Close-cropped Buzz-cut After hair transplant - Is It Possible?

[HairForceOne]

Hi,

I might be in a minority over here who actually prefers close-cropped buzzcut over medium-lenght hair. I would like to emphasize that the look I am after is not slybald or NW3+ buzzcut but nice and tight buzzcut with a solid hairline. As I am NW3, I am considering hair transplant to fix hairline (I am on big 3 btw). Do you guys think that I could pull off no-guard buzzcut after FUE-procedure? I have pale skin if it matters. I have attached a picture of my ultimate goal hairwise but naturally I would be very happy with more conservative hairline as well.

 

[DoctorHouse]

Hi,

I might be a minority over here who actually prefers close-cropped buzzcut over medium-lenght hair. I would like to emphasize that the look I am after is not slybald or NW3+ buzzcut but nice and tight buzzcut with a solid hairline. As I am NW3, I am considering hair transplant to fix hairline (I am on big 3 btw). Do you guys think that I could pull off no-guard buzzcut after FUE-procedure? I have pale skin if it matters. I have attached a picture of my ultimate goal hairwise but naturally I would be very happy with more conservative hairline as well.

If you don't post a photo we can't really know. If you have a head shape and looks like Johnson who posts here, you definitely can rock a buzz cut like this guy.

 

[HairForceOne]

If you don't post a photo we can't really know. If you have a head shape and looks like Johnson who posts here, you definitely can rock a buzz cut like this guy.

There you go. I think I am worried about possible FUE-scars. I would be bummed out if I opt for FUE but then I would be stuck with longer hairstyle due to scars.

 

[DoctorHouse]

There you go. I think I am worried about possible FUE-scars. I would be bummed out if I opt for FUE but then I would be stuck with longer hairstyle due to scars.

If you are worried about the scars then you might not want to do it. There is no guarantee you won't see scars. Have you thought about temporary scalp micropigmentation?

 

[spring15]

SMP

 

[sunchyme1]

it wont work mate.

you are similar to me and i am looking at what your doing. going for the buzz look.

but i am looking at doing it with just smp (temporary). i was gonna combine it with fue but the problem is with transplanted hair is the way they come out the scalp. they always have very thick roots, so when you cut them short you get a cactus like appearance. it just looks stupid.

smp might be better alone. and have them create the illusion of hair follicles.

 

[Big L]

I'd also like to know this. Is this possible?
Like short enough to hide the FUE scars, but long enough to show the shadow/outline of a hairline/hair.

 

[topcat]

The poster Lorenzo also the same person that works in the hair transplant industry as an interpreter for a well known hair transplant clinic first got his SMP in 2012 within 3 months he was diagnosed with cancer. He received another SMP session during his chemo. He then proceeded to have a touch up session 1.5 years later and once again 3 months later his cancer returned this time to his brain. Both instances were blood cancer and he required 2 bone marrow transplants.


I have posted continuously over the years about this issue of ink entering the lymph nodes and the marketers are quite happy to ignore it and attack the message. They state you can't prove it causes cancer. Yes they are correct and this is why a biopsy of the node is needed in order to sue for damages. It is my understanding some clinics have dropped this offering which I believe is the right decision. Even when suing for damages unless the service is tied directly to a large clinic then a small outfit can simply declare bankruptcy and you are left holding the bag.

Proceed at your own risk. It’s never a big deal until it’s you. Lorenzo is a real life example of someone and it’s a big deal for him. The marketers can dismiss it all they want and pretend the risk is not there.

Lymph node with black tattoo ink lodge inside of it. I am the only 100% completely independent hair transplant consumer advocate who advises against this procedure.

 

[Big L]

Can someone besides topcat reply. Lots of fear mongering amongst his posts.
Has anyone seen a shaved head after FUE similar to the OP picture?
Is it possible to keep it real short?
Or are the scars a big deal.
Thanks.

 

[HairForceOne]

Can someone besides topcat reply. Lots of fear mongering amongst his posts.
Has anyone seen a shaved head after FUE similar to the OP picture?
Is it possible to keep it real short?
Or are the scars a big deal.
Thanks.

This is the only one I have seen so far

Looks decent from the video. I would like to see more examples in HD format

 

[topcat]

Can someone besides topcat reply. Lots of fear mongering amongst his posts.

I have one reply to the thread so you should probably just ignore it and have some respect for those that read only as they might like to have the information. Forums are about discussion and all opinions. Not what the industry would only like posted.

Well formed decisions are based on having as much information as possible and then using logic.

And I have pages of posts from a regular Turkish/rep poster who tells a different story about why he was posting so often trying to persuade young boys. When someone doesn't get their money they tend to start singing a different tune. Right now I guess everyone is getting their money. So why does it seems like many of these same posters are trying to push young boys to go to Turkey?

One needs to have all the information and not what the made up screen names would like you to see. I am assuming this is an honest forum with good intentions...............we shall see...............observation over time is the only way to know for sure.


