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Fun fact: Professional manscaper Melanie Mari, of Bare Skin Studio, loves to talk about how to shave your nipples. “That’s actually one of my favorite subjects!” she admits. If you’re looking to get your chest completely hairless, you should be grateful for her dedication to this pursuit....
May 13, 2022
Disclaimer: There’s no safe way to tan (and especially not to burn). Dermatologist Lisa Chipps made this abundantly clear when asked how to fade a sunburn into an even tan: “Don’t tan,” she responded. “Every time you tan, you increase your risk of developing skin cancer, brown...
May 6, 2022
Much like humans, spiders have to drink water, which explains why they might hang out in your bath or shower stall. But unfortunately for those spiders, spending time in the bathroom might also mean being washed down the drain whenever you decide to take a shower (after...
April 29, 2022
Sunscreen vs. sunblock is arguably the least heated debate ever — most of us grab whatever’s on the shelf, slap it on and, so long as we’re not a luminous pink when the sun sets, we’re happy. We should care, though: The sun protection we use today...
April 22, 2022
Ear hair is an unsightly fact of life for many men — 74 percent of them, according to a 1984 report in the New England Journal of Medicine. While you can’t fit your razor in there (please just trust us on that one), you do still have...
April 15, 2022
Imagine, for a second, that you’re holding bags of groceries (or anything, really) in both hands, minding your own business, when all of a sudden a feeling hits you like a freight train right there on the tippy tip tip of your nose: A brain-melting, all-consuming, inexplicable...
April 8, 2022
Somebody (surely not you, as that would be impossible) passed some gas, and now everyone in the room is violently waving their hands in front of their noses in a desperate attempt to escape the noxious fumes. But does performing that metacarpal dance actually reduce your exposure...
April 1, 2022
The timeline of a guy growing out his hair normally goes like this: Perfectly fine short haircut → several equally terrible stages of embarrassing bad hair days → perfectly fine long haircut. Those dreaded stages in between are ultimately the reason most men chop their locks off...
March 25, 2022
Pubes are decidedly unfashionable right now, with more and more dudes choosing to shave them all off. But should they be doing that? Here’s what your pubic hair is doing down there in the first place. Why It’s There (and What it Does) In addition to keeping...
March 18, 2022
Anyone who’s seen their father’s — or grandfather’s — thick, yellow toenails knows just how disgusting a man’s feet can be. But why is it that men almost always have grosser feet than women? The brutally honest answer, according to podiatrist Dr. Krista Archer, is that guys...
March 11, 2022
Most of us wake up in the morning and proceed to wipe away our eye gunk without stopping to think: What is this stuff, where does it come from and why does it mostly only come about when we’re asleep? Dr. Andrea Thau, optometrist and former president...
March 4, 2022
Every bathroom is filled with creams, pastes and gels that we use to keep ourselves looking, feeling and smelling fresh. But despite how often we put the those products on (and in!) our bodies, most of us have no idea how they work. To find out exactly...