What gets paid for here, and what was turned down

The two that pay

Exactly two companies can earn this site money, and every link to either of them is marked as paid wherever it appears, with rel="sponsored nofollow" on the anchor and a plain line of text beside the button:

• HairClub, which sells scalp micropigmentation alongside surgery, hair systems and regrowth programmes across the United States and Canada. Its programme pays on a completed free consultation.
• Toppik, which makes the keratin hair fibres this site quotes prices from. Its programme pays on a sale.

Nothing about either arrangement decides what a page says. Both are described with their own published wording, including the parts that do not flatter them — HairClub's statement that it is not a clinic and cannot diagnose anything, and the documented fact that keratin fibres are useless on skin with no hair left to cling to.

What a paid link actually means for you

You pay the same. Following a marked link may set a cookie that tells the company this site referred you; if you then buy or book, the company pays this site a share. It carries nothing about you — no name, no email, nothing about your hair — because this site collects none of that, as the privacy page sets out.

The rule that rules out a whole industry

No scalp micropigmentation studio, chain or artist is linked, named, ranked or recommended on this site, paid or unpaid. This is the biggest commercial decision here and it is deliberate. A site that cannot examine a practitioner's healed work, cannot verify their registration and cannot watch them hold a needle has no business sending readers to one — and a paid recommendation would be worse than a free one, not better. The pages instead tell you how to check someone yourself.

Programmes and categories refused

• Every SMP studio and chain, per the rule above — including ones with open partner programmes.
• Bosley. Its publisher programme is closed, and it stays unkeyed here regardless: HairClub's own home page said on 24 September 2026 that Bosley and HairClub are uniting. That corporate link is disclosed rather than buried.
• Clinic-lead marketplaces and facilitators — the sites that sell your enquiry to a clinic. They are paid by the clinic, which makes their ranking an auction.
• ClickBank and Digistore24 hair-loss offers. Claim-heavy information products in a health category. Refused.
• HealthTrader and pharmacy-style offers. This site does not touch prescription medicines, so it has no business monetising them.
• Luviacure, whose ambassador pitch is built on income promises. Refused on that alone.
• Laser tattoo-removal clinics and device sellers. Removal is a medical decision taken by someone who already regrets a purchase. It will not be monetised here.

A refusal published here cannot be quietly reversed. If any of the above ever changes, this page gets rewritten first and the change is dated.

The free answers, which pay nothing

Said on every commercial page, and repeated here so it is impossible to miss. Seeing a doctor or a board-certified dermatologist about why the hair is going pays this site nothing. Checking a tattooist's registration with your local authority or health department pays this site nothing. Clipping the whole head short, which attacks exactly the contrast that scalp micropigmentation attacks, pays this site nothing — and for a lot of people it is the right answer.

If this page and a page elsewhere on the site disagree

This one wins, and the other one is a bug worth reporting. Write to [email protected] and it gets fixed with the date of the correction on the about page.