- [David] What we wanna look at
is did we make those hairs thicker?
Did we preserve those hairs? And then we'll just take a look
at the overall health of the hair.
- [Zach] A little over a year ago,
I changed the biggest insecurity that I had.
I got hair restoration surgery.
A lot of people have been asking since then, what happened?
Did it work?
Is my hair fixed?
And really most importantly,
how do I feel about all of this?
Am I happy that I did it?
I'm headed back to the Barber Surgeons Guild,
where I got my procedure.
We're gonna go under the microscope
and see what's going on with my hair follicles now.
- And so today we're gonna show you
your original photo before we did anything,
when you came in and then to where you are now.
And I guarantee the difference will be very dramatic.
- I was gonna do one of those really cool time-lapses
where I take a photo every day.
And I did it three times.
I took three photos.
That's it, whoops!
- [Zach] Take a look at the hair follicles.
Look at these new guys.
(upbeat music)
- I don't think there's anything wrong
with losing your hair or being bald.
I think there are a lot of guys that look great with it.
First of all, every action star in the world,
Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel Bruce Willis,
Jason Statham, Walter White.
I mean basically the entire cast of breaking bad.
People, Samuel L. Jackson,
you can look great bald than if you're losing your hair
and it doesn't follow you like go for it.
But unfortunately for me,
I didn't feel good about it.
For a long time,
my hair has been just a pure source of insecurity.
Like I was just embarrassed.
I would watch videos and it just would kill me.
I started wearing hats a lot, like a lot, a lot,
so much of my time
and my energy was just spent trying to hide it.
I wasn't ashamed because of what other people felt.
I just didn't look the way that I thought I should,
the way that I wanted to.
I wasn't ready.
I wasn't ready to lose my hair.
We are now, I wanna say 14 months from the procedure.
- Sounds like a bigi baby. - I know.
- We're having a baby.
How old's your child 48 months?
When Zach first came to me, when Zach.
When Zach came we had no style, no style.
(both laughing)
No style, the journey was rough.
- I cornered David at a party and I was like,
you need to help me, man.
I feel like we're an old Jewish couple right now.
It was like the end of when Harry met Sally,
and we're talking about how we met.
- So when I first saw Zach, right here
was the area of concern.
And this too was like really back also,
so it didn't really help with the frontal lobe.
And then also the famous yamaka area.
This was very, very thick.
- I'm lucky you convinced
that's why yamakas were invented.
- To hide. - To hide.
- Old Jewish man could be like, "No, I'm good,
I got my hair."
And you can't say anything.
- Welcome to the Barber surgeons Guild.
We don't have barbers during surgery.
We don't have surgeons during Barbary, but we have both.
And we that back together.
- What, what are we doing today?
- You know, obviously we wanna take a look.
We wanna get in there and see how things are looking.
- So while we are here,
I'm also gonna be doing a second round of scalp chemo.
This is where I got my restoration, come on in.
Hello, Chappie.
Good to see you again.
It's been a while.
Is he doing it?
- Yes. - You changed the name.
- Yes, Super Chappie.
- This is Super Chappie now.
When I first came in,
what did you see with my hair?
What was my diagnosis so to speak?
- So you had two things going on.
You had hair loss more severe in the front than the back,
and you had active hair thinning,
the hair follicles themselves
become thinner and thinner and thinner.
And they become really fine in a process
known as miniaturization.
And those hairs become so miniaturized.
Then eventually they stop becoming hairs
and don't grow anymore.
And that's sort of the point of no return.
- Like the hairs are Benjamin bubbly.
They become babies.
And then the baby becomes just nothing.
So what are we doing today?
- Just gonna do some blending.
We're gonna extend the camel from the crown
to the mid scalp where the transplant ended.
- [Zach] Let's go for it.
When I came in,
what were the things that we did?
- It's kinda now become a known as the Zack package.
- Wow! - It's small but powerful.
- Yeah. (both laughs)
Packed some many bunch.
- First we did the camouflage
using this pigment to sort of mask that contrast
between the lighter skin and darker hair.
The reason we did that there was,
it really wasn't thin enough
to warrant doing restoration area.
- A lot of my hair was salvageable.
And so getting on medicine has helped boost it
and thicken my follicles again.
So this ink dissolves naturally within five years.
And the idea is that as my hairs get stronger,
the ink fades away.
But the hair then looks the same.
Number one thing that guys asked me about,
when I tell them that I did this,
and then I'm on Finasteride now,
they hear that I'm taking a pill for my hair
and they go, it doesn't matter (beeb).
Literally every single guy has asked me,
does your dick still work?
Hi, I'm Zach's penis.
And we are back together again.
- The studies say up to one to two percent
in my personal opinion,
I think that's a gross overestimation.
I say that because we prescribed this
to many, many, many people.
There is a small risk that you can have side effects, okay?
Very small.
You have side effects.
We get off of it.
I do not want people to be on a medicine
that causes side effects.
But the side effect of not taking it is losing your hair.
So you know.
- Was that loss of confidence,
that's the real boner killer?
- Not exactly. - Totally.
- We're a circle, right?
- You could technically give me a tattoo anywhere.
- I could, if I put a dot on your forehead,
it would fade away about three to five years.
- If I could get like a five-year arm sleeve,
oh yeah.
- You know, when the hairs are gone, they're gone.
You can't bring them back
unless you put hairs back in there.
So that's how we get to restore the front.
- Yeah, I was terrified of that surgery
for a lot of reasons.
One, I didn't wanna big scar on the back of my head.
