Author | Wu Qing
Gu Junye is in Taiwan, has gone through a series of quarantine procedures, and completed the marriage registration procedures with Big S yesterday.
These days, in addition to caring about the newlyweds' past experiences, netizens have also focused on The appearance of Gu Junye. There was a variety of discussions about his dress and body type, including the South Korean star's hairline.
"Gu Junye's hair is tattooed."
When he saw this hot search on the mobile phone page, Yu Fu's heart seemed to be hit at once.
"It turns out that there is such a handsome person in the world who has the same troubles as himself."
Contrast between the front and back of Junye's tattooed hair
Yu Fu, 28, is a consultant for the fintech industry in Beijing. Last March, after a year of suffering from alopecia areata, he made the same choice as Gu Junye: shave the rest of his hair and tattoo it.
Just like tattoos and tattooed eyebrows, there is nothing special about the principle of tattooing, but because its audience is not so wide, people don't know much about this technique. Tattoos sound cool, but there's actually a lot of uncertainty.
01
After hair loss
Hair loss, some gradually appear in life, and some knock on the door in the middle of the night.
At the age of 11, overnight, an area on Yu Fu's scalp suddenly lost a lot of hair.
"It's a 'ghost shaving his head'", the parents reacted immediately, and took Yu Fu to a specialist hospital for treatment. After about two months, hair gradually grew where alopecia areatence appeared.
He had thought of saying goodbye to Alopecia areata, but he did not expect that after many years this problem would come with a busy life.
In the movie "Hello Li Huanying", guixiang, a girl who is troubled by alopecia areata
At the age of 26, Yu Fu wanted to make some changes to his life and work. He moved from a position as product manager to consulting. On the other hand, he also has a certificate with gold content in the preparation industry.
On the one hand, the pressure and self-doubt brought to him by the change of work, on the other hand, the busyness and difficulty of preparing for the exam, which disrupted his original life order and rhythm of life, and seriously affected his physical and mental health and sleep quality. For three months, he felt nightmares.
One day, when Yu Fu looked in the mirror, he found that the baldness on the top of his head had reappeared, and had expanded to nearly the size of a dollar coin.
"It's getting worse and worse, to the point where it needs treatment." He tried to seek medical treatment and received treatment from three specialist institutions, but a year later, there was still no obvious effect.
Hair transplantation is also within his consideration. But when the doctor at the hair transplant agency said that there were not enough hair follicles on the back of his head to get enough hair follicles to transplant into the range of alopecia area, it meant that another way to return to the amount of dense hair was also broken.
Tattoos became the last choice.
For most men with severe hair loss or even baldness, if hair loss treatment or hair transplantation does not help them return to a normal hair volume, tattoos are the last resort other than maintaining the status quo and wearing a wig.
In the TV series "The Hidden Corner", the protagonist takes off his wig to reveal his baldness
Tattoos are essentially a means of grooming, and in order to achieve a natural effect, this requires the balding person to cut off the rest of the hair. This means that they can only show people as "inch" in the future. This is different from the short hair image that Yu Fu has maintained before. The gap between short hair and "inch head" made Yu Fu once very entangled.
He decided to cut a bald head first, "try it out", "look at it (the way you look bald), and it feels OK." ”
Coupled with the fact that his girlfriend also wanted to try to mend her own sparse hairline with tattoos, he went to the tattoo agency with the encouragement of his girlfriend and the acceptance of "inch".
Like Yu Fu, Xu Long also chose the tattoo after trying many treatments.
Xu Long, 48, works in the automotive industry in Baotou. He inherited his family's hair loss genes in his body. His grandfather was bald at the age of 30. His hair loss also came when he was 30 years old.
Hair loss begins at the corner of the forehead, and then the entire hairline is arranged in an M-shape, constantly retreating from the forehead to the top of the head, and half of the area above the top of the head is empty. When washing your hair, your hair falls off one by one. Looking at the hair loss piled up in the sewer of the bathroom, he was anxious.
In the gathering of friends, seeing the relatively intact hairline of his peers, facing the concern of friends for his hair, or joking, Xu Long was somewhat unwilling.
(Source: TV series "Friends")
He has tried to save his broken hairline, and in addition to the more common treatments such as poultices, he has also tried electric shock therapy.
In 2015, he walked into an institution near his home for hair loss. The agency advertises the use of weak currents to stimulate hair follicle growth. "Electric shock therapy, 100% effective".
Xu Long paid 3,000 yuan for treatment, but in exchange for more and more serious hair loss, "was deceived." It wasn't until the end of the final treatment that he realized this reality.
Later he heard from friends about the "tattoo" method. To prevent being deceived, he conducted an online data gathering.
He learned from the Internet that the technology of tattooing, at that time, only Beijing and Jiangsu had relatively mature tattoo institutions in China, and he finally chose the Beijing tattoo agency closest to Baotou.
On the website, he obtained contact details from the tattoo artist. Worried and a little suspicious, he dialed the other person's phone.
02
Shave your head and apply anesthesia
Health certificate, health permit, life beauty service business license... Xu Long paid special attention to the relevant documents of the tattoo agency.
The tattooist told Xu Long that the tattoo is essentially a kind of tattoo embroidery, but the injected cortex is relatively shallow, about 0.5 mm. This coloring depth does not irritate capillaries or even nerves.
Xu Long saw that the tattoo artist himself had tattooed his hair into an "inch", and the customers who had received service in the past could finally achieve the satisfaction in Xu Long's mind, and he chose to trust each other.
