A Beginner's Guide to Facial Oils
Facial oils terrify men who have spent years fighting excess shine, but this fear rests on a fundamental misunderstanding.
Oliver Ramsey · 2025-05-23
Grooming
Skincare, haircare, fragrance, and personal care.
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The Right Way to Trim Your Own Hair Between Cuts
The four to six weeks between barber visits are when most haircuts fall apart, but a few minutes of home maintenance can extend a fresh cut's lifespan significantly.
Thomas Nakamura · 2025-05-23
The Case for a Nighttime Skincare Routine
Your skin operates on a circadian rhythm, and the night shift is when the real work happens.
William Ashford · 2025-05-22
How Stress Affects Your Skin and Hair
Stress is not merely a psychological experience — it is a biochemical event that manifests physically on your skin and scalp with remarkable speed.
Marcus Wei · 2025-05-22
How to Choose a Face Wash Based on Your Water Type
Most men choose a face wash based on skin type alone, completely ignoring the variable that determines how well any cleanser actually performs: the water flowing from their tap.
William Ashford · 2025-05-21
A Guide to Anti-Dandruff Treatments That Aren't Embarrassing
Dandruff affects roughly fifty percent of the global adult population, according to the Indian Journal of Dermatology, yet the products marketed to address it have long been an exercise in clinical austerity — medicinal-smelling shampoos in packaging better suited to a hospital supply closet.
Oliver Ramsey · 2025-05-21
How to Style Thinning Hair with Confidence
Thinning hair affects approximately eighty-five percent of men by age fifty, according to the American Hair Loss Association, yet the conversation around it remains mired in shame and snake-oil solutions.
Thomas Nakamura · 2025-05-20
The Basics of Teeth Whitening That Actually Works
A bright smile communicates health and self-care more immediately than almost any other grooming element, yet teeth whitening remains one of the most misunderstood areas of men's grooming.
Catherine Avery · 2025-05-20
The Case for Double-Edge Safety Razors
The double-edge safety razor, invented by King Camp Gillette in 1901, dominated men's grooming for seven decades before cartridge systems muscled it aside with convenience marketing.
Marcus Wei · 2025-05-19
A Guide to Chemical vs Physical Sunscreen
The sunscreen aisle presents men with a choice most never knew they were making: chemical filters that absorb UV radiation or mineral filters that physically deflect it.
William Ashford · 2025-05-19
The Five Grooming Mistakes Most Men Make After 25
At twenty-five, your skin begins a slow metabolic shift that most men completely ignore.
Oliver Ramsey · 2025-05-18
How to Build a Travel Grooming Kit That Works
The well-travelled man faces a specific grooming challenge: maintaining standards while adhering to airline liquid restrictions and limited luggage space.
Catherine Avery · 2025-05-18
How to Treat Razor Burn and Prevent It from Coming Back
Razor burn announces itself with the subtlety of a fire alarm — red, inflamed skin that stings with every collar adjustment.
Thomas Nakamura · 2025-05-17
A Guide to Body Grooming Without Irritation
Body grooming has moved from niche concern to mainstream practice, with a 2023 Mintel report showing that over seventy percent of men under forty regularly trim or remove body hair.
James Alderton · 2025-05-17
How to Maintain a Beard Through All Four Seasons
A beard is a living, responsive feature that changes character with the seasons.
Sebastian Cole · 2025-05-16
The Case for a Dermatologist Visit Once a Year
Men are statistically less likely to visit a dermatologist than women, and statistically more likely to die of melanoma.
William Ashford · 2025-05-16
Why Your Skin Changes in Your 30s and What to Do
At thirty, the skin begins a measurable decline in three key metrics: collagen production drops by roughly one percent per year, cell turnover slows from a twenty-eight-day cycle to a forty-day cycle, and sebum production decreases, reducing the skin's natural moisture retention.
Oliver Ramsey · 2025-05-15
A Guide to Hair Products: Pomade, Clay, Paste, and Wax
The hair product aisle presents a wall of jars, tubs, and tubes with names that suggest distinct purposes — pomade, clay, paste, wax, cream, gel, mousse, spray — but overlap so thoroughly that choosing between them feels arbitrary.
Marcus Wei · 2025-05-15
How to Choose a Signature Fragrance
A signature fragrance is not the scent you wear most often — it is the scent that people associate with your presence.
Oliver Ramsey · 2025-05-14
The Right Way to Apply Cologne
Cologne application is the grooming skill most men believe they have mastered and most men perform incorrectly.
James Alderton · 2025-05-14