Head Shaving, Grooming & Care > Miscellaneous
tweezing
zetaeffe:
--- Quote from: Propagandhi on October 16, 2007, 12:56:47 AM ---I used Remington sily and smooth epilator. It hurt a bit but i think it was worth the pain. Before tweezing i'd have to shave every day, now i can get away with tweezing and shaving just once a week. And after the initial tweeze the pain is managable. Either way if any of you ever get sick of the shadow enough to go through with this, the option is out there.
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First of all "Best compliments to Propagandi" for his new awesome "no shadow" look! O0
Then I wish to share my experience on the topic: today is exactly 1 year of scalp
tweezing for me!
Like I've said in other threads, I've been shaving for more than 11 years: after some
years I started wishing to make it permanent, and most of all wishing to get rid
or that gray shadow I always had on my scalp, I wanted to really be bald,
not just shaven, totally and completely bald.
It was me who suggested Tom (the owner of scalptweezing.com) that he could
try using the epilator to tweeze out his hair: I wanted to do it but never had
the courage to do it for real... instead Tom is much more daring than me so
he actually went for it and was very happy with the result... his bald dome really
looked great when he had it done.
Hearing his experience my wish to go the same way grew even more, but
at the same time I was worried about it: I still would have a full head of hair
so I knew that once I started tweezing I would have had to go all the way,
no matter if it hurted or not, otherwise would have ended up with a patchy scalp.
I could not even start and stop leaving a mpb fringe (the fringe is the most
painful to tweeze out) because I had no hair loss so if a suddenly showed up
with a mpb shadow people would have guessed it was not natural.
Moreover I knew it would take long time, 1-2 whole nights, to tweeze a whole
skull as it is so painful that you have to take many breaks: so I had to plan things
when I had 2-3 days off work (long weekend) to have the time to tweeze
and also to let the scalp recover from the irritation (didn't want to show up at
work with a red scalp!!).
After many years I finally went for it last year: well, it was REALLY painful, but
I managed to do it! The scalp was red for 1-2 days but then it was ok.
I was really HAPPY with my new look!! it's really another wolrd from just shaven,
the shadow was gone and I looked like I was totally bald, no hair left... actually
I WAS totally bald! It did worth the pain!
After the first painful tweeizng the maintenance tweezing were not so bad,
but still painful... they got les painful with time... after a year I've set to
a twice a week tweezing, but I guess that I could wait more days now
between tweezings.
What's the situation after 1 year?? well, I still have hair growing back!!
mostly on the back/sides, but still it grows back. The look anyway is
almost totally bald, as it's quite sparse and I never let it grow more than
3-4 days.
If you are thinking to go for it keep in mind that it's a long time task:
guess I'll have to keep tweeizng for some more years before it stops
growing at all, but at this point I guess I have no choice as I could not
grow back a full head of hair... or maybe yes, but have no wish to
let it happen ;)
So: it can be done, it's painful but does worth the effort, but only
if you are ready to get rid or hair forever! after few months you won't
be able to go back to whatever hair you had
Hope this can help.
Francesco
JDog:
--- Quote from: Marz on October 16, 2007, 03:03:05 PM ---Propagandhi, you really took the "How to Clean Everything" to heart huh?
kidding of course.
Tweezing and waxing doesnt seem too bad, keep us posted on how it works out, I would be up for it possibly.
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Excellent Marz, what a great album and it really does sum up his experience doesnt it?
Francesco, you are a great spokesperson for Scalp Tweezing. I would love to do this too but my wife said she will divorce me if I try. ;D
X The Hierophant:
--- Quote from: zetaeffe on October 18, 2007, 07:46:22 AM ---
So: it can be done, it's painful but does worth the effort, but only
if you are ready to get rid or hair forever! after few months you won't
be able to go back to whatever hair you had
Hope this can help.
Francesco
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Awesome post man! O0 O0 O0
I am still somewhat new to headshaving but at this stage I can't imagine wanting to grow back hair. After reading your post and talking some with Propagandhi via PMs I am seriously considering doing this eventually. I may wait a few years just to make sure (since this would be a permanent step). At any rate your post answers a lot of questions. Thanks man O0
A couple quick questions:
(1) Are you now shadow-free?
(2) In between tweezing do you have noticable hair or fuzz growing ... is it obvious to others that you tweeze twice a week versus shave every day?
zetaeffe:
--- Quote from: X The Hierophant on October 18, 2007, 08:15:36 AM ---
--- Quote from: zetaeffe on October 18, 2007, 07:46:22 AM ---
So: it can be done, it's painful but does worth the effort, but only
if you are ready to get rid or hair forever! after few months you won't
be able to go back to whatever hair you had
Hope this can help.
Francesco
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Awesome post man! O0 O0 O0
...
A couple quick questions:
(1) Are you now shadow-free?
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Look at the attached pics... even if the light conditions are very different
you can get the idea... first full head of hair, second totally tweezed scalp
(a bit red as it was taken after a maintenance tweezing).
--- Quote from: X The Hierophant on October 18, 2007, 08:15:36 AM ---(2) In between tweezing do you have noticable hair or fuzz growing ... is it obvious to others that you tweeze twice a week versus shave every day?
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There's some hair growing, but it's sparse so that it can't be seen if you
are not close, and there's some fuzz that can't be seen, but you can
feel it by touch. To be totally and perfectly smooth you have to shave,
but it's the easiest shave ever ;)
Another interesting thing I noticed is that the hair colour is turning to white...
the more I tweeze the more white hair grows back and that make it
even less noticeable.
Before I started tweezing I was much worried about others' reaction,
thought that people/family/friends would have noticed, but to my surprise
in a whole year nobody noticed!!
To me the difference is huge, but guess that for most of people
"BALD is BALD" and that's all, they are not so "into" this thing as we are here :/O
Am sure that most of us would notice the difference, but that's because
we always looking at bald heads /mpb shadows /scalp shadows,
matte/shine and so on... maybe normal people can see there's something
different but they can't get what's different ;) they could just think
it's a closer shave...
have a look at the pics and let me know what you think
joergHH:
Awesome hey!!
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