Superstar singer Justin Bieber is known for his youthful appearance, but cosmetic surgeons believe he may have had a little “help” these days achieving a key part of his youthful look.
In an enlightening new video clip, New York City plastic surgeon Dr. Gary Linkov revealed compelling evidence that Bieber, 30, underwent a hair transplant to restore volume to his locks.
Dr. Linkov shows two intriguing images that seem to suggest the singer’s hairline has miraculously changed in the space of two years.
It would also explain why the star has rarely been photographed without a hat or hoodie covering her head in recent years.
In an image, taken at the 2022 Super Bowl in Inglewood, California, Bieber: who is married to model and influencer Hailey Bieber, 27, sports a shaved head, and his hairline appears to be receding and his hair is quite sparse.
But in another image, shared by the star earlier this week, her hair is surprisingly full, with her hairline straight and even.
Bieber was photographed at the Super Bowl in February 2022 with an inverted hairline on the sides of his scalp. But in a photo he posted last week this seemed to have disappeared, and he now has much fuller locks.
In this July 2018 snapshot taken in New York City, Bieber was photographed with long hair, but again had signs of a receding hairline on the sides of his scalp.
Surgeon Dr. Gary Linkov said: “When I look at his forehead, [the hairline is now] much flatter, it doesn’t have that recession.
“And when the hair is wet, you can notice the regularity of the [hairline]so it seems like maybe he had a transplant.
Dr. Jim Harris, a plastic surgeon also in New York City, added: “There is no medication that can reverse receding hairline.” I think that, based on [photos]”I would say he probably had hair restoration surgery.”
Experts have also noted that Bieber frequently appears in public wearing a hat or hood, which may have disguised his revealing hair growth after a hair transplant procedure.
Dr. Linkov said: “He started wearing all these hats [in 2022] and covers her hair so it’s hard to tell what was going on.
“And remember, hair transplants can take up to a year, maybe a year and a half, to see final results.”
doctor harris saying: ‘In a photo from 2023 I notice that Justin’s hairline seems flatter.
‘A few years before that, in 2018, you had a definitive recession, a very scalloped front line. [But] now it is flatter on its front, much more linear.
Surgeons said Bieber had likely received follicular unit extraction (FUE) to fill in lost hair, particularly around the upper corners of his face.
In this procedure, doctors take hair follicles from the back of the head and implant them in the front to replace lost hair.
It can be done in a way that covers scars on the back of the head, making it difficult to tell if someone has had the procedure.
Dr. Linkov estimated that Bieber had up to 1,800 follicles transferred, at the high end of the normal number of 500 to 1,500.
Bieber, pictured above in September 2021 (left) and in the same month (right) attending the Met Gala, was photographed with a thinning hairline at these events.
Over the past two years, Bieber has been repeatedly photographed wearing hats or with the hood up, hiding any changes to his hairline. Surgeons said any hair transplant could take at least a year to resolve. He is pictured, left, in November 2022 in Los Angeles and January 2023 in New York City.
Estimates suggest that around 85 percent of men, including Bieber, suffer from some form of hair loss throughout their lives, known as male pattern baldness.
This is where hair follicles begin to shrink and die on the front of the head or crown, often related to age-related hormonal changes.
Other celebrities who appear to have received similar treatments include singer Machine Gun Kelly, 34, and Prince Harry, 39.
Bieber’s hair first showed signs of thinning in 2017, at the age of 23, when surgeons said they could see signs that his hairline was receding in the front.
They called it androgenic alopecia, or when hair follicles shrink over time due to hormonal changes that shorten the hair growth cycle.
In 2021, Bieber was photographed with dreadlocks, which surgeons warned could cause traction alopecia, a form of hair loss caused by prolonged tension or pulling on follicles.
In 2022, he was photographed with a hairline drastically inverted on both sides on the front of his head.
There were also reports in 2016 that Bieber, then 21, suffered from parts of his hair “falling out in clumps” due to his bleached blonde look.
Bieber previously criticized Prince William for hair loss, saying: “I mean, there are things that prevent that nowadays, like Propecia.” [a hair loss drug].
‘I don’t know why you don’t just get those things, those products…don’t you have them here?’