One Year Post Hair Transplant? Did It Work?!

Foreign welcome back to my channel. My name is Andre. Marie I haven't been here before hi welcome, you're, probably wondering where I've been when it comes to this hair transplant update. I'M sorry I just haven't been able to get a hang of myself like it's been super busy and I'll talk about that in another video, but to keep this video breathe straight to the point and all of that Jimmy Jazz. I'M here to talk about my hair transplant and what has happened in the last six months. So if you guys have been on this journey with me, you will know that on tick, tock on Instagram, I've been updating. Everybody on what's been going on, I've been giving monthly updates, sometimes bi-weekly, updates and talking about what I found, what I didn't find, but the one place I haven't talked about it very much is YouTube. I have done two shorts or three shorts with updates as well, but for those that, like love, the content they just haven't, had a proper long, sit-down update so grab a cup of tea. I'M gon na have a hot chocolate and we can get on with it. I'M gon na Point either side of the skin some sort of a content list, so you can go to the places that you would like to go in the video, so you don't have to watch the whole video if you don't want to. I would appreciate if you do, but if you want specific things, I will note them on the side for you, okay, so let's get started so the first question that everyone asked me is: do I think it was a success? I do I love it. I think it was worth my time it was worth the pain it was worth the whole year um. I still think I'm on a journey, but in terms of is my hair able to wear out. Am I happy with it? I am it's fantastic. I love it. This is by far more than I expected um. I don't really know how to describe it. I just didn't know what to expect. I kept my expectations real real low, but I knew it was going to work. I just didn't know how much it was going to work, but yeah, I'm really happy. If I can wear my hair out, I'm really happy with the turnaround. I'M really happy with my hairline. I'M really happy, I'm happy with all of it. I don't have a single regret, um yeah. So if that's what you came here for in terms of the video that you can stop right here, because for me it was a hundred percent, a success. So one of the things I want to address - which I don't know I feel like I mentioned it in my first ever video - but I will mention in this video - is that I did not have enough donor area to cover the transplant area. So again, I'm gon na have pictures and everything so that you guys can see exactly what I'm talking about. But when I did my hair transplant, it was mainly for this area here, but I also had thinning in my crown, and it went as far back as like back here, and they were only able to do my transplants in about, I would say halfway through. So I still have this area to cover and that's where I did my PRP, because I wasn't sure that I was gon na. Do a part two I didn't know if that was what was gon na cause for me. I didn't know if I wanted to sacrifice another six months where weeks for six months, I didn't know if I wanted to do that, and also I have mentioned this before, where I've said that I will go to a trichologist and see what can be done and I'M not really interested in being on long-term medication, so that was one of the reasons why I went for a hair transplant anyway, because I didn't want to be on um a long-term like for the rest of my life. I will have to take certain products to keep my hair growing because, if I didn't they would drop out like I was not interested in that and I'm still not interested in that. So if it's a thing of, I have to have some partial fill in um. I'M happy to do that because the major areas that I went to get sorted are sorted and then I would think about if I want to do another transplant to cover this area once I see a dragon, so I haven't seen anyone yet so it's very hard For me to say that, but I have had really good growth in that area from PRP treatments, which I will also section off um in the video. One thing I want to be brutally honest about is hair transplant is not easy. It'S a journey and my goodness, you need to have patience, some might even call it traumatizing. You know like it's not easy. Um from month six, I definitely saw a very, very big difference. Um between month, three and month, six I feel like month. Five is when I started seeing the hair feeling a lot more about sixes when I was like okay, this is going somewhere and, as you guys know, I have I had at that point shaved it down. So I shaved it down to um. I wanted to like a level three and when you have a chance, when you're not allowed to do you're not allowed to shave for six months. So a lot of my shaving was air shaving. So I never actually touched my scalp. I just used to shave um. My hair just down a little bit um in the areas where I felt my hair, was not matching the front of my hair um. So my hairline's, sorry so by month, six um so by my seven. Two things had happened. So the back my donut area fully grown back things. I can turn around and show you guys. Foreign area was, and it's all grown back on the side. You can also see, I feel like this is my most successful side. So this is the side that was actually um, not the worst side, but the side that I thought would have the most problems. This side was my west side, so yes, this is my side. This is my front area and I have got a more intricate video where you can zoom in a little bit more, and this is my other side. This is my left side, which is my final side, and you can see. I still have some filling in to go in, but really, and truly I'm really happy with that with the four. This is where I'm concentrating my PRP treatments like this area