If you read our (absurdly helpful) mani-pedi guide and learned to appreciate having impeccable nails, you may have heard about a thing called nail buffing. The process is quite simple: Rub your nails with a buffer block for more shine. Done! But is nail buffing an important...
Quarantine gotcha down? Have you not showered in weeks? Do your neglected nails make you look more like a witch casting spells than a functioning member of society? Nothing a mani-pedi can’t fix! Now quit nervously chewing your fingers for a second and follow along as Meticulous...
Sure, plenty of dudes are skilled in the delicate art of blow drying their junk after taking a steamy shower. But when it comes to pointing the strange contraption upward, many men find themselves in uncharted waters. They tend to blast their head from all directions, creating...
You followed our piercing aftercare guide, and your hole healed perfectly (no surprises there). But when you commit to a piercing, the maintenance never really ends, and that means periodically washing your hole. “If you don’t wash your armpits, they start to smell because of bacteria,” says...
Excessively bushy eyebrows can be troublesome, sure, but at least they provide something to work with; a carving stone to sculpt as you so choose. For those with thin eyebrows — or God forbid, no eyebrows at all — their options are much less straightforward, and not...
In the past few years there’s been growing evidence — or at least, an increasing number of headline-baiting surveys — suggesting that men in the 2010s are increasingly fixated on their own appearance. The average modern male checks himself out in the mirror 23 times a day,...
Most of us spend a decent amount of time looking in the mirror, inspecting our faces and doing away with any stray, unsightly hairs. We shear our beards, snip our nose hairs and clip our ear hairs. But despite being smack-dab in the middle of our faces,...
Few things are more frustrating than looking forward to a warm, relaxing shower after a long day, and instead having to endure an oscillating stream of scalding and glacial water because something to do with the temperature is all messed up. But before you go tearing your...
Crafting the perfect beard style is not as simple as keeping a clean-shaven face, which really only requires you to purchase the best razors money can buy, and then drag one across your mug once a day (with the grain, naturally). Perhaps surprisingly, keeping a beard is...
For the longest time when it came to skin care, most guys were content to live in the stone age, back when moisturizer wasn’t a thing and all-in-one cleansers filled men’s shower caddies from coast to coast. But now it’s 2020, and as a famous poet once...
Congratulations, you conquered puberty and (hopefully) no longer have to deal with persistent pimples and perpetual voice cracks. But despite the promise of being able to grow an impenetrable beard once your hormones finally finished kicking in, here you are, a fully developed man, staring wistfully at...
50 years ago, a hairy chest was considered to be a badge of machismo, modeled proudly by any man fortunate enough to have hyperactive follicles. Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac, for example, championed the male scoop neck tee, which broadcasted his twisty tangle of chest hair. Virtually...
