I've got the best stuff, Colgate Triple Action toothpaste, Radox Mineral Therapy shower gel and shampoo, Schwarzkopf hair gel, Sure deodorant and a Gillette Fusion Proglide Styler. The styler is basically for tough guys with overly pretty faces. No need for blades, foam or aftershave, just a magnesium-bladed trimmer with a Double-A battery. I've got the perfect smile, so a decade or so ago I got the perfect beard to frame it.
Us attractive tough guys have no need for, "Gillette Fusion Proglide Styler. The styler is basically for tough guys with overly pretty faces", we just use sandpaper.
I can't be bothered to use shaving cream most of the time, and I'm too cheap to buy any shampoo above Dove grade quality. And if my hair is too long to be dealt with by running my fingers through it, I cut it. As you can see, I'm the paragon of male self-care.
Gold Dial, Mennen Speed Stick, and whatever toothpaste, shaving cream, and disposable razors are on sale.
Personally I go for the don’t-give-a-fuck smelly tramp look. Perhaps that’s why no one sits next to me on the bus.
I've fallen into a bit of a Hollywood Hobo™ look, so it's been quite a while since I tended the facial garden. I don't pay much attention to what grooming products I use. For toothpaste I grab whatever, and I have a whole cupboard of various deodorants (Christmas gifts etc.) I'm working through. I'm not too fussy about shower gels, but I seem to have defaulted to Palmolive. I use a shaving gel that I believe is Gillette. On those rare occasions when I scrape my face clean, I do so with a cheap-ass shavette (basically a straight razor with replacable blades). I do kind of enthuse over beard oils, though. Still looking for my "signature scent", as it were, but I'm liking this Proraso wood and spice. I also have a nice minty beard shampoo, I think the brand is Power. I own a tin of some Italian hair pomade (Tenax, I believe) which was a complete misfire of a purchase since I am rocking and will continue to rock a buzz cut.
The buzz cut is great for low maintenance. I do the meduum military fade on the sides a then leave it at like two or three inches on the top. I get three or four months out of that cut and then go again. Low maintenance is the way to be for me.
I know this is posted "men only," but keep out signs are always a challenge, so here I am as a representative of the man I'm married to. I have never seen his full unshaven face in 40+ years of marriage and courtship. He says, "Razor? I never allow one of those barbarous instruments near my skin." And, yes, he does intend the pun, which is one of the reasons I married him.
There are certainly a number of health benefits to cleaning yourself properly. I'm pretty minimalist, but some daily or even just every other day care is necessary simply for health benefits. Most any other argument is silliness, or more likely an attempt to excuse themselves for being lazy.
Well I’m not suggesting it’s okay to never wash, but we certainly don’t need to faff about like a woman, showering twice a day and clogging our sweat pores with antipersirant. Not sure what you mean by ‘for health benefits’, though. I don’t see how not washing is likely to be detrimental to one’s health. There’s a lot of bollocks spouted about hygiene, more often than not by companies selling hygiene products. Can’t think why that might be. And thanks to COVID these people are laughing all the way to the bank now, even more so than they were before.
I'm trans. I used to be female and now I've been on male hormones for about seven months. And I gotta say, like WOW, being on testosterone is weird. I smell like a teenage boy, I'm oily, I'm sweaty, I have to learn how to shave my face, and I have to shower every day. I used to shower every 2-3 days. I use the same products I used to use a woman, though. I like to smell pretty.
I've got a rare kickass hair type, double cowslick or something, this gives me like up and down bangs, when gelled it looks perfect.
I use a showergel that say something about active charcoal. I've also been letting my beard and hair grow wild, but that will be fixed soon. Did make my own perfume in France that I still have at home.
A single bar of soap is what I use for everything but tooth paste. I keep my hair short enough so it does not need to be combed. When I was a commercial fisherman I had a beard, my wife says I look like Fidel Castro so now I am clean shaven, I do miss the beard. 30 years ago I worked as a welder on bridges, traveling up and down the east coast. No air conditioning and it seemed like it was always a long hot drive to the next job. I started a list of every river I swam in after work with the goal trying to swim in every river in New York State. I made it to 27 rivers before changing jobs, skinny dipping most of the time, just a bar of soap.
I got my last haircut on February 5th, 2020 (rewards card date stamp). I have an intricate face care routine that I know nothing about. Every night Mrs. A demands that I sit back while she puts various oils, creams, lotions, and sprays on my face. None of them hurt, and it makes her happy, so I guess it's all good.
I don't go for all the primping and such. I shave every 3-4 days since I have a patchy beard and sparse facial hair thanks to genetics. I have long hair, which is easy to brush out and put in a ponytail without having to fuss with getting everything going in it's proper direction and don't have to deal with my cowlick either. Found out while spending 3 months with my GF in Ireland, that I don't have any kind of personal smell of my own. Which I find kinda strange, but never really thought about it. I try to keep in shape somewhat, but am not looking to appear some kind of hairless gorilla. Instead trying to keep a constant weight of around 130lbs. so that I don't have to buy fatter pants than 31x30s though I wouldn't mind going back down to 29s to save on pants for a bit. I use the cheap stuff in the shower (soap is soap), crest toothpaste, and don't have a need for deodorant as I have had some reactions to it about 5 years ago with huge itchy rashes under my arms. While out, I shop like I mean it and not stand around looking through everything for 10 minutes at a time. Basically dodging around all the slow people getting what I want/need and get out. I have a natural tendency to give people space, which helps.
Ooh, just passed two years on my haircut. This is what a medium reg (relaxed buzz cut) looks like 736 days later:
Hairdressers talk to me like I'm in the oncology ward. It just spikes up all over the place so I don't even bother trying to control it. Some days it looks great, most days ugly anime hair. Beard grows okay but the 'stache sort of has that anti-Hitler thing. I shave with a safety razor because it's very cheap. Have trouble shaving chin dimple hair, though. I think I have a malignant dimple: chin is getting fatter or something as there's more of a crevice every year.
