encouragement to pursue a course that would make me feel better about myself was the motivation I needed.

- Tommilee Phillips

Dear Dr. Duerksen:
I would like to thank you for your referral to Elaine Pichet's Artistic Touch, Inc. Elaine did camouflage work on my facial scar (right cheek).
Dr Duerksen, when I came into your office to have two more small moles removed on my left cheek you noticed how my old facial scar turned very white in color. Elaine was able to cover the white scarring with a PERFECT SKIN TONE MATCH! After seeing Elaine's talent I decided to have permanent makeup on my eyebrows. What a dramatic difference it has made in my appearance, yet it looks SO NATURAL.

Elaine is a wonderful lady with a warm personality. I know she loves what she does because it shows in her professional work, and her caring personality.  Thank you for referring me to Elaine.

- Patricia Whitehead-Woodley

Elaine Pichet is able to visualize placement and color of permanent makeup for each individual to enhance their natural beauty. She is a true artist! Elaine was able to create a slight arch, subtle thickness and symmetry in my eyebrows giving me a youthful look. She also restored the color and fullness of my lips making them vibrant and sexy. The eyeliner she tattooed took the slight cross-eyed look away from my eyes. I love my new look! All my friends have commented on how great I look. The permanent makeup is so natural that not one of them knew I had it applied. I highly recommend Elaine to anyone who wishes to look and feel better about themselves.

- Shelly Bock, Author

I have seen Elaine several times over the past four years for various permanent makeup procedures, and each time I have been very pleased with the results! In addition to being passionate and a perfectionist about the work she does, Elaine is a truly caring person, and I am very happy to know her. Without reservation, I strongly recommend her permanent makeup artistry to anyone who is interested in these procedures.

- Jennifer Horner

Thirteen years ago I had laser done on my bottom lip due to actinic keratosis. My lip tightened with scar tissue making it difficult to brush my teeth or open my mouth wide enough at the dentist. I also lost the bottom line around my lower lip. My dermatologist told me about Elaine Pichet's work. She tattooed my lip, breaking up the scar tissue and lining them. My lips look beautiful, are perfectly outlined and don't feel tight for the first time in years.

- Anita Dowling

December 2004
The Arizona Cancer Center thanks Elaine Pichet for volunteering her professional services free of charge to some of our chemotherapy patients.

Elaine has provided permanent eyebrow and eyeliner makeup to chemotherapy patients who have lost much of their facial hair. This is a valuable service for them - one which would not be possible were it not for Elaine's generous heart. Elaine's special, caring manner has helped patients feel better about themselves and they are grateful for her kind efforts.

We are pleased to take this opportunity to thank Elaine for many years of service to our patients and can recommend her permanent makeup services to anyone in the community needing or wanting to enhance their appearance.

Sincerely,

Ardie Delforge, RN, BSN, OCN
Carolann Mashouf, RN, OCN