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On 8/30/2023 at 9:06 PM, mustang said:

Parati and Anagenica are in Europe

Thanks, mustang! I found the latter company, not the former, when googling. Anagenica has finasteride topical, but only together with other ingredients, such as a minoxidil-like substance. My skin didn't agree with minoxidil, so that's something I am trying to stay away from. 

Do you think it would be an idea to buy this propylene glycol solvent from minoxidilmax, and make own topical finasterid dissolving tablets? I'd prefer to get everything ready compounded from a pharmacy, just fin + solvent, but it's hard to find any who offer just that. 

https://www.minoxidilmax.com/pg-solvent-propylene-glycol-ethanol

Sorry about necroing on old thread, but I found my way to it from googling. I was about to buy the finasteride only bottle from Minoxidilmax, but now I'm having second thoughts. Does anyone know:

Has the company Minoxidilmax cleaned up their act since this thread was made?

Are there any other companies which sell finasteride topical without other ingredients? Shipping to Europe. 

Sorry to hear about your experiences, mustang. It sounds like you've got a massive dose of fin yeah, or something worse. 

Thanks for posting, JD Jones. I'm curious, would you think you've been graying due to the HT? I made a thread about such possible effects here 

If you do it Myloloves I recommened you take photo of yourself, and run it through Faceapp, and if you like the new eyebrows in Faceapp then ask the SMP artist to create something similar. When given free reign many SMP artist do something like to this (completely overblown, completely fake). So I would recommend having a clear wish for them yeah. And please do post here if you go ahead and microblade.

Yeah that's what I heard too. And I think SMP offers several advantages to eyebrow HT. A result such as this is easily done with SMP, but ain't something a HT would do. And there's no trimming, as you point out. I am puzzled why there's so many men doing opting for eyebrow HT instead of eyebrow SMP.

On 8/27/2021 at 7:47 AM, Myloloves said:

You could try microblading first, I heard a lot of good reviews about the procedure

Do you think it would be be as good underneath the current eyebrows? I am thinking it might look natural, and look nice and thick, but I dunno how it would turn out.

On 8/27/2021 at 8:40 AM, Scarhelp said:

My brothers girlfriend had SMP on her eyebrows. Now, I've had SMP done on my head. So, I figured I'd have a keen eye to spot it, but couldn't tell she had it done. My brother told me about three years after he was dating her. I don't know where she had it done so I can't help you there, but I'd recommend that before I'd recommend having surgery.

Wow. Couldn't tell. Three years. That sounds good. I take it she had a good SMP artist. But still! And I take it she did it the regular way, and not solely underneath current brows, which would be a more «male» way to do it. What's your opinion on your SMP on the scalp btw? 

Interesting, 5BetaReductase! And thanks for weighing in! It's good to see so few having experiences such graying, or know of it, but if someone has experienced it, or know of it, please let us know.

1 hour ago, Dr. Suhail Khokhar said:

You can obviously do multiple procedures and most patients require multiple procedures to get to where they want. You should wait at least 1 year between procedures. I personally recommend 1.5 years. It's best to get procedures done by a well qualified and well reviewed surgeon since you have a finite amount of grafts and want to get great results from the get go. Please feel free to reach out anytime. 

27 minutes ago, TommyLucchese said:

What you're asking really is can you add density / have a "touch up" session at a later date.......and yes you can. It can take 18 months to really see your full result though so you shouldn't be too eager to jump back in.

Thank you. Both of you. I am new and know little. I am thinking let's say I only wanted to fill the temples, and increase the MTP density, would it make sense to do that once, and wait 18 months, and then add even more grafts to that area? I am not sure whether that would make sense, or instead just going for a single more grafts HT procedure. 

I see some people recommend microblading underneath current eyebrows to enhance thin eyebrows. What's your opinion on this? 

• What would look best natural, HT or microblading, and what would look most natural. 

I assume it's easier to enhance the shape of the eyebrows using subtle microblading. Something like this is what I am thinking about, where the v-shape underneath is only enhanced, and no hair strands are drawn outside the current eyebrows. I have heard many eyebrow HT might end up unnatural (depending on the success of the surgery) and that HT eyebrows need some maintenance by trimming them since transplanted hairs grow much longer than original hairs. I assume these are not incompatible. It's possible to do both. 

Some surgeons advocate a conservative approach, saying it's better to transplant too little than too much. Not sure why, or exactly what they mean by that. But say I was to restore my hairline. Do 1500 grafts, but it really might (might) look better with a slightly lower hairline, say 2000 grafts. Would it then be any disadvantages to doing a 1500 graft HT first, and then, if I decide it doesn't quite look the part, go for an extra 500 grafts? 

Much appreciated, John!

Anyone else who's had a HT, and have experienced rapid greying, or no such thing, do weigh in!

Thanks for weighing in! And that's encouraging!

If anyone else has done a HT, please do tell whether you experienced rapid greying, or whether or not it went away.

If you've had a hair transplant, have you got rapid greying afterwards, and did it go away?

I have consulted hair transplant surgeons about this, and the answer is the hair cells might go into some sort of shock due to the transplant, and it greys and then it reverts to the ordinary color. But does it? If you've had a hair transplant, did you experience greying? And if so, did it revert to the original color afterwards?