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Head Shaving, Grooming & Care => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: zetaeffe on August 16, 2014, 09:35:42 AM
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Friday night I went for a maintenance scalp tweezing and now my scalp il completely clean!
Thought I could take some pics as there's always somebody interested in seeing the results.
Escuse me for the poor quality of the pics, but I think you can get the idea.
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more pics
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even more pics...
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Nice and smooth.
Do you shave it afterwards or is this just from the epilator?
How long does the hair have to be to use it?
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Nice and smooth.
Do you shave it afterwards or is this just from the epilator?
How long does the hair have to be to use it?
It's not shaven, just from the epilator. You can't see but actually there's some single hair. Will do another maintenance tonight.
I had shaven last time last Saturday, so it was 4-5 days. My advice is to tweeze only with 4-5 days regrowth
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Looks good, zetaeffe! Earrings are a nice touch, too!
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Looks good, zetaeffe! Earrings are a nice touch, too!
Thank you! thick rings go great with the bald head ;)
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Agreed, I really like the look of the the thick rings.
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Agreed, I really like the look of the the thick rings.
O0
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That looks like it'd take forever.
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Looks awesome Zet.
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Looks great, but I cannot imagine how painful that must be tweezing everything!
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Your head looks great but tweezing is something I don't think I would put myself through. More power to you. Like Sir Harry and SlyBear said, the thick earrings fit right in with your overall look.
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Your head looks great but tweezing is something I don't think I would put myself through. More power to you. Like Sir Harry and SlyBear said, the thick earrings fit right in with your overall look.
Actually is really painful expecially the first time. Sure it's not for everybody, you have to be really persuaded to go through it, but I like too much to get a completely clean scalp.
Thanks for your comments about the rings
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Looks incredible, sir! Congratulations.
I wish I could get that same bald smoothness, but I guess I am too much of a pain wimp to try something like that.
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zetaeffe,
You deserve a medal for bravery and dedication to slyness!
I gave an epilator a try on the sides of my head....ouch (!) any hair I had on the top came out easy and painlessly but the sides.... The hair this thing yanks out is over an 1/8 of an inch long. No matter how close a person shaves you still have a head of hair about an 1/8 of an inch long inside the skin. Which is why if someone has dark hair your going to see a shadow its in there. I'm sure after the first time the pain gets less. Glad you got it done and can maintain it, looks good.
Maybe one day I'll try it again or have someone do it while I'm unconscious
purple dome of honor award
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zetaeffe,
You deserve a medal for bravery and dedication to slyness!
I gave an epilator a try on the sides of my head....ouch (!) any hair I had on the top came out easy and painlessly but the sides.... The hair this thing yanks out is over an 1/8 of an inch long. No matter how close a person shaves you still have a head of hair about an 1/8 of an inch long inside the skin. Which is why if someone has dark hair your going to see a shadow its in there. I'm sure after the first time the pain gets less. Glad you got it done and can maintain it, looks good.
Maybe one day I'll try it again or have someone do it while I'm unconscious
purple dome of honor award
"Told you so!" ;)
Jokes apart the sides and back are the most painful part. you just cannot try to plainly epilate there, you have to do it one small stripe at a time. Otherwise it's just too painful.
Anyway am sure that now you have a totally clean top, at least... ;)
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Hi zetaeffe,
i've been thinking about this for a while.
my questions:
how long have you been doing this?
how were the reactions on your complete hairless head? (any negative reactions, thinking its weird or something like that)
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I'm sure I would end up with a lot of folliculitis if I tried that. Not everyone's skin can take it. You've been doing it for a long time. Any idea how much hair has been permanently lost?
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What epilator do you use?
I've been thinking about getting one to use on my neck, but the prospect of a clean scalp appeals to me.
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Great look, Z!
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You look great with a smooth head.
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Sorry for the late reply but was on holiday.
I tweezed first time in 2006. Difficult to,say but I can estimate that at least 95% of hair is gone.
That would be the overall, but actually is different on the various scalp zones: top is 99,99% bald now, back and sides are around 95%.
