As our Master Barber Gino Rusu states "preparation is the key to a great shave". Start preparing the skin either by splashing it with hot water or just step in a shower before you shave. The warm water will not only soften your stubble, making it easier for your razor to cut through your hair, but it also opens up your pores. It will enable your razor to encounter less resistance as it glides across your skin.
In the part of the 19th century, when regular visits to the barber were essential to facilitate the wearing of wigs by gentlemen, the coming together of William Francis Truefitt’s Gentlemen’s Barber Shop and Edwin Hill & Co.’s own setup at the Old Bond Street was, thus, the stuff of an old gent’s most coveted fantasies. Till this day, every Truefitt & Hill across the world greets its customers’ shave requests with hot towels, and warm hearts.
Is aftershave absolutely necessary to your shave regime or is it completely superfluous? What does it do to improve your shaving experience? Is that burning sensation worth it? How does it help besides giving you a musky smell after?
Lo and behold, this is the complete guide to aftershaves.
Men find it an everyday struggle to be well groomed. How many times have you found yourself being told that your beard is shaggy or your eyebrows are shabby? “Ruggedly handsome” is often confused with unkempt and disheveled. Which, by the way, is almost never attractive. Grooming is not being clean-shaven or barefaced. There is so much more that goes into being dapper.
A meeting in Tokyo, a sit-down in Chicago, a pitch in Berlin, a business lunch in Moscow. For the debonair entrepreneur, the world is his oyster. Hopping from city to city, over continents is often considered an occupational hazard. But at these business liaisons, looking dapper and handsome is not optional it is a prerequisite. Being jetlagged and tousled is not the course of action to take.
Men hate being told how to shave. Shaving is a ritual they follow from adolescence to old age. It is an age-old routine being followed by men of all nationalities. The entrepreneur is always on a time crunch. Running from meeting to meeting, pitch after pitch. Every entrepreneur needs to look sharp and on point. Walking into a meeting disheveled and tousled is not a good impression to make. Men must invest more time into their appearance in order to achieve favorable outcomes. As much of a cliché the proverb, “First impression is the last impression”, sounds like, the truth is clichés become clichés because there is an underlying truth in them. Here are some shaving hacks every budding businessman must have in his repertoire.
This year saw quite a few game changing hairstyles. Men have become more daring and open to these quirky yet editorial looks. Whether it was Neymar with his Mohawk and side cut, Matthew McConaughey with his side-swept locks or Beckham’s undercut, men’s hair fashion grew and how. This is a round up of all the bold and audacious styles that were widely sported by men this year.
What found it’s humble beginnings in Adelaide, Australia in 2004 has now turned into a heroic global phenomenon. Movember, an amalgamation of the words, November and Moustache (slang- mo), started out as a solidarity movement among 30 men to spread the word about ailments like prostate cancer, testicular cancer and depression among men. They started a charity, called Movember Foundation, which has since raised about USD 559 mn for over 800 charities that look into men’s health issues. Having reached South Africa and Europe, it arrived in North America. Under it’s reign, about 4 million moustaches have been pruned and nurtured.
