(11-05-2015, 10:44 AM)Paul In Ireland Wrote: If the stock front area is no good for you, then you should make a template to the desired shape /contour, and order custom.........soaking the knots in conditioner is usually successful..the knots swell and it can then be easier to pluck out the hair ....you need to wet the knots, and apply conditioner liberally ...leave it to `work` for, say, half an hour or so..... no matter what method, you can end up with an ` uneven`-looking system.....it can be ` patchy` ....only apply Nair in small ` dots` and try to spread them evenly.... you can end up with areas where there are clumps of hair, and others which look ` bald` ..the best way is to go slowly, over a few days....
The knots will be removed along with the hair ....there shouldn`t be a visibility issue as such ...be aware that the factory often uses fabric-dye to color the hair, so bleach will not be effective....you could try a fabric-dye remover on the knots first, as this would be less harsh than bleach....try it on a small / test area and see if it works.

Paul thank you for your input, I usually read some valuable info from you and Hersute, and lots of others on the boards. I went and bought some Nair, it's scary but I think that would work better than the pulling thing. Yet I have experience with neither. It says to leave the Nair on for 3 minutes, but heck, it'll take a lot longer it seems, just to apply a decent number of tiny dots. I wonder how I should do that exactly. With washing them out, seems like doing so very fast wouldn't allow any kind of chemical reaction to happen in unwanted spots. The whole process on video with audio and showing the results would be a gold mine for thousands of people.

Paul, with removing a modest percentage of density (hopefully), those open areas won't show too much of the existing knots from the hair that is left?

As far as a custom unit, I didn't think I had time to wait, but it'll have to be custom from this point on. This is just too much anxiety for someone new to all of this.