SCALP MICRO PIGMENTATION

After your final treatment, it’s essential to:

• Avoid swimming, saunas, and steam rooms for 28 days after your final treatment.
• Keep out of the sun for 28 days after treatment. Thereafter, use SPF 30–50 sunscreen.
• Avoid heavy exercise for five days after your final treatment.
• Begin to regularly moisturize the treated area after the fourth day of your final treatment (this is also true between treatments).

• Shower before each treatment. You won’t be able to wash or wet your scalp (this includes sweating excessively) for four days after each appointment.
• Each treatment typically takes between four and five hours.
• How many treatments you need will depend on the amount of scalp getting SMP. Even if it’s only for a small area like a widow’s peak, Cohen says three to four treatments are still needed for long-term retention since SMP is a process of layering color.
• Treatments will be scheduled a few weeks apart.

In the weeks between treatments, don’t go swimming, use steam or sauna rooms, or take extremely hot showers that may cause a steam storm.

Avoid exposing your scalp to the sun for the first four days (wearing a hat is fine). On the fifth day after treatment, you can expose the treated skin to sun for one hour, or 45 minutes if you have very fair skin.

Keep in mind, though, that less sun exposure to the treated area means better long-term retention.

SMP is not without its side effects, but here have been some very bad scalp micropigmentation results in the media, particularly when practitioners try to cover up hair transplant donor areas with hair tattoos. Fake, drawn-on lines and red, irritated skin are signs that your SMP isn’t going to heal correctly.