Having a behemoth beard is cool until you realise just how much debris it collects: According to a 2019 report, beards amass more germs than dog fur, which is astonishing when you consider their penchant for rolling around in all kinds of gunk. This bacteria comes from...
In the battle against the elements, it’s one of life’s cruel jokes that our lips, one of the most exposed areas of our bodies to the sun, wind and cold (let alone our penchant for idle talk, a salty snack or a chance at first base), is...
Sweating, while irritating, is a good thing. It allows our bodies to expel heat from all the energy we’re burning. Whether we’re slowly walking up a hill or frantically doing spin in a sweltering studio, if we didn’t sweat we’d overheat and shut down. It’s a necessary...
The average person breathes through their nose around 20,000 times a day, but most of us know very little about what’s actually going on in there. Here are all the things that call your nostrils home. Nose Hairs According to this very questionable source, the average person...
In the annals of personal branding, one of the shrewdest moves ever recorded has to be NBA star Anthony Davis coming up with the slogan “Fear the Brow.” In trademarking it (you may recall he literally did this in 2012), Davis not only monopolised the monobrow as His...
Despite what my drunken, albeit convincing, college roommate Jimmy grumbled while shaving off a single eyebrow at exactly 2:36 on a Tuesday morning back in 2015, science shows that brows are our most important facial feature. They help us convey emotions, and according to studies, we recognise...
Whereas smoking was once advertised as a pastime of the clued-up and debonair and holding a cigarette thought to make you look cool and sophisticated, now “cancer sticks” are smoked in huddles in soulless designated areas and roundly denigrated as horribly unhealthy, socially reprehensible and, well, just...
Face moisturiser has been a more recent addition to most men’s grooming routines, but its popularity is soaring, so we reached out to dermatologist Anthony Rossi and aesthetician Gregory Dylan for some advice: Here’s what they had to say about why, when and how to moisturise after shaving....
We mostly all agree that hot tubs, massages and the like feel good, but ask anyone why and you’ll get a shrug (which is fair! That person was trying to relax, after all). Understanding what these self-care activities are doing to your body — and more importantly,...
I like to think my skincare routine is decent — I exfoliate, cleanse and moisturise often. But it still feels inferior whenever my girlfriend whips out her grandiose mechanical spinning facial brush. These brushes promise to make cleansing and exfoliating more effective, especially for people who wear...
I often observe, bemused, as my girlfriend fiddles with her eyelashes before presenting herself to the general public. She chomps on them with a strange metal clamp thingy, darkens them with some black sludge and combs them with a miniature round brush that looks like it was...
We’ve taught you how to trim your neckline, but knowing how to trim your cheek line is equally as important—especially if your beard resembles the wolf man’s. Below, you’ll find a quick-and-easy guide for getting your cheek line just right, as provided by Travis Fields, Dollar Shave...
