FreshHair:

A hair style like this would be doable at the front with Swiss lace or with a skin base, but the problem would be the blend at the sides and back. You would have to have a very good cut-in and to cut your real hair every couple of days. Our colleague Gel is doing a style not a million miles from this though. Easy enough if you have a hairdresser on call 24/7.

Judging by Google images, Ben doesn't seem to wear these extreme styles all the time. They are for occasional well-photographed appearances only. He is still in the thicker concealed-front pieces most of the time.

It is interesting to see how much coverage Ben gets even though he has no temple points, while still making the unit look natural. He definitely has someone much better advising him now than he did. It wouldn't surprise me if he was basically buying and maintaining his own hairpieces in those earlier photos.