“If someone said to me, ‘You’re really vain and you’ve just wasted a load of money’, I’d probably tell them they were right,” says Jamie, who underwent a facial hair transplant four months ago to even out his designer stubble. “But I look in the mirror and I have a bloody great beard, so no regrets.”
The 37-year-old, who works in the entertainment industry in London, says he has been “rocking” stubble in the style of American designer Tom Ford for years, but was unhappy with the patchy distribution of his facial hair. After finding out a friend had undergone a hair transplant for his scalp, Jamie booked a consultation with the friend's surgeon, who suggested he could have the same done on his face.
“He said he could take the hair from under my chin and just put it where I wanted. The only thing that was painful was when the needle went in to anaesthetise my face, then the rest of it was kind of boring. It was three hours of making little cuts and then putting the hairs in one by one.”
The cuts left a crust of tiny scabs which disappeared after five days, and the hairs themselves fell out shortly after, leaving only the root behind. A couple of weeks later they started to re-grow and Jamie now almost has the beard of his dreams – though he still plans to go back for more work.
“Now people get beard envy when they see me, but I’m a perfectionist so I want another few hairs here and there,” he says. “All in all it will have cost me about £3,000. I know a few people in entertainment who’ve had it done; I guess it’s more common because we’re in a creative industry.”
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