Close-up of a woman’s lips and cheek in soft, warm light

Ruth Swissa · Beverly Hills · Calabasas

Permanent makeup,scar camouflage& more,made personal.

Ruth Swissa plans natural-looking permanent makeup and scar camouflage around your own features, your healed tissue, and the result you hope to see. Other restorative tattoo work is available by consultation.

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Choose your path

Four disciplines.
One considered approach.

Whether you want natural-looking permanent makeup, less visible color contrast in a healed scar, areola pigmentation after breast surgery, or thoughtful care for your skin, begin with the result you hope to see. Explore each path, then bring your questions, history, and preferences to Ruth Swissa for guidance shaped around you.

Permanent Makeup

Soft definition for brows, eyes, and lips, designed around the balance of your natural features.

Scar Camouflage

Careful color matching for eligible healed scars, planned to reduce visible contrast without promising a change in texture.

Areola Pigmentation

3-D areola tattooing after mastectomy and breast reconstruction, and areola pigmentation that softens surgical scars after a breast lift (“lollipop” scars) or gynecomastia surgery.

Skin Care

Personalized treatments for texture, tone, hydration, clarity, and the way you want your skin to feel.

The artist

Ruth Swissa.
Artistry with purpose.

Meet Ruth

Experience matters when the result lives on your skin. Ruth combines fine-art training, color knowledge, and permanent makeup experience to create work that respects the person wearing it.

Three generations: A family history rooted in aesthetics
Eight years: Fine-arts study informing color and detail
Two locations: Beverly Hills and Calabasas

Recent clients

Alix Earle
Anastasia “Stassie” Karanikolaou
Addison Rae
Alexis Ren
Victoria Villarroel
Sydney Lynn Carlson
Avery Woods
Victoria Paris
Corinna Kopf
Olivia O’Brien

As featured in ELLE

In the press

Ruth has appeared on television, in national, regional, and trade magazines, and at professional conferences.

ELLE
KTLA
LA Unscripted
Fox 11
Good Day LA
KCAL9
Univision
E! Botched
Westlake Magazine
Malibu Times Magazine
Dermascope
Your Health Connection

More appearances

On camera

On Botched.
Scar camouflage.

Ruth has appeared in three segments of E!’s Botched, joining Dr. Paul Nassif’s patients once their surgical work had healed, to address color differences in reconstructed skin.

All segments

Season 5 · Episode 5 · January 2, 2019
After skin cancer treatment and nasal reconstruction, color differed across the repaired area. Ruth worked in restorative pigment once it had healed.

Selected work

Real results.
Individual outcomes.

Every person, starting point, and healing process is different. Look closely at the detail in Ruth’s work, knowing that no single example predicts your own result.

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Lips after lip blush treatment at Ruth Swissa

In their words

Trust is built
one detail at a time.

“I could not be happier. You are a true artist in every sense of the word.”

Permanent makeup client

“Ruth takes what nature has given and enhances it, using her art to create the appearance of natural beauty.”

Long-term client

“Her understanding of the science behind the products that she uses and endorses makes her truly exceptional.”

Sarmela Sunder, MDFacial plastic surgeon

Results & resources

Understand the details.
Decide at your pace.

Clear information, realistic expectations, and an easy way to book when you are ready.

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