It’s that feeling when you’re in a room where you feel slightly underdressed, no matter what you’re wearing? That was us last week at the Hotel Taj Palace. We swapped our scrubs for suits. Which, let’s be honest, as healthcare professionals, never feels quite right. We then found ourselves at the Times Now India Health Summit & Awards.
We mean it, it’s a big deal for us at Eugenix. You’re surrounded by some of the sharpest minds in Indian healthcare, all discussing the future of medicine. We were mostly there to listen, learn, and enjoy the fancy appetizers. We figured being nominated was the win.
Then an announcement boomed over the speakers: “…and the award for Innovation in Hairline Design & Aesthetic Craftsmanship goes to… Eugenix Hair Sciences.”
There’s a moment of stunned silence. A quick, wide-eyed look across the table. Did they just say us? Then a clumsy scramble of chairs and a round of slightly-too-enthusiastic back-pats as our star surgeon Dr Priyadarshini went up to receive the award.
Now, “Innovation in Hairline Design & Aesthetic Craftsmanship” is a mouthful. It sounds incredibly corporate, but what it means to us is anything but.
It means someone noticed the obsession.
We don’t just “do” hair transplants. We geek out over hairlines. Seriously. We have passionate (and probably very boring to anyone else) debates about the micro-irregularities of a natural hairline, the precise angle of a temple point, and how to create a widow’s peak that doesn’t scream “I’ve had work done!”
Anyone with a pair of hands can be taught to move hair from point A to point B. But craftsmanship? That’s different. That’s knowing that a hairline isn’t a line at all. It’s a delicate, chaotic, and utterly unique transition zone. It’s artistry that has to stand up to a windy day, a swim in the ocean, and the most critical eye of all: your own, staring back from the mirror every morning.
And this award… it isn’t really for us, the founders. It belongs to a whole crew of people you might never meet.
It belongs to the team who spends six straight hours placing individual grafts, each one angled just so, with the focus of a bomb disposal expert and the patience of a saint. This one’s also for our counselors who sit with people during one of the most vulnerable moments of their lives, answering the same questions for the hundred and ninetieth time with fresh empathy because they know it’s the first time for this person. It belongs to the smiling face that greets you at the front desk and the hands that keep our clinic spotlessly clean and calm.
We’re all in this together.
They are the engine of Eugenix. We just get to hold the shiny trophy. So why are we telling you all this? Because we know that choosing to do something about your hair loss is a huge leap of faith. It’s personal. It’s emotional. And you deserve to know that the people you’re trusting with that faith are not just clinically excellent, but are a bunch of certified hair nerds who are genuinely, passionately, and perhaps a little weirdly, in love with what they do.
We’re incredibly proud and grateful for the recognition from Times Now. It’s a wonderful feeling. But the real award ceremony happens quietly, in our clinic, weeks after a procedure. It’s the moment a patient sees their new hairline for the first time, runs a hand through their hair without thinking, and gives us that small, confident smile.
That’s the win. Every single time. Anyway, we’ve cleared a spot on the shelf for this new one. It looks pretty good. But now, it’s back to work. We’ve got some hairlines to craft.
Dr. Arika Bansal
One of only a few female surgeons specializing in hair transplant surgery in India, Dr. Arika Bansal has been voted one of the best doctors in the world. She maintains an active fellowship in the ISHRS and regularly submits research papers to medical journals. 15+ years down the line, 20,000+ surgeries are accomplished under Dr. Bansal’s supervision. She specializes in female hair transplant, density improvement, corrective hair transplantation and hairline design.
