I was using toppikk for years before going with a piece. I grew a full beard and when it came time to slap the first piece on my head I did it at a proessional shop on a Friday after work. This was MAy 20th 2005. I had the whole weekend to worry, tweak and what not. My first template pretty much mirrored my baldness recession so the change was only a bit drastic. Plus I shaved my beard and went to work on Monday. Eveyone said "Oh you shaved" - people who had not seen me in a while said "Oh you lost weight". One boss asked if I did anything different to my hair and I said I had colored it.

Besides that no one knew.

Slowly over a 1 year period I started making my templates gradually bigger and finally to the point where I was when I was 30 - 12 years ago.

Someone who has not seen me since a week before I started wearing until now will notice a huge difference - however at this point 3 years have past so doing the gradual thing was very helpful.

Also shaving the beard was priceless and really masked the transition.