Discussions About Being Bald > Tattoos and Piercings
Hair Follicle Replication Technique Tatoo?
chgobuzzbald:
Whoa hold on... for those of us who did not see the Sly light when we were young and stupid and had hair/skin pieces cut off the sides/backs of our heads and moved to the top this is huge. Some of us here, very few I know, were insecure 15 years ago before Sly was popular and normal. So this process, used ONLY in the area where we have scarred/discolored donor skin areas that make us look extremely strange when buzzed/shaved need this process.
I have no wish to design an entire front hairline or fill in the top. I only want the sides/back where the skin has healed in a different color and surrounded by hair bearing stubbled areas that sort of look like a checkerboard pattern, filled in.
97% of the guys here have very normal non-surgically altered scalp skin and dont need this. The other 3% of us do need this process. There is a pic of a hair transplant guy's back donor area on these Replication websites you need to look at before you condemn this process.
And yes hair transplants were the SINGLE DUMBEST & MOST INSECURE thing I ever did in my whole life.
Rusty Shackleford:
The comments in this thread on this board are, for the lack of a better word, hypocritical. And I don't mean to knock anyone here with that statement because it's a very prevalent attitude to this issue.
What I've come to notice is that if someone wants to modify their appearance in such a way that the result looks totally natural the actions are consistently insulted.
"They don't have any self-confidence!"
"That person isn't secure with himself!"
"They're just a victim of the media's ideal image of a man/woman or someone slick advertising!"
However when someone wants to modify their appearance to create an unnatural look the reactions are often quite different.
"That person is confident!"
"They're expressing their individuality!"
For example, if an old guy dyes his gray hair to a color he likes then "he's not confident with himself" and he's "caught up in the media's ideal of youth". However if that same man were to get a tattoo or ear gauges the reactions would be very different. Others might express dislike at the choice, but the man himself will be praised for his take-charge attitude. Why the difference?
Look at this board. Shave or laser off your hair and you're a hero who is taking command of his destiny, but if you were to fight baldness then suddenly you're a victim of external pressures and your own lack of self-confidence. There is no difference between the two.
The truth of the matter is we're all capable of making our own preferences and sometimes our genetics don't comply with our own ideals. So what's so wrong about changing them? To remain topical here, I think shows FAR more self-confidence for a man to fight to save the hair he likes than to settle for baldness - a look he does not like. And I'd say the same thing about a guy who cannot shave due to scalp sensitivity if he seeks out alternative hair removal procedures instead of throwing in the towel and regrowing his hair.
Of course numerous other factors play along here (like finances, technological limitations etc), but I hope my point came out. It is hypocritical to condemn some body modification procedures as a sign of a character flaw while praising others.
SultanofSwing86:
I don't think that I have any problem with people wanting to have this procedure done. However I think that you would have to think seriously about how this is gonna look in the long term, as if it ends up looking unnatural then it will probably be the same sort of thing as having scars from hair transplants.
I can see the use for those wanting to hide evidence of previous hair transplants, but its probably a cheaper and safer road to go down by not changing what you were given than ending up with something that looks hideous in the long run.
Tyler:
--- Quote from: Rusty Shackleford on July 24, 2009, 03:39:38 PM ---The comments in this thread on this board are, for the lack of a better word, hypocritical. And I don't mean to knock anyone here with that statement because it's a very prevalent attitude to this issue.
What I've come to notice is that if someone wants to modify their appearance in such a way that the result looks totally natural the actions are consistently insulted.
"They don't have any self-confidence!"
"That person isn't secure with himself!"
"They're just a victim of the media's ideal image of a man/woman or someone slick advertising!"
However when someone wants to modify their appearance to create an unnatural look the reactions are often quite different.
"That person is confident!"
"They're expressing their individuality!"
For example, if an old guy dyes his gray hair to a color he likes then "he's not confident with himself" and he's "caught up in the media's ideal of youth". However if that same man were to get a tattoo or ear gauges the reactions would be very different. Others might express dislike at the choice, but the man himself will be praised for his take-charge attitude. Why the difference?
Look at this board. Shave or laser off your hair and you're a hero who is taking command of his destiny, but if you were to fight baldness then suddenly you're a victim of external pressures and your own lack of self-confidence. There is no difference between the two.
The truth of the matter is we're all capable of making our own preferences and sometimes our genetics don't comply with our own ideals. So what's so wrong about changing them? To remain topical here, I think shows FAR more self-confidence for a man to fight to save the hair he likes than to settle for baldness - a look he does not like. And I'd say the same thing about a guy who cannot shave due to scalp sensitivity if he seeks out alternative hair removal procedures instead of throwing in the towel and regrowing his hair.
Of course numerous other factors play along here (like finances, technological limitations etc), but I hope my point came out. It is hypocritical to condemn some body modification procedures as a sign of a character flaw while praising others.
--- End quote ---
I see the point you are trying to make, but I don't think the logic is as sound as you make it. For example, procedures like hair transplants and shadow tattoos are permanent modifications that offer only short-term confidence solutions. Hair transplants are eventually revealed due to the remainder of your hair falling out (that and many of them just don't look natural) and shadow tattoos are eventually going to fade. Both leaving the person in a worse situation than when they started.
Shaving your head on the other hand provides long-term confidence solutions using a technique that is temporary (your hair grows back). At anytime you can go back to your original situation if you deem is necessary.
Also, hair transplants and shadow tattoos are not natural looking, especially in the long run.
GaryT:
What can I say? I'm 100% with Hookem on this one! I love my bald head too much to do anything pernament like tatooing! Shadow is only a natural part of what I am trying to achieve! Bald is beautiful....whether by choice or not!!!
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