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If a lady were to open up your medicine cabinet, the last thing you'd want falling out of there are ultra feminine products like lavender scented facial scrubs and cucumber and fresh mist eye cream [...]

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It’s nice that razor companies seem to have taken a break from simply adding more blades in an effort to improve our shaving experience. The damn things were on pace to be monstrous and shaving [...]

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As per a very well-known set of rules, we shouldn't really be talking about this. We're not sure how Chuck Palahniuk, Edward Norton and Brad Pitt would feel about us bending those rules in the [...]

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Facial hair is a little like the carpeting in your house, at the right length it's attractive and stylish, if it's too long you look like a dirty hippie. Nailing that 5 o'clock shadow at all [...]

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You already turn to Garrett Wade for all the knives you buy (actually that makes you sound like a knife-wielding lunatic, but you know what we mean) now you can dial-up the rustic man shop [...]

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If you think about it, fragrance/cologne/whatever you want to call it is really nothing more than perfume specially mixed with additional swagger, testosterone, wood, *insert manly marketing copy here*. As perfume, its sole purpose is [...]

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You think a guy like Daniel Day Lewis was lucky enough to just kept his 'stache immaculate in between takes on There Will Be Blood without a little outside help? (Actually he probably did, guy seems [...]

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There are times when you show up to the office, a date or just a night out and realize you missed a spot when you were shaving. Your trusty 6,000-bladed razor is at home and you've [...]

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Outside of hanging a char-grilled steak around our neck like we had the same affinity for meat that Flava Flav does for timepieces, we can't think of a way to smell quite so manly.  Forget [...]

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Whatever the reason may be - irony, woodsman appeal, tickling women - growing a mustache isn't as simple as just not shaving your upper lip.  Okay, frankly it is that easy, but if you have [...]

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Dumping a liter of soda on your head sounds like something you'd do at a wild college party after a night of Jagerbombs and not as part of your daily morning ritual (unless you happened [...]

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There are a lot of days when,as guys, we step in the house and you'd think someone detonated a stink bomb or invited Pepe Le Pew in for drinks.  With sweaty bike rides and outdoor [...]

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When you travel, how do you carry your toiletries? 3-1-1- quart size Ziploc bag? Dopp Kit? Are you one of those guys that just checks his bag with a random collection of shampoos, conditioners and [...]

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We don't remember much from our business classes at community college, but the words of one particularly influential professor will stick with us for the rest of our lives. "No one likes change but a [...]

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Now that you're at an age and position where shaving isn't so much an option as it is a necessity, you need to start taking better care of yourself. For a guy, "essential oil" might [...]

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