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Scalp Tweezing 101 - Advanced

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dalboz:
There were a couple spots where I had discoloration, but it faded over time. I didn't really notice any difference to my skin apart from the few ingrown hairs I had. When my hair started growing back some of it was blonde(I have brown hair now, but I was blonde until I was about 8 so I figure that might explain that).

To anyone considering this as a one-time or every-now-and-then alternative to shaving I would say don't. While my head looks smooth in the pictures I still had some fine hairs I had to shave. So it's not the totally smooth experience you might think it's going to be. I did look effectively bald so if it's the hair free look you want that's worth considering. However, tweezing your head is really only advisable if you want to be bald and from a lot of the research I did I realized it doesn't work for everyone.

I experienced some hair loss. As I stated previously, less than I thought I would. Some hairs grew back lighter, and finer, but ultimately I didn't have the perseverance to maintain tweezing. It's definitely something I want to try again although I'm doubtful whether I'll be able to affect any baldness.

Hieu Tran:
@dalboz thanks for sharing. Will the hair softer if I keep repeating tweeze them?

dalboz:
@Hieu Tran I don't know if your hair will grow back softer if you repeating tweeze your head. Repeating tweezing your head should cause damage to your roots which will cause less of your hair to regrow so your hair will almost certainly be thinner.

When my brother was in law school he ended up pulling his hair because of the stress and his wife said that when his hair grew back it was much softer initially.

It's hard for me to tell whether tweezing has made my hair softer. I've lost some hair so it's a little thinner, but not a ton.

What I concluded from my experience was that in order to effectively go bald I would have to maintain a tweezed scalp, Fortunately once you've eliminate the bulk of your hair tweezing is less painful. Definitely not pain free but I can understand why some guys who've tweezed for a long time don't mind it.

Before I tweezed my head I read pretty much every first hand experience I could get my hands on. There's a yahoogroup that's pretty much defunct now that had a lot of activity around tweezing. Guys stories varied from dazzling successes to abject failure. One of the things I was worried about was am I going to mess up my hair and not be able to keep tweezing. Ultimately I decided the experience of being bald was worth the risk and it worked out alright.

Razor X:
Nice results but I don’t need it.

Semi-Sly:
I tried it once and I use the method of taking strips of tape to mask off all but a half inch wide strip at a time. it was much less painful than letting the epilator take a full inch and a half wide strip all at one time.  it did give me a wonderfully smooth scalp even though it’s missing with a really tiny hairs and had a touchup with the razor.  it states clothes for almost a week before I head to epilate again. ultimately I stopped doing it because I didn’t want to do any permanent damage to my hair.  but if I we’re not BBC and had advanced hair loss I would definitely try doing it again and keeping up with it because my hair is too light to be able to laser.

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