Restored Reflections · Post Falls, Idaho
Brows that look natural. And areola restoration after a mastectomy.
I map your brows to your face and tattoo them a hair at a time, so you can stop drawing them on every morning, and I do the work far fewer artists take on: areola restoration after a mastectomy, the restorative cosmetic tattooing your surgeon may have mentioned.
My prices are on my booking page. Sending a request is not a booking. I confirm each one myself. Opens in a new tab.
The work at Restored Reflections
Four kinds of work, and I’ll help you decide which one you need.
Every one of them is about something you used to have: a brow that stopped growing, a color that faded years ago, an areola surgery removed, a scar you are tired of seeing. Three are open for booking now; scar camouflage is not open yet. If you are not sure which one you are after, say so in a message and I will point you to it.
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3D Areola Restoration
For many women it is the last step after a mastectomy, and often the one nobody prepares you for. I tattoo color, light and shadow into flat skin, one side or both, and the shading is what makes it read as an areola. The 3D is an illusion of depth, not real depth: it stays flat to the touch, because it is a tattoo. The aim is that it looks right to you in the mirror, and is nobody else’s business when you are dressed.
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Permanent Brows
Maybe they thinned with age. Maybe you over-plucked them in the 2000s and they never came back. Maybe chemotherapy took them. I map the shape onto your face before a needle comes out, then tattoo it a hair at a time. My own word for the work in my portfolio is a combo nano brow: hair strokes with soft shading. Anything that heals light can be corrected at a touch-up six to ten weeks later.
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Areola Color Correction
Areola tattooing fades. It can cool to gray, drift pink, blur at the edge, or leave two sides that no longer agree with each other. Correction reworks what is already there, toward color that reads right again. Tattooing adds color and cannot subtract it, so there is a limit to how far it can go. Ask me where that limit sits for you, before you book anything.
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Not open yet
Scar Camouflage
A scar that has settled (flat, pale, no longer changing) stands out mostly because of its color. Pigment tattooed into and around the scar brings that color closer to the skin beside it; it does not change the scar, it changes how much you notice it. I list this one as coming soon. Email me if it is what you are waiting for.
What it is, and how to hear when it opens →
The name
The name is not decoration. It is the job description.
A phoenix rising out of a lotus, and the stem of the lotus is a tattoo needle. That is the Restored Reflections symbol, and it is a fair description of the work.
A lotus opens out of the mud it grew through. A phoenix comes back. The needle is the tool the work is done with.
Around the outside of it are the two words that decide everything else here: Paramedical Tattoos. Most tattooing adds something that was never there. Paramedical tattooing puts back something that was, and that phrase was on the symbol before there was a website to put it on.
The rest of the name is about mirrors. The one over the bathroom sink, the one inside the closet door, and the small distance between the person in the glass and the person you carry around in your head. Whatever is missing, and it is different for everybody, the job is the same: closing that distance.
The name is mine. I’m Genevieve, and I work in Post Falls, Idaho, by appointment.
My work
Healed brows, photographed as they are.
Real, unretouched photographs of my own healed work. Every photograph on this website is mine. No stock photography, no AI.
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At work, mid-appointment. -
Healed brows, close up.
If you are here after a mastectomy
You can ask me anything before you commit to anything.
A first conversation costs you nothing and involves taking nothing off. You can send a message, ask what is possible, and stop there if you want to. You are allowed to just find things out.
Choosing your artist
In this work the artist sets the standard. Mine is already in writing.
Permanent brows, areola restoration, color correction. All of it is close work on skin you live with afterward, so who does it matters more than anything else. In Idaho artists are free to set their own standards, which makes your job simpler than it sounds: find the one who has already put hers in writing, where you can read it before you ever get in touch.
It is all on my booking page. Four things — and you can read every one of them right now, without sending a message and without giving anybody your name.
- Never been tattooed? You can start with an ink spot test. Worried your skin might react to the ink? We can put a couple of dots of ink in your skin first. You can ask for one by message or by booking request, and my advice from there is to let the test spots heal and watch them for a few weeks to see whether your skin reacts.
- A touch-up at six to ten weeks. Skin keeps ink unevenly, and nobody can tell on the day which areas will heal lighter than the rest. My written answer: light areas can be corrected at a touch-up six to ten weeks after the first tattoo. Answered before you sit down, rather than explained to you afterward.
- Aftercare in writing, and not one sheet for everybody. There is one for brows and a different one for areola work. Both are public before you book anything, and both name the symptoms that mean you should put the website down and call your own doctor.
- Work I have not opened yet stays closed. Scar camouflage is listed on my own booking page as coming soon, not as an appointment you can take today, and this website says the same rather than taking a booking I cannot keep.
That is the standard at Restored Reflections, and none of it is this website’s claim. It is mine: in writing, in public, and easy to check.
This is work worth talking to more than one artist about. If you do, take those four questions with you: will you do a test spot first? When is the touch-up, and what happens at it? What does your aftercare actually say? What are you not doing yet? Ask them of anybody you are considering, me included.
And one more, everywhere you go, before any needle comes out: ask them to walk you through their needle and hygiene practice. It is a fair thing to ask anybody, and how they answer tells you as much as what they say.
Send the request. You can still change your mind.
Tell me a little about what you are after. I read every request myself, and nothing is confirmed until I answer, so sending one commits you to a conversation, not to an appointment.
My prices are on my booking page. Sending a request is not a booking. I confirm each one myself. Opens in a new tab.