Like your clothes, haircuts aren’t one-size-fits-all. But unlike your clothes, you can’t take a crap haircut off after a day of fielding abuse from your colleagues. Which is why – before going under the barber’s scissors – it’s worth knowing which styles best suit your face shape. After all, an extra inch here or a smattering of facial hair there can make all the difference. What Face Shape Am I? But how can you actually determine what shape your face is? It’s simple. First, arm yourself with a flexible tape measure. Then, take the following measurements, recording each as you go. Forehead: Measure across your face from the peak of one eyebrow arch...
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It is rare for an interview to reveal anything truly concrete about a future season, especially so far from the premiere (not even the right year yet, folks — hang in there!) Still, sometimes something slips through, however small a thing it is. This is one such case: in a new interview about everything but Game of Thrones, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau let us know that Jaime will have a new look next time we see him in season eight. In a fun little interview, ShortList asked the Danish actor about everything from life to career, and yet this season eight tidbit came in response to a question about his facial hair preferences, given that he’s currently the face of L’Oréal’s new...
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The round-up: Brisbane’s best barbers The boutique barber business is booming with the advent of beard culture, the return of rockabilly and the mania of Movember. Stylish gentlemen are hitting the streets with sleek styles, carefully coiffed cuts and formidable facial hair. In our post-metrosexual society, men are finding it easier to bridge the divide between rugged manliness and clean-cut class. Male grooming is now a big thing, and barbers are more relevant than ever. The new crop of style-savvy scissor-smiths is a far cry from your father’s short-back-and-side specialist, and we’ve rounded up some of the big names in Brisbane’s barber scene. Jimmy Rod’s Barbers , various locations:...
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What Your Beard Says About You What Does Your Facial Hair Say About You? A Beard Expert Weighs In During the First World War, soldiers were required by regulation to shave, given the fact that a gas mask would not hold tight enough to the face if there was a beard in the way. Afterwards, when soldiers went home, they were clean-shaven. When World War II rolled around, the only fashionable facial hair was a little toothbrush mustache. By the turn of the 21st century, full beards were generally only associated with people we didn’t encounter every day such as biker guys and mountain men. Yet by the mid 2000s, the full beard became fashionable once again. I live in Brooklyn, New York....
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The past few years have seen an explosion in the popularity of beards. No longer the preserve of geography teachers, beards have become a serious fashion statement. As with all trends, this has resulted in a growing business to support it; from specialist beard trimmers to grooming products, the business of beards has been booming. However, increasingly, there is talk of the beard craze reaching its climax. We have, some insist, reached ‘peak beard’. And this would potentially mean that all the businesses built up around the maintenance and grooming of beards were set to see their profits and customer bases trimmed down. The popularity of beards has ebbed and flowed throughout history. In...
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Celebrity Beard Looks. Wondering what celebrities are up to in their fashion endeavors and facial updates these days? Worry not, here are classic new beard styles from 2016 right from the preference of some of the most attractive celebrities, who manage to look their best both on and off screen. So give a glance to these 20 celebrity beard styles from this year and update your own style to look your most handsome every day. Happy facial attraction! Latest Celebrity Beard Styles to Try in 2016 #20 – The Groomed Beard Style The groomed beard style gives a much manlier look to those who apply it due to the thickness of hair coverage it demands. #19 – David Beckham’s Style #18...
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It’s November, and that time of year when men all over the world will be donning moustaches to raise money for, and awareness of, prostate cancer, through Movember. Get ready for a raft of valiant efforts, with some maybe even graduating to the moustache wax and twirly ends! Moustache newbies can take advantage of the huge range of products now available to shape, style and otherwise pamper their facial hair. Not, however, that there’s been much of an extra incentive needed in recent times for men to rediscover the love for their facial hair. As I’ve repeatedly suggested here on the blog, and elsewhere, there is little sign that beards are diminishing in popularity; if anything they seem to...
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As anyone with eyes will tell you, beards have become a mainstay of everyday life. If the hipster subculture birthed a defining look, it’s now just part of the furniture. In 2016, Men are more confident about trying out different styles to stand out from the tattooed crowd. Following Letterman’s achievement beard (which he praised as a “ real creepy look ”), the new beard styles are saying more than “I think I could catfish people into thinking I’m Brad Pitt with this.” So what do they say about you? The Superbeard Cover of the 11 April edition of the New Yorker. Photograph: The New Yorker As highlighted in this months New Yorker cover, The Superbeard is long and bushy and, like Gretchen...
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There is no doubt: Beards have ruled 2015. After the beard revival of the last decade, men don’t appear to be in a hurry to return to their clean-shaven ways. But, does that mean that the hipster movement is not over? The famous barber Jordi Pérez, of the well-known Barbery of Gracia in Barcelona, presents the new beard trends for 2016 and discloses his last discovery in barber tools. The beard has been used as a symbol for masculinity for centuries and manliness itself is a term used to describe beards. In fact, beard alters the perception that others have of those who wear it, as many psychological studies confirm. Barnaby Dixson and Paul Vasey Behavioral Ecology research, for example,...
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