Nepal, Aug. 14 -- Unhappy with her thin eyebrows, which didn't match with the recent worldwide trend of women vying for fuller brows, Chitra Malla got herself temporary eyebrow tattoo stickers. But instead of elevating her look, the patch made her more conscious whenever she was out in public.

"The sticker didn't match with my natural skin shade and I could feel people staring at my brows when I was talking to them," Malla says.

However, in 2017, she came across microblading-a semi-permanent eyebrow tattoo technique in which thin strokes of pigments, known as micropigmentation, are drawn over one's eyebrows to lend them the illusion of natural-looking fuller brows. After knowing about this technique, Malla tried it almost immediately. And...