Hair restoration for women in Seoul — hairline design and non-shaven FUE

Designing a female hairline

The female hairline runs from the forehead through the temples to the sideburn, and it is the frame the rest of the face is read against. Lowering and rounding it shortens the forehead and narrows the upper face, which is why this operation is usually about proportion rather than hair loss. It is almost always performed non-shaven, because the donor area cannot be visible.

Without shaving

In a non-shaven case the donor area is not clipped. The follicles to be harvested are selected and trimmed individually before the operation, so the surrounding hair keeps its full length and falls over the extraction points immediately. For anyone who cannot take two weeks away from an office, this is the difference between having the operation and postponing it indefinitely.

Surgery or treatment?

That is decided at diagnosis, and the two are not alternatives. Where the donor area is sound and the loss is patterned, a transplant does what treatment cannot. Where loss is diffuse or still progressing, treatment first is the honest answer — and micropigmentation sits alongside both.

Reshaping the forehead-to-temple line to correct facial proportion, usually non-shaven.

The female hairline runs from the forehead through the temples to the sideburn, and it is the frame the rest of the face is read against. Lowering and rounding it shortens the forehead and narrows the upper face, which is why this operation is usually about proportion rather than hair loss. It is almost always performed non-shaven, because the donor area cannot be visible.

• The line is drawn against your face, not a templateFrontal and profile proportion are both considered before a single graft is placed. A line that looks correct head-on and wrong in profile is the commonest failure.
• Irregularity on purposeA natural frontal line is not a smooth curve. Single follicles are placed in a deliberately uneven leading edge, with density building behind it.
• Temple and sideburn continuityThe temple point and sideburn are designed with the hairline rather than after it, so the three read as one line.

Questions

Only the follicles being harvested are trimmed. Nothing about the operation is visible afterwards.

In a non-shaven case the donor area is not clipped. The follicles to be harvested are selected and trimmed individually before the operation, so the surrounding hair keeps its full length and falls over the extraction points immediately. For anyone who cannot take two weeks away from an office, this is the difference between having the operation and postponing it indefinitely.

• Five cutting options, not oneShaven cut, two-block cut, box cut, non-shaven cut and no-cut. Which one suits you depends on graft count, your hair length and how much concealment you need — the choice is made at the consultation, not assumed.
• Selective pre-trimmingOnly the hairs that will be extracted are shortened, and they are chosen so that the thinning is spread rather than concentrated in a patch.
• Density planning around a hidden donorA non-shaven harvest limits how many grafts can be taken comfortably in one session. The plan states that limit up front rather than promising a mega-session and delivering less.

Questions

Female hair restoration — what patients ask