Dakota Mortensen is being quite open about his hair transformation journey.
He is a star of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and has a 9-month-old child named Ever True with his partner Taylor Frankie Paul, who he has an on-again, off-again relationship with. Dakota decided to take his TikTok followers along and show them the process of his recent hair transplant procedure.
He posted a TikTok video. The video began at 7 AM. Dakota invited viewers, saying, “Come with me to get a hair transplant.” Then, the video showed the back and sides of his head being shaved off.
The 31-year-old Dakota pointed at a dotted line across his forehead and said, “So that’s my new hairline, guys. I shaved my head; I look like a viking now!”
After that, the video cut to Dakota lying back. Dr. James Manning from Utah Facial Plastics started the procedure. Dakota said, “It feels like something is squeezing my head.” A woman off-camera told him that it would feel like that throughout the whole day.
The doctor then explained to Dakota what he was doing. At the end of the video, Dakota showed off “the final product.” With a bandage on his head, he joked, “It looks like a bunch of maggots, but I can assure you I will be looking like Fabio when it’s all said and done.”
Dakota admitted that he didn’t show several steps of the process on camera. In the caption of the video, he said, “I couldn’t show a lot cause of how bloody it was, but [it was] such a crazy process.” This Hulu star also showed that he had a lot of fun during the procedure. He had previously shared two sillier videos from the doctor’s office.
In one of those videos, he pretended to be sad. He wrote in the video, “when you’re going bald, so you get a hair transplant.” In the caption, he teased that a “full head of hair” was “coming in hot.” In the second video, he was being goofy in the doctor’s office and wrote, “When they leave you alone in a room you shouldn’t be left alone in.”
After a fan asked how he was feeling the day after the procedure, Dakota posted a follow-up video. He said that his face and nose were swollen. Some commenters pointed out that he seemed to have a healthy head of hair before the transplant. Dakota explained that the situation wasn’t that simple and that he was thinking about the future.
In a video on January 12, he said, “I know a lot of people were asking, ‘Dude, you’re not going bald!’ Yeah, I know. I was just receding really bad. Well, not even really bad, but I was starting to recede…It’s going to come back so much more full now and last for a long time.”
Dakota added, “The hardest part is I can’t touch this at all. It itches. I want to just go crazy on it, but I can’t.”
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