Quote:First reason is that the thicker skins all have an abrupt hairline all the way around the piece. Now I have had a poly unit in the past where the skin extended beyond the hairline and even had a little lace injected that gave a decent transition, but the skin perimeter units lately are simply skin with hair injected right up to the edge. No way to expose hairline, and you'll be busted in half a second if someone touches it.

If you use the TL700 for the sides and back, you should be able to get very good hairline (according to TopLace's advertisement).

Quote:And as far as length goes....my current unit is as short as 1/8" (maybe even a little less) directly above my ears. I wouldn't buzz the whole piece down that short, but it looks good, believe it or not. The problem with going so short is that as the unit thins you are going to be able to see thin patches much sooner than if the hair was a little longer.

JRob, I’m talking about short hair at the sides, but dense enough not to show any scalp, like the following examples:








Here is someone who tried to do something like that:




But when you look from the side, it looks just SO SO bad... the hair is so puffed and dense, it doesn't look like his own at all...