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Shaving head hair off completely can be a daunting prospect, even when you’ve committed to the idea. How should you prep your head? How do you shave the parts you can’t see? How do you know when you’re finished? Aren’t you at risk of little fuzzy patches?...
Hairstylist Cleve McMillan weighs in on your burning questions about the mysterious adventure that is getting a haircut. My barber always trims my sideburns perfectly, but I can never maintain them. How do I keep them even? First off, you must own a pair of electric clippers...
In Elizabethan England, a time when ruffs were hot and Shakespeare was composing an endless string of dirty jokes, dudes worshipped makeup, caking their faces with pearl-white powder to make themselves the height of style. And although 400 years have passed since this heyday of male makeup,...
We already wrote about the best facial hair for your face shape, and hairstyles are much the same in that, for maximum handsomeness, they should hopefully fit the distinct contours of your unique mug. To help you get that right, we asked hairstylist Natalie Rose Dixon and...
Ahem, cue sad music: Every hour, a taint is abandoned and forgotten. They suffer alone, hidden away in the dark, dripping with incessant moisture. They wait… and wait for someone (anyone) to care for them. But today, we’re rescuing that often overlooked patch of skin cramped between...
How much time do you take to cut your fingernails? How much care do you take to get them the right length and the right shape? The answer to both questions is likely “not much” — nail-clipping is just one of those body maintenance jobs we usually...
Learning how to manscape is like a lesson in anatomy: Every body part is different, and thus, requires a distinctive type of attention. Melanie Mari, owner and trained manscaper at Bare Skin Studio, is leading today’s class: How to Manscape Your Entire Body 101. How to Manscape...
It starts as an emergency move: You’re trying to wash your hands, and the soap dispenser is giving you nothing but air, so to help that last half inch of soap reach the frustratingly short plastic tube, you add some water, give it a shake, and hey...
Razor bumps, as everyone knows, suck. After carefully shaving to better show off your smooth, clean face to the world, an ugly red bump — or worse, a whole bunch of them — springs up and ruins everything. But what are these unwanted intruders on your skin?...
Every hairstylist will say the best haircuts for thin hair are those that create the illusion of more hair (duh!). Unfortunately, figuring out which haircuts those are — and which one’s right for your unique dome — is no simple task… unless you’re LA-based hairstylist Sara Willner....
The mustache celebration that is No-Shave November is well underway, and chances are decent that a fuzzy little caterpillar has just crawled onto your upper lip. But instead of leaving it by its lonesome, why not give it a little grass field to play on? Or, to...
Anyone who’s ever gotten dressed for work in a muggy gym changing room following an early morning workout knows that the experience is nightmarish. Pulling on a shirt over clammy skin is the worst, and the sweat that keeps trickling down your back comes direct from the...