3D Areola Course by Hayley Shortridge-Gabriel

In the USA, 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime. With Hayley’s 3D Areola Paramedical Tattooing technique you can use your skills to help breast cancer survivors restore what once was lost and change lives.

Hayley has a background in professional art, and you can feel her passion for what she does and the desire to teach others to have the same impact on their clients’ lives.

Hayley’s online course features video content, slideshows, drawing exercises, and a detailed, printable manual. Video procedures include a bilateral 3D areola tattooing procedure, as well as a follow-up procedure on a unilateral areola tattoo. To take this online class, you must be a licensed tattoo artist or certified permanent makeup artist with machine experience.

Course Highlights

The 3D Areola Paramedical Tattooing online course includes:

Printable 25 page manual for technique
Detailed slideshows and video content of theory, techniques, and procedure
Medical Education including a video interview with a plastic surgeon
Machine Techniques to create a realistic 3D Areola
Drawing exercises: time lapse, paper drawing, and on fake skin
How to map 3D areola(s) on your client
Proper tray setup, needle sizes, and products used

Video demonstration of a full procedure
Follow-up procedure video
Client video interviews
Pre Procedural and Aftercare information
Client Questionnaire (and why the questions are important)
Final test of info discussed in course
Certificate of Completion
Membership to our Facebook Support Group

This is a great training course with a thorough overview of the procedure, information on materials/shading techniques/machine settings and detailed instruction on how to create a 3D image. I’ve never really thought of myself as an artist —this course proved to me that I CAN create a realistic 3D image. It’s easy to see that Hayley does this work from the heart —and it has motivated me to launch into paramedical. I am drawn to the incredible impact it can have on peoples lives. I just landed my first areola model and feel confident I have the skills to do this service. Thank you Hayley, for changing my perspective about what I can achieve!

Course Trainer - Hayley Shortridge-Gabriel

“I’m passionate about the work I do and how I teach my students. I hold nothing back, making sure I have done all I can to equip the next generation of skilled artists. I am proud to have a part in their journey.”

Being raised in the arts by her father, Stephen Shortridge, a nationally acclaimed artist and actor, Hayley Shortridge-Gabriel followed in her father’s footsteps and became a professional artist in 2005 selling her fine art in galleries from California to Florida. Hoping to offer her creativity beyond the traditional canvas she decided to apply her artistic abilities to the human canvas and that’s when her business True Life Canvas was formed.

In 2012 and again in 2019, Hayley received the coveted title of “Top 30 Under 40 Business Professionals”. She’s been featured in numerous publications, podcasts and has been asked to be a speaker at multiple industry conferences. She has fallen in love with restoring what once was lost. You can feel her passion for what she does and the desire to teach others to have the same impact on their clients' lives.

Hayley has worked closely with plastic surgeons, performed thousands of permanent cosmetic and paramedical procedures and is proud to have taught hundreds of students. Along with offering online courses, Hayley is the lead trainer at the True Life Canvas Academy where she offers both fundamental and advanced courses, and is located in beautiful Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.