Male grooming

    Grooming tips (6)

  • How to eliminate razor burn
    how-to, grooming tips and shaving tips
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    If manual shavers are causing you some serious razor burn, it’s definitely time to switch to an electric shaver. We’ve got some helpful tips to put that nasty burn behind you.

    Exfoliation

    This is where it starts. Exfoliating your face is important to remove the dead skin on the top layer. It also brings ingrown hairs that may be causing you little lumps and bumps, to the surface. The best thing is to use an exfoliating facial scrub in the shower before shaving to prepare the skin.

  • How to: Go from Grizzly Bear to Bare
    Philips Bodygroom Pro, male grooming, grooming tips and chest hair
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    Traditionally, December is the time of year when men tend to take their fashion cues from Santa Claus, complementing their all-encompassing winter coats and scarves – or, if you’re lucky enough to live in the Southern Hemisphere, budgie smugglers and smug grins – with a full beard as a natural way of protecting themselves against cold winter winds or if you live in the Southern Hemisphere, just for kicks.

  • Get in shape for Valentine’s Day
    Valentine's Day Tips and grooming tips
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    In case you needed reminding before your partner did it for you, Tuesday 14 February is St Valentine’s Day. Whether you’re in a relationship or a single man out on the town, it’s important to look your best on Valentine’s Day. Here are our Valentine’s Day tips to make sure your body is in top shape.

  • Let’s get creative!
    Philips vacuum beard trimmer, Dr Allan Peterkin, grooming tips and mustache
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    With 2012 now in full swing, many of you may have resolved to start experimenting with your grooming routine, but have you ever stopped to consider how this relates to the rest of you, and how making a bit more effort into your grooming routine says a lot about you?

    In our previous blog ‘Faceless Politics’, we pointed out that your grooming choices can say a lot about you and can influence the way people think of you.

  • How to Grow an ‘Anchor Beard’
    anchor beard, beard and grooming tips
    Anchor beard

    Ahoy there, matey!

    Despite the rugged and weathered looks which come to mind when you imagine an ‘Anchor Beard’, the reality is much more stylish and suave. Instead of an ‘unshaven fisherman at sea look’, it cleverly combines the goatee, chinstrap and handlebar mustache to brilliantly resemble an anchor in a much more fashionable manner than you would imagine.

  • Beard to death?
    beard, Philips SensoTouch 3D and grooming tips
    Beard maintenance 101
    Full beard

    The easiest thing about getting a beard is the growing of it, those blissful weeks without shaving, the watching and waiting as the hair on your chin grow longer, richer and fuller.  As this happens, your sense of well-being flourishes as well as filling you with a warming glow - especially around your chin.

    There are some problems with growing a beard though. There are ingrown hairs and the inevitable itch, but once those subside, the biggest problem of all is getting food and other object caught in your hairy pride and joy.