Whether you realize it or not, eyebrows are often the first thing you notice about another person. Beyond revealing the grooming habits (or lack thereof) of their owner, eyebrows also convey emotions and allow humans to communicate non-verbally. So next time you lock eyes with a beautiful...
What a glorious feeling it is to wake up after a great night’s sleep on a beautiful morning: The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, your muscles are invigorated, you open your mouth to a barbaric yawp to start the day—and your dreams turn into a nightmare....
These days, a thick patch of chest hair is a great way to flash your man card. That being said, chest hair hasn’t always been such a definitive expression of manliness. Chest hair, over the course of the last thirty years, has gone in and out of...
Is the best part of waking up a hot cup of coffee, or a steamy shower? Is your favorite bedtime ritual a soothing rinse, or a calming cocktail to take the edge off? In the end, it doesn’t much matter. Like the order in which you floss...
There are a few lessons to be learned from the infamous Dress: (1) It doesn’t take much to become an internet sensation; (2) the guy who sits next to you at work is a color-blind monster; and (3) perspective matters when it comes to perceived appearance. The...
If all you needed to reverse the course of male-pattern baldness was some over-the-counter hair-thickening shampoo, don’t you think Hulk Hogan and Donald Trump would have ditched their bandanas and combovers (respectively) by now? Unfortunately for the Hulkster, the Donald and millions of other men around the...
Little, yellow, different. Not just a way to describe the Advil of yesteryear, but also a way to describe the armpit region of the shirts you wear most often. The yellow, crusty residue taking up permanent residence inside your favorite shirts is due to an unfortunate reaction...
Sort of like the order in which you stretch and workout—or pour lemonade and iced tea into your Arnold Palmer—it’s not important whether you brush or floss first. The important thing is that you’re brushing and flossing (or flossing and brushing) frequently; your toothbrush and roll of...
It depends on where you most look like a human werewolf. If your body hair is thickest on your arms, legs and back, you might be mocked as much as the Chia Pet you resemble. But it won’t cause you to smell any worse than your smooth-skinned...
For those of you familiar with the five o’clock shadow, the irritation begins mere hours after you shave. Or put another way, the exact moment your sharp, razor-shorn hairs poke through the surface of your skin. “Shaving your beard with a razor cuts the hairs at an...
Twenty years ago, on November 15, 1994, writer Mark Simpson invented the term metrosexual. Writing for Britain’s Independent newspaper, he was the first to classify this new urban class of well-to-do men: Metrosexual man, the single young man with a high disposable income, living or working in...
An unscrubbed back is not a fatal condition. So you don’t HAVE to soap it up every time you step into the shower. But don’t take that as an open invitation to never wash it. Like every other body part, your back can benefit from some lather...