Excerpt from a pages written by an actual Turkish rep who posted for a very long time.
After a few days I went to hospital to talk Dr ***** about my commission I didn’t go to police If I go to police they would take him to jail and he will lose everything I didn’t want to do this to him even he bit me in bad way…

And how did an actual patient that went to Turkey react to what he was reading.
I can't even find the words to express how outraged I am. And you knew all about this all along. Guiding the innocent and desperate people to this slaughterhouse.


It's all information and forums about different points of view but when they become over run with marketers it then becomes a matter of marketing fraud as it's based on deception.

 

[Hughlogan]

Can someone besides topcat reply. Lots of fear mongering amongst his posts.


There is no proof linking Lorenzo's cancer to SMP. It's an assumption which could well be a horrible coincidence. Most things in this life come with risks, heck, the air we breathe is full of cancer causing particles.

Topcat. You have many quotes on various forums claiming all doctors who perform or promote SMP are unethical, only a handful of doctors in the world are worthy, right?

I'd like your thoughts on the following Doctor.

This doctor sends patients to a Belgian clinic for temporary SMP.

This doctor has a 2nd clinic in Spain who perform SMP themselves.

This doctor is "Dr. ********"

I have no wish for a debate, just asking for your thoughts on this.

I only have the one post, not a noob though. Been reading the forums for several years.

 

[topcat]

Hughlogan

I have read enough about injecting ink into the body and lymph nodes swelling up and posted actual pictures of nodes with ink lodged in them. Keep in mind that ink in the pictures of those nodes accumulated over years and not what we are seeing today where all the ink migrates in a short period of time. It does not take a rocket scientist to understand that it’s a recipe for disaster and I have posted as such well before Lorenzo’s case. Maybe they hope the guy just dies and goes away so they can keep selling the crap. Sure not everyone is going to get cancer but to think someone would be willing to take that risk in order to sell a procedure borders on the surreal.


For someone in the industry to actually suffer the ill effects I have been posting about you would have expected to be a wake up call yet it does not seem to faze these guys. Maybe it really will take a few deaths I don’t know.


I speak for myself. I follow my own path and I certainly do not go along to get along. If Dr. ******** offers the procedure that is up to him doesn’t mean I’m going to agree with it. I believe he is probably the best all around fue surgeon in the world hands down but no I don’t agree with SMP.

What's even more absurd are these reps that keep hyping it and posting about how great it looks on various forums. When those showcase results look like complete sh*t on top of all of possible health consequences. It should make one start to question this whole industry and what it is they exactly care about.

You see where the marketers got it wrong was they thought I was promoting in some way during my hair transplant experience with BHR. What they didn't get was I was just being honest based on my 32 years of experience. I think it was all very hard for them to understand. Why would someone spend all this time to pass on an honest message. It's a foreign concept to them and that is why they usually end up attacking others or use some other lame tactic. They don't get the concept of just being honest.

Hughlogan maybe you can contact Lorenzo and let him know that he should have one of his nodes biopsied maybe near the head neck. For his own peace of mind. If their is ink in the node he more than likely has a multi million dollar lawsuit.

Nobody is perfect maybe we will see clinics start to drop this offering. Sometimes it takes time to maybe realize something might not be a good idea after all and that happens all the time. It's all part of learning. Plenty of crap the hair transplant industry offered at one time until consumers realized it was crap and they stopped buying into it and it was no longer offered.

BTW when a rep/marketer goes on and on about a tattoo result that clearly looks like complete crap it's a tell. It's telling you that the rep/marketers is also full of crap.

 

[topcat]

Hugh where you are mistaken about the hair tattoo is you are expecting to hear the negative side on a hair forum when that is not necessarily going to be the case. You would have to visit a cancer forum. Maybe the marketers and their families with suffer the same fate. Now take 15 years of ink and make it disappear in a couple of years and see what happens.

I'm all for doing what makes sense as far as hair restoration goes but this is simply about making money at the expense of others. We should give clinics the benefit of the doubt. Just like marketers talk young guys into having ill advised hair transplants they have the same ability to talk clinics into extending their offerings by concentrating on the bottom line while failing to focus on the possible long term consequences to one's reputation. Some clinics seem to be stepping forward and dropping the hair tattoo service hopefully others will follow. It's a way of differentiating oneself from the pack and in a good way. Hairlifts, scalp reductions and all the other horrendous sh*t eventually fell to the wayside the same will happen here and the sooner the better. Young guys want hair because they believe it will give them more confidence with the opposite sex. Having cancer does exactly the opposite. Women are not interested in a young man with cancer because it's a liability not and asset so use common sense and most importantly stay healthy. Don't let the marketers deceive you. It's a dark game they play.

From a cancer forum.

Three years ago lymph nodes swelled in my neck groin and arm pits and I had episodes of night sweats and weight loss. Study of a surgically removed node from my neck revealed non hodgkin’s lymphoma and a CT scan reveled widespread disease internally within the lymphatic system. Black tattoo pigment was found in the center of the lymph node. I have tattoos on both arms the last of which was added over 15 years earlier. Looking at the make up of these inks it strikes me as likely this stuff has contributed to my situation. I am in the UK and am using the Gerson Therapy coffee enemas and all that to recover my health. No more tattoos for me. Mum always said they were a bad idea!