and my crown. I also want to note here that I did my hair transplant and on my hairline - and I didn't do it in my crown, because I didn't have enough graphs, so I did a 2500 um graphs transplant because I didn't have enough hair. My hair is medium to fine in some areas, so they told me that they could not pluck anymore, because that could risk in hellos, and I really really appreciate that, because I've known um about places that over Harvest, which is why I really love laundry. I think that they just did a brilliant job and they kind of nipped it in the bag. When I was like, oh, please go and get some more. They were like no. This is you're not gon na um. At this point, I do not know if I'm gon na go for another transplant to fill in that area. I'M doing PRP and I'm going to see it through to see if it works in that area. So far it has. My thing is done. I think, like 60 in that area and honestly, it doesn't really bother me that much the areas that obviously are the areas that are done so in that sense, I'm really really happy with what my hair is doing, how it's coping and what's going on at this Point so mark seven um was the time when I felt like my hair was growing, and that was also the point where I was like. Maybe I should start wearing my hair out. So around months, like seven and a half going on eight, I think, coming up to the end of a month, seven I decided to wear my hair out. I think I was like moving towards wearing another wig and I knew that I was ready to wear my hair up because I was changing up my wigs so much during that period of time. So much that I knew that was like an internal scream to wear my hair out, because if you guys know me, I love wearing my hair out. That is where I feel the most comfortable. It'S where I feel like. I have the most control. It'S one of the reasons why I decided to get hair transplant in the first place. Please ignore this immense light that I'm getting so annoying. As I was saying month, seven was where I felt the most comfortable. It'S where I felt like something was happening so month. Seven is the time when I was like you know what I feel like. I could wear my hair out and it was coming up to like the bridge before seven and eight, so I always get messed up with these days, because I didn't really like do a video the day that I decided to wear my hair out. But I'm pretty sure it was like a week before eight months I was trying on the wig. I was gon na wear a big curly wig and I was so excited about it and I just said: let me try and wear my hair out. Let me see if I can just do it, so I wash my hair put some foam in it. I set it and then the next day I went to work and after sport, whatever happened today will kind of decide what happens next, if I'm gon na pop a wig on or if you know like we'll see, isn't it now? One of the other reasons why I did that to my hair was because, because my Afro was growing, my wigs were starting to look a little high and I was having to set my hair really really flat. Underneath the wigs and I didn't want to have to do so much work, I'm an easy going girl. So I was like you know what we need to go back to the simple times. Okay, so that's when I decided. Let me do this, so when I did it and then I went to work and I remember Abby, my colleague was like: oh, you wore your hair and it looks nice and I thought - and she said it like: I'd, been wearing my hair about every single day And honestly, I already knew that morning when I looked to myself in the mirror that I was going to wear my hair out, but when she said it, it was like. Oh thank you and then that was it. I haven't worn a wig since and I'm super super happy about it. I also felt like you know, my hair was gon na, have all the time to fry because it was seeing daylight. It was doing whatever and like a plant, it will flourish. You know so. Yeah, so I since then, I've been wearing my hair out again and I was a little bit nervous about my light areas and I can honestly say to you that I think at that point I stopped caring. I was like I can see that my hair transplant was a success. I can actually physically see it for myself. I can see the patches filling in. I can see that I can see that my confidence is building, because there was no way three months before that. I would have just wore my hair out because there was just not enough hair. So just the fact that I was like I can wear my hair out. I knew that it was a success. So, yes, everyone ate um with brilliant. I was wearing my hair out and loving it and playing around with what does my hair actually like. I was a natural for over 30 years, but I was always protected styling and that could be twists um and it wasn't always with extensions. I just didn't really wear my hair out like that. There was a period of a year and a half where I wore my hair out, but I just never felt like my hair could be worn in a wash and go Spa. Well, I didn't feel like my curls popped and I just couldn't figure it out, and I wanted to dedicate this new time a new era and getting to know my hair again and making sure that I get the definition that I want. Without seeking the help of anything else, I'm not the biggest fan of a relaxer on my hair when it's longer because I've got quite fine hair and my hair presses really easily. So when it comes to chemicals, I only did them for a pixie cut, because as lovely as my hair is a pixie cut just requires way too much heat, so relaxer was just the easy way for me to go about things, but in its natural form. I know that at some point I'm going to do a texture release if I want to grow my hair up, but right now, I'm really enjoying having a pixie afro and just letting my hair do what it wants to do and playing around with different shapes. So that's what this part of the journey started being about so month to mind is when I just. I just noticed that my hair was just Friday like areas that I thought were a bit slow, so I'm picking up and it was the same for month - 10. 