Hair is important to young men, actually to all men. A hair system is instant hair and it works for some people. The freedom to have someone run their fingers through the hair is a limiting factor that can be managed. Good for you!
Shower thought: Wearing a hair system for the last 4 months has made me sad from tressless
2018-07-10 05:26:192018-07-19 05:51:25A Hair System Made This Young Man’s Life Better (From Reddit)
Hair system for someone who still has hair but diffused thinning like me, will they work well?
Hair systems work well, but they almost always accelerate the hair loss because of the various attachments that are used. Men who use hair systems find that they get balder by the number of years they use them.
How fussy do you have to be with placement of it though? If you have a hair system or only applying in certain spots you can’t be too consistent?
You have to be fussy! If you apply the hair system, make sure that the clips are never in the same place or you will end up with traction alopecia.
2021-01-13 02:21:492021-01-14 09:58:25Hair Systems and how to avoid hair loss from them
Hi
i am eighteen years of age and am loosing quite alot of hair. it has been a month since this has been happening to me. i dont really know if it is cos im using a hair strightener 2-3 times a week and m washin my hair at least twice in a week. i am loosing my hair particularly when i am in shower. i am really worried and m not using a hair straightner at all during this christmas hoildays. Do u think that i should use my hair straightener once a week and wash it once too? i will really appriciate it if you write back!
Thanks a million!
I am not 100% certain that a hair straightener can cause permanent hair loss, but if you are concerned, then you should stop its use and see if your problem goes away. That is the easiest and most logical thing to do. Sometime chemicals can cause your hair to become very brittle and break without actually destroying your root, therefore causing any hair loss to appear a lot worse than it actually is. It is normal to lose up to 100 hairs per day.
What is the difference between a hair system and a wig or a toupee?
It is the same as the difference between a garbage collector and a sanitation engineer! Everything is in the packaging!
Shakespeare wrote, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.†I would change this for the sanitation engineer: “That which we call garbage smells the same under any name you choose to give it. Unfortunately, for many wig wearers, there is a smell that comes with chronic use of wigs unless you have replacement wigs that you wash with some regularity.” It’s not quite as romantic, but it fits.
So to answer your question straightforward — no difference, except for the name. Hair system was coined to market fake hair so that it sound better than wig or toupee.
The picture shows a ‘hair system’ from the bottom (you almost can’t see the hair). What you are looking at in the photo above is the part that attaches to the scalp. To get the best fit, the scalp should be shaved and then the device is glued to the skin with some ‘attachment’ compound. Once glued, it stays in place on the scalp until it is removed and reattached. Many wearers do not do this for themselves, but rather pay someone to do it for them. If the device stays on for a week or more, the sweaty scalp produces an odor which then transfers to the ‘device’. Some people remove it at night and this allows them to shower and wash their scalp. They may also wash their device, but washing it makes it wear out earlier. Alternatives to glue include weaves, which use the existing hair around the head to be weaved through the mesh of the device like thread or clips which can attach the ‘device’ to the existing hair around the edges of the ‘unit’. The clips are better, because they can be easily removed while the weaves can not be moved and must be reworked as the hair grows longer. The average weave becomes more and more loose the longer it stays in place and to make matters worse, it moves as the hair gets longer.
The constant movement of the ‘device’ as the hair gets longer, or the pull from the clips or the glue, creates traction alopecia (hair loss from pulling) which is permanent in almost every person. The sad thing in all of this is that these devices will cause permanent hair loss and dependence upon them. This dependence creates business for the life of the customer.
The reason I think that hair transplants are a better solution is that rather than create dependence, it creates independence. Most of my hair transplant patients say goodbye to me after one or two sessions. From a financial point of view there is no comparison, as the wigs run an average of $3000/year for purchases, replacements, adjustments, repairs and services (and more and more services). Just think of the money a person will spend at $3000/year in 10 years ($30,000) — a far more expensive process than two hair transplants that run between $10,000-$20,000 (hopefully with a stopping point at just two sessions). The existence of a good Master Plan with an honest and reputable hair transplant doctor is critical for the hair transplant candidate who wants to ask “when will it end?”
I’m 23 and it’s happening. I’ve always had a poor hairline but now it’s thinning. And quickly (6 months and it’s gotten worse). Money is no object. Are these crappy hairpieces or are they indiscernible from the real deal? Do you shave the rest of your head for them? How do they work? How do you clean them? I want to do it early enough with my current hairstyle so no one can tell. I’m not keen on the medication or rolling.
Be aware that hair systems need to be attached, so most use glues to hold them to your shaved scalp. This causes traction alopecia and more hair loss so most men who make the switch to hair system end up on them for life as their hair loss always gets worse, often from the hair systems themselves.
2021-07-15 01:47:232021-01-23 10:48:38Hair Systems at 23
A little over a year of being on 1mg finasteride pills and using 5% minoxidil once daily. Not much hairline progress since my last update, but my hair has thickened significantly. Extremely happy with these results.
It has thickened because you took finasteride and minoxidil and probably reversed the miniaturization that might have progressed to hair loss. Nice!
