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...
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...
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...
I’m balding up top, and I definitely don’t want to rock a combover. What other options do I have? The first thing I would recommend to any guy experiencing anxiety about his hair loss is discovering what kind of baldness he has—there are a few different types...
We all know there’s a certain satisfaction in blindly uprooting one or two nose hairs—or as many as can be corralled between the thumb and forefinger before the light turns green—and then celebrating with a massive, bestial sneeze. Trouble is, it turns out, this could kill you....
Hair gel is usually the first styling product to come to mind, but there are many other options—hair clay, hair cream, hair fiber, hair mousse, hair paste, hair pomade and hair wax. Cleve McMillan, stylist and hair guru, is here to help us explain what each different...
Sure, slapping some cream on your head and smearing it around until you look presentable is one way to style your hair. But if you want a more exuberant hairstyle — or something more permanent that requires less maintenance than a daily dose of hair products —...
Where our hair parts often defines how we style it on a daily basis. But what defines where that part lands, and is it something we change if we so choose? Snag a comb and keep on reading to find out. According to science (which is admittedly...
Do you want to cover up a couple of grey hairs? Or maybe you want to change your hair colour altogether? Either way, heck yeah, dude! But before you take the plunge seasoned hair colourist Linda Mariano says there are a couple things you should know first....
We’ve all wondered, when waking up too late for a proper shower, “How often should I wash my hair, anyway? Won’t it just, like, wash itself eventually?” If you turn to the internet for grooming advice, you’ve probably read that shampooing your hair every day strips it...
Pubes get more attention than ever in the modern world. More and more dudes are sculpting them with some simply shaving them off in their entirety. But is that actually recommended? And why have we even got the short, curly little blighters in the first place? Let’s...
