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- Your Guide: Safe healing and beautiful long-lasting results.
- Total Healing Time: 21–30 days (color softens 20–30% as the scalp settles).
- Touch-Up Appointment: 4–8 weeks after the initial session.
- What to Expect: Slight darkness, lightness, or patchiness is normal while the pigment settles before touch-up.
- Days 0–3 — Protection Phase: Keep scalp clean, dry, and untouched.
- No Washing: No rinsing, wiping, or touching the scalp.
- No Sweating: Avoid gym, sauna, running, yoga, or heat exposure.
- No Sun: Avoid direct sun and tanning beds.
- Hygiene: Sleep on a clean pillowcase. Avoid hats, caps, or helmets.
- Normal: Mild tightness, dryness, or light itching.
- Days 4–7 — Early Healing: Small, dry micro-flakes may appear — do not pick.
- Sweat: You may lightly dab sweat (no rubbing or friction).
- No Shampoo: Still avoid washing or scrubbing the scalp.
- Avoid: Heat, sweating, sun exposure, helmets, or beanies.
- Normal: Temporary darkness or unevenness during this phase.
- Days 8–14 — Gentle Care Phase: You may now gently wash the scalp.
- Cleansing: Use fragrance-free gentle cleanser only. Fingers only — no nails or brushes.
- Drying: Pat dry gently — do not rub.
- Moisturize: Light, fragrance-free moisturizer is okay.
- Avoid: Oils, exfoliants, and harsh shampoos. Pigment naturally softens 20–30% now.
- Day 15+ — Maintenance Phase: Return to normal routine slowly.
- Wash: Resume regular washing.
- SPF: Start using SPF 30+ daily to protect pigment.
- No Hair Dye: Avoid hair dye for 30 days minimum.
- Avoid: Tanning beds, saunas, and heavy sweating until ≥ 30 days.
- Outcome: The scalp should now look soft, blended, and natural.
- Absolutely Avoid: Picking, peeling, scratching, excessive sweating, pools, oceans, hot tubs, sunbathing, tanning beds, harsh shampoos, exfoliants, hair dye (30 days).
- Normal: Mild redness, light itching, dryness/tightness, slight darkening before softening, tiny flakes (do not pick).
- Not Normal: Pus, yellow/green discharge, spreading redness, hot skin, severe pain, swelling, fever, red streaking — call 1-855-313-1114.
- Long-Term Care: Use SPF daily, avoid long sun exposure, moisturize regularly, schedule touch-ups every 1–3 years depending on skin and lifestyle.
