Has anyone had a large SMP tattoo or seen one in person?

Has anyone had a large SMP tattoo or seen one in person? I`m interested to hear if it looked natural on close inspection and how the colours matched.

Anyone ??

Unfortunately people dont seem to be posting these results.

Certainly looks that way.

Check out this thread we posted:

http://www.hairlossexperiences.com/view_topic.php?id=2887&forum_id=4

Thank you Bverotti,

I was wanting to see how one looks as a stand alone procedure, although your patients outcome looks nice.

I would love to see a result in person too but the fact that there aren't many is kind off scary to me*nl



I agree the link patient looks great though.

The only examples of tattoos to the scalp before this past year have been tattoos to the scars. I was not impressed at all with any of them. They were not the SMP technique of creating the "dots" to mimic hair stubbles. They were aweful, to be frank. The ink faded and ran like veins while turning color within the scar tissue.

The idea of putting dots all over the head is new and have seen few cases in person now. I've seen few decent cases and one horrible case. The ones that I think help to create the illusion of density are the patients who have diffused thinning. The patients who had this done said they were happy with the procedure, however, I have to admit that I was a little surpised at how quickly the ink faded in short period of time (3-6 mos). These patients kept their hairs long. Between 3-6 months, the ink had not turned blue'sh. I can't say what they look like now as I have not kept up with their progress.

The horrible example I saw was of a guy who had a very small ht procedure about 10-15 years ago in a near by state. He's currently a NW6. He shaves his head without a guard every few days. He wrote to Dr. Ron stating he had the SMP done to his scalp a year ago and was at his wits end. The clinc where he had it done initially said the work looked good (2 weeks after). He was shocked that the black color had changed to blue almost right away. His profession does not allow him to cover his head. His hair looked very unnatural whether he grew his hair long or shaved it. His co-workers were brutal. After calling his smp clinic a few times, they finally agreed that his head was blue and paid for him to get the smp lasered off. We saw him after one laser treatment, it was still noticeably blue. After 4 laser removal treatments, it starting to look better.

I would recommend that if you decide to go this route, do so in a small test area or know full well that you may have to have it lasered off. I personally would not recommend smp unless you're out of other options due to risk of color changing.

Hi Janna! How's life? Hope you're doing great!

I remember Dr. Ron mentioning that he was thinking of visiting Beauty Medical in Milan to observe Melina (name?) and her new "temporary" SMP technique. He also indicated that he was fed up with GLI's lack of transparency and was considering offering the service himself. Is he still considering this? Has he visited Melina's clinic? I must admit I'm getting tempted by this option, but would rather go with someone I completely trust.

Have a great weekend!

Janna, how noticeable was the colour disfiguration? Is this why they had to keep the hair long to disguise the tattoo that was originally done to disguise hairloss? Sounds like a backward step now.

Hi SMP & Aaron,

We're still checking into SMP with Bella Medical.

The guy who I thought had a bad smp treatment shaves his head every couple of days because the blue was very noticeable whether his hair was long or shaved. He's a nw 6 so growing it long didn't help. The ones I saw who looked decent with SMP were guys with normal hair length who were diffused thinning.

Aaron,
I'm currently attending the International Conf email me next week so we can discuss your options for your scar. Hope youre doing well too.
Speak soon!

Awesome, Janna. Will drop you a line next week.

Thanks Janna.

SMP looks great.

I met someone who recently had permanent SMP in the crown, it looked good, however it was only 2 months old so hopefully the colour will last and look good for a long time.

Hey BM who did her SMP and how extensive was her hairloss to the crown do you know?

I don't think I like SMP. With the permanent version, you would have to bic shave your head forever, who wants to be 80 with a skin head??

Completely agree sparky a skin head at 80 is not a good look.

What is your opinion on temp smp?i will be getting this done on my fue scars,have you thought of doing it on your scar?

I stumbled on one person who had a SMP tattoo in Brussels, unfortunately it did not look good, but my friend didn't even notice it was a tattoo .

any idea who did the smp work you seen?