BALD & THE BEAUTIFUL
Hair’s a smart $7K toup
These men are embracing their Great Recession.
Expensive, uber-realistic toupees are the hottest new flex online and in the Big Apple — with some spending hair-raising dough to look their best.
One Upper East Side hair stylist, Terri Green, hawks her handmade toupees for up to a whopping $6,800 — because they are a cut above the rest, she told The Post.
“My pieces are real human hair ethically sourced from nonprofits in the United States,” Green explained, adding that the process of “installing” her hairdos entails attaching it one piece of hair at a time.
While they are “expensive, expensive pieces . . . they give people another good option” besides baldness and hair replacement surgeries, which aren’t effective for everyone, Green said.
Dancer’s choice
This month, 31-year-old Corey Magnum made the 45-minute trek from his home in Port Chester to sit in Hair Replacement Specialist Geraldo Quinones’ chair at a barber shop in East Harlem — and have a $1,500 toupee glued onto his follically challenged head.
Magnum (above, before and after), a contemporary ballet dancer who’s been balding since he was 25, went to Quinones, who owns the Royal Crown Hair Club, for his first “hair system” in November, before Magnum performed as the lead prince in the prestigious Nutcracker Ballet.
“When you think of a prince, they usually have hair,” Magnum pointed out with a chuckle.
His new ’do won’t budge while Magnum is dancing, according to Quinones, 33, who also said the piece’s thin, polyester base allows for sweat to come through the top. The toupee’s hand-tied, real human hair came from a supplier in India, and should last Magnum four to six months, Quinones continued.
“At first, it was weird to have hair again, but I like it . . . I feel like a new person once I get out that chair,” Magnum told The Post. “Even my [dance] director was like, ‘You’re dancing more confident now.’ ”