(driven music)
- You look so like a rockstar,
like a youthful rockstar.
- [Nick] If you lost your hair,
would you consider doing something like this?
- Yeah, if it looked that good.
(upbeat music)
- Hi, I'm Nick, I'm a Business Analyst here at Buzzfeed.
And I'm here to get a hair piece.
I first started losing my hair when I was 21.
I had a little bit of a panic attack
(chuckling) when I started noticing it.
It's progressively thinned until I was about 25
and then I decided that that it was time to shave it all off
and I've been going bald for the last few years.
When I was in college, my hair was thinning
and my now wife, she was known
for the one who's dating that 30-year-old.
It's one of those things where
you fell your mortality a bit quicker.
I think it hits you on like the mortality side
and then also hits you on
just not feeling physically attractive.
I think its effected my life in a few ways.
I'm not confident, I don't feel like need confidence
to do the things that I wanna do.
It shapes me to be a very analytical
and introspective person.
My wife's always been really supportive about it,
my hair has never been an issue to her.
And I feel like I've never understood why that is
but I'm happy that it is.
So my son is three and he's very honest.
He always jokes around that like Daddy has no hair,
(chuckling) and that type of things, so.
I think it'll be interesting to see his reaction.
So, I'm getting the hair piece put on tomorrow.
I am nervous that people
are gonna like how the hair piece looks
and that I will feel obligated to continue wearing it
in order to feel attractive to other people
rather than feel attractive to myself.
I think I wanted to see what I would look like with hair
and I think I also wanted an excuse to try it.
Doing a video at Buzzfeed is a great excuse
to try something you're afraid of.
- High, I'm Michael Denious and I'm here with OneHead
applying a piece to a bald man.
If you take care of it,
you can get a good four plus months out of them.
I think these pieces are awesome
because it does give you confidence.
Not everyone can be blessed with a good head of hair.
I'm a hair dresser, I need to have my hair,
so if I were to need it, I would absolutely wear it.
The millisecond the piece touches his head,
it will not move, so you cannot make a mistake.
(mellow pop music)
- I'm, I'm, I'm excited.
This is different.
(laughing)
(swooshing) (playful music)
Whoa! (chuckling)
The moment I saw myself in the mirror,
I was feeling overwhelmed.
Not only did I have new hair
but I had a hairstyle that I wasn't used to.
I thought it would be like getting in a time machine,
this is not how I used to style it
but this is probably how I'd wanna style it in 2019.
I'm curious to see what my coworkers,
and friends, and family all think.
I'm trying to get used to this,
this is really weird to have hair.
It's a lot of hair and it's,
I've never had this much hair.
I do not hate it, it just didn't feel like me yet.
It felt like I had a new arm put on,
it felt like something completely brand new.
I feel like it's gonna be a big change for my coworkers,
and my wife, and family.
I know I have to go like talk to my coworkers,
and like see their reactions,
and like I didn't know exactly what to expect with it.
- Oh my God.
I mean, I looks good man.
(laughing)
- [Nick] Thank you.
- You look different.
But the same at the same time.
- [Nick] If you lost your hair,
would you consider doing something like this?
- Yeah, if looked that good.
- They were really cool about it.
- I was about to be like your new haircut looks so cool.
(laughing)
Then I was like, wait, that wasn't there before.
You look like you should be in like Blink 182 or something.
- Oh, thank you, that's a good band.
I think the initial like jarring,
like I suddenly grew hair reaction
generally kind of faded into like, I kinda like it.
- You look so like a rockstar, a youthful rockstar.
- It looks so when you get up close to it,
like look at the root.
I can't tell that's not his real hair.
- Yeah, you're gonna wake up tomorrow morning with bedhead.
- [Nick] Yeah. (gasping)
- I feel like--
- [Lady In Red] Like, no!
- I'm trying to get used to this.
It's a lot of hair.
Honestly, like in my initial reaction,
I was feeling a little like this thing is not right
and then like now I'm actually liking it, a lot.
I couldn't be honest in the first one
but I'm starting to like it.
So after work I went home to see my wife for the first time
and I went through the door,
she was sitting on the sofa and big smile and laugh
and, she's like, "It looks good," you know.
And one of the things I discovered
through this whole process
is that she actually likes me best
with like fuzz on the side and steam-ball on top.
And I did not think that she actually like that,
so that was actually a really interesting thing to uncover.
I got home too late to see my son that night
but he woke up the next morning
and I woke him up and asked him about my hair.
And he took a second, you can see
he's like looking at my hair
and trying to figure out what's going on.
Is anything different about daddy?
- The hair.
- [Nick] The hair?
Do you like it?
- I like your hair.
- [Nick] Do you?
- I do!
- He just immediately wanted to play barber shop.
You gonna give me a haircut?
- Yes.
- [Nick] All right, let's do it.
- Yay.
- I'm gonna sit down in the barbershop chair, okay?
I'm ready to get shaved.
My son always wants to play barber shop
but I've never had hair for him
to like comb or anything like that.
He had a lot of fun like coming my hair
and pretending to cut it, which is really fun.
It was really interesting like shampooing my hair
for the first time.
It felt like part of my head,
it didn't feel like it was something
that I needed to be especially delicate with
and I still really don't have to feel very delicate with.
I'd thrown out all my shampoo,
like I haven't had shampoo in years.
I went to go use my, what I thought was my wife's shampoo,
she's zero waste so everything is in these little bottles
and didn't know that I was actually using body wash
the first time I shampooed my hair.
Make mistakes I guess, I'm new into this.
I've been making a lot of trips to buy things
I forgot that you needed to take care of hair.
So I actually went out and bought a comb
for the first time in many, many years.
So the haircut that they gave me looked really great
but it wasn't something that I
would normally wear my hair like.
I've always kind of done this Chandler Bing thing
where like you kind of like poof it up in the front.
Styling it that way made it feel
a lot more like what I would style my hair like.
Oh, this will be the fist time I
might have helmet hair in years.
So let's see how bad it is.
So I was really worried about biking to work,
what my hair would look like
after being in a helmet
and getting all sweaty and everything.
Ah, not too bad.
I also took an Instagram poll,
I asked people did hair Nick or bald Nick
have better music taste?
And 70% of people said that bald Nick had better music taste
which, same dude but apparently this haircut
has given some bad music recommendations in the past.
So it's been about two weeks
since I got this hair system put on.
It was really jarring, it was not what I was expecting
but as I like wore it and saw how people reacted,
I got a lot more comfortable with it.
And I really like how it looks.
Like, I do feel like I'm treated differently
in public a little bit.
I've noticed like fleeting glances from other people
that I really haven't picked up on before.
And I, like I kinda like that.
I've been thinking about how my confidence has changed
throughout this process.
And I think I do look more attractive
and that is a really cool thing to experience.
I think I used to think of confidence
as like this ego driven thing
that is like, it's a functional thing
and like I've always discounted the value of confidence.
I realize now that like,
I liked catching my reflection in a mirror
and I liked thinking about myself
as like representing my age.
I woke up like this. (chuckling)
So all throughout this process,
I've been trying to decide, like,
am I gonna keep this hair?
Am I going to wear a hair system for the rest of my life
and like, I decided that I don't have to
like weld it to my head.
I can freely move between how I feel.
It's really cool to be able to just
be able to play with my identity
and I felt like before this, like I had to be
visually consistent and dependable.
And I have to represent the identity that is given
by my genetics and like how I naturally express myself.
And I realize in this that like,
I have a lot more control than I thought.
I can choose how I look and how I interact with the world.
And that is a really cool thing to have.
(playful orchestra music)