Q You wrote recently about coloring a beard, which is not yet a concern of mine. My question is about the actual maintenance of my beard. Being clean-shaven is easy for me (I also don't have the difficulties with razor burn that others asked you about). However, I come off too much as a boy without some stubble, and keeping that or an actual full beard consistently neat doesn't come naturally to me. What is the industry standard for a professional looking beard? A I wouldn't say there's an absolute "industry standard" for beards, but there are approaches to grooming that make a man's face look well-groomed and/or professional and others that stand out as a mess. These grooming elements are...
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How To Get Rid Of Shaving Rashes Using These 4 Effective Natural Remedies How to get rid of shaving rashes using these 4 effective natural remedies Shaving is one of the common and very fast ways of removing unwanted hair from the surface of the skin. And in all, shaving rash has become one of the most common problem because so many people want to get rid of unwanted hair, and this affects of different people who shave different parts of their body. Shaving rash may sometimes appear red, itchy, swollen, dark bumps appearing in a shaved area, it could be in the pubic area, necks, cheeks, Ever Heard of Hirsutism? See What it Means, it's Cause and Some Notable Women with it. It is a normal...
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Have you ever thought about raising a beard to increase your masculinity? And do you know if the harmonious and uniform hair styles and beard styles will bring unexpectedly positive changes to looks? Let’s find the answer to the issues surrounding the balance of beard and hair in this article. Hair is a very interesting thing: you spend many years feeding it, using a variety of drugs to stimulate different beards, but the result is only a few stalks. And then, suddenly one day the amount of testosterone in the body suddenly increased dramatically, and as a phenomenon of “hydroelectricity flooding”, your beard becomes dense and rich like tropical shrub. But, instead of...
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Hair politics arguably extends to the perception that many Africans harbour towards beardless men. Barnaby Dixson, a human behavioural ecologist at the University of Queensland and co-author of a study of beard length, explains that both sexes judge men with beards as older and more masculine, and describe them as generous, sincere, industrious and self-confident. As the metrosexual clean-shaven beauty standard ebbed, #BeardGang was born. This is a campaign to encourage men to grow a full, luxuriant beard as a symbol of their “manliness”. Unlike the metrosexual aesthetic, which men could easily dismiss, the “lumbersexual” aesthetic is a brawnier beauty standard that puts pressure on men to...
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Negative frequency-dependent preferences and variation in male facial hair 1. Introduction Understanding the maintenance of additive genetic variation under selection remains a core challenge in population genetics [ 1 ]. In the sexual selection literature, this issue underpins the ‘lek paradox’ [ 2 ]. A population under strong sexual selection might be expected to converge on a single ‘most attractive’ phenotype, but attractive traits often show high additive genetic