Like many of us, you may have been using the last year as an opportunity to experiment with your facial hair. And like many of us, you may be, well, disappointed with the less-than-magnificent result. It can be easy to disparage your own looks, though, and you...
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...
The idea that shaving is part of a skincare routine might sound counterintuitive: When you think of skincare, you think about exfoliating and moisturizing and stuff, while shaving is about taking a razor to lop off your facial hair. But you use products before shaving to make...
There’s a few good reasons that Santa Claus is not an icon of youth culture, but chief among them would be his snowy white beard. Unfortunately, there’s no scenario where a white beard makes you look younger. “In my experience, beards typically always make someone look older,”...
That scar you got when you split your lip playing kickball in elementary school? Or the long line down your face that samurai gave you during a duel back in 2008? Chances are those scars have long since settled down and healed, and you can shave them...
Each hair sprouting from your body is unique — like a snowflake, only not really a snowflake but more like a sort of hair… where were we? Oh yes. Some hairs require different forms of removal, lest you look like a stray tumbleweed. With that in mind,...
A shaving rash — or razor burn, if you will — can be an obnoxious side effect of shaving if you don’t take steps to avoid it. However, even the best of us can succumb to these angry red bumps once in a while. If you have...
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,...
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...
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...
