If you ever find yourself lost in the cosmetics aisle at your local drugstore — that aisle is a freaking labyrinth, dude — you know that there are all kinds of creams, balms and goops out there, characterized under all sorts of different names. Three of the...
If there was one really annoying thing about shaving, it’s the unfortunate tendency to wind up with irritating little red bumps on the parts of your face where the prospect of irritating red bumps is most likely to maximize that annoyance. The neck, the crease around your...
In the final months before Al Gore lost the 2000 election, John and Catherine Walter sent the incumbent vice president an advanced copy of their 25 page report, which they titled “The Hair Part Theory.” It was such groundbreaking research, they believed, that if Gore would simply...
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...
Using a single styling product might well do a fine job of holding your hair in place, but hey, everyone’s hair is different, and maybe you need a little something extra. If you want to achieve the pinnacle of good looks, a mastery of charisma and anything...
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...
When it comes to our bodies, there are the regions that are treated in high regard, and then there are the regions that are treated with distrust, if not outright disdain. From the former, we’d likely include our arms, our legs, our chests and, of course, our...
If you have a prominent woman in your life or have ever stopped into a hair salon, you might at some point have heard a bit of grumbling about split ends. They seem to be a frustrating thing, and they happen on heads; you can tell that...
For many of us, “snow” isn’t just this weird thing that happens in the winter, or a predictable thing that goes on in the men’s room at a Miami nightclub — it’s more of an evergreen phenomenon, and it’s happening on our heads. I’m talking about the...
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...
Shaving is all fun and games until you snag that imposing mound protruding from your throat and proceed to bleed all over the bathroom, using up an entire roll of toilet paper on the wound. However, as Alex Brenard, head barber at the Blind Barber, emphasises, “Shaving...
As common sense would suggest, if your face already produces enough oil to glimmer in the moonlight, slathering on moisturizer could be considered excessive. But before chucking your bottle of facial lubrication into a nearby incinerator, come along as we examine the causes of oily skin, how...