 

[Tano1]

Can someone besides topcat reply. Lots of fear mongering amongst his posts.
Has anyone seen a shaved head after FUE similar to the OP picture?
Is it possible to keep it real short?
Or are the scars a big deal.
Thanks.

I got a buzz cut after having an FUE and It doesn't look the same and the FUE procedure went great as it was supposed to. You're not going to be able to get a buzz cut and not be able to distinguish where your transplanted hair is. It starts to blend more as it grows so you will need to have it at a minimum 3-4 guard. If you keep losing hair that 3-4 won't last you forever so then you'll become trapped between having it just long enough to cover the transplanted grafts but short enough to where you can't see all the thinning and well you should know that the gap between the 2 closes and eventually you'll find yourself getting them taken out (more scarring) or lasering them off because you only ended up pro-longing the inevitable. If hair loss is stable, then your goal should be to achieve enough to stick to a 3 guard at least. If not, wait for these new treatments expected to come out.

We don't tell you what you want to hear; we tell you the truth based off of personal experience.

 

[sunchyme1]

I got a buzz cut after having an FUE and It doesn't look the same and the FUE procedure went great as it was supposed to. You're not going to be able to get a buzz cut and not be able to distinguish where your transplanted hair is. It starts to blend more as it grows so you will need to have it at a minimum 3-4 guard. If you keep losing hair that 3-4 won't last you forever so then you'll become trapped between having it just long enough to cover the transplanted grafts but short enough to where you can't see all the thinning and well you should know that the gap between the 2 closes and eventually you'll find yourself getting them taken out (more scarring) or lasering them off because you only ended up pro-longing the inevitable. If hair loss is stable, then your goal should be to achieve enough to stick to a 3 guard at least. If not, wait for these new treatments expected to come out.

We don't tell you what you want to hear; we tell you the truth based off of personal experience.

lol @WhitePolarBear disliking me but not showing pics of his closely cropped hair to a newbie asking for help

see above you clown, it cant be done

listen to tano @HairForceOne . he has had the surgery and buzzed it. this is what to expect to from what your trying to attempt.

even if your hair is stable, when you buzz so short it will look pluggy as sh*t with thick roots. when you grow it out a little, they go in random directions. its bullshit

i would only get a hair transplant if i was gonna grow it out. if your stable on meds with no sides then i would see how much donor you have to work with and see if you have enough to provide decent density to grow it and style it well

dont do this wanting to buzz it down. you'll f*****g regret for the rest of life.

 

[Big L]

Ive seen examples of it though?

 

[Tano1]

Ive seen examples of it though?

Literally typed a long explanation to explain everything, but I said screw it I'll just get criticized by people on here so I deleted it. What some people think is that I try to downplay hair transplants and that's not it at all. long story short, hair transplant is for stablized hair not past a Norwood 3.

I had a successful hair transplant and a complete failure hair transplant; however, I think both were a mistake for me because I was convinced by all the pics I saw that this was the reality of the results and I was wrong.

I can trick you right now with some pics and you'd think I'm a Norwood 1 with almost no hair loss . Comb my hair a tad different or even wet it and you'll think I have an illness. Camera angle and lighting buddy as well as some simple combing. In fact, just test it on yourself and experiment with different lighting and angles. Intentionally try to expose your baldness and then try to hide it but don't use any toppik only water for slightly damp hair and combing as well as different lighting allowed. You'll see what I mean.

Test it with pics btw not just trying to view it in a mirror.

 

[Big L]

I buzz cut with a 0 guard so different lighting and such doesnt have a major impact on my hair.. i just want an fue to improve my hairline whilst maintaining a buzz cut 0 to 1 guard. I do not plan to grow my hair out which is why I'm interested in this.

Surely for straight, fine hair the results from a hair transplant woukd be different from thick, curly hair and therefore a buzz cut would be feasible.

 

[topcat]

even if your hair is stable, when you buzz so short it will look pluggy as sh*t with thick roots. when you grow it out a little, they go in random directions. its bullshit

I agree the risk is so huge of it looking like complete sh*t that it's not worth it. If one wants a little hair back and wants a longer hair style then yes it's possible.

Same applies to hair tattoos. I have pages of postings where it didn't turn out the way the person expected in real life and the risk is in the comments they received "what the f*ck did you do to your head" at work in front of others. Put yourself in that guy's shoes and try and feel what he was feeling............substantially worse then simple hair loss in my opinion. That is an actual experience so believe what you want to believe. No one is stopping anyone from having the procedure done.

Some patients have had to laser it off and the doctor when performed by one knows they need to be monitored because all the ink is entering the system in a very short period of time and that is going to matter. Well why does it matter?

Readers should be happy to hear all points of view and when it is discouraged one should pay closer attention and ask why?

A buzz cut goal with hair transplantation is not a realistic goal.