2021-10-08 01:17:362021-03-19 21:19:47Hair thickened over 1 year
Doctor
Just read a recent post regarding someone who notices his hair thickens and thins and thickens again. I’ve noticed that for years and just assumed it was from Rogaine. That it was either synch shedding which happened after first using the drug and just continued through the years or that at times realized I’ve been missing areas and after reapplying those areas came back. But again that was Rogaine not Propecia which the previous post was on. Wonder if other minox users noticed this.
After reading your reply made me wonder if TE tends to reoccur in people. It would make sense if it is in response to a stress. People who have physical ailments in response to stress tend to have the same physical responses repeat throughout their life. I wouldn’t be surprised if some people are predisposed to TE under stress. Just as some develop IBS that comes and goes.. acid reflux.. back pain.. IF TE happened once it will probably happen again under stress.
Thanks for your comments. I’m posting this to hopefully get other readers to share their experience with back and forth shedding from minoxidil, as you describe.
To put this all together, a good relationship with a doctor is a good idea. Yes, telogen effluvium can reoccur in some people. See eMedicine for more info.
When estimating the number of grafts a person needs, I always want to know the hair thickness (hair bulk) of the donor area. Hair bulk is not hair or graft density. I initially saw the graphic at the bottom of this post on Reddit.com. For a visual representation, the graphic artist kept the number of hairs the same and changed the thickness of the hair shafts to show the value of hair thickness in producing coverage. Dr. Sharon Keene nicely demonstrated this with real hairs and got the same result as the graphic demo below. So you see, if your hair is fine, it will take a lot more hair to get the fullness of a person with medium-weight or coarse hair. This is why people with fine hair often get a second hair transplant. Fine hair is clearly better than no hair, but when a person with fine hair gets a hair transplant, they should accept that they will never have the look of Brad Pitt’s hair, while a person with thicker hair shafts, a Brad Pitt expectation may be realistic. The chart below shows the value of thicker hair shafts very nicely.
Let’s drill down on an example: Look at the chart below; let’s suppose that a balding man has medium hair (50microns thick). His friend had a hair transplant and had fine hair in his donor area, with a hair thickness of 30 microns. His friend had a hair transplant, and it doesn’t look like he has a full head of hair after the transplant despite getting 4000 grafts. He is concerned that he might not be happy with the type of results his friend had. If he does the analysis, he will find that he has 7.1 times the hair bulk as his friend with fine hair whose donor hair thickness had 30-micron hair shafts (50/0.7 = 7.1). I would tell him that if I were his surgeon, he would get much fuller-looking results than his friend, not because I am a better surgeon than his friend’s surgeon but because his hair thickness will produce more hair bulk than his friend’s fine hair gave him. The amount of hair bulk is a simple math calculation reflecting the area of a circle [ Pie (r)² ]. If you want to run the calculations, you will know the value of your hair thickness, and everyone having a hair transplant should do this to establish realistic expectations.
In my 35 years performing hair transplants, I have transplanted many men with fine hair. They were generally pleased because they got back the hair they always had, which was fine hair. A fine-haired man getting a hair transplant for balding doesn’t have the expectation that his hair would look like Antonio Banderas’s hair because they never had it.
In the late 1980’s. Dr. Manny Marritt had a light-skinned Caucasian human volunteer with black, medium-weight hair (~50-micron hair thickness) agree to have half the hairs on one side of his head plucked out. Then, Dr. Marritt brought in independent observers and photographers to see if the lower-density side could be detected. The answer was NO! That told me that in the worst situation possible (black, medium-weight hair on white skin), 50% density produced the same fullness as 100% density. With that being the case, a person with medium-weight hair that is blonde with a blondish skin color or a brown-haired, brown-skin colored man would require less than 50% of their original density to get a full look from a hair transplant. I have found that to be true, and that is the art of what a good hair transplant surgeon offers. When the hair transplant surgeon combines this knowledge with proper hair distribution, the best results are produced with the least amount of hair and cost to the patient.
For those readers who want to know where they stand about hair thickness, to get some realistic expectations for a hair transplant, you can purchase a micrometer for under $25 on Amazon, cut 10 of your donor area (back of your head), and measure the thickness by averaging their width of those 10 hairs. Use the chart below to understand the measurement and consider Dr. Marritt’s simple experiment. The micrometer can be purchased here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09964YBMF?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1
The illustrations below show the same number of hairs, but the hairs are thicker. Please note the HUGE visual difference between fine, medium, and coarse hairs regarding the fullness each group produces.
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Hi,
I have been wearing hair extentsions for 3 years now. The areas in which I have been wearing them seem to be thinning. I was wondering if the hair will grow back. Also, my scalp is itchy and burning in these areas. Sometimes it’s even painful. Should I go see a dermatologist?The hair extensions were clip in so are they safe? I thought clip in extensions were safe and wouldn’t damage my hair.
If your skin/scalp is irritated and ‘itchy”, you should see a doctor. Hair loss from hair extension is relatively common and is called traction alopecia. Most of the time if the insult has been ongoing, the hair may not grow back. Anything that pulls on the hair, even clip-ons, can cause traction alopecia. If you are now seeing thinning, then it is safe to assume that you are losing hair from the hair extensions. Best to stop using them now.
