permanent makeup

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Answered by Aaron Abadi

Mikael, Mikael, I am very impressed by the research you have done. It hurts me to see you work so hard and yet completely miss the target. Before doing all this, start with the basics, the Gemara, Rashi, Tosafot, Ra"sh, Ra"n, Tur Beit Yosef & Shulchan Aruch, and maybe Ramba"m (although it will usually be brought down by the others). You would have noticed that in the Shulchan Aruch (and it is much clearer in the Beit Yosef,) it says that the only time we are prohibited to put on a Tattoo is when it is done out of the pain of losing a loved one. Thus it is completely irrelevant in our current era. Tattoos are not done in that way today and permanent makeup is certainly unrelated. I hope I have not discouraged you from further studying. I am only begging you to stick to the type of research described above, prior to looking at later Seforim. AA Kevodo, Thank you for some clarifications. However, if it is so simple, why does something like this even get forbidden by many poskim? I understand that for Kevod Habriyot to maybe tattooing eyebrows on the forehead of a woman who had no eyebrows, scar removal (a pigment that matches the color of human skin is injected beneath the scar, allowing that area to appear like the rest of the person’s skin) would be permitted. However, even for this, why not implant eyebrows, since I don’t believe there are problems involved with that. Just one more question, would you permit your child to get a tattoo?!?!?! Should this be learnt from the goyim since it does not seem to be in line with any of our traditions? I am not trying to be a smart a**, but by saying it is mutar it might cause many Jews to start adopting these ways of the Goyim! Hazagh Barukh!