Scalp Micropigmentation · Wellington
Get your hairline back.
Scalp micropigmentation in Lower Hutt with Hayden Ayrton. Five years, around 300 clients, every session done by him. Answer three questions and book a free consultation.
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Free, no obligation. 4.9 on Google across 130+ studio reviews · Lower Hutt, Wellington
4.9
Google rating
300+
Clients treated
5 yrs
Doing SMP
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Winning artist
What is SMP?
- 1Hayden puts tiny impressions of pigment into the top layer of your scalp.
- 2Each one is the size and shade of a single short, shaved hair.
- 3Thousands of them together read as a full head of hair, cut short.
It does not grow hair. It gives you the look of hair, and it is yours to keep. Nothing to take daily, nothing to keep buying.
His work
Real clients of Hayden, before and after, as the studio published them.
NZ$3,000
typical, all in
Three sessions about two weeks apart, then a fourth to refine it. A NZ$300 deposit holds the first.
What you pay depends on how much scalp is being covered and how dense you want it. Hayden gives you the exact number at the consultation.
Meet your artist
Hayden Ayrton
SMP artist and educator
- 5 years
- Experience
- 300+
- Clients
- Lower Hutt
- Wellington
Hayden does the consultation, the design and every session himself, so the person you book is the person holding the needle. He trained with Caitlin James at SMP Australia and has since taken masterclasses with artists from the UK, the US and Sweden. He now trains other artists, in New Zealand and in Madrid. He has also had SMP done on his own head.
“I work conservatively. I start lighter and leave the hairline higher, then go darker and bring it down as we go.”
What happens
- 01The consultation. Free. What you are after, what will suit you, and your exact price. In studio, by phone or on video.
- 02The design. Hayden maps a hairline around your face and your age, and nothing starts until you are happy with it.
- 03Three sessions. Density built in layers, about two weeks apart so the skin heals between each one.
- 04The refinement. A fourth session about six weeks later, to take it to where you want it.
Questions people ask
What it costs on your own head, Hayden covers on the call.
That is the worry nearly everyone arrives with, and it is a fair one, because badly done SMP does look like that. Blue and flat comes from the wrong pigment at the wrong depth. Hayden uses carbon based pigment made for scalps, placed in the upper layers, and builds density over sessions rather than loading it in one go.
That is what he is known for. He feathers the front rather than stopping at a hard line, and keeps it age appropriate, so it reads as your own hair growing in short. He starts higher and lighter than the finished result and brings it down as the sessions go on, which is why nobody ends up with something heavier than they asked for.
Most full treatments land around NZ$3,000 all in, with a NZ$300 deposit to hold the first session. Your exact number comes at the consultation, once Hayden has seen your head.
Most people put it at about a 2 or 3 out of 10. The pigment sits in the upper layers of the scalp, much shallower than a body tattoo.
Each session runs two to five hours. Three sessions about two weeks apart, then a fourth around six weeks after that to refine it.
Years rather than months, and it softens gradually rather than disappearing. A top up every few years keeps it sharp.
For the shaved look, yes, and shorter is better: cut close, the pigment and your own stubble sit on the same plane and blend. If you are thinning rather than bald, density work is different. The pigment goes between the hair you still have and you keep wearing it at the length you like.
Both are covered. Alongside hairlines, crowns, full head and density work, Hayden does scar camouflage, alopecia and women's thinning.
Plenty of his clients make it. They come from as far as Hawke's Bay and Palmerston North down to Wellington, and the sessions are spaced two weeks apart so the trips are planned rather than sprung on you.
Book a free consult
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Feather Touch · Lower Hutt, Wellington