Ryan Gosling Wannabes Are Making Beard Transplants Are a Thing

Vanity Fair

Josh Duboff


Ryan Gosling, beard master
Ryan Gosling, beard master

Beards are in. Whereas not a hair could be found on the faces of the majority of men of Sex and the City, the guys of Girls are almost always sporting some level of facial shrubbery. And most of our unanimously accepted heartthrobs these days (Clooney, Hamm, Gyllenhaal, etc.) exhibit a steady, healthy level of hirsuteness. Now, the men of New York are taking out their wallets to keep up.

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DNAInfo reports that plastic surgeons are seeing increased interest in "facial hair transplants," which consist of the doctors "filling in a few gaps or doing a complete beard construction." Patients are shelling out up to $7,000 for the procedure, with one New York City doctor assessing: "Whether you are talking about the Brooklyn hipster or the advertising executive, the look is definitely to have a bit of facial hair." A different doctor notes that "hip . . . fashionable" twenty- or thirty-something young professionals are lookin' to up their beard thickness with increased frequency. "I get a lot of detail-oriented people-artists, architects," he said, with "detail-oriented people" instantly becoming the oddest euphemism for "hipsters" we've come across.

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Sometimes, these doctors reveal, patients bring in photos of actors whose facial hair they want to emulate, like one would to a hairstylist. Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, and-wait for it-"occasionally the Tom Selleck moustache" were cited as the most common requests.

We imagine that when you leave your appointment, you're handed a complimentary set of mason jars, a plaid flannel, and two pairs of Warby Parkers as parting gifts.

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