The hidden world of hair transplants is suddenly not so secretive, with
celebrities openly embracing the holy grail of male grooming.
On the morning of June 4, a seismic shift occurred in the world of male grooming. 'Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant,' Wayne Rooney tweeted, casually. 'I was going bald at 25 so why not?'
He went on to explain where he had had the procedure done (a Harley Street clinic), whether it hurt ('Nah, it was OK') and the healing process ('The new hair's coming along people. Swelling gone down'). He even posted pictures.
Rooney is the latest in a growing list of male celebrities happy to admit to 'hair restoration' procedures, but the glee with which he reported his was startling. 'Rooney's outing was a watershed moment,' says Mark Simpson, author of Metrosexy: A 21st Century Self-Love Story and a leading authority on the shifting nature of masculinity. 'It's a sign that something has changed. These days, there's much less shame about men caring about their appearance. In fact, there's quite a lot of out-of-the-closet pride.'
This is certainly a far cry from the days when men reluctantly accepted baldness. They now have a raft of options for restoring a thinning thatch. As well as transplants there are laser therapy treatments, which claim to bring follicles back to life, stimulating hair growth. There are nifty little weaves that attach to your existing barnet, and a concealer called Nanogen, essentially microscopic hairlike fibres that you sprinkle on your scalp like hundreds and thousands, and which cling to your thinning strands (nanogenhair.com). There is even hope for billiard-ball baldies in the shape of a tattooing treatment that creates the effect of scalp stubble (hishairclinic.com).
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SOURCE Lee Kynaston, Daily Telegraph
On the morning of June 4, a seismic shift occurred in the world of male grooming. 'Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant,' Wayne Rooney tweeted, casually. 'I was going bald at 25 so why not?'
He went on to explain where he had had the procedure done (a Harley Street clinic), whether it hurt ('Nah, it was OK') and the healing process ('The new hair's coming along people. Swelling gone down'). He even posted pictures.
Rooney is the latest in a growing list of male celebrities happy to admit to 'hair restoration' procedures, but the glee with which he reported his was startling. 'Rooney's outing was a watershed moment,' says Mark Simpson, author of Metrosexy: A 21st Century Self-Love Story and a leading authority on the shifting nature of masculinity. 'It's a sign that something has changed. These days, there's much less shame about men caring about their appearance. In fact, there's quite a lot of out-of-the-closet pride.'
This is certainly a far cry from the days when men reluctantly accepted baldness. They now have a raft of options for restoring a thinning thatch. As well as transplants there are laser therapy treatments, which claim to bring follicles back to life, stimulating hair growth. There are nifty little weaves that attach to your existing barnet, and a concealer called Nanogen, essentially microscopic hairlike fibres that you sprinkle on your scalp like hundreds and thousands, and which cling to your thinning strands (nanogenhair.com). There is even hope for billiard-ball baldies in the shape of a tattooing treatment that creates the effect of scalp stubble (hishairclinic.com).
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SOURCE Lee Kynaston, Daily Telegraph
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