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...
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...
Here at Dollar Shave Club, we get asked a lot of questions about grooming and a whole bunch of other things, too, all of which we’re delighted to answer (well, mostly — you know who you are, and you know what you asked). You might have seen...
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, but unfortunately, life returning to normal is still a few blocks ahead. If you’ve got a hot date lined up, chances are it’s happening at home, one way or another. If you’re lucky enough to have your partner at home,...
Okay, sure, maybe growing a giant beard won’t help you keep warm this winter. But there’s just something cool (pun not unintended) about braving the cold with a chin bristling with a mountain man-style mound of facial hair. But there’s definitely a right way to get the...
Here’s the most important thing you need to know about how to trim a beard neckline: If your beard is shorter, you can take your neckline higher. If it’s longer, you’re better off allowing the hair to grow lower down your neck. With that out of the...
As you might expect from a grooming and skincare company, we’ve had a lot to say over the years about how to deal with beards, whether that involves shaping them, trimming the neckline or removing them entirely. What you might not know, however, is how to tame...
Having a behemoth beard is cool until you realize just how much debris it collects: According to a recent-ish report, beards amass more germs than dog fur, which is astonishing when you consider their penchant for rolling around in all kinds of gunk. This bacteria comes from...
Dandruff — it’s not just for your head! Sure, dandruff is mainly something that affects your scalp, but that isn’t the only place where your skin can start flaking off, which may result in itchiness, redness and a potential blizzard of white flakes. It can happen to...
