Getting a hair system is probably the best solution out there if you’re suffering from hair loss. There’s no side effects, it lasts for months rather than days, it’s easy to maintain and it actually succeeds at giving you the appearance of having hair again.
There is an art to optimizing how it looks though, and one of the things you’ll get better at over time is wearing it in a way that covers your natural hairline.
There are loads of techniques you can learn for installing, cutting and styling the system so that it fades in seamlessly with your natural hairs. If you learn these techniques, your hair will look really natural and no one will be able to tell it’s a system.
Salons can do this for you, of course. Much in the way people without hair loss go to the hairdressers all the time, you’ll get into the routine of doing the same with your hair system salon.
Here we look at one of the things professionals do when installing a hair system to help conceal your hairline and give you a really natural look.
One thing you’ll learn quickly is that the adhesives you use matter. For instance, you’re usually going to want to use a transparent liquid adhesive on the perimeter of your unit because you don’t want people to see that adhesive is being used.
Tape can be used for different parts of the head, but is probably a bit too thick and noticeable to be used on the perimeter, particularly on the hairline where you want your system to look most natural.
Now to our favorite technique for concealing hairlines. The trick is to essentially install the unit behind the hairline you want but to glue a bit of the fringe onto the forehead and then shave it back. Let’s describe it step-by-step.
First, with a bit of chalk or pencil, we draw a line on the scalp for where you want the hairline to be.
When installing, we place the unit an inch or an inch an a half behind this line.
We spray the hair flat in front of this line, onto the top of the forehead, and blow dry it so that it flattens. We then glue it down with a water soluble gel.
We now shave the hair upwards towards the hairline we drew earlier, using finer blades the closer we get to the line.
Because we’ve essentially created the hairline using the hair itself, rather than the lace of the unit, the hairline looks more natural and realistic. The lace and adhesives are concealed, because they’re actually behind the hairline and being concealed by the hair itself.
So there you have it, our favorite technique for concealing the hairline. And one last tip: much like a normal haircut, it’s going to be done best at a professional salon by a hairdresser.
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