Stevey G SMP 844-936-2004 Treatments, The Basics
The plain-English guide: what SMP is, how it works, what it treats, and what separates work that disappears from work that announces itself.
The Idea
Scalp micropigmentation, or SMP, places thousands of tiny pigment impressions into the scalp, each one the size of a hair follicle. Healed, it looks like a full head of closely shaved hair, or it adds density under thinning hair so the scalp stops showing through.
A full scalp usually takes around thirty thousand impressions, often more. It never replaces every follicle one for one: the sides usually keep their own hair and are left alone, and the work goes only where the hair has thinned or gone.
It covers hair loss at every stage, thinning and diffuse loss, women's density loss, alopecia, and transplant or injury scars. It does not grow hair back or change the cause of the loss; it hides it. There is no surgery and very little downtime. Aftercare means keeping it away from water, sweat, steam and sun while it heals.
A machine built for SMP places the pigment at a shallow, precise depth: deep enough to stay, shallow enough to stay crisp. It is built over three sessions, two to three weeks apart, then a perfection session after 30 to 60 days of healing. Each session goes over healed skin, so the layers build up the way a hair follicle does. The result you live with is the healed one, not day one. More on the healing timeline and SMP vs a hair transplant.
Two things give SMP away: the wrong color and the wrong hairline. Skin is its own mix of black, red and yellow, and it shows through every healed impression, so plain black pigment heals grey, blue or green. Modern Color Theory, created by Stevey G, mixes a corrector into the ink for each client's skin so it heals the color of a hair follicle.
The hairline is the other tell. Drawn too low, too sharp or too young, it looks done. Designed for your face and how it will age, it looks like yours.
Look at healed results, not fresh ones. Then book a free, private consultation in Miami or New York. You leave with a written quote and a plan for your head.
FAQ
Yes. SMP is a tattoo, a highly refined one. Pigment is placed into the skin with a needle and it stays there. What separates it is everything after that: purpose-built machines, SMP-specific pigments and a shallower placement, depositing thousands of follicle-sized impressions rather than lines and shading. Regular tattoo ink and technique on a scalp blurs and discolors, which is why SMP is its own craft.
It is permanent. Pigment placed in skin stays in skin. What changes over years is depth, not presence: it softens the way hair does, and softening is nothing like disappearing. Most clients never need a touch-up at all. The ones who do usually come back after five years or more, because they want to see it pop again.
Bad SMP does: too dark, too low, healing blue. Done right, it looks like closely shaved hair or added density, and people who don't know never notice. That comes from color theory and precise impressions, not luck.
Different tools for different goals. A transplant moves your own hair but requires surgery, cost, downtime, and enough donor hair. SMP is non-surgical, faster, and creates the appearance of density or a full shaved look, and it's also used to conceal transplant scars. Many clients combine both.
Treatments start at $2,500, with all sessions included in that figure. Most complete treatments land between $2,500 and $5,000; the exact number is quoted per scalp because area, density goal and scar involvement all move it. Scar camouflage and correcting another studio's work are scoped separately. See our honest breakdown of what determines pricing in Miami and New York.
Yes. SMP is a tattoo, a highly refined one. Pigment is placed into the skin with a needle and it stays there. What separates it is everything after that: purpose-built machines, SMP-specific pigments and a shallower placement, depositing thousands of follicle-sized impressions rather than lines and shading. Regular tattoo ink and technique on a scalp blurs and discolors, which is why SMP is its own craft.
It is permanent. Pigment placed in skin stays in skin. What changes over years is depth, not presence: it softens the way hair does, and softening is nothing like disappearing. Most clients never need a touch-up at all. The ones who do usually come back after five years or more, because they want to see it pop again.
Bad SMP does: too dark, too low, healing blue. Done right, it looks like closely shaved hair or added density, and people who don't know never notice. That comes from color theory and precise impressions, not luck.
Different tools for different goals. A transplant moves your own hair but requires surgery, cost, downtime, and enough donor hair. SMP is non-surgical, faster, and creates the appearance of density or a full shaved look, and it's also used to conceal transplant scars. Many clients combine both.
Treatments start at $2,500, with all sessions included in that figure. Most complete treatments land between $2,500 and $5,000; the exact number is quoted per scalp because area, density goal and scar involvement all move it. Scar camouflage and correcting another studio's work are scoped separately. See our honest breakdown of what determines pricing in Miami and New York.
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