Los Angeles Times Hair Transplant Article

[Barrie]

I just read this article on hair transplants in the LA Times called "in a hairy job market, can transplants aid the balding?"

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f....column?page=1

These articles all sound the same to me when I read them. A reporter with a
full head of hair seems stumped as to why men would need to have to resort to surgery to improve their chances of being more successful in their jobs and in their personal lives, of course he has hair so it's hard to imagine how devastating losing your hair can be afterall look how successful Bruce Willis is.. again with the bruce willis, the one guy of three actors who looks great bald. That guy isn't me I don't look like bruce willis, I need hair.

While I'm certain that The New Hair Institute was pleased to be mentioned in the Los Angeles times, I find this quote from the writer a little bit upsetting:

"Insecurity is clearly a big factor when it comes to balding -- and you could argue that places like the New Hair Institute prey on that insecurity by advancing the notion that people's lives will be improved with costly cosmetic surgery."

Many times lives our improved by cosmetic surgery. Our small or large imperfections and insecurities keep us from going for that promotion or asking a woman out, and yes a few thousand grafts can turn it all around for some people. Is this such a hard concept to follow

The author also writes when talking about a man at the hair transplant open house"To my eyes, he looked just fine. Maybe a little thin up top, but nothing extreme. He still had hair." Again, to the guy's eyes he doesn't look like himself, that's not him in the mirror, not who he was, the person he knows. To a complete stranger with a full head of hair it may be business as usual, things change when you walk in those shoes.

I'm glad that hair transplant surgery makes the news, but I wish that perhaps these pieces were approached by individuals who were more deeply connected, understood what was being written about on a more intimate level, otherwise the articles can come off as make hair transplant surgery sounds so superficial and unnecessary and that just isn't the case.