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MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Tattoo nightmares. They’re permanent and if you later regret it, it’s a lengthy and expensive process to get them fixed. Now imagine that mistake on your face. It happened to Cathy Ahern who had to endure a long and expensive journey to fix a botched eyebrow job. A quick online search reveals plenty of horror stories of permanent make-up gone wrong. Diane Makish has been doing permanent makeup for more than 10 years and she sees clients come in with big problems. “It’s got kind of a bad stigma attached to it,” Makish explained. Permanent cosmetics or cosmetic tattoos are colors tattooed into the skin, filling in your eyebrows, lips, or around your eyes, like eyeliner. “The whole point in doing permanent make-up is that it enhances facial features, it doesn’t take away from them,” Makish said. But she

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MIAMI (CBS4) – Maxine Sonnenschein has a lot to smile about today. But for years after beating colon cancer, her self-confidence was shaken. “I lost my eyebrows during the treatment,” said Sonnenschein. Like many cancer patients, because of her chemotherapy treatment, Sonnenschein lost all her hair. “You can’t wear a wig on your eyebrows. They are either there or they’re not”, Sonnenschein said. “You’re always thinking that you look horrible, you feel like you’re a freak”. Sonnenschein is not alone. According to the Center for Dermatology and Hair Diseases, 65% of cancer patients experience hair loss because of treatment, 47% of female patients said they consider hair loss to be the most traumatic aspect of chemotherapy and 8% would decline chemotherapy due to fears of losing their hair. Going outside in the rain, sweating, even exercising became a problem for

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