It’s a snap-on toupee. Developed by surgeon Anthony Pignataro, of West Seneca, N. Y., the wig fastens snugly onto four posts screwed into titanium sockets.

Toupees, which have been rebranded by some as hair systems and are called cranial protheses by medical professionals, have become an unexpected fixture on social media, with both clients and stylists ...

Pignataro, 42, became famous for his snap-on hair invention in the 1980s that required snaps to be surgically embedded into the scalp to attach a toupee.

Em Cheney, 23, used to hate her job applying men’s toupees. Then she started putting it on TikTok. In an interview with PEOPLE, the hairstylist opens up about helping break the stigma around ...

They don’t want toupee for hair transplants.. Balding millennial men are nixing pricey trips to Turkey — preferring to rock retro rugs instead.. Reverting back to the wiggy ways of their ...

Despite admitting reservations about getting a toupee, Bell was thrilled with the results. Emily Cheney attends to Carson Bell. She has been working in the hair industry since 2007, having been an ...

The toupee’s hand-tied, real human hair came from a supplier in India, and should last Magnum 4-6 months, Quinones continued. “At first, it was weird to have hair again, but I like it . . .

Emily Cheney, known as the Toupee Queen, applies a toupee on client Troy Rose her in her Newport Beach salon. (Don Leach / Staff Photographer) “I’ve been wearing hats every day since I was 21 ...