Workington · Cumbria
For hair that is thinning rather than gone; pigment placed between your existing follicles so the scalp stops showing through, without shaving your head and without anything to apply each morning.
Free consultation with a shade and density assessment. You keep your hair; this works with it, not instead of it.
2+ years' hands-on experience
Every session carried out personally by Brett McMullen, the clinic's sole practitioner.
Trained at North West Scalp Clinic
Certified scalp micropigmentation training in Bolton, with the certificate on display in the clinic.
Licensed and fully insured
Local authority licensed, with public liability and professional indemnity cover in place.
Free consultation, no obligation
An honest assessment before any money changes hands, including being told when a treatment is not right for you.
The treatment
Thinning is a contrast problem before it is a hair problem. What people notice is not the missing follicles but the pale scalp showing between the ones you still have, particularly under overhead lighting. Density work fills that contrast in: pigment is deposited between existing hairs at matched depth and tone, so light stops bouncing off bare scalp and the hair you still have reads as considerably thicker.
Nothing is shaved. The treatment works alongside your existing hair, which is why it suits men and women in the early and middle stages of thinning.
By darkening the scalp between follicles, the gaps stop reading as gaps. The visual effect is fullness, achieved without adding a single hair.
Diffuse thinning through the parting and crown is treated the same way, with lighter, softer application matched to finer hair.
Density work is often used to support transplanted hair, adding apparent thickness between grafts once healing is complete.
What waiting costs you
Thinning rarely stops on its own, and the products marketed at it mostly manage the appearance for a few hours at a time while costing money indefinitely.
They work until it rains, until the gym, until someone puts a hand on your shoulder. The cost also never stops, and the daily routine becomes something you plan your morning around.
Overhead lights, phone cameras and strip lighting in shops all expose thinning. Clients describe choosing where to sit and how to stand long before they describe the hair itself.
Density work applied too dark or too heavy on fine hair looks like a shadow rather than hair. Matching tone to your existing shade is the whole job.
The process
Light passes, built up gradually. Fine hair shows every mistake, so the approach is deliberately conservative.
Start with the free consultationThe pattern and stage of thinning are assessed, along with hair shade, skin tone and how your scalp is likely to hold pigment.
Pigment is diluted to sit slightly softer than your natural hair colour, tested on a small area so you can see it before committing.
A light first pass across the thinning area. The aim is a visible improvement, not the final result.
Once healed, density is increased where the scalp still shows and blended outwards into unaffected hair.
Final adjustments in daylight, checking the parting, crown and any area that catches the light.
The benefits
Appearance
The pale gaps that make thinning obvious are darkened, so hair reads as noticeably thicker.
Freedom
Nothing to reapply, nothing to run in the rain, nothing to pack when you travel.
Discretion
Done properly, the result reads as your own hair looking better rather than as a treatment.
Suitability
Diffuse female thinning through the parting is treated with the same technique at lower contrast.
Value
A treatment plan rather than an indefinite spend on concealing products.
Confidence
Clients most often mention no longer avoiding certain rooms, seats and photographs.
In detail
Perceived thickness comes from how much scalp is visible between hairs, not from hair count. Reduce that visible scalp and the same head of hair looks substantially fuller.
This is why density work can transform a thinning crown while the hair itself is unchanged: the eye reads shadow between follicles as more hair.
Impressions are placed in the gaps rather than over follicles, at a matched depth so they sit at the same visual plane as your hair.
Angle and spacing follow your natural growth pattern, including the whorl at the crown, which is where careless work is most obvious.
Fine, blonde and grey hair needs heavily diluted pigment and lower contrast, or the result reads as a shadow rather than density.
For these clients Brett works across more sessions with lighter passes, because correcting over-saturation is far harder than adding another pass.
Female pattern thinning typically widens the parting and thins diffusely across the top while the hairline stays intact.
Treatment concentrates on the parting and mid-scalp, applied softly so the effect is fullness rather than a defined shape. No shaving is involved at any stage.
Density work is frequently used after a hair transplant, once fully healed, to add apparent thickness between grafts and soften donor-area thinning.
If your loss is still progressing, that is discussed openly at consultation: the plan accounts for it rather than pretending it will not continue.
No washing, sweating or sun on the treated area for the first few days, then a return to normal routine with sunscreen or a hat on bright days.
Pigment softens over several years. A short touch-up restores contrast; the pattern itself does not need redoing.
Free
Consultation & shade match
Includes a test area if you want one.
£1,200
Full SMP treatment plan
Density work included within the full scalp micropigmentation treatment.
On enquiry
Partial or crown-only density
Quoted at consultation based on the area treated.
Smaller density areas are quoted individually. Ring 07426 938460 or send an enquiry and Brett will confirm a figure before you book.
Questions
Anything not covered here, ask Brett directly on 07426 938460.
No. Density work is designed for people who still have hair. Pigment is placed between existing follicles and your hair stays exactly as it is.
Yes. Diffuse thinning through the parting and mid-scalp is treated with the same technique at lower contrast, matched to finer hair.
It should not. Pigment is diluted to sit slightly softer than your natural shade, and the first session is deliberately light so tone can be judged after healing.
Usually three, spaced for healing. Fine or light hair sometimes benefits from an extra light pass rather than fewer, heavier ones.
That is discussed openly at consultation. Density work can be extended later, and the plan is built with continuing loss in mind rather than around a hope that it stops.
Yes, once healing is complete. It is commonly used to add apparent thickness between grafts and to soften the donor area.
Density work forms part of the full scalp micropigmentation treatment at £1,200. Crown-only or partial areas are quoted at your free consultation.
It is long-lasting rather than unchanging. Expect several years before it softens, then a short touch-up appointment.
Yes. Once healed, your usual routine carries on. Very short clipper work will expose more scalp, which is worth discussing at consultation.
At the Workington clinic, Unit 6, Kerry Park Industrial Estate CA14 3TT, with clients travelling in from across west and north Cumbria.
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Book your free consultation
Bring your hair as it is. The consultation is free, includes a shade match, and you will be told plainly whether density work is the right treatment for your stage of thinning.
Consultations are free and with no obligation. Prefer to talk it through? Call 07426 938460.
