FUE and Lowest Haircut Guard

[NOMORENORWOOD]

In the summer when it is really hot outside sometimes I like to wear my hair shorter almost like a buzz cut so I’m not getting sweaty long hair in my face all day. Of course everyone scars different but on average what is the lowest guard an FUE patient can go after surgery before scars become noticeable to the human eyes? 

[SimpleLife]

With an elite surgeon I would say 1 guard is possible. 

 

 

[BaldReaper]

With manual extraction and small punch you can be good with 1 guard

[NOMORENORWOOD]

5 hours ago, SimpleLife said:

With an elite surgeon I would say 1 guard is possible. 

 

 

 

4 hours ago, JimKan1 said:

With manual extraction and small punch you can be good with 1 guard

Thank you both. So basically anyone recommended on the forum is gonna allow 1 guard? Impressive really because 2 guard is usually the furthest I go when I do fades but was just wondering if that would ever be possible again

[BaldDude]

I’m 5 weeks out and just used a 2 guard. 3,100 grafts 

Edited June 27, 2022 by BaldBobby

[NOMORENORWOOD]

1 hour ago, BaldBobby said:

I’m 5 weeks out and just used a 2 guard. 3,100 grafts 

5 weeks wow. It appears just the lingering redness but I guess I don’t know what your hair looked like prior to surgery. How many grafts in total have been taking from donor?

[BaldDude]

8 minutes ago, NOMORENORWOOD said:

5 weeks wow. It appears just the lingering redness but I guess I don’t know what your hair looked like prior to surgery. How many grafts in total have been taking from donor?

3,100

[pkipling]

The quality of this photo isn't great (it's literally just a screenshot from a video lol), but this was taken just a couple of days after a recent haircut. I do a no-guard fade at the bottom and for all intents and purposes, I think it's pretty undetectable by the naked eye. It took a bit of an adjustment for me to get used to it in the beginning since we can be our own worst critics and I was worried it looked "off", but every barber I've had for the past 7 or so years has insisted that nothing looks out of the ordinary or alarming, so I confidently roll with it.  

[NOMORENORWOOD]

1 hour ago, pkipling said:

The quality of this photo isn't great (it's literally just a screenshot from a video lol), but this was taken just a couple of days after a recent haircut. I do a no-guard fade at the bottom and for all intents and purposes, I think it's pretty undetectable by the naked eye. It took a bit of an adjustment for me to get used to it in the beginning since we can be our own worst critics and I was worried it looked "off", but every barber I've had for the past 7 or so years has insisted that nothing looks out of the ordinary or alarming, so I confidently roll with it.  

Wow insane

[Melvin- Admin]

I cut my hair to a 1/2 guard to #1 

[HugoX]

I believe I did between 0 to 1, over 10k grafts taken 

[Rahal Hair Transplant]

NomoreNorwood,

it’s definitely possible to wear your hair as short as a number one guard without showing any real signs of scarring.   Obviously, this depends on a number of conditions including donor density, how many grafts were harvested, number of hairs per graft, hair color to scalp color contrast ratio etc. 

Below, see a few examples of donor areas shaved down after extraction  These are all Dr. Rahal patients. 

Best wishes,

Rahal Hair Transplant 

 

Edited June 27, 2022 by Rahal Hair Transplant

[Fue3361]

Just as important as the scarring I’d say is how homogeneous the extractions were.  If the surgeon did a great job and you scar well, could do a zero guard and look great.

[Djd0020]

On 6/27/2022 at 1:58 PM, HugoX said:

I believe I did between 0 to 1, over 10k grafts taken 

Wow thanks for posting hugo, this looks great to me! While I could care less what the donor looks like besides FUT, this is really cool to see. 10k grafts thats wild