When Tony appeared on TLC’s Match Me Abroad this summer, viewers couldn’t believe what they were witnessing. Here was a 38-year-old man from Fort Lauderdale who got scalp micro pigmentation surgery, which is essentially tattooing on a hairline he doesn’t actually have. However, he had the audacity to reject women based on their hair length.
Tony’s justification for his tattooed hairline reveals everything you need to know about him. Rather than simply admitting to insecurity about his baldness, he claimed there’s “evidence-based research out there that demonstrates that men with hair are more apt to having long-term relationships.”
This pseudoscientific explanation sets the tone for his entire approach to dating: wrapping shallow preferences in a veneer of rationality while judging women for the exact same superficiality.
The hairline itself becomes even more relevant when you learn about Tony’s requirements for potential partners. He repeatedly told the matchmaker that long hair was non-negotiable, calling short hair “a huge thing for me.”
His reasoning? “The longer the hair, the more effort she puts into her daily routine.” He even told the matchmaker to her face that her hair was too short for him, essentially saying she didn’t put enough effort into her appearance.
Let that sink in. A man whose hairline is literally fake, who couldn’t commit to a full scalp micro pigmentation procedure, was rejecting real women for not having long enough hair. The matchmaker, Louisa, had hair that was perfectly normal, yet Tony deemed it insufficient proof of personal grooming standards.
The contradictions multiply when you examine Tony’s online dating strategy. He admitted to using AI-generated images to make himself “look taller, buffer, richer” on dating apps.
When women called him out for catfishing them, he justified it by saying “women wear makeup and they use filters on their pictures.” In his mind, completely fabricated AI images equaled cosmetics. He even claimed women were trying to “fool” him while he was merely “enhancing” his appearance.
This is the same man who flew to Brazil specifically because American women were supposedly too materialistic and only cared about attractive, wealthy men. Yet his solution was to use technology to pretend he was attractive and wealthy, then act surprised when women expected him to match his photos. He wanted someone who wouldn’t “judge a book by its cover” while literally faking his entire cover.
Tony’s hair obsession extended beyond just length. During his blind dates, arranged specifically to help him move past superficial judgments, he told one woman he was looking for someone fit and muscular with long hair.
When he finally got to touch one date’s arm, he declared he could feel that “her arms were pretty fat” and that she clearly didn’t exercise enough for his standards.
Meanwhile, his own appearance modifications remained incomplete. He constantly talked about holding himself to high standards and improving himself daily, yet couldn’t even finish the cosmetic procedure he started.
Perhaps the most telling moment came when Tony declared that every single one of his dates had “big red flags.” The DJ was unsuitable because her profession involved environments with “d**gs, dr unk men, possible violence, even de ath.”
Another woman’s arms felt too heavy. A third admitted to not being celibate for five years while single, a question Tony refused to answer about himself when producers turned it around on him.
Through it all, Tony genuinely seemed to believe he was the prize. He told the matchmaker he was “deaging right now because I feel like I’m back in high school with the kind of demand that’s out there for me right now.” A man with an incomplete tattooed hairline, using AI to catfish women online, thought he was simply too desirable for the options presented to him.
