Rai Piekiene, permanent makeup artist in Windsor
Everyday brows through to reconstruction after surgery, from one studio in Windsor town centre.
The work I take on
Most of what I do is brows, lips and eyeliner. The rest is work that fewer artists offer: areola micropigmentation after mastectomy or reconstruction, camouflage over settled scars, and colour brought back to stable patches of vitiligo.
Both sides come down to the same things. Reading skin tone, matching pigment to it, and knowing how that colour will shift as it heals. Get those wrong on a brow and it looks off. Get them wrong on a reconstruction and it matters a great deal more.
Every appointment starts with mapping. I measure and draw the shape onto your face, you look at it in the mirror, and we change it until it is right. Nothing goes into the skin until you are happy with the shape. If that takes an hour, it takes an hour.
Most people who book have been thinking about it for a long time, and arrive nervous. That is normal, and it is worth saying out loud when you get here rather than sitting with it.
Alongside all of that I do lash lifts and tints, brow lamination, shaping, henna brows and facial waxing.
I have been working in permanent makeup since 2019, and I have kept training since. Brows first, then eyeliner and lips, then the restorative work, then removal, because you cannot correct somebody else's work without understanding how it was put in.
Rai
The studio
Windsor town centre, a few minutes from both stations.
- Address
- 89 Victoria Street, Windsor, SL4 1EH. Second floor, entrance through Electric Beach Tanning Salon.
- Getting there
- A short walk from Windsor and Eton Central and from Windsor and Eton Riverside.
- Areas covered
- Windsor, Eton, Datchet, Old Windsor, Slough, Maidenhead and Ascot. Restorative work brings people from further out, because fewer artists offer it.
- Opening hours
- Monday to Saturday, 10:00 to 19:00. Sunday, 11:00 to 17:00.
- Before a first treatment
- A patch test at least 24 hours beforehand. It takes a few minutes and is booked in before the treatment itself.
- Training
- ABT accredited brow training in ombre, microblading and combination hair strokes. Permanent makeup masterclass, eyeliner and lip work, lash lifting and henna brow tinting, permanent makeup removal with ECURI Cosmetics, and a masterclass in areola and camouflage work. Certificates are on the studio wall if you would like to look at them.
- Insurance
- Insured with INSYNC Insurance.
- Reviews
- 5.0 from 47 reviews on Google. Read them
Ask Rai anything before you book
She answers her own messages, so you will be talking to the person doing the treatment.