Freya Cosmetics is a private, appointment-only studio on Major Aitken Drive in Huntsbury, on the Port Hills side of Christchurch. Its focus is simple: helping women feel confident in their own skin while providing invaluable self-care, one client at a time in an intimate, one-on-one setting.
The studio's core work is cosmetic tattooing. For brows, Freya offers ombré, powder and combination techniques, with every set of eyebrows mapped to enhance your facial features and fill gaps or sparse areas — whether from over-plucking, thinning, health or lifestyle. Lip blush adds a subtle, customised tint that improves lip definition, shape and symmetry. Pigments are gamma ray sterilised, vegan-friendly and cruelty-free, and colour is always matched to your own skin tone, eye colour and brow hair.
Beyond tattooing, the studio supports skin health with professional advice, treatments, medical skincare and medical microneedling, all built into a personalised treatment plan around your skin goals. Beauty essentials — eyelash and eyebrow services — round things out with natural, low-maintenance definition.
Appointments are strictly one-on-one (the studio comfortably fits two people only), carried out under a thorough Bloodborne Pathogens sanitation protocol with medical-grade disinfectant and disposable tooling. A numbing agent keeps procedures comfortable, aftercare kits are provided, and Afterpay payment plans are available in store. Bookings, and gift vouchers, can be made online.
High on the Port Hills side of Christchurch, in the quiet Huntsbury neighbourhood, Freya Cosmetics runs as a private studio with a clear purpose: helping women feel confident in their own skin while providing invaluable self-care. It is not a walk-in salon. Everything happens by appointment, one client at a time, in a space deliberately kept small — comfortable for two people only — so the entire session belongs to you.
That one-on-one approach shapes everything the studio does, from the way brows are mapped before a single pigment pass to the unhurried aftercare conversation at the end.
Cosmetic eyebrow tattooing is the heart of Freya Cosmetics. Three shaded techniques are on offer, and choosing between them is a conversation rather than a guess: the studio advises the most suitable option for your desires, skin type and lifestyle.
Ombré is the most sought-after — a soft make-up style gradient, lighter at the fronts of the brows and deeper towards the tails, suitable for all skin types and as defined or as soft as you like. Powder delivers a similar soft make-up appearance with even intensity throughout, best for a fuller, more defined brow. Combination pairs very natural hair strokes at the front with shading through the rest of the brow, and is best suited to smooth, firm, well-hydrated skin.
Whichever technique is chosen, the process starts with mapping your brows to enhance your facial features and fill gaps or sparseness — whether that stems from over-plucking, thinning, health or lifestyle. Colour is never one-size-fits-all: pigment is selected against your skin tone, eye colour and brow hair colour. And if you're worried about going too dark, the studio's preference is a natural look built gradually — more colour can always be added at the follow-up session six weeks later.
The same philosophy carries into lip blush tattooing. Customised pigment, chosen with you, is implanted into the lips for a subtle tint that improves definition, shape and symmetry — less a statement lip, more your own lips at their best.
For clients focused on skin rather than tattooing, the studio builds personalised treatment plans combining professional advice, in-studio treatment and medical skincare, with medical microneedling among the treatments offered and its full process explained up front. Beauty essentials — eyelash and eyebrow services — round out the menu for anyone after natural definition and a low-maintenance, groomed appearance.
New eyebrow tattoo bookings are allowed 2.5 hours; returning annual refreshes take around 1.5. A numbing agent keeps things comfortable — the studio notes that most clients fall asleep during their appointment. First-time clients usually need two sessions, since the artist is deliberately cautious on the first pass until they can see how your skin holds pigment; occasionally one session suffices and sometimes a third is necessary.
Healed results typically last from 12 months to around three years, depending on lifestyle, medications and skin type, and existing clients return for annual refresh appointments. Aftercare kits are provided with treatment, and following the aftercare instructions keeps infection risk minimal.
The studio follows the Bloodborne Pathogens protocol: disposables are used and disposed of appropriately, all non-disposables are covered and sanitised with Vira clean, a medical-grade disinfectant, and used needles go into Sharps containers. All pigments have been through gamma ray sterilisation and are vegan-friendly and cruelty-free.
Freya Cosmetics operates by appointment only from 85 Major Aitken Drive, Huntsbury. Bookings are made online through the studio's booking system, with a non-refundable booking fee — your slot blocks out three or more hours of studio time, and other clients are turned away for it. Afterpay payment plans are available in store, and gift vouchers can be purchased online for anyone who would rather gift the self-care than book it for themselves.
Come solo, arrive with your brow and lip goals in mind, and leave with a little less to do in front of the mirror each morning.