Sponsored Artist Blog: Gabrielle Rock
From her studio on Rodney St in Liverpool – dubbed the “Harley Street of the North” - Gabrielle Rock is girl-bossing her way to the top of her field in permanent makeup, non-laser tattoo removal, and medical tattooing.
Unlike many PMU artists, Gabrielle doesn’t come from a beauty or makeup background. Her education was mostly in science, business and art; and it’s that passion for art that drove her to setting up her own clinic on the prestigious Rodney St.
Not content with having clients visit her at her gorgeous clinic – she has visitors travelling from as far away as Australia to experience her treatments! – Gabrielle also visits clinics in London and Mallorca to hold day sessions and spread her PMU magic a little further!
As a professional, she’s always striving to learn more about her craft and improve her offering. In the last five years she’s attended 18 different courses on PMU, and has worked on clients all over the world, on live TV, and even on our Youtube channel.
Gabrielle’s specialities are lips and brows, and she’s perfected several techniques for the latter including ombré brows, microblading, combination brows, and a specific combination ombré style that she’s dubbed “the Combré effect”. For this look she works the powder effect over just the tail of the brow, for a more stylised effect than usual combination brows.
Gabrielle takes great pride in getting her brows right first time, and usually spends the first hour of any session working on her pre-draw, getting the shape and arch just right for incredible results every time. She teaches her technique, and the importance of dedicating time to the pre-draw, in her training courses.
As for lip blush treatments, Gabrielle can help clients fix uneven lip shapes and scars or simply make them look beautiful with a plumping effect. She uses a combination of lining and subtle lip blush for an understated transformation, and she’s also been working behind the scenes to create formulas for lip blush pigments that match some of the most-requested shades – she was kind enough to share some of these on our blog.
While brows and lips are her strength, they aren’t all Gabrielle can do: from subtle to winged eyeliner, beauty marks and freckles, she’s even qualified to use and teach courses in the Li-ft saline tattoo removal process which is perfect for facial PMU.
Like many other artists, Gabrielle has turned her talents to helping people through medical tattooing. From PMU and eyebrow building for people with alopecia, to cleft lip restoration and even areola tattooing for cancer survivors, she’s found a real calling in helping people to love their bodies again.
Gabrielle was the proud 1st place winner of the UK PMU Conference and Awards in 2019, as well as 2nd place World Championship Winner at a microblading conference in Amsterdam. You can learn from her expertise in 1-2-1 masterclasses for beginners and experts, or in group sessions of six, and she also runs courses in cleft lip restoration – the first of which was in July, with another in September. Both will be with Jasmine Diebelius, teaching her dark lip neutralisation on the same course.
Gabrielle uses mostly Permablend pigments and a combination of Kwadron and Killer Beauty PMU cartridges on her clients.
We’re proud to have Gabrielle as one of our sponsored artists, and know she’ll continue to do great things!