Essential Base Pigments for Permanent make up Professionals
Discover how Swiss Color base pigments help PMU artists customize shades, perform corrections, and create unique results.
Pigments & Color Expertise — 7-minute read
Every client is unique – and so are their skin characteristics, preferences, and treatment goals. While ready-made pigments offer ease and convenience, base pigments provide permanent make up artists with the flexibility to fine-tune existing colors or create custom blends tailored to individual needs.
As the foundation of the Swiss Color pigment range, each base pigment contains a single, pure colorant, allowing for precise color customization.
Our Organic Base Pigments
Organic pigments are carbon-based colorants known for their high color intensity and brightness. In the Swiss Color range, they are mainly used to adjust existing shades, correct unwanted undertones, and create customized pigment mixtures.
- Yellow: Used to lighten brow shades and neutralize purple or cool undertones in lips and brows
- Orange: Adds warmth to lip, brow, and areola pigments, as well as helps correct unwanted blue-toned pigmentation
- Red: Creates vibrant lip shades and can be used in small amounts to modify skin, brow, and areola pigments
A highly concentrated, organic yellow pigment with medium viscosity for expressive color mixtures. Ideal for correcting aubergine or ash-violet undertones and for balancing cool, dark color effects. Pure mixing color – do not use undiluted.
An organic orange with high color intensity. Perfect for warming up eyebrow colors and balancing out blue-tinged pigmentation. Developed as a pure mixing color – use undiluted exclusively for targeted color correction.
An organic red pigment for striking, elegant lip pigmentation with intense color. Perfect for clients who prefer classic red lips. Also suitable as a versatile mixing color for lips and areolas.
Our Inorganic Base Pigments
Inorganic pigments are known for their high stability and natural-looking results. They are often used to soften color mixtures, improve longevity, and create subtle, harmonious shades.
- White: Lightens pigment mixtures and creates softer, powdery results, especially in lip treatments
- Gold: Adds warm, honey-blonde tones to brows and can be used to create natural-looking lip, areola, and camouflage shades
- Terra: Warm terracotta shade that works well in lip, brow, areola, and camouflage pigment mixtures
- Amarone: Cool, wine-red pigment for deeper lip shades and subtle warmth in brow treatments
- Black: Darkens brow pigments and creates intense results, especially for Fitzpatrick skin types V and VI
A high-purity white pigment with extremely fine color particles for particularly precise application. Ideal as a pure mixing color to give pigments a more powdery and matt finish. Not recommended for eyebrow colors. Higher concentrations produce cooler shades. Not suitable for use on its own.
A warm golden shade based on inorganic iron oxides. Ideal as a mixing color for naturally blonde eyebrows and for lightening brown shades. The caramel-like color gives color mixtures a natural, harmonious appearance in all Permanent make up applications.
An earthy terracotta clay with medium viscosity and an inorganic iron oxide base. A versatile base for lip and eyebrow colors, and ideal for enhancing areola and camouflage mixtures. When combined with organic pigments, it creates a particularly warm, natural effect.
An elegant, cool shade of brown with subtle mahogany undertones. The inorganic iron oxide base gives the shade a particularly intense depth thanks to its refined pigment particles. Ideal for creating striking blends on the lips, brows and areola with a wine-red touch.
A deep black with a very fluid consistency, based on inorganic iron oxide. Ideal as a mixing color for darkening brown shades. When used in a second eyeliner session, it gives the base pigmentation additional longevity and coverage. Not recommended for thin, delicate skin.
Important Tip
When working with base pigments, proper preparation is just as important as the color selection itself. The Swiss Color Pigment Shaker ensures a uniform pigment flow by evenly distributing the particles throughout the carrier liquid, resulting in more consistent results.