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Show the Receipts: How Much It Costs For a Hair Transplant
Welcome to Show the Receipts, a new series where we ask interesting people to share exactly how much it costs to get shit done. No matter the task, we’re tracking every last dollar from start to finish. Up next: a hair transplant. Peter*, a 38-year-old retail marketing manager in Brooklyn, New York, is now six months post-op from a hair transplant. He had been considering one for years when he began noticing that his hair was thinning, particularly at the hairline and around his temples. “My hair was receding to the point where I felt self-conscious about it,” Peter says. Initially, traveling abroad seemed like the most affordable option. “I…
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Penis Filler: Costs, Side Effects, and More
Cosmetic procedures are on the up and up, especially when it comes to tiny “tweakments,” like trap tox and lip flips. In fact, there are so many out there that it feels like we’re learning about something new every day. A vampire breast lift? A vajacial? Yes, those are real things — and even some of our editors have tried them. The latest eyebrow-raising treatment that’s hit our radar? Penis filler. Yeah, you read that right. Good old dermal filler, like the kind you get in your lips, but for your penis. Intrigued? We certainly were. That’s why we chatted with experts ahead, to answer all of our burning questions:…
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Botox: Your Guide to Costs, Types, and Side Effects
Botulinum toxin — often referred to as the brand name Botox — wasn’t always the Magic Eraser for fine lines and wrinkles like you might know it as today. In fact, ophthalmologist Jean Carruthers, MD, FRCSC, FRC, first stumbled across its smoothing potential while treating a patient for eye spasms in the 1980s. When she noticed fewer frown lines as a happy side effect, Dr. Carruthers relayed the good word to her dermatologist husband. Fast-forward 30-plus years, and Botox has become so commonplace that injections are served with a side of In-N-Out burgers on the hit Netflix show “Selling Sunset.” It’s no longer Hollywood’s best-kept secret or the making for…
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What it Costs to Get Veneers: Receipts
Welcome to Show the Receipts, a new series where we ask interesting people to share exactly how much it costs to get shit done. No matter the task, we’re tracking every last dollar from start to finish. Up next: the price of a “megawatt” smile. Bianca Laird* didn’t set out to get veneers. Outwardly speaking, she didn’t even mind the way her teeth looked. She just saw a set of perfect pearly whites that looked inconspicuously natural, not by way of Jojo Siwa or the smattering of ex-Bachelor contestants on Instagram, but rather her friend, who admitted to having them and recommended a dentist at a time when Laird was…
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Sturt Avenue release the hauntingly beautiful track ‘How Much It Costs’. – Backseat Mafia
Indie folk band Sturt Avenue today release their single ‘How Much It Costs’: a paean to the struggles of pursuing an artistic life and gaining fulfilment from life. Created in collaboration with keyboard player Dave, who fronts his own band Bromham, the song travels effortlessly on a piano foundation skipping across the surface of gentle acoustic guitars with poignant yearning vocals. The track has a statuesque grace and beauty, sending shivers down your spine with its haunting refrain. There are elements of The National in the delivery with an intensity that burns slowly like a fuse. Frontman Bryn Soden provides further insight into the song’s conception: The song is about…
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How Much it Costs to Maintain Platinum Blond Hair: Receipts
Every editorial product is independently selected by our editors. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Welcome to Show the Receipts, a new series where we ask interesting people to share exactly how much it costs to get shit done. No matter the task, we’re tracking every last dollar from start to finish. Up next: maintaining platinum blond hair. Meaghan Flynn first went platinum 15 years ago. She had just moved to New York City — with “two cents to my name,” she says — and so, despite starting from a jet-black base, her color upkeep was done on a budget, to say the least. “I…
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What it Costs to Freeze Your Eggs: Receipts
Welcome to Show the Receipts, a new series where we ask interesting people to share exactly how much it costs to get shit done. No matter the task, we’re tracking every last dollar from start to finish. First up: freezing your eggs in New York City. For Chinae Alexander, family planning wasn’t always a top priority. She was curious about the egg-freezing process, but was dating someone she wasn’t sure she wanted kids with (or if she wanted them at all). Then 2020 rolled around and, at 35, she realized she wanted control over her future. “The reality is, it does matter when you start the process because egg quality…