11. by 11. I was like okay, I feel like this is the growth I feel like any more growth that I get now will be for me actively doing something about it, but this is. This is the transplant now like the transplant Dan Wayne needs to do, and, to be honest, my hair was much longer than this, and then at 11 months or just the day before it was a year. I then went to Mariam, who is also my lovely colleague, and she cut this shape. For me, I was like I'm ready for a lovely pixie shape. I want a round shape. I want to grow the top, and I want to play around with my hair. A little bit more to cut my hair I'd cut my hair myself up until that point, and I said now I feel like I can have the hairdresser experience. If I want to color it. If I want to do anything, I'm going to sit in the hairdresser's chair and I'm going to experience my hair and enjoy it the way my guests enjoy me doing their hair. So that's where we are at a year post, really happy um. I don't think, there's anything else that I need to fill you in on, but I will talk about my PRP treatment, so so I've been getting PRP in my crown area. Specifically, I've been getting it all over my hair, including my donut area, but I've been specifically targeting the crown area because that's the part I didn't receive any hair transplant. I have. I have thinning in this area which my mom also has, and Mum also had um thing in her temples, so we've had very similar like thinning, and apart from obviously me talking about, my hairline was more traction alopecia, which happened when I was very, very young, and It didn't help that I had bad practices when I was a teenager, I.E doing my extensions myself and it wasn't until I became a hairdresser, but I really knew what damage I had done to my hair and, like I said I, I've always had this thing where I felt like my my alopecia: wasn't that bad? Yes, my edges were thin, but I could pretty much pull off any hair, so I wanted to. I could sort of mascara the areas that were a little bit thinner, because I had two prominent ball patches but um. After, like I said my teens and just not looking after my hair, it just got worse, but again I could kind of Disguise it a little bit and it was fine um. Once I became a hairdresser, I was more educated on my hair and I stopped to doing everything that could possibly ruin my hair, so that included like any pressure hairstyles. I only did wigs if I needed to, but what I think kind of sped along my um. My um hair feeling in this Crown area was continuing to do cane Rose when I was having like rest periods of my hair or protective styling. When I was protective, styling and doing wigs, so it wasn't the wigs themselves, it was the king Rose underneath. So I want to be specific because a lot of people are like if you were wearing wigs. Yes, I'm sure that wigs have do um do thin your hair, but that wasn't the case for me, like the damage was done um, but I still had edges and a lot of the time when I wore my wigs my edges actually fried. They grew back as much as they possibly could. I would say they grew up about 50. What happened, and that was because I wore silk in my wigs and I will do a video showcasing you how I did that, so my edges were always kind of okay. Not the best at all, but I was able to camouflage the bits like the areas that weren't that damaged were were kind of salvaged, like I wasn't getting any worse. If that makes any sense, so I always had the feeling here and then I had the feeling around here. But you know, as long as my head was long enough, it will cover the bits that were really bad and that's how it it always been like it was stagnant for years. Until I had my kids now, this area thinning started happening when I was maybe 21 and it got worse because I continuously came with my hair in a specific way and though my cameras weren't tight, it was the continuous King Rose um that pulled my hair in That direction, that's where I got my feeling and that's where my feeling got worse. So I really want to specify that, because I get so many like comments on my page about how it was just big assumptions saying that it would relax as it was this. It was that, and we will never know, but I know um when I started noticing my feeling more and around the times. I noticed it. It wasn't so much around the relaxer um and I never relax my hair for such a long periods of time where it could cause such damage. So I just wanted to make that clear. That being said, once I noticed that my hair was so bad. I kind of Switched and stopped doing cameras under my um wigs. I just wore my hair in its natural form. So if it wasn't a pixie cut, I just used to wrap it flat and wear my wigs on top so for at least a quite a long period of time. I'D done that, once I saw what damage you had done to my hair, but again I always felt like it. Just wasn't that bad. You know - and I feel really shitty about it now, because now, when I see any one of my guests with it, I'm like you need to go and see a dermatologist, because this could be the thing that saves your hair so to anyone out there. If you have thinning, if you have alopecia, if you have long-term alopecia, if you have anything ccca go to see a dermatologist, a hairdresser cannot help. You grow back your hair with oils, ointments or anything, go and see a dermatologist go and see a dermatologist, because I tried the oils. I tried everything. None of them worked because guess what they were clogging up. My pores. I cannot talk about this enough um, so yeah just go into a professional that specifies in that area before you do anything, and I really really really think that