Rag & Bone’s lead stylist McKenzie Dowler has yet to meet a suitcase-creased shirt she can’t de-wrinkle in a pinch—even if that means having to use the shower. If you have any grooming-related questions that make you say “OH, FAQ!“, email us at bm@dollarshaveclub.com and we’ll answer it in...
As long as you don’t burn, suntanning isn’t bad for you, right? Unfortunately, that’s not quite how it works. “There’s no such thing as a safe tan,” according to dermatologist Anthony Rossi, who took us through the unhealthy relationship between UV rays and our skin to explain...
Sometimes, you don’t want to spend your precious time off crisping under the blazing sun of a tropical beach, or trekking through exotic jungles for a glimpse of the 7,000 backpackers who got up earlier than you. Sometimes, you just want to spend a week on your...
As Bill Gates once said, “It seems pretty egocentric while we still have malaria and TB for rich people to fund things so that they can live longer.” Fortunately for us, shade from Gates hasn’t prevented the rich men of the world from trying. Peter Thiel’s bloodlust...
If you want to make some cash while on vacation this summer, why not rent out your pad? We asked Bill Furlong, North American V.P. of HomeAway, just how much effort is needed to make your house habitable for renters. As the company behind rental sites like...
If you’ve ever had a soap or shampoo send your skin into a tingling frenzy, you might have wondered just what’s going on there. And if you didn’t read the label and weren’t expecting your skin to suddenly start tingling, you may have wondered the same thing...
After a summer of backpacking in Colorado in the early 1990s, Nirinjan Yee started feeling sick. Yee, then in her 30s, was diagnosed with late-stage Lyme disease and told that she wasn’t going to walk again — if she even survived. On the advice of a friend, Yee spoke...
I love a man in shorts. I consider a hairy stick leg poking out of a freshly cut jort pornographic; a muscular thigh wrapped in linen a kind of erotica. This isn’t a preference; it’s a passion. My dedication to the cause has only increased since I...
Kenneth Tam is an artist who (among other things) makes videos of men — men that he finds on the internet and then pays to do awkward, intimate, absurd things on camera. These videos are amazing. For one of his most recent projects, Breakfast in Bed (which is currently...
Most of us work more than we live, which is to say we spend considerably more time at the office and with our coworkers than we do with the human beings we actually want in our lives. It also means that the stressors and anxieties of work...
There has never been a time in my life when I wasn’t competing. I played T-ball, soccer and basketball as a little kid — eventually getting into tennis and even a little tackle football with friends. My family would play Trivial Pursuit, Connect Four, Sorry! and Life, and that’s...
The timing was almost unbelievable. About 18 months ago, I found out my dad had been cheating on my mom. About six months later, my husband found out that his mom had been cheating on his dad. How my husband and I each found out was indicative...
