Two women tell us why they could only go through with their big day after having cosmetic surgery‘I spent £4,000 on a hair transplant’
WORDS: KATE GRAHAM. EUNICE ATKINSON WEDDING
Georgia Lloyd, 26, lives in Chester with her husband Danny, 33.
Raising my eyebrows was the hardest habit to break. For a decade I’d been doing it constantly, convinced it would make my forehead look smaller. I even caught myself doing it on my wedding day, before remembering I didn’t need to. Thanks to my hair transplant, I could relax.
I had been aware of my big forehead for as long as I can remember and my mum, who sadly passed away in 2014, told me strangers would comment on it when I was a baby. As a teenager, I did everything I could to disguise it, including growing a fringe and having a hairbrush handy in case a gust of wind exposed my high hairline. But it didn’t stop classmates writing, ‘Georgia has a big, fat forehead,’ on the white board, leaving me humiliated.
When I was 19, I met Danny, whose parents were friends of my mum and stepdad. I couldn’t believe he was interested in me, as he was very good-looking and extremely kind. We moved in together 18 months later and got engaged in Venice on New Year’s Eve 2017.
With a wedding date set for April 2022 – after we’d had to push it back three times because of the pandemic – I came to the decision to do something about my forehead before I said my vows. I looked into tattooing on a lower hairline, or having my forehead cut open and my scalp pulled down, but a hair transplant felt like the best option. Danny thought I was mad, but he was supportive as he could see how determined I was. It cost £4,000, and Dad offered to pay so it wouldn’t impact our wedding budget.
UNDER THE KNIFE
At a consultation with the Surgery Group, the doctor explained the procedure was called a follicular unit transplant (FUT). He’d remove a thin strip of hair from the back of my head, cut it into smaller pieces and remove the gra