if you know it's traction alopecia, if you know you can do something about it, do something about it Before it's too late, I'm gon na say at the beginning of my PRP treatments I felt like this error was really light and I didn't know where that was going to go. So I will show you pictures of what happened in month, one to six on my pH PRP treatments. There'S a there's like maybe two months in between that where, because I was doing it every six weeks, there was like a month where I skipped because I like I traveled and it was a really busy period. But I pretty much kept up with it and for me, PRP streamers have made a massive difference and the reason why I said that made a massive difference, because I did it in the area that did not receive a hair transplant, so I could say with confidence. I feel like after making my fourth one is when I saw the change for me um. I can't say that I'm noticing massively in the first three tries, but after that fourth one I was like this is working and I will be upkeeping PRP treatments. Even if I get put on some sort of medication now again like I said I will be going to see a trichologist to see if there's anything that can be done or if there's anything to do. I just want to make sure that, whilst I'm at the end of this journey, I'm really at the end and there's nothing really going on. There'S nothing um, yeah, there's nothing else. I need to do so. I'M just going to go and have a consultation once I do I'll. Take you guys on that Journey with me and you can see the results as well with me. Writing this question: in this section I'm going to answer some of my most frequently asked questions about the hair transplant number one. Do I have to cut my hair to do it for me? Yes, my hair was about this length when I got my transplant so and what happens at the transplant, they shave the part that needs to try that needs to receive the transfer. They shave the donut area, which is gon na where they're gon na take the hair from to put the transplant in this area. So you are literally left with a sliver of hair here and hair. Here I would have looked like Angelica's doll. Cynthia from the Rugrats had I kept my hair in the state that it was so I absolutely needed to shave my hair. I know a lot of people who didn't shape her hair and because they had long hair were able to camouflage it. So no, you do not have to shave your hair, but I did second question. I always get was a painful girl. It was painful and the procedure itself wasn't paid for um longitude. I got given Xanax about five minutes before the before the actual um procedure, which didn't really kick in for about 20 minutes. What was painful for me were the injections, the local anesthetic injections at the back of the head specifically in this area was super super painful, and I felt the pain for about the first 10 injections. So they do quite a lot of injections in the area to numb the area and after 10. I stopped feeling it, but the first 10 is crocheting very, very painful, zero out of ten, and then it was pretty much when they were plucking out. I kind of fell asleep. I woke up again when they had to inject my hairline and, as you can imagine, that was very painful. Yes, very painful, again um, but because I was in a relaxed sort of mode and Xanax had kicked in. I would say it wasn't as painful as the when I got it at the back of my head, but still painful, and that pretty much is like as painful as it got um and again, if you watch my second video, I think the month the month after I talk about how I itch like a oh ciao. I itched my hair itched so badly um, and that, for me, was worse than the pain like it aged so much. I wanted to cut my head and throw it in a bit, I'm going to cut my scarf and throw it in a bit, because that ish was something else, and that was for a solid months. So I I feel like it. It started about two weeks in after the transplant and carried on to about two months posts post procedure, so yeah that wasn't great but again aloe vera is the thing that got me through um I'll put the brand that I use on the side. It was fantastic. It I had it in in the fridge and in the freezer, and the coldness is what actually helps soothe me, but it gave like a prickly feel before that happened. But aloe vera was a godsend for me and I'm a light bit of confusion that I get is if my transplant costs 1250 does my PRP also cost to a two thousand three 1250 and no, it costs 200 pounds and I go to learn that beauty salon. They are amazing, try them um. I'Ve had six sessions there, they do packages where you can do more than one session again love the girls. I get a little bit of a discount personally, because I'm a regular and I do loads of treatments with treatments with them. As in Aesthetics and Salon, so please go tell them. I sent you, I don't have code or anything just tell them. Marie'S sitting here I will say this: the price has changed since I've had in my transplant, so it used to be 1250. It is now 1. 