Since entering working life, Laurent Viguié, 49, a business manager in the real estate sector in Toulouse, has been losing his hair at the temples and on the top of the head. “Unfortunately, I don’t have a hat head”, he regrets. Bothered by his galloping baldness, he decides to have a hair transplant but his disappointment is great: “I paid 4,000 euros for the first session to end up with a scar above the back of my neck. I decided not to continue. “ In 2019, while he is brooding in the Pink City, he makes a discovery that will change his life …
For the first time, this bald man left to himself hears about a technique still little known in France: the 3D shaved effect. In scientific terms, hair micropigmentation. “This practice consists of tattooing small black dots on the skull with bio-absorbable pigments between 0.1 and 0.3 millimeters to give the illusion of regrowth., explains Déborah Blanchard, founder of Tricopigmentation Toulouse. I can also fill in the vacant spaces of the scalp in order to produce a density shaded effect in men who do not shave. ”
Only for browns
The realization of this optical illusion, valid only for browns, costs approximately 4,000 euros for a full skull, at the rate of three sessions of four to five hours each. An annual maintenance session, faster and cheaper, in the order of 150 euros, is recommended. “It stings a bit but it’s really not painful, no more than a tattoo”, assures Laurent Viguié, who knows the subject, wearing a ” Carpe Diem ” on the arm and Maori symbols on the ankle.
“I have the impression of having hair everywhere,” Laurent rejoices. When I met my partner, she didn’t notice anything… ”
Since he passed into the hands of Déborah Blanchard, this imitation-shaved man has been a happy man. “I feel like I have hair everywhere, he rejoices. When I met my partner, she noticed nothing … even to the touch because the tattoo merges with my few really shaved hair. “
Opened at the start of 2017, Tricopigmentation Toulouse is one of the first practices exclusively dedicated to microtattooing of the skull in France. “Unfortunately, this practice developed by two Italian specialists, Ennio Orsini and Toni Belfatto, is not yet regulated by French law…”, regrets Deborah Blanchard who followed a training in scalp micropigmentation in Belgium, a pioneer country in this area. Professional affiliated with the Belgian Dermopigmentation Association, it regularly catches mistakes made by unscrupulous amateurs.
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