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In Bangkok, as well as in many other cities around the world, you will find cosmetic clinics offering "permanent" hair removal.
I find the idea appealing. I have had several facelifts done, first in Jakarta, then in Bangkok. From the first facelift, one effect that I would have preferred not to occur was the first partial, then complete disappearance of the unhaired skin between the sideburns and the ears.
From my first facelift, I had to go without sideburns. Not only that. I also could not remain unshaved, as my sideburn hair growing right onto the ears did not look natural.
I considered the following, which technically is no problem: first the removal of all facial hair that grows in unnatural places very close to the ears, and then a follicular unit extraction and transplantation of hair into places that naturally have hair.
I have tried this idea, at least half way through, but I have now decided against it, and I would advise readers accordingly.
First of all, the "permanent" hair removal does not work nearly as good as it sounds.
I have had such a "permanent" hair removal (through electrolysis) performed at a dermatological clinic in Bangkok, and for a few weeks (less than 2 month), there was a difference (in the first month more than in the second).
But after two months, all the "permanently" removed hair was back. After 3 months, there was no difference whatsoever to before the "permanent" hair removal.
I asked the cosmetic therapist what went wrong. Her answer was: it's the testosterone. My levels of this male hormone are high, she reckoned (probably because of the tongkat ali that I have been consuming for years). But I won't mess with my hormone levels to avoid the reappearance of "permanently" removed hair.
But I anyway decided against the restoration of sideburns, for the following reason: I have had three facelifts, and the effect of each was great. I am in my mid-50s now, but genuinely look 20 years younger.
I have some 15 years to go until I am 70, and I plan to look as if I were in my early 30s when I will, in fact, be 40 years older.
That will be a great show, when I will walk to a passport examination desk at a border, and the officer won't let me pass because he will not believe that I am in my 70s, and assume that I have a fake passport, haha.
To get that far, I will probably need two more facelifts. And each of them would pull the (restored) sideburns (of transplanted hair) to the ears again.
So, I have Why don't I have sideburns? My answer will be: not yet, I am still too young to grow a beard, haha. And I will be around 70. That will be fun.
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