Hair Hair was a part of the anatomy that grew all over the body on many creatures and beings , mostly mammal s . Human s and other similar species grew hair in all manner of places except for the soles of their feet and the palms of their hands . Mr Grange had hair growing out of his ears . ( PROSE : " Time and Relative " ) After regenerating from his ninth incarnation , the Tenth Doctor was pleased to find that he had longer hair than his previous incarnation . The Ninth Doctor had worn his hair close - cropped , unlike his other incarnations who had had longer hair . The Tenth Doctor happily exclaimed , " I ' m not bald ! " ( TV : " Children in Need Special " ) Later on , however , he was disappointed to be told that his hair wasn ' t ginger . ( TV : " The Christmas Invasion " ) He decided to try back - combing it for a while , ( TV : " Fear Her " ) but later switched to spiking it up . Wilfred Mott used it as an identifying feature of the Doctor while the Silver Cloak was searching for him . He referred to it as " modern sort of hair , all sticky - uppy . " ( TV : " The End of Time " ) After his next regeneration , the Eleventh Doctor , whose hair was even longer , initially believed that he was " a girl " due to its length ; he quickly determined otherwise . As it was now long enough to pull in front of his eyes , he checked the colour and to his dismay found he was " still not ginger . " ( TV : " The End of Time " ) The Eighth Doctor had long locks of hair after regenerating , but cut it down later in his life . ( TV : " Doctor Who " , AUDIO : " Tangled Web " ) It had grown back close to its original length when he regenerated . ( TV : " The Night of the Doctor " ) Melody Pond was excited after regenerating into her third and would - be final incarnation when it came with a very large amount of hair . ( TV : " Let ' s Kill Hitler " ) Mutation into a Primord from exposure to Stahlman ' s ooze caused humans to begin growing large amounts of hair on their bodies . A sign the transformation was beginning was excessive hair growth on the hands , and later , the face . ( TV : " Inferno " ) Curly hair was considered by Putta Pattashaun 5 to be attractive to women , and straight ginger hair unattractive to them . ( PROSE : " The Drosten ' s Curse " ) Facial hair . Facial hair was the presence of hair on one ' s chin , upper lip , or temples . Some , such as at least three incarnations of the Master , grew and styled their facial hair . ( TV : " Terror of the Autons " , " The Mind of Evil " , " The Keeper of Traken " , " Logopolis " , " World Enough and Time " ) This beard became a trademark factor associated with the Master , such that the Fifth Doctor asked his future self if the Master still exhibited this trait . ( TV : " Time Crash " ) Some incarnations of the Doctor also ended up with facial hair , but not always out of preference . Sometimes they were aged to the point it caused the unnatural growth of a beard , or they grew one from being kept in captivity with no way of shaving their hair . ( TV : " The Leisure Hive " , " Day of the Moon " , " The Wedding of River Song " , " The Day of the Doctor " ) The Fifth Doctor grew a beard while he was stranded in London from 1866 to 1867 to make himself appear older and fit in with the scientific community . ( AUDIO : " The Haunting of Thomas Brewster " ) The Eighth Doctor had facial hair during multiple periods of his life . He grew a beard shortly before his wedding to Scarlette ( PROSE : " The Adventuress of Henrietta Street " ) until later shaving it . ( PROSE : " Hope " ) He had a consistent state of facial hair while he was stranded on Orbis for six hundred years . ( AUDIO : " Orbis " ) In the later years of his life , he started to grow stubble on his face . ( TV : " The Night of the Doctor " ) Both the Ninth and Tenth Doctors often had five - o - clock shadows , and were said to shave . ( TV : " The Doctor Dances " , " Time Crash " ) The Tenth Doctor was able to stop a beard growing through sheer concentration when he was incarcerated on Hurala for five days , but at the consequence that his chin would itch severely later on . ( PROSE : " Prisoner of the Daleks " ) The Eleventh Doctor grew a beard during the three months he was acting as a prisoner in Area 51 . He later shaved it off . ( TV : " Day of the Moon " ) When he became elderly , the War Doctor grew out a full beard . He maintained this beard up to his regeneration . He was chided with the nickname " Granddad " by the Eleventh Doctor because of his resemblance to a curmudgeonly old man . ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) Ian Chesterton shaved his face and had his hair cut from a special static electricity - powered shaver owned by the First Doctor - he considered its performance to be as good as a top - class professional barber . ( PROSE : " Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks " ) Moustache . A moustache was a variant of facial hair that grew on the upper lip . Brigadier Lethbridge - Stewart sported his trademark moustache for most of his life . ( TV : " The Web of Fear " , " Battlefield " ) However , his Inferno counterpart , the Alastair Lethbridge - Stewart , lacked a moustache and a left eye . ( TV : " Inferno " ) Sideburns . Sideburns were another variant of facial hair ; they were thick patches of whiskers on the sides of one ' s head . The Third and Fourth Doctor both wore sideburns ( TV : " Spearhead from Space " , TV : " Planet of the Spiders " ) - the Fourth ' s were red even though the hair on his head was dark brown ( PROSE : " The Drosten ' s Curse " ) . The Tenth Doctor was delighted to see he had grown sideburns after his regeneration . ( TV : " Children in Need Special " ) He kept them to the end of his life , ( TV : " The End of Time " ) though he was once temporarily aged to a point he lost them , and later , all of his hair . ( TV : " The Sound of Drums " , " Last of the Time Lords " ) Baldness . Baldness was a condition where an individual ' s hair on the top of their head began to recede with age , or was absent due to other reasons . It could be acute , such as a small loss of hair , or advance to the point where someone did not have any hair at all . Baldness could also be a hairstyle by choice , afflicted by physical scarring , ( TV : " The Caves of Androzani " ) radiation , ( TV : " The Mutants " ) or due to biological experimentation that removed hair . ( WC : " The Making of the Gunslinger " , " A Town Called Mercy " ) When he had grown quite older , the First Doctor appeared to have some degree of baldness , with most of his hair growing around the back of his head . ( TV : " An Unearthly Child " ) The Fifth Doctor gained a temporary bald spot when the time differential in a future version of his TARDIS caused him to age very quickly . ( TV : " Time Crash " ) After the Time Lord s resurrected him , the Master ' s new incarnation was totally bald . The Eighth Doctor ridiculed him because of it . ( AUDIO : " Eyes of the Master " ) When the Tenth Doctor was forced to age by the Master , he went partially bald . The second time he was aged , he went completely bald . ( TV : " The Sound of Drums " , " Last of the Time Lords " ) Sontaran s , at least in the case of their clone batch - borne warriors , were naturally bald . ( TV : " The Time Monster " , " The Sontaran Experiment " , et al . ) However , some could have vestigial hair such as beards that turned white with age like those of humans . ( PROSE : " Shakedown " ) Strax , a Sontaran , didn ' t understand the growth of hair on humans and other species ; he once mistakenly thought River Song ' s curly hair meant she had a big head . Clara Oswald subsequently referred to River as " the lady with the funny name and the space hair " . ( TV : " The Name of the Doctor " ) The Eleventh Doctor once got bored and shaved his head with a razor . However , it allowed him to wear a wig and hide a TARDIS key in his coif that Tasha Lem could not discover when he set foot on a planet with a technology ban . He also exhibited true baldness at the echelon of old age . This condition reversed when his new regeneration cycle reset him back to a youthful body . ( TV : " The Time of the Doctor " ) Greying hair . For some species , such as humans , hair would turn grey , or sometimes entirely white with old age . Various incarnations of the Doctor experienced grey hair . Some , such as the Third Doctor ( TV : " Spearhead from Space " ) and Twelfth Doctor , ( TV : " The Time of the Doctor " ) had it immediately upon regeneration . Each case involved a regeneration where the face the Doctor took was not brand new , but deliberately modelled to look like an aged individual , the former being the Time Lords ' doing as part of an imposed exile sentence , ( TV : " The War Games " ) the latter apparently being the Doctor ' s own doing . ( TV : " Deep Breath " ) Others lived to the point their hair went grey , or in the case of the First Doctor , white . ( TV : " An Unearthly Child " , " The Day of the Doctor " , " The Time of the Doctor " , PROSE : " Not in My Back Yard " ) Some were forced to age to the point of grey hair . ( TV : " The Leisure Hive " , " The Sound of Drums " , " Last of the Time Lords " ) In rare cases , traumatic events could result in hair turning grey . The Second Doctor ' s encounter with the Player s caused his hair to do such . ( PROSE : " World Game " ) Stuart Hyde ' s hair went grey when the Master ' s use of TOMTIT caused a side effect that accelerated his natural ageing . Likewise , TOMTIT ' s continued use reverted him back to his normal age . ( TV : " The Time Monster " ) The Fourth Doctor once referred to the Third Doctor ' s head as an ' old grey model ' because of his hair colour . ( TV : " The Brain of Morbius " ) Jack Harkness , after becoming immortal , still exhibited grey hair as he grew older . ( TV : " Last of the Time Lords " )