The Crazy History of the Hair Loss Industry

Head to http://squarespace.com/minale to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or a domain! ➤ BOOK CLUB / NEWSLETTER https://highbrowclub.org/ https://minale.substack.com/ ➤ PRODUCTION written by Mina Le and Am Wyckoff edited by Charlee Reiff ➤ SOCIALS Instagram: http://instagram.com/gremlita TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gremlita Letterboxd: http://boxd.it/7YgX ➤ CONTACT Business email: [email protected] ➤ SOURCES H. G. Wells's "The Man of the Year Million" by Gordon S. Haight (1958) https://www.jstor.org/stable/3044429 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/01/17/hairless-close-encounters/b20a65ea-98e8-4e60-8946-70f041f4d608/ “Shame and Glory: A Sociology of Hair" by Anthony Synnott (1987) https://www.jstor.org/stable/590695 https://herhalfofhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/italian_florentine_school_-_portrait_of_a_lady_in_red_-_ng585_-_national_gallery.jpg Orlando Furioso Canto 7 by Ludovico Ariosto https://allpoetry.com/Orlando-Furioso-Canto-7 https://artwithtosca.com/on-renaissance-gentlewomen-receding-hairline/ "Eyebrows, Hairlines, and 'Hairs Less in Sight': Female Depilation in Late Medieval Europe" by John Block Friedman (2019) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/medieval-clothing-and-textiles/eyebrows-hairlines-and-hairs-less-in-sight-female-depilation-in-late-medieval-europe/098B680153352A9D81BF7AE6B4148FBF https://erindaletapestrystudio.com/history-and-culture/belle-femme-beauty-transition-and-the-dawn-of-the-16th-century/ “Fashion and Adornment" by Laura Michele Diener (2022) The guls horne-booke by Thomas Deckar (1609) "Strange Things Out of Hair: Baldness and Masculinity in Early Modern England" by Anu Korhonen (2010) https://www.jstor.org/stable/27867791 “(Un)body Double: A Rhapsody on Hairless Identity" by Jane E. Schultz (2009) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21141802/ "Villainous Hair: Ba(l)d to the Bone ‐ Would they be so evil if they had hair" by Georgia Kyriakou, V. Drivelou, A. Glentis (2020) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344059832_Villainous_Hair_Bald_to_the_Bone_-_Would_they_be_so_evil_if_they_had_hair "When Affective Disorders Were Considered to Emanate From the Heart: The Ebers Papyrus" by Rami Bou Khalil, M.D. & Sami Richa, M.D., Ph.D. (2014) https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.13070860 Hair!: Mankind's Historic Quest to End Baldness by Gersh Kuntzman (2013) "Androgens, hair loss and eugenics: a tale of discovery and American social history" by Shanti M. Ayob & Andrew G. Messenger (2015) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/exd.12702 https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-history/battling-baldness https://www.hairdoc.com/contents/chapter-11-history-of-surgical-hair-restoration https://www.gq.com/story/how-istanbul-became-the-global-capital-of-the-hair-transplant https://www.thecut.com/article/med-spa-hair-loss-treatments-balding-men-botox.html "The Allures and the Alarms of the Hair Transplant Tourism Industry" (2025) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40660034/ https://www.gq.com/story/how-istanbul-became-the-global-capital-of-the-hair-transplant https://www.streaminggraduate.com/all-articles/media-lab-representation-of-bald-characters-in-media "Shorn Scalps and Perceptions of Male Dominance" by Albert E. Mannes (2012) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1948550612449490 https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/10/bald-men-more-masculine-less-attractive https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/the_bald-headed_men_of_america https://www.newspapers.com/image/647179059/ https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/black-women-baldness 0:00 - intro 7:21 - the fear of baldness 16:03 - how to grow back your hair 27:53 - reclaiming baldness 37:44 - conclusion