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Shaving is an art that requires patience to achieve its maximum effects. However, sometimes you’re running late for work, or need a quick shave before heading out to a date, or are just sick of chopping off your facial hair every day and want to make it...
If there’s 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 chin,...
After a hard, stressful day, having a long soak in a bathtub can be incredibly relaxing. Unless you do it wrong. There aren’t a lot of ways to mess up a bath, but if you make the mistake of staying too long in a bath that’s too...
So you’ve spent all winter growing a big, lumberjack-worthy beard. But is this going to be your permanent style, or is it just seasonal? If the latter, then the time to shave it off might be coming up. The first day of spring is March 20, and...
When rashes, blisters and sores force us to consider the kinds of microscopic critters hitching a ride on our bodies (and frequently giving us some sort of skin infection), we likely think about bacteria, or in the nastiest cases, some type of virus. And no wonder: Infections...
The bathroom is the most used room in your home, which is why its contents can quickly become overused. Did you know, for example, that the average toothbrush contains 10 million bacteria or more? Likewise, bathroom floors have been shown to be one of the most contaminated...
Some people love winter, some people hate it — your skin falls into the latter camp. The cold lowers the humidity in the air, which has the effect of drying out your skin, leaving it itchy and uncomfortable. That’s why it’s so important to up your shaving...
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, emphasizes, “Shaving...
A Hot Date Grab your trimmer and whatever guard leaves your facial hair about 3-5mm long. You’re going for heavy stubble, because — according to a 2016 study in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology — that’s what the majority of women found most attractive for one-night stands...
They say you should love the skin you’re in, so why not spend this February 14 giving your face some love? Taking care of it really comes down to two distinct phases: 1) Doing things that remove dead skin, dirt, and excess oil from your skin, and...
Every man’s stream fires off in an unintended (and sometimes, horribly unfortunate) direction from time to time. But what’s actually causing that to happen? According to Adrienne Carmack, board-certified urologist and author of The Good Mommy’s Guide to Her Little Boy’s Penis, complications caused by circumcision (or...
Some say having soft skin is a sign of emasculated weakness. And to those people, I say: Put on some moisturizer, bro! Your skin looks like a piece of beef jerky old enough to have watched the dinosaurs eat a giant asteroid. I must admit, I may...