Shave your head and apply anesthesia, which is the preparation before the formal tattoo.
The skin of the head has a complex structure, buried with tissues such as glands, blood vessels, nerves, muscles and fats. Therefore, in the process of tattooing, not only professional machines and pigments are required, but also tattooists are trained and assessed and have certain experience. According to the pre-designed area, a professional machine inserts pigment into the epithelium of the skin, and the depth is felt and judged by the tattooist according to the depth of the scalp.
Jiang Tao, a tattooist who does tattoos for Xu Long, is 44 years old and is one of the earliest tattoo practitioners in China, and this year is his fifth year as a tattoo artist.
Tattooist Jiang Tao
"I understand the psychology of our hair loss population." Jiang Tao said. He had also been plagued by baldness. His prolapse began at the age of 20, and by the age of 30, his scalp was completely bald.
Baldness brought Jiang Tao the appearance of looking to be a teenager older than his actual age, and because of this, when socializing, he was called a "leader". These situations put him in an awkward position before his own leadership. "Hair still has a great impact on the appearance and self-confidence of the whole person," Jiang Tao said with emotion.
The trouble caused by baldness made him desperate to find a way out of the predicament. In 2017, a business trip in Nanjing made him aware of the tattoo. He searched for information on the Internet and learned that tattoos have been abroad for 20 years, but there were only two or three institutions in China at that time, one of which was in Changshu, Jiangsu. After the business trip, he rushed to Changshu immediately.
Jiang Tao's tattoo artist is a technique learned from the United States.
According to the general saying in the industry, tattoo technology originated in the United Kingdom in the 1990s and has since been further developed in Europe and the United States. Around 2015, tattoos were introduced to China by an institution in Shenyang.
Jiang Tao sensed the market from it, and after learning and training from his own tattoo artist, he started his own business and became a tattoo artist.
A picture of a tattoo artist at work
Today, he has become a veteran in the eyes of his peers. In his training documentation, the tattoo process is divided into 9 links, from the early period of plastering, disinfection, and mid-term operation and later maintenance, he has marked the duration, details of the action and the effect that each step needs to achieve.
These trainings are indispensable, in Jiang Tao's view, "some inexperienced and inexperienced personnel who have not been exposed to professional learning are indiscriminate, which not only affects the development of the industry, but also brings bad consequences to customers." ”
03
reaction
Because of her high hairline, Shandong girl Zixin joked that she had been a "bald girl" since she was a child. Although when I was a child, people around me always said that a high hairline and a brain gate meant being smart. But now the round, dense hairline favored by internet culture, and even aesthetics such as "beauty tip" have always bothered her because of her hairline.
She thought to herself, "When I have money, I must save my hairline." ”
Last year, she learned about the "hairline regeneration" technology in the circle of friends, and the propaganda was that "Germany introduced new technologies, the effect is natural, and there is no need for a recovery period.". This just hit Zi Xin's pain point, and she immediately made an appointment.
When I came to the institution, I learned that this technology is actually similar to "tattooed eyebrows", except that the part of pigment injection is moved to the hairline.
The agency also said that during the operation, hair growth liquid can be introduced, as short as one month, as long as half a year, you can grow new hair.
Promotional image of individual "hairline regeneration" merchants
Just after tattooing, the pigment is still obvious, like applying a circle of paint at the hairline. This condition did not subside until six months later. The hair growth effect announced in advance was also not realized, leaving a circle of abrupt color blocks. During the past six months, she can only cover it with bangs and wear a hat.
For this situation, Jiang Tao analyzed that this situation is mainly due to the fact that the hairline design position is too low and the tattoo artist is not skilled, resulting in too much coloring or inappropriate coloring position and depth.
The coloring is too deep, bringing Zi Xin an abrupt and unnatural "artificial hairline", and the problem of coloring too light makes the other girl feel "cheated".
Liang Yan also chose to tattoo her hair because she was worried about the sparse hairline, and when she tattooed, the tattooist told her that the sparse hairline or even the part that lacked the hair follicle would be very light, so the follow-up needed to be recolored two or three times.
Later, the agency also said that "writing praise" on the platform can be exchanged for a free color service. With trust in the other party, Liang Yan chose to promote the agency.
Three months later, the pigment of the original tattoo had subsided, and when Liang Yan came to the tattoo agency again to ask for free color repair, the agency rejected Liang Yan's request on the grounds that the tattoo artist who had verbally promised free color supplement had left.
"Lied." Liang Yan immediately thought, but because the institution at that time only gave promises and did not explain in writing, Liang Yan had to "eat dumb losses".
(Source: TV series "Country Love")
"At present, the problems in the field of tattoos are basically caused by the technical or improper experience of tattoo artists." Jiang Tao said. Hair tattooing is a relatively simple and easy-to-use skill, but it does not mean that practitioners do not need special training. Jiang Tao told Nanfeng Window that the current development of the domestic tattoo industry is only 7 years, the entry threshold is low, and there is a mixture of fish and dragons among personnel.
Zi Xin posted her own tattoo failure post on social media, there are more than 500 comments from netizens below, some are comments that are the same as tattoo failures, some are suggesting that she "wash off" the tattooed area, and many people suggest that she is more secure to do hair transplantation after that.
In the end, she chose to laser "clean" the coloring range, and did not do hair transplantation, but re-showed the sparse hairline.
Except for Jiang Tao, the characters in the text are pseudonyms
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