Rolling Maleness and Masculinity Discussion Thread

yeah my philips beard trimmer is shit at cleaning up the neck actually, that's a fair point.

For a while I was on the chromed out safety razor kick--it was a better shave but I nicked myself more.

I started doing my neck with a safety razor a few years ago and haven’t looked back. Hot towel for neck, shaving soap, cheap-ass badger hair brush, Feather razors, and witch hazel for aftershave. I knick myself, mainly when I’ve used the razor one too many times, but I did the same with the Mach 3, too.

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get ready for lots more of this

I shave in the shower without cream and a 4 bladed razor. I swap out cartridges every 3 or 4 months.

Since we are all outing our shaving routines: Phillips OneBlade every other day or so and for beard and moustache trimming, Gillette Fusion5 once a week or when I want to look extra classy. I use a shaving gel called Shave With Benefits (the company's owned by a friend of my father's) that is very nice smelling and feeling in itself and claims to extend razor blade life -- and in my experience, it actually does. Pitralon as aftershave, but only the version made for the Swiss market because it's a completely different and better product and finally now readily available outside of Switzerland. (German heads understand.)

Once out of the shower and toweled dry I put the Ralph Lauren boxers back on and before applying the Mousse A Raiser, a shaving cream by Pour Hommes, I press a hot towel against my face for two minutes to soften abrasive beard hair. Then I always slather on a moisturizer (to my taste, Clinique) and let it soak in for a minute. You can rinse it off or keep it on and apply a shaving cream over it - preferably with a brush, which softens the beard as it lifts the whiskers - which I've found makes removing the hair easier. It also helps prevent water from evaporating and reduces friction between your skin and the blade. Always wet the razor with warm water before shaving and shave in the direction the beard grows, pressing gently on the skin. Leave the sideburns and chin for last, since these whiskers are tougher and need more time to soften. Rinse the razor and shake off any excess water before starting. Afterwards splash cool water on the face to remove any trace of lather. You should use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol. Never use cologne on your face, since the high alcohol content dries your face out and makes you look older. One should use an alcohol-free antibacterial toner with a water-moistened cotton ball to normalize the skin.

My skin kept naturally soft by my liberal snowflake tears, which leak copiously on the daily.

I dunno how people use no razors whatsoever - like as mentioned I need a razor to shape my beard on my neck, the full rectangular neck beard looks terrible, particularly if I have to dress formally, all squashed by a buttoned up shirt.

So I probably buy one or two packs of Wilkinson Sword "Extreme 3" disposable razors. They are the best value and sharpest brand I've used but I wouldn't say I've investigated others in the last 10 years or so. Now that Gillette have created such a nuanced and poignant skewering of how we have lived thus far in the world I might have to give their products a more just reckoning.

I mean while we are on this routine - that hair on the back of the neck is irritating. I prob would shave my own baldy head except for how hard it is to get rid of that. I leave it to the pros, for that reason and also because I don't like the reality or symbolism of sweeping up chunks of my own dead hair off the floor of my home.

I just use a beard trimmer on the shortest setting every 2 or 3 days.

I don't know why, probably laziness/working and studying but I tend to leave huge gaps between use of the trimmer, and I sort of allow myself to think maybe having a huge beard looks great as long as it's there, then every time I trim it at the shortest setting and a day or two passes I think I should have it that length always.

I like how this thread has just become men talking about themselves again.

If we don't want men to talk about themselves in the rolling maleness and masculinity thread then may I suggest tackling a completely different topic? Alternately, we can ban men from posting itt.

chose to take uug comment at (clean shaven) face value

Two roads diverged in a wood…

split ends

Is wins quoting American Psycho?

ok, it was. I couldn't google it an hour ago

Which shampoo will I use today? Maybe PsycoPath®, the sports shampoo with salon grade microprotein packed in a manly black injection-molded plastic motor-oil canister. Afterwards? A bracing energizer splash of Monk-On-Fire®, containing placenta, nectarine-pit extract, and B vitamins. And to hold it all together? First Strike® sculpting mousse manufactured by the pluTONium™ hair-care institute of Sherman Oaks, California. It's self-adjusting, with aloe, chamomile, and resins taken from quail eggs. Gloss, hold, and confidence. What a deal.

