THE SECRETS OF HOLLYWOOD HAIRLINES

What happened to all the bald people? Ask these top hair transplant surgeons.

- KATHLEEN HOU

On a Friday at 9 p.m., my calendar reminds me that I have a meeting with Diamond and Champagne. The two go together like popcorn and Nicole Kidman’s AMC ad, particularly in Beverly Hills, where the pair are from. They pop up on my Zoom screen, logging in after a full day’s work that started at the dark hour of 6 a.m.

Given their names, it may be surprising that Jason Diamond and Jason Champagne are not a Vegas lounge act, but rather two of California’s busiest plastic surgeons. Together, they are responsible for a good portion of Hollywood's best hairlines. Things of which there are only about 1,000 in the world: the rare mountain gorilla; the approximate number of shoes in the Sandy Liang x Salomon sneaker drop; and hair surgeons. And probably less than half of those surgeons are able to do the meticulous work of hair restoration, aka transplant surgery.

“You just don’t see [bald people] anymore,” says John Kahen, MD, a hair transplant surgeon. He may be exaggerating, but this could be true in Los Angeles, where he has been practicing for close to two decades. “If you look at the movies from the ’80s and ’90s, you used to see so many bald people.” For today’s top hair doctors, their work has come a long way from anything that could be called “plugs.” Modern-day Hollywood hairlines are bolstered with painstaking techniques that yield much more natural-looking results.