Mary Arnold
Mary Arnold-Ronish CPCP is owner of Professional Permanent Cosmetics, an now Tattoo Vanish, Inc and brings more than 30 years of experiences as a registered nurse to the permanent cosmetic industry.
Prior to starting her own permanent cosmetics business in 1992, Arnold had decades of experience in the medical industry. She began her nursing career in 1969, working in area hospitals and physicians offices. Arnold also served as a business and front office manager, and dermatology nurse for a dermatology practice in Las Vegas. Later, she was the director of marketing and operations for a large home health care organization with locations in Utah, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado.
Arnold founded Professional Permanent Cosmetics in 1993, employing her years of experience as a nurse and knowledge as a medical practice manager to create a quality permanent makeup practice in the Las Vegas Valley. With a complete understanding of the procedures and consistently using only the strictest sterilization techniques, Arnold quickly became one of the city’s most respected in the medical community for her high quality work.
Since founding her company, Arnold has had extensive training and continuously updates her skills. Today, she has a reputation in the Valley as a specialist in color adjustments and corrective procedures, such as lip color, eyebrows and eyeliner. More than 70 percent of her practice consists of correcting other professional permanent makeup technician’s mistakes or working with their unsatisfied clients.
By being forced into being the “go to person” in Southern Nevada for corrections, Ms Arnold developed a new and better method of removing ink or pigment from the skin. With more than 7 years experience removing tattoos with a non laser method, Arnold has now launched Tattoo Vanish, Inc.
Tattoo Vanish employs a method of removal similar to the skin as when the tattoo or permanent make up was applied, thus minimizing the damage to the skin. This new method has become so successful that it is now superior to any type of LASER removal. Tattoo Vanish is less painful, requires 75% LESS treatments for complete removal, so the cost is much less and is the ONLY method that will remove all colors where LASER cannot.
Arnold, who adheres to the Clark County Health District’s requirements, offers numerous professional permanent makeup procedures including eyebrows, eyeliner and lip color. She also provides advanced procedures such as scar camouflage, skin re-pigmentation, hair simulation and areola restoration and coloration following breast reconstruction from mastectomies or other breast surgery. In addition, Arnold now offers tattoo removal, called Tattoo Vanish.
In 2005, Arnold wrote and sponsored a bill with the help of State Assemblywoman Valerie Weber, to raise the level of entry into the permanent cosmetic profession. After testifying before the Nevada Legislature, the bill passed unanimously in the Nevada State Assembly before being dropped in the Senate. Arnold has consistently fought to raise the standards in the profession and has argued for tougher regulations in the state, citing that Nevada currently lacks strict regulations and allows for essentially anyone interested to get into the profession.
The professional makeup artist has been a member of the Society of Permanent Cosmetic Professionals, an organization requiring all members to meet the highest standards of safety and technical ability, since 1993. She also is a past board of director (2003 – 2006), serving as director of health and safety. In her time on the board, Arnold was instrumental in orchestrating a special meeting with the approved pigment vendors of the organization to enforce higher standards for pigment manufacturers to ensure consumer safety. Arnold was also responsible for gathering information, revising and rewriting and researching all of the many references needed to provide a defensible, non-biased exam for anyone wishing to become internationally certified as a “Certified Permanent Cosmetic Professional” for the organization. Today, hundreds of practitioners have received this designation worldwide.
Arnold is also a member of the National Cosmetic Tattooing Association, American Academy of Micro pigmentation, Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, Nevada Woman’s Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Women Business Owners, Las Vegas Social Register, Better Business Bureau of Nevada and Desert Springs United Methodist Church. She also served on the board of directors for My Hope Chest, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising funds for uninsured and underprivileged woman in need of breast reconstruction following mastectomies from breast cancer.
A constant philanthropist, Arnold donates her services to numerous causes. She provides pro bono areola and nipple recreation and repigmentation for any woman that cannot afford the procedure, ensuring that their psychological healing takes place in additional to physical healing following breast cancer. Arnold also provides no-cost ex-gang tattoo removal to any young person in the Las Vegas community wishing to start a gang-free life. In the past, she ran “Smooches for Pooches,” a campaign in which she donated money from lip procedures to local animal shelters to help defray the cost of care.
An expert in her field, Arnold has written numerous articles on permanent cosmetics locally. She recently completed a manuscript, “How to do Lips for the Permanent Cosmetic Professional,” and “Preventing Cross-Contamination for the Permanent Cosmetic Professional. Both manuscripts are currently pending publication.
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