Trichotillomania

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Trichotillomania is defined as a medical condition in which people compulsively pull out their hair. This is most often from their scalp, eyebrows and eyelashes. In many cases, this compulsion is a coping response to stress.

If this repeated removal of hair can be stopped early enough, the lost hair will usually grow back. However, in most Trichotillomania cases, sufferers carry on pulling out their hair and the effect eventually becomes irreversible.

The versatile solution is medical tattooing

Understandably, Trichotillomania can result in low self-esteem and self-consciousness. Medical tattooing can provide long term camouflage of the condition for Trichotillomania sufferers, through the creation of an optical illusion of hair growth even where there actually is none.

Hair loss from the client's scalp

The illusion of thicker looking hair can be achieved by infusing micro points of pigment into the scalp. This creates a "colour mist" in areas where the hair has been pulled out and thinned.

Eyebrow loss

Medical tattooing to enhance eyebrows creates an illusion of ultra fine hair strokes which realistically imitate natural eyebrows. This is an ideal solution for Trichotillomania sufferers with sparse or no eyebrow hair growth.

Eyelash loss

Clients with sparse or no eyelashes can benefit from the use of medical tattoo to give definition to the eyes, creating a choice of either a natural look or a flattering "made-up" effect. The other advantage of this enhancement is of course that it removes the need to constantly re-apply make-up.

Indeed, the most important advantage of medical tattooing to create the appearance of eyebrows and eyelashes is that the effect produced never smears or washes off.

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