I think bald men are hot and there’s no shortage of bald Hollywood heartthrobs, from Bruce Willis and Vin Diesel, to Stanley Tucci and Dwayne Johnson – currently the highest paid actor in Hollywood. “I think during the pandemic it got much worse for me because I was staring at myself in Zoom meetings most days.”īaldness is considered attractive on some men, though. I’m always checking my hairline,” he says.
“It’s something I’m conscious of at all times. Dr Richard Rogers, a veteran surgeon at the Westminster Clinic in London, told The Guardian that his diary has been “packed” since the pandemic, with a 50 per cent bounce in inquiries.Īdam*, 28, from London, tells GQ that he often considers getting a hair transplant. But during the pandemic, travel restrictions led to a surge in demand in the UK. Transplant tourism has become popular in places such as Turkey, where clinics offer half price package deals including hotels for as little as a grand. In the UK, the British Association of Hair Restoration Surgery (Bahrs) estimates that there are about 100 doctors doing hair transplant surgery in more than 200 clinics – 10 times the number there was a decade ago. Google searches for hair transplants have risen by 44% in the past five years. That’s not to say baldness isn’t something a lot of men feel insecure about.
