2 months post op FUE hair transplant, can I color my hair? (photos)

Hello, Dr. George Abrahamian here from LA FUE Hair Clinic in Pasadena, CA. Typically your scalp has recovered well enough to start dyeing your approximately 3-4 weeks after a hair restoration procedure. However, not any hair dye should be used, as many hair dyes contain harsh chemicals that can cause chemical burns to the skin which can impact graft integrity. Organic hair dyes are best, and I recommend that hair dyes should be tried out prior to transplant, to see how the skin reacts to it as I have seen even organic hair dyes cause inflammation to the skin. I generally recommend to my clients that they wait 2-3 months before attempting to dye the recipient areas, to give the skin ample time to heal and the grafts to take root and start their maturation cycles before dying the hair. This will significantly reduce the risk of chemical trauma to the grafts.
Secondarily, the hair that is grafted from the donor area, typically does not grow in the donor area again. With FUE hair restoration, the hairs surrounding the removed follicles will mask the areas that the grafts are taken from, but the exact areas from where the grafts are removed will not grow hair. I always make the following analogy, if you uproot a tree from your backyard, and plant it in the front yard, do you now have two trees, or did you move the tree from one area to the other? Same logic applies to hair restoration. The hair follicle is removed by the root, and planted in the area that we prefer to have it. So the overall number of follicles stays the same, but what we are doing is changing its location from the donor to the recipient site. We are born with a finite number of hair follicles, all we are doing is changing their location to be more aesthetically pleasing. I hope this helps.

Generally, after one month you can consider your hair being back to normal, and you can treat it however you would treat your normal hair. Dye, cut, and style away.