650., I have a code with um the team and they saw you know um, that's the sort of responses I got, and I thought why not just if you guys want to use the link, you can use the link, it gives you a hundred pounds off and You can use it to your heart's pleasure and if you want to have a chit chat with someone that actually knows exactly what they're talking about other than me, where I'm giving you an ex what my experience was: it's best to speak to them and the lady That I went to was Yasmine and her team. Now when I say that Yasmine and her teammates, because I have my conversation with Yasmine, but there were there - were two males that actually did my transplant. So Yasmine didn't actually do my transplant. It was a team of two males and another lady, whose name I did not get either. She was the one that gave my injection to look I'm authentic injections and also plucked out my donor area. So it was a team of people guys and I think the whole place is yasmin's clinic, so you're gon na be looked up right. Yes, I don't know if she does some people's um transplant, but she didn't specifically do mine, but she did design my hairline. I hope that another question I always get is: will I relax my hair again? Personally, I don't know, I don't think so. I think this is the beginning of a new life. For me, I want to see where my hair goes. I want to see what I can do with my hair and this time around I know so much more. I know what to do what not to do, and I will never play with my hair the way I did before so know what I know now. I wouldn't do any chemical service in my hair unless I want to go back to a pixie relaxer style. So if I want to go back to a pixie straight style, you will 100 see me with relaxed hair, but anything else I know I can achieve is natural hair, because there's so much out there I'll probably do a texture release. If I want to have a bob or anything like that, but as it stands, will I be doing anything like that? No, I don't think I'm gon na relax my hair texturize, my hair or anything like that as it stands, but I will never say never. Okay. Last question is people always ask me about my hairline now I know that the reason people do not like hair transplants is because of the rounded hairline you can get. My hairline is very fun and I'm gon na explain why, when Yasmin designed my hairline, she went for quite a rounded shape. Now, I'm quite particular about my hairline. I dug deep. I went to baby pictures. I looked at my hair, like I, my hairline was actually down here somewhere, believe it or not, and I had quite a few baby hairs. So what I did is I kind of zigzagged almost how almost how you cut a frontal - I kind of zigzagged, my hairline a little bit so that - and I went just a teeny tiny bit behind it's behind the hairline that I saw but because they went over My baby hair, so I had quite like this area here - was baby hairs, so they kind of just flushed forward now, because that area was filled, I no longer have baby hairs. These are full grown adults that are forcing into this position, but because of that, it means that I, this ever is a lot more thicker and prominent than it used to be, because when you have a transplant, you don't get to tell parts of your hair to Grow a certain way it all just grows that way. So that's like the only thing that I didn't think of and when it happened, I was like oh shoot. I don't have baby hairs anymore, so when my hair is completely naked and back, it looks very, very full. I think when it was shorter, it looked extremely like boxed, but as soon as it started, growing in my baby has started coming for a little bit. It looked a lot more natural, so that's something for you guys to consider, and I don't know how you're gon na go about it. But tracing of the hairline is very, very important and you should try and have a little bit of a hand in it. Try and look at baby pictures try and see what kind of hairline you want to have look at your hairline as it is. If you want to keep baby hair, go behind your hairline so that it it doesn't disrupt your hairline too much. Apart from that, there's nothing I mean it doesn't bother me because when I look back on my photos, this is the hairline. I have had a very thick hairline, so I don't mind what that looks like, but I just thought it was something that I'll mention. I um I'm not one to recommend anything to anyone, because I don't think I have the power to this whole process was to show black people people of color, that, yes, we can have hair transplants. We can reverse something that has knocked our confidence. We can do something about it, so that was all this this journey was about. I knew that it was something that I could do, but I noticed that not many people did so. This was just a show and share Awareness on the fact and see what the true results are again. Like I said when I started looking at this journey, I only saw two black women um with this, this treatment, so I'm putting it out there so that if anyone is thinking about doing it, you can see someone like me has had it and it's worked and I'M happy and that's it. I think I think I've covered everything about this hair transplant. What I will say is, I will do a question and Analysis which I will put up on my Instagram and you guys can ask me anything. You want to ask me about my transplant anything that I may not have mentioned, but so far do I think a success yeah I do. I don't have any regrets so yeah. So that's it. I hope this video makes sense. I hope that you know you've learned something from this. If you have any questions again, I will do another video. I will do updates, but from this I don't think I'm gon na do another update until next year really, but I will take you on any Journey or any um PRP treatments um that I have so what I will do is. I will take you on my next PRP treatment and at Lane Matt Beauty with Ruby, and I will take you also on my visit to see my track colleges. So I will keep this series going, but you're not going to get updates as much because pretty much. I gave you the updates that I said I was gon na give and if you have any questions or whatever you may have, I would definitely be updating or saying anything or if you have any direct questions. Instagram is the best way and the best place to get me because it's a lot more interactive, Tick, Tock as well. I'M happy to do short videos about these things on there, but yeah. So that's that's it guys. I hope that this video has helped. I hope you guys have enjoyed watching. Thank you so much for watching again and I'll see you on my next video, okay, bye. Thank you.