Olga Lucia Permanent Cosmetics marks 30 years of changing lives

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Olga Lucia Permanent Cosmetics marks 30 years of changing lives
Olga Lucia Permanent Cosmetics celebrates 30 years in business. (Photo by Cameryn Oakes)

Olga Lucia Permanent Cosmetics is celebrating 30 years in business and the evolution that owner Olga Lucia has implemented over the decades to help people feel good about themselves.

Olga Lucia Permanent Cosmetics is located at 1129 Northern Blvd., Suite 301, in Manhasset. She has been at this location for nine years.

Services she offers include permanent makeup, scar camouflaging, scalp tattooing and areola reconstruction. The newest technology she is now offering is microchanneling, a technique that utilizes needles to deposit serums into the skin that can help with scars, redness, wrinkles and skin rejuvenation.

Lucia started her career as an optometrist in her home country of Colombia. As an optometrist, she learned about the struggles with makeup and her patients’ eyes.

Often, Lucia would clean contact lenses for patients and notice makeup needed to be cleaned out. Patients would also warn her about their eye makeup, asking her to be careful not to smear it.

This is where Lucia’s curiosity started about permanent makeup, as a way to help people protect the health of their eyes but also to save them time and feel good about themselves.

She decided to shift from optometry and began her work in permanent cosmetics in 1993.

Lucia immigrated to Queens in 1994 where she began working as a makeup artist and esthetician. She said she was gifted with artistic abilities, something she was born with, but wanted to use to help people by combining it with her passion for medicine and health.

“We can do beautiful work,” Lucia said.

Lucia wants to help others, and that bleeds into the main goal of the work that she does. Many of her services are catered to people who have experienced trauma to their bodies, including burn victims and breast cancer survivors. She said the work she does is to make people feel better about their bodies.

“That’s the beautiful part of this,” Lucia said. “People want to look good about themselves.”

Lucia said that her interest in offering her services to people who have experienced physical traumas immediately began when she started her career in permanent cosmetics.

She said this is what adds to the importance of her work as it helps people feel complete after enduring mental and physical traumas that one wears on their body.

“When you have to go through all this trauma, removing your breast or getting scars, the scars really affect you emotionally and mentally and you get depressed,” Lucia said. “And that’s how you’re going to behave in front of your people, in front of your friends, in front of your children. When you have something that can make yourself feel better, it’s a big change.”

Lucia shared a story of a patient who had undergone a breast reduction that damaged one of her areolas. With the scar in a private location, the patient told Lucia that seeing the scar in the mirror every day when she showered was affecting her personally.

She said this is why her work is so important, because it’s helping her patients feel better about themselves not necessarily for external validation.

When Lucia completed the areola reconstruction, she said her patient hugged her and expressed how much she loved the work as she no longer saw the scar that had bothered her every morning when she looked in the mirror.

Because of this effect, Lucia said she has become more invested in her work in camouflaging scars and alleviating physical traumas.

“When you can change people’s lives, it is very rewarding,” Lucia said.

She said the loyalty of her patients is something she is greatly appreciative of as it is beneficial to her business and her craft.

“I am very blessed to have the opportunity to see my people 20 years later and that I can see my work 20 years later,” Lucia said.

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