Should I or shouldn't I?

[Spursman]

Hello

 

Used to be completely bald and had a hair transplant about 13 years ago. My doner hair wasn't the best so my expectations were low. It came out ok and I can live with it.

 

As you can see from my pictures I have a scar. I had SMP into the scar which helped a bit but not the best camroflague. I then went back had had my first session all over my scalp . Results are promising and create a bit of cover for my naturally thin hair.

 

The first session was done very suttle and I have still got an opportunity to shave it off and lower my hair line with smp.

 

I would love a slightly lower hairline but I am torn between doing one last session under my existing hair or shaving off lowering hairline and living with an smp head ?

 

My crown is pretty much sparse. I use hair fibres to cover up a bit. SMP has helped in that area even with hardly any hair there. I now can use much less fibers in the crown.

 

Pictures show small amount of fibres in crown

[MarkWestonHair]

If I understand you correctly, you are thinking of lowering your hairline with scalp miropigmentation? If that is correct, NEVER, NEVER lower your hairline with pigment below your natural one or the one the HT surgeon originally created for you.

 

This is because pigment "cures" differently in forehead skin than scalp skin, particularly scalps with scarring in recipient areas. You will end up with an off-color stripe in the front of your head. It may not be noticable immediately, but in several years to come it will be blatant.

 

I have attached an example of a scalp micropigmentation multi-session tech that did exactly this; dropped below what the HT surgeon originally created. You can see about 3/4 of an inch of pigment below the hairline.

 

Even if you wear your hair cut down, the "stripe" will eventually become a noticeable off-color being placed in the forehead skin. Don't do it, and don't let anyone talk you into it.

[Spursman]

Don’t know how true that is to be honest. People who are nw7 prob don’t have a clue where their hairline was. I didn’t do it anyway. Just did two sessions under my hair. That will do for now

[MarkWestonHair]

A good tech should be able to distinguish the difference. The pores on the scalp are larger than those on the forehead skin among other characteristics. I can very easily pick out immediately where the hairline used to be. A barber would know this, as well as a good esthetician.

 

This is the problem why so many men have the same hairline with the multi-session scalp micropigmentation. The techs just don't know how to distinguish. Watch a few YouTube videos; they all draw out the same hairline.

[Spursman]

Interesting. I’ll look into that. Thanks.