Men's Grooming

Hair, beard, skin, scent. Ten minutes a day that everybody notices and nobody mentions.

GuideTobias ReedSep 23, 20265 min

Cologne After Sixty Starts With The Label, Not Your Nose

Your sense of smell fades before your taste in fragrance does, which is exactly why the bottle on your shelf is lying to you.

GuideTobias ReedSep 23, 20266 min

Four fragrances that earn their shelf space

Terre d'Hermes, Aventus, Oud Wood and Guerlain Vetiver. What each one does, when it fails, and why you should buy a 2ml decant before a 100ml bottle.

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GuideTobias ReedSep 23, 20265 min

Ten colognes that earn their shelf space

Bleu de Chanel, Sauvage, Acqua di Gio and seven more, plus the two-spray rule that keeps you from becoming the guy people smell in the parking lot.

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Heat does half the work of your cologne

Two bottles, a spray count, and a rule about where you put them beats a shelf of samples you'll never finish.

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GuideTobias ReedSep 23, 20265 min

Two sprays, and where each one goes

The bottle isn't the problem. The dose is. A 90-second cologne routine that reads as expensive instead of overwhelming.

GuideTobias ReedSep 23, 20265 min

Why the same fragrance costs twice as much in a smaller bottle

EDT, EDP and parfum explained by concentration, cost per milliliter, and the one word on the label nobody regulates.

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GuideTobias ReedSep 23, 20265 min

Old Spice, Clubman And The Splash That Costs Seven Dollars

The classic barbershop aftershaves outlasted every trend for a simple reason, and they ask exactly one thing of your skin in return.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next two weeks.

GuideTobias ReedSep 23, 20265 min

Six Colognes Under Fifty That Don't Smell Cheap

The juice is the cheapest thing in the box. Skip the counter, buy the right bottles, and nobody standing near you will know what you paid.

GuideTobias ReedSep 23, 20265 min

Three Bottles Cover Your Entire Year

Work, weekend, evening out. Pick one for each, learn the two-spray rule, and stop blind-buying 100 ml of something you'll wear four times.

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GuideDean ShawSep 23, 20264 min

The silver spray that earned a spot next to my razor

GermProof is a chelated-silver spray built for skin that takes a beating. Here's what it is, what the company says it does, and how to actually use it from shave to scrape.

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GuideDean ShawSep 23, 20265 min

Ask for guard numbers, not the name of a haircut

Most bad haircuts are communication failures, not skill failures. Say the numbers, bring the right photo, and stop asking for hair you don't have.

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GuideDean ShawSep 22, 20266 min

Six minutes at the sink, and you're done for the day

A weekday grooming routine you can actually finish, in order, with the reasons each step earns its place and the ones you can drop.

GuideDean ShawSep 22, 20266 min

Most razor burn is a technique problem

Stinging neck, red blotches, ingrown hairs three days later. Almost all of it comes from four fixable habits, and none of them cost money.

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GuideTobias ReedSep 22, 20266 min

Hands and nails, sorted in two minutes a day

Clippers, a file and a decent cream fix almost everything. The part most men get wrong is when they do it, not what they buy.

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Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

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Smelling good at arm's length, not across the room

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Thinning hair rewards early action and punishes waiting

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GuideTobias ReedSep 22, 20265 min

Three ingredients do the work and the rest is packaging

Sunscreen, a retinoid and a decent moisturiser. Everything else in the bathroom cabinet is optional, and most of it is optional forever.

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Your neck line is doing most of the work

A beard reads as deliberate or accidental within a second, and length has almost nothing to do with it.

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