{"id":13176,"date":"2014-02-26T14:02:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T14:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13176"},"modified":"2014-02-26T14:04:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T14:04:05","slug":"beards-are-an-important-male-identifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13176","title":{"rendered":"‘Beards are an important male identifier’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Who started the craze? Eugene Terre’blanche wearing a real one<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s shear madness! The beard craze has grown so popular that men in New York are rushing to doctors for \u201cfacial hair transplants\u201d \u2014 surgery that helps make beards look thicker and less patchy, sources said.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrooklyn is probably the nucleus of the trend, it\u2019s the hipster \u2018look\u2019 guys want. If you have a spotty beard, and you let it grow out, it looks sloppy, \u201d said Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, a Midtown-based plastic surgeon.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Clients] want full beards because it\u2019s a masculine look. Beards are an important male identifier,\u201d he added.
\nEpstein performs two or three beard implants per week \u2014 up from just a handful each year a couple years ago, he said.<\/p>\n

The specific style \u2014 a lumberjack-meets-roadie hybrid \u2014 was made popular in neighborhoods such as Williamsburg, Bushwick and Park Slope, doctors and patients said.<\/p>\n

One happy patient is Danny, 27, whose beard used to be so patchy, he was forced to \u201cfill it in\u201d with an eyebrow pencil, he said.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, he paid $8,500 for the surgery, which he considers a fashion statement.
\n\u201cI have a baby face but now I\u2019m able to look older. My fashion statement is a little edgy, and I do like the \u2018rugged look,\u2019\u201d he said,<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cIt\u2019s one of the best investments I\u2019ve ever made.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the procedure, doctors remove hair from other body parts, including the head and chest, before implanting it in the face.<\/p>\n

New beards grow back normally and can be shaved.<\/p>\n

The hair-raising trend is also popular with female-to-male transgenders, Hasidic Jews, and guys who simply aren\u2019t very hairy, doctors said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the style. It\u2019s just more common now to see scruff than ten years ago,\u201d said Dr. Yael Halaas, a Midtown plastic surgeon, who performs the procedure.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been getting a lot more calls about it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A 39-year-old New Yorker, who works in catering industry, got a beard transplant to make him feel younger, DNAinfo.com reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had contemplated [getting a beard transplant] for approximately eight months,\u201d he said, \u201cKnowing the results, I wish I hadn\u2019t wasted so much time deciding,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Source: NY Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s shear madness! The beard craze has grown so popular that men in New York are rushing to doctors for \u201cfacial hair transplants\u201d \u2014 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 … Continue reading “‘Beards are an important male identifier’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[8492,8491,8496,8494,8495,8493],"class_list":["post-13176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-beard-craze","tag-facial-hair-transplants","tag-male-identifier","tag-plastic-surgeons","tag-spotty-beard","tag-stubble-challenged"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/eugenebeard.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13179,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176\/revisions\/13179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}