Hi LTB - Everything you said is as I feel too. I think I was even the first to suggest the tapering hairline idea? I don't know. But yes, as you said, the hairline is really the only flaw in skin systems when it comes to appearance. Some prefer the feel of lace and some prefer the skin. But when talking about the visual realism, the hairlines on skin systems lets them down. For me V-looping is completely out if I want a short, neat hair style. That leaves injection. I don't think they will be able to inject hair into skin as thin as 0.03 unless they invent a new skin material or stronger way to hold the hairs into the skin base. So for now that's out.

That leaves 3 ideas that I can think of.

1. Taper the front few mm of skin from the 0.08 injectable thickness to 0.03 or even thinner. This would make for a less noticble transition from base skin to human skin.

2. Find a way to attach a very small section of fine lace to the front without leaving any visual join. I'm talking about only 1cm of lace out the front. And the density of this lace section would have to match the density of the skin (another major problem with factories).

3. Attach 1-3cm of ultra thin skin to the front with no visible join, and have tiny single hairs knotted into the front section. The knots would be bleached as they do with lace.

There must be something new they can try because this is the only thing holding back skin systems. They came up with V-looping and that was a good effort, but we have to be on the verge of a new idea.

I think one day someone will crack it and we'll have the perfect system. The next thing to crack is the glue.


If we came up with a good method, and John patented it somehow, he could make a fortune. But with everything coming from China, patenting would probably not be feesible, hence there being no patent on thin skins or ultra lace or bleached knots. I think this is half the problem. Why would a company spend lots of money coming up with a new idea when instantly all the rival companies will copy it and undercut the price.