Two, it just seemed painful,
it's like the recovery would suck.
The procedure we did, left me with no scar whatsoever.
It was a totally easy pain-free procedure.
But the days after the surgery, I was swollen.
I was on these like really powerful steroid drugs.
I don't know what I was taking.
And I got really melancholy.
I'm having this moment
where I don't know what's happening.
I'm all alone tonight, Maggie's at work.
I'm having this moment where I'm regretting
going through with this.
I didn't wanna see anybody,
'cause I looked crazy and I just...
I felt like an idiot.
I don't wanna be seen by people like this.
And I don't wanna have to explain myself all day.
I guess I'm not having doubts.
I don't know why, the answer is I'm having doubts,
but I don't know why?
We on this channel I preach this body positivity
and loving yourself and don't worry what anyone else thinks.
And here I got this procedure to change how I look
because I couldn't accept a part of myself.
And I just got so sad.
As soon as a medicine wore off, I felt great.
I was in videos at that time especially if you look back
at the early podcasts we did,
my hair is, it is so fair and receding and it's short.
So I can't hide it.
But there was a real power in that.
Like it wasn't controlling me anymore.
I was like, yeah, this is what my hair looks like.
And guess what?
It's gonna only get better from here.
I know a lot of people have reached out
and they're like, would you recommend that I do this?
And it's kind of to each their own.
- I say this is not for everybody.
If people are happy with the way they look,
there's no reason they have to do this.
If they want to do something for themselves,
because it makes them feel better about themselves,
these are the things that are available to them.
- So right now we're gonna go under the microscope.
And we're gonna see what the follicles look like
a year later.
And this is both from the restoration.
- Right? - And from taking Finasteride.
- Now let's take a look at the hair follicles.
Look at these new guys.
First of all, look at this picture than before.
- [Zach] That's the same area?
- [David] That's the same area, right now.
- [Zach] Oh, we're sure?
- Yeah. - Wow!
- A lot more hair there now.
And thicker hairs. - Yeah.
- [David] Very little mattress agent present.
- This is why not to recommend restoration
in that area at that time.
Because Finasteride did his job.
I can't see any sort of thinning back here,
honestly between the camel and it looks perfect.
- Wow, that's cool. - Yeah.
- So because Zach, you have a lot of hair,
we're gonna take the opportunity to give you
three different looks.
But it is still there.
So just because he got surgery,
doesn't mean that it's still not there.
- It's still- - Still a Jewish man.
(both laughing)
I still have (beeb) thin hair.
Oh, whoa!
- So what we're gonna do is just cut your hair.
(upbeat music)
- Zach's old hair can't come at the front right now, why?
'Cause he's dead.
Actually it's alive.
- [David] It's actually still alive.
- Now it's more alive.
(upbeat music)
- [Zach] And if I'm just staring down in my mind
When I looked back up, I'm gonna be bald.
- [David] Like I think this is the shortest
I've ever taken your hair.
(shaving machine revving)
- There are very few things I love as much as-
- A neck trim. - Yeah.
It feels so good.
(hairdryer blowing)
- Oh, the thing I encourage to anyone
is that the moment that you have that thought
in the back of your mind,
you're like I'm too young to be losing my hair.
But I think it's going,
just go in for your consultation immediately.
'Cause if I had done this five years earlier,
I maybe would not have needed
a restoration procedure right now.
Oh, I look like I'm ready to join an acapella group.
- I was gonna say, it's a very 50's vibe.
- Yes.
Ooh, wow!
It's not something
that I could have pictured or imagined a couple months ago.
I like I'm ready for a house party.
Hey bro, do you wanna crush some white cloth?
- This is the crown before we did the chemo
and it's faster for us.
- This was the top of my head.
- This was the before.
- No way, whoa!
- That was the front.
- I don't remember my hair ever looking like that.
- Yeah, no one does.
- Can you see yourself every day through the process
You don't remember
what it looked like originally, originally.
- That is like- - I love you.
That's a sign right there.
- So this was the old hair line.
This line right here.
- This is wild.
- You know, there's also space
between the hairs in the very front hairline,
which is natural.
Let me look at this density through these hairs
and it just looks so good.
- You guys have no idea
how long I'm gonna do the founding fathers hair.
I find I can pull it off.
- This is definitely got it looks great.
Now we're going for what would be my everyday.
- Whoa (laughs) wow!
- Look at him.
This good David.
- Okay So,
- The shore on the side
and we've got really long on the top.
Maybe I'll do a top-notch.
Maybe I'll have to go Bob, go shoulder lane.
It'll get a perm like you can I pull that hair off?
- You might be able to. - Wow!
That's crazy.
Like I knew that this was awesome, but wow!
This is cool.
I can say truthfully, fully,
doing this did change my life for the better.
And I am incredibly grateful
to have linked up with you guys.
And thank you.
This is really exciting for me because for the first time,
in a long time,
I have choices in how to style and cut my hair
before everything I was doing with my hair,
It was just a reaction to try and hide
or make the best with what I got.
Now, the power is my hands.
The power is in my hair.
There's only one thing left to do
and that's to go full circle and confront my biggest fear.
(shaving machine revving)
I'm just kidding.
I'm not doing that (laughs).
- I was gonna scream.
(mimics shaving machine)
(upbeat music)
- Holy crap!
(both laughs)
- Right there.
- Wow, wow!
That's my belly.
You should have taken that donor.
My God. - Yeah, your very forehead.
- Little hairs on my forehead.
I bought the boy.
Do you want to take this into the back room real quick?
- Just clean it when you're done.