This is good in how it shows some nice bear upkeep/trimming before and after. https://www.buzzfeed.com/kevinsmith/17-shocking-transformations-that-prove-a-good-beard-is

yikes i posted the wrong link. There are no bears in that.

idk a couple of them might be

that URL is the stuff of nightmares

Too much facial hair or too much buzzfeed?

beard say hi to me

Before > after in at least half of those side-by-side comparisons.

"kevinsmith" is the primary source of dread, I expect

I was imagining an article that's just all pictures of film director kevin smith with different levels of beard

also he would be wearing huge shorts in every pic

While driving me to work this morning my wife saw this stuff being advertised on the electronic billboard on the football stadium and was flabbergasted at how stupid it is. Not the existence of "wine in a can" per se, but this branding and marketing. Because, you know, drinking from a glass is so fucking girly.

https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBnppR6.img?m=1&b=black&w=412&h=232&f=jpeg&q=60

Wine is made for shotgunning after all

Last week I tried to explain to some of my French friends that drinking wine is a girly habit according to a certain contingent of the anglophone population and they struggled to wrap their minds around it.

Incidentally, it seems like every culture has some bullshit about how their traditional rivals are 'effeminate'.

The only ones that are somewhat better in the before pic are the ones that were already ridiculously hot.

lol putting it in a can isn't enough, it has to *say* "MAN" on it in big bold letters, jfc

tbh if someone told me they were going to the bar to get some mancan my first thought would not go to wine

I always figure men in the US think drinking wine is effeminate because they know nothing about wine.

Dunno, is #1 ridiculously hot? The shaggier look suits him better imho.

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Since moving to the UK I've noted with some amusement that women almost systematically order a glass of wine at the pub. I've yet to see a man do it.

part of my brain has apparently been polluted by an old roommate who is in fact a bear who loves man can

xpost That beard (1) looks dry and scraggly as f.

finally opened the buzzfeed thing and too many of the "after" photos look like Proud Boys

the garbage mancan

Yeah I would say the same goes for the UK. The wine in regular UK pubs is often super boring too.

USAians thinking wine is for women is a recent thing then? When I was in uni there, you’d commonly see guys at frat parties with bottles or jugs of wine. Not just talking about mad dog or Boone’s either

neckbeard vs proudboy.

I think the weirdest stereotype re: alcoholic drinks I had at some point is that cognac is an effeminate drink... unless you're rapping about it?

like idk where this even came from, some sort of weird received stereotype. maybe because brandy is distilled from wine? cognac is fine

I always figure men in the US think drinking wine is effeminate because they know nothing about wine.

― Yerac, Friday, January 18, 2019 10:35 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

FWIW the received stereotype I always got is that red wine ok but white wine is effeminate? Which I always thought was dumb anyway because white wine is delicious and much better on a hot day than red wine.

bottles or jugs of wine, sure. but would you ever see those guys enjoying a single glass or having a bottle?

it's one of those things where it's perceived as one way with normal consumption, and completely differently when it's in a form meant for binge drinking

FWIW I think in the US the reason for the stereotype is that wine is seen as "high class" and things that are "high class" are also associated with being effeminate. Whereas in France wine is just what everyone drinks.

xpost, I don't think it's a recent thing and it's not anywhere in my solar system of people but there is a definite proliferation of "mommy needs wine" types of products, drinking of wine by female morning hosts, terms like cougar juice etc.

Yeah, I think that's the reason. French culture tends to be perceived as altogether high class abroad (not just in English-speaking countries), which is really confusing to the French.

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