Alex Finken, product review influencer, was tired of his male pattern baldness. Wanting to look refreshed for his audience, he decided to drop $17,500 on a hair transplant.

But what should have been a triumphant transformation quickly turned into a comedy of swelling and bruises that left him barely recognizable, and looking like a living cartoon character.

“Some people look OK with it, it goes around their eyes and just looks like they got in a boxing match,” Finken said, stunned at the way his body reacted to the procedure.

“I literally just look like an egg.”

An influencer went massively viral after a hair transplant left him with his head completely distorted and swollen

Finken recorded himself at the peak of his post operative swelling, his head so distorted that the clip went in

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