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| Hipster wannabes get facial hair transplants |
| 2014-02-26 |
| [NYPOST] It's shear madness! Brooklyn's hipster beard craze has grown so popular that men in New York are rushing to doctors for "facial hair transplants" -- surgery that helps make beards look thicker and less patchy, sources said. Stubble-challenged guys are forking over up to $8,500 for the beard-boosting procedure, which has spiked in popularity in recent months, plastic surgeons told The Post. "Brooklyn is probably the nucleus of the trend, it's the hipster 'look' guys want. If you have a spotty beard, and you let it grow out, it looks sloppy, " said Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, a Midtown-based plastic surgeon. "[Clients] want full beards because it's a masculine look. Beards are an important male identifier," he added. Epstein performs two or three beard implants per week -- up from just a handful each year a couple years ago, he said. The specific hipster-inspired style -- a lumberjack-meets-roadie hybrid -- was made popular in neighborhoods such as Williamsburg, Bushwick and Park Slope, doctors and patients said. One happy patient is Danny, 27, whose beard used to be so patchy, he was forced to "fill it in" with an eyebrow pencil, he said. Two years ago, he paid $8,500 for the surgery, which he considers a fashion statement. "I have a baby face but now I'm able to look older. My fashion statement is a little edgy, and I do like the 'rugged look,'" he said, |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 Real men don't worry that they aren't real men. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-02-26 22:47 |
| #8 First the redefinition of unemployment to 'funemployment'. Now making the homeless look a 'trend'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-02-26 22:21 |
| #7 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! **cough** **snort** |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-02-26 21:58 |
| #6 Real men don't make "fashion statements". |
| Posted by: tu3031 2014-02-26 21:49 |
| #5 He looks like a toddler who poured oatmeal on his head. I think my son even has those same jammies. I'm not kidding, that boy's head is like Sputnik; spherical but quite pointy at parts! Now that was offside, wasn't it? He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his huge pillow. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-02-26 21:15 |
| #4 My fashion statement is a little edgy, and I do like the 'rugged look,'" Anyone who would make that statement is neither edgy nor rugged. That's like painting faux wood grain on formica and calling it "natural wood". |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-02-26 19:53 |
| #3 What is that 4 stone wimp supposed to be manly; because of a beard? I mean, damn, its the same distance shoulder to shoulder as chin to forehead. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-02-26 15:54 |
| #2 Looks like the guy (in the pic in the article) is working on a set of man-boobs too. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-02-26 11:39 |
| #1 Oh, the irony. A greater desire for facial hair than the average male, yet less testosterone than the average male. |
| Posted by: charger 2014-02-26 11:26 |