Hair replication or 'scalp micro-pigmentation' provides short term benefits as a hair loss treatment and is not worth the permanent side effects that follow.
Hair Replication: A Shortsighted Hair Loss Solution
Regardless if you are male or female, young or not so young, losing your hair is a devastating experience. Even though more males are opting for the shaved head over the pattern baldness look these days, the hair loss treatment industry is larger now than ever before, having grown into a multi-billion dollar industry.
Whether the number of hair loss sufferers has actually increased is anyone’s guess. What we do know is that more desperate people are trying hair loss treatments that burn, conceal, apply, laser, slice, cut, plug, glue and cover their heads and scalps, hoping to find a cure.
These same desperate individuals continue to take Propecia even though there are strong indications that doing so can cause irreversible damage to a man's sexual drive. And just when we thought we had seen it all, a new treatment is introduced... 'hair replication'. This method of gaining back hair sounds very scientific and high tech, like 'hair multiplication' which refers to hair cloning research.
A Hair Loss Treatment That is NOT a Treatment at All
Hair replication is not scientific nor high tech, but rather a tricky, shortsighted marketing ploy, permanently tattooing short strands of hair to one’s scalp in a hopeless effort to create a new hairline and thicker hair density on a scalp that has neither. Important-sounding and pseudoscientific words like 'micro-pigmentation', 'transdermal' and 'hybrid method' are generously scattered throughout these websites promising special 'pigment' (INK) that does not fade.
In other words, it's a tattoo - pure and simple. Promises such as 'specially formulated' tattoo ink that does not fade, does not exist. Anyone who has ever been 'inked' knows tattoos fade and bleed over time. We’ve all seen how tattoos look over the years; the old guy with a once sharp tattoo is now faded, discoloured, scarcely visible and now a blotchy, unattractive mess.
Imagine that blotchy mess on your scalp. In fairness, there are very few practitioners who can produce a decent illusion of extremely short hair as displayed in those before and after photos. But these images capture a newly applied tattoo. Every tattoo looks sharp and full of colour when it is first applied. These photos do not capture what happens after a few hours in the sun or how the treatment it is going to look in years to come. Hairlines are typically drawn straight across the forehead, and true hair loss treatment professionals know that hairlines are rarely straight.
Most tattooists who practice hair replication require their clients sign a release limiting their liability for a botched procedure. But over time, all of them will be botched procedures. The desperate consumer will readily sign a contract, never taking the time to think how this so-called hair loss treatment is going to stand the test of time, but by the time the client realises his mistake, those hair replication companies will have well and truly disappeared.
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