Why everyone’s talking about ScoMo’s hair

Hair loss is a known side effect of Covid, according to experts, but it’s the Prime Minister’s pandemic hair growth that has everyone talking.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s luscious locks have the Twitterverse in a spin. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

By golly-gosh is there an age-defying elixir for our women of Toorak getting the jab?

When the masks come off down in the Village for a quick hello and an air kiss after popping in to buy a quiche Lorraine and baguette at Laurent Patisserie, there are audible gasps of “dahling, lockdown has been good to you.”

Stacking on the flab, aka “the Covid 5”, during lockdown was so 2020. Not anymore. Women are looking positively decades younger, with nary a crow’s foot, a drooping jowl, or a sagging jawline.

Even the wayward waistlines are trending tighter.

Lissome ladies driving their SUV’s like a bat outta hell in the Tok H carpark have discovered a silver lining to the pandemic in their well-lined pockets.

Page 13 called in further down Toorak Rd at Dr Chris Moss’s plastic surgery clinic where Range Rovers and Porsche Cayenne’s are jostling for a park and often bank up around Orrong Rd.

Facelifts are in high demand during the pandemic, according to plastic surgeon Chris Moss. Picture: iStock

Sadly, Dr Moss doesn’t cut and tell, but he did say his surgery is booming in peak pandemic.

The world-renowned pioneer in facial surgery says lockdown has literally given ladies a lift.

With trips to Mykonos and St Barts (we don’t talk of Aspen anymore) off the itinerary what better way to spend downtime than in filling up those pesky homeschooling frownlines?

Dr Moss said there has been a surge in people going ahead with surgery since Covid. But it’s the facelifts that are in high demand.

“My facelift practice has been a very big beneficiary. It’s been other things too. I’m still seeing a lot of rhinoplasty and eye lifts. But the biggest thing by far has been the face and neck lifts,” Dr Moss said.

“The way people are viewing life through the period of Covid has created opportunities and it has changed the way people are thinking.

“People are not going overseas and spending all their money on holidays. They are investing in themselves, their homes and their lifestyle.

“Been cooped up at home and having to wear masks outside has proved the perfect time for recovering from a facelift.

“It means for the ability to have surgery and quietly disappear into ‘lockdown’,” Dr Moss said.

“It’s kind of the perfect opportunity. Suddenly they re-emerge and find lockdown has been kind to them.”

Stomach staples are also de rigueur during Covid. Page 13 has heard of more than one household name (click click go the wagging tongues) emerging from lockdown looking fit and fabulous, thanks to a secret nifty tuck.

The allotted two hours of daily exercise is also doing such wonders for the collective physique, well that’s the excuse.

IS SCOMO SPORTING SOME NEW HAIR ACCESSORIES?

Don’t think our men aren’t cashing in on some downtime either. The previously glabrous are looking positively hirsute come lockdown 6.0, all thanks to getting their Yeah Yeah on.

Advanced Hair Studio we mean! Founder and chairman Carl Howell told Page 13 hair loss is a known side effect of Covid.

Regardless, treatments and inquires for hair transplants have been on the rise during the pandemic.

Scott Morrison in March this year.

...and Scott Morrison in July.

Spin king Shane Warne, who has tested positive, will need to brush up on his usual hair treatments following quarantine.

Even our PM has been accused of taking time-out to look after a bald patch.

Surely not, although the Twitterverse has been raging saying Scotty from Marketing has been in hiding having hair plugs embedded to improve his re-election chances at the next federal poll.

There is even hashtag #scottyfromhairplugs trending.

We put it to the expert, with Howell from Advanced Hair emphatically telling us “something has definitely happened” to the increasing hair on ScoMo’s head.

The PM’s office are just as emphatically denying any such treatment.

The PMO said that like many others in lockdown the Prime Minister just hadn’t had a chance to get his regular haircut.

After returning from overseas and in mid-June the Prime Minister did his time in quarantine and then went into lockdown at home in Sydney.

He was back in quarantine again when he went back to Canberra for parliament.

His locks were just a little longer after more than six weeks away from the hairdresser.

They assured us ScoMo has had a trim and his hair is “back to looking (there was a long pause here) like it normally does.”