Shampoo is not body wash. Body wash is not shampoo. We know this, buuuut…they’re both viscous gels we use in the shower to clean ourselves, so it seems like we could save a little cash and use one for the whole job, right? Well, technically there’s no...
Waxing hurts: Anyone who’s seen The 40-Year-Old-Virgin knows that. But some body parts are notably more painful to have waxed than others, so to help better understand what kind of pain you might be in for, I asked Melanie Mari, owner and licensed esthetician at Bare Skin...
Anyone who recently shaved their head, or went bald, will tell you that a combination of sunscreen and hats is the only thing forestalling their dome from turning into one giant blister due to the sun blasting it with powerful radiation all day long. But what of...
You’re in the shower and everything’s splendid: The water’s warm, the scent’s uplifting and you’re belting out your favorite shower-time tune. But then, out of nowhere, a stray drop of shampoo soars into your eye, feeling like the red-hot soapy trident of Satan himself. What makes this...
Five o’clock shadow naturally straddles the line between purposefully rugged and nonchalantly indifferent, and while most men aim to achieve the former by growing out their stubble, many end up looking like they simply forgot to shave while binge-watching YouTube videos and eating chips for 50 hours...
There are still some naysayers when it comes to chest hair grooming: There are those that say chest hair is making a comeback, for example. There are even those who would argue that a good chest rug is healthy — that we evolved with chest hair because...
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...
We all have a few rogue body hairs that don’t abide by the rules: The random loner on top of the ear; the billowing straggler on your otherwise bare upper arm. They’re longer, coarser, curlier and usually darker than their neighboring fuzz, but what’s going on underneath...
For many of us, “snow” isn’t just this weird thing that happens in the winter, or a predictable thing that goes on in the men’s room at a Miami nightclub — it’s more of an evergreen phenomenon, and it’s happening on our heads. I’m talking about the...
Of all the places on your body that can be extremely hirsute, your hands are among the most noticeable. Other than your face, they’re the most exposed skin you have, which means they’re extremely visible to others, and since very long knuckle hair is relatively uncommon, they...
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,”...
If you have a prominent woman in your life or have ever stopped into a hair salon, you might at some point have heard a bit of grumbling about split ends. They seem to be a frustrating thing, and they happen on heads; you can tell that...