Epilator is a Braun Silkepil, similar to the pic I attach, but mine was an old model.
As for the comments I actually haven't got anybody commenting about it... Looks like nobody noticed, or if they noticed they didn't ask.
I expected some commenta too, but looks like for the majority of people "bald is bald" and they can't get the different "shades" of baldness
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Great look, Z!
O0
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You look great with a smooth head.
Thanks
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I tweezed first time in 2006. Difficult to,say but I can estimate that at least 95% of hair is gone.
That would be the overall, but actually is different on the various scalp zones: top is 99,99% bald now, back and sides are around 95%.
So you really think that you have completely lost the ability to grow a full head of hair? That if you just stopped, most of it eventually wouldn't grow back?
I would love to have a completely smooth head. But I have to say that on occasions where I shave later in the day and my head is smoother at the end of the day than it normally would be, it seems really weird. Not bad, just something that would take a little getting used to.
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I tweezed first time in 2006. Difficult to,say but I can estimate that at least 95% of hair is gone.
That would be the overall, but actually is different on the various scalp zones: top is 99,99% bald now, back and sides are around 95%.
So you really think that you have completely lost the ability to grow a full head of hair? That if you just stopped, most of it eventually wouldn't grow back?
I would love to have a completely smooth head. But I have to say that on occasions where I shave later in the day and my head is smoother at the end of the day than it normally would be, it seems really weird. Not bad, just something that would take a little getting used to.
Am quite sure that the top is permanentely bald now, it looks like a natural MPB top, just fuzz and few lonely hair here and there, no shadow at all.
For the back and sides I can't be sure: actually if I get lazy and wait few weeks between tweezing sessions I feel the tweezing is more painful, maybe because more hair grew back and then there's more hair tweezed out.
To check I would have to wait at least some months without tweezing, but it's not going to happen, right because the tweezing would be even more painful if I allow more hair to grow back.
I would love my head to be always completely smooth even at the end of the day, guess would get used in no time ;-)
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Update after Friday night touch-up
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last pic
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Zeta, that looks fantastic. As I think I said before, however, I could not even imagine epilating myself! (Not good with pain really!)
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WOW! Zetaeffe your head looks awesome!
Just smooth skin.
I am tempted to doing the same. May be at some point in the near future...
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Amazing and enviable result! I love being totally smooth but the pain issue does put me off and I do enjoy the shave experience. Would be nice to lose the shadow from my head though.
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Could you give me some more details on this process. How long does it last and do you have to shave daily to maintain. Appreciate it
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Looks great. O0
Ordered a Philips HP6401 epilator and will try it out. Just tried Zip Wax and it does hurt and is messy no matter how careful you are but the main issue is the time involved, I would be there in the bathroom for hours to just do the horseshoe area. Having a wife/friend would help especially with the back of the head. With an epilator it might take time but I can at least be doing other things (relaxing, drinking, watch a movie, drinking) while using it.
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Looks amazing, zetaeffe!
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It's look great Zet, I want the same. How long my head will stay balding for some first tweezing? Will it hurt really bad for next times I tweeze my head?
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@Marty: will stay completely bald around 2 weeks. Yes it will hurt really bad!
@slyguy: I doubt you can relax or watch a film while tweezing your scalp hair ;)
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Francesco, I admire your persistence. You're the king of the pain. And it's payed off.
State bene e prendersi cura myn amico. O0
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Zet,
Tweezing my head now. Your bald head looks great! Tweezing with an epilator makes my head slick bald and smooth and no shadow. Keeps my hair thin and easy to shave before work. I tweeze it when it while it is just coming out from the scalp and really no pain. With a buzz cut and tweezing then? Yes, that would be painful. Scalp tweezing works for me. Thanks man!
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Zet,
Tweezing my head now. Your bald head looks great! Tweezing with an epilator makes my head slick bald and smooth and no shadow. Keeps my hair thin and easy to shave before work. I tweeze it when it while it is just coming out from the scalp and really no pain. With a buzz cut and tweezing then? Yes, that would be painful. Scalp tweezing works for me. Thanks man!
Glad it works for you too!
Can you show us some pics from back/sides? Do you still have the scalp shadow?
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Hey zetaeffe, what kind of reduction have you experienced on the back of your neck after all these years? That area gives me the most trouble ingrown hair wise and also in my opinion contributes most to the "not clean and smooth" look if you know what I mean. I'm looking forward to a time when the back of my neck is just fuzz. Its been a year for me since I started ripping my hair out and its still pretty thick.
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Here's what still grows up on my scalp.
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and after cleaning
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That's awesome man.
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This is new to me. What does tweezing your head accomplish that's better than shaving? Is it pulling your hair from it's root so you don't have to shave often? Wouldn't that make your head completely red from the irritation? Does this eliminate any visibility of a hairline or shadow?
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doc, I'm a little different in that I wax my scalp instead of tweezing however they obviously both rip the hair out. My motivation for doing it is to eliminate the shadow. I still shave almost as frequently as I did before in fact I think I might shave more often since previously I didn't see the point. Since I had a very dark mpb shadow and have very pale skin I would always wear a hat . Now most of the time I can go without shaving for up too about 48 hours, depending on where I'm at in my waxing cycle which is once every 4-5 weeks, before any perceptible shadow creeps in. Waxing in my opinion is far superior to tweezing for a few reasons, one being the redness you mentioned. With waxing my scalp looks like at has an even, mild sunburn. The tweezing made it very splotchy and incredibly injured looking.
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Update after the periodic clean-up
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Side view. Cleanup by waxing and tweezing
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Looks great but I don't think my skin could take it.
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Looks great but I don't think my skin could take it.
Why do you think that?
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Looks great but I don't think my skin could take it.
Why do you think that?
My skin tends to break out. I think I'd have a lot of redness and inflammation if I yanked out all my hair by the roots.
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Looks great but I don't think my skin could take it.
Why do you think that?
My skin tends to break out. I think I'd have a lot of redness and inflammation if I yanked out all my hair by the roots.
I see... guess that having only the mpb fring, which is the most difficult to remove, tweezing would be really too hard... it could be done by waxing, but using a particular wax and a particular method that would not cause too much irritation.
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I wish I do have a smooth scalp like yours. I have been tweezing since 2012 and have not reached to that stage yet. Somehow, I only tweezed the top as I didnt want people to notice my sudden baldness. Recently, I did tried out a few times to tweeze the whole head. Yes, the pain for do the sides and back was unbearable for the 1st time. Later time, it was tolerable. Here, i would like to ask many who have being doing this how long would it takes to reach to a smooth scalp. Attached here a picture of my head after 3 days shaving. Had not tweezed for 1 month.
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I wish I do have a smooth scalp like yours. I have been tweezing since 2012 and have not reached to that stage yet. Somehow, I only tweezed the top as I didnt want people to notice my sudden baldness. Recently, I did tried out a few times to tweeze the whole head. Yes, the pain for do the sides and back was unbearable for the 1st time. Later time, it was tolerable. Here, i would like to ask many who have being doing this how long would it takes to reach to a smooth scalp. Attached here a picture of my head after 3 days shaving. Had not tweezed for 1 month.
Difficult to tell... I would have to see a side&back pic to evaluate how much hair is still regrowin... you already noticed that the top is the easy part, and I see that you still have only really sparse hair on top, so it's likely that in one year the top hair will be gone.
For sides and back it's a totally different question: I started tweezing in 2007 and still there's some regrowth there. It's a question of maintenance, long term maintenance.
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ok, I will keep it for the next few days and will take a few more pictures for you to assess. But I dont think it will be a year for getting total smooth. Now I do have problem trying to tweeze all the hair on top as they are very fine and the epilator would not be able to clear up all of them.
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ok, I will keep it for the next few days and will take a few more pictures for you to assess. But I dont think it will be a year for getting total smooth. Now I do have problem trying to tweeze all the hair on top as they are very fine and the epilator would not be able to clear up all of them.
You might want to try waxing. I had that same problem with the epilator and fine hairs.
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Another update: waxing + tweezing
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Looks great.
Roger