Although manscaping has long been a staple of the bodybuilding scene, body hair removal has only recently found its way into the mainstream (and bathroom) for the average guy. But now that more and more men are shaving and waxing their chests to better show off their...
Ryan W. loves to blow himself. He got hooked 10 years ago, after a fateful shower and a towel that failed to do its job. He was already blow-drying his hair — hey, it’s just more efficient — when he felt the rest of his body was,...
83 percent of guys trim some or all of their body hair, according to a survey we conducted. What they may not realize is that manscaping is good for more than just feeling silky smooth: It reduces body odor, too. Here’s how it works… Body odor doesn’t come from...
Compared to adults, children are basically aliens. They speak in tongues, engage in unimaginable rituals and have an endlessly particular set of needs. Because of this — and perhaps just as commonly, because of parental paranoia about this — all kinds of things are available in child-friendly versions, just in case...
According to surveys, body grooming is on the rise — and with it, more and more nicks and cuts to our most tender areas. These injuries are unsightly — and painful — so we asked primary care physician Dr. Marc Leavey how to treat the all those...
Men don’t get towels. We just don’t. As we’ve discussed previously, guys generally have one towel, or at most two. There’s the bath towel, i.e., the one we use to dry off after the shower and mop our hair, arms, legs, butts, balls, faces and every other square inch...
Your skin is like the night sky. (I am not on drugs. Please just hear me out). Your skin is like the night sky — peppered with various otherworldly spots that confuse and bewilder the majority of us. To make sense of these markings, we asked some...
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...
Guys aren’t born with an instinctive knowledge of how to look the way they want to look. We don’t exit the womb with manscaping and moisturizing best practices etched in our brains — it’s something that’s (hopefully) picked up over time, from parents, from peers, even from...
For centuries, bearded men have argued that facial hair is nature’s insulation, and therefore a handy wintertime tool. They oftentimes point to this 2012 study, which found that regularly-shaved upper lips are an average of one degree warmer than hairless cheeks, as proof. There are just two...
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...