Scalp micropigmentation in Seoul

What Scalp Micropigmentation (SMP) is

Pigment placed just under the epidermis to close the colour gap between scalp and hair.

Pigment placed just under the epidermis to close the colour gap between scalp and hair.

Scalp micropigmentation puts pigment into the skin at the depth of a very short hair, reducing the contrast between a pale scalp and darker hair so that the scalp stops showing through. It is a medical procedure with a medical purpose: it solves what a transplant cannot — visible skin between existing hairs, a widening parting, a whorl that shows, a strip scar, or a head that is kept shaved by choice.

• Three to four sessions, two to four weeks apartColour is built up gradually rather than laid down in one pass, which is what keeps it looking like hair rather than a wash of pigment.
• Dots the width of a hair shaftThe work is done in points sized to a hair, so it reads as stubble at conversational distance. This is slow, and sessions run long as a result.
• Placed above the follicle, not into itThe pigment sits just below the epidermis; follicles lie deeper in the dermis and are not touched. Existing hair is unaffected.
• A transplant afterwards is still possibleBecause the pigment depth and the graft depth are different, micropigmentation does not close off a transplant later.
• No scheduled retouchingThe clinic does not build the treatment around periodic retouch appointments.
• Performed by the directorThe same person performs every session.

Questions

SMP — what patients ask