What a cosmetic tattoo consent form asks that a tattoo form doesn't

In New Jersey, Georgia and California, permanent makeup falls under the same rule as tattooing. New Jersey's definition of tattooing ends with one sentence: "This includes all forms of permanent cosmetics." So a permanent makeup client's consent form has two jobs: everything the state's tattoo rule asks, and the questions brows, lips and eyeliner bring, which a tattoo form doesn't ask. Since October 8, 2026, waivers.tattoo has a cosmetic tattoo consent form that does both, signed on the client's own phone. Here is what it asks, and what those 3 states add, each rule quoted from its own text.

This is a plain-language summary, not legal advice. Your local health department has the final word. Ask them, and bring your records.

What does a cosmetic tattoo consent form ask that a tattoo form doesn't?

The procedures the client is getting today, the kind of visit, and the health questions those procedures bring. Then the client acknowledges what to expect as it heals and fades. Your state's own questions and notices are on the form too, as a tattoo form has them, and your state's page says what it asks.

The procedures. The client ticks every one they're getting today: microblading, powder or ombré brows, lip blush, lip liner, eyeliner, areola, scalp micropigmentation, scar camouflage, beauty marks, or a correction of earlier work.

The visit. A first session, a perfecting visit, a color refresh, or work done somewhere else. Every visit is its own signed waiver, perfecting visits included.

The health questions, by procedure. Every cosmetic client is asked about Accutane in the past 12 months, keloids, and earlier work or a removal in the same spot. Brows, lips and eyeliner add Botox or filler near the area, and a recent peel, laser or retinoid. Lips add cold sores. Eyeliner adds contact lenses, lash extensions and eye drops. Areola and scar work add surgery or radiation on the area. A client getting brows never sees an eyeliner question.

What the client acknowledges. The color will look darker and sharper for the first 1 or 2 weeks, then soften. It fades, and most people need a perfecting visit about 4 to 8 weeks later. They saw the shape and the color before you started, and approved both. The rest covers what permanent makeup needs said, down to telling the technologist before an MRI.

English or Spanish. The client picks.

New Jersey: no permanent makeup within a year of Accutane

New Jersey has rules just for permanent cosmetics, and one names 2 kinds of client the artist may not work on: "Do not perform permanent cosmetics procedures on persons who are: i. Pregnant; or ii. Taking, or took, within the preceding year, oral tretinoin or isotretinoin medication." The cosmetic form asks every client, in every state, whether they've taken isotretinoin (Accutane) or tretinoin pills in the past 12 months, and the answer goes on the signed waiver.

Georgia: no permanent eyeliner, and only microblading within 1 inch of the eye

Georgia's body art rule calls a cosmetic tattoo "a tattoo, by someone other than a licensed physician", microblading included, and then sets a rule around the eye: "With the exception of microblading of the eyebrow, and in accordance with O.C.G.A. Section 16-12-5, it shall be unlawful for any person to perform tattooing or cosmetic micropigmentation procedures within any area within one inch of the nearest part of the eye socket. Such prohibited procedures include but are not limited to tattooing eyeliner." A Georgia studio's form offers no eyeliner. Microblading the brows is the exception the rule names.

California: a notice that pigments aren't FDA-approved, and 18 regardless of a parent's consent

California's Safe Body Art Act counts the "application of permanent cosmetics" as body art, beside tattooing. Before any body art there, the client signs a consent form that has to include a "Notice that tattoo inks, dyes, and pigments have not been approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration and that the health consequences of using these products are unknown." And the age rule names permanent makeup outright: a client "shall be at least 18 years of age to be offered or to receive a tattoo or permanent cosmetics application, regardless of parental consent". A California studio's cosmetic form carries the notice, and the form takes adults only for a cosmetic tattoo, in every state.

How a studio gets the form

The cosmetic form's own page shows it on a phone and opens the demo. Signing up from there puts the cosmetic tattoo consent form on your page from the first scan, with your QR code ready for the counter, in about a minute. Your first 10 waivers are free, then it's $50 a year per studio, with unlimited waivers and artists.

If you tattoo or pierce too, say so in Settings once you're in, and each client picks what they're here for when they sign. Lot numbers for the needle and the pigment go on the record when you turn them on, and the cosmetic tattoo aftercare sheet goes to your client with your thank-you email.

In all 3 states a permanent makeup client signs under the tattoo rule, so a tattoo form is where a cosmetic tattoo consent form starts, not where it ends. The rest is what brows, lips and eyeliner bring with them, asked and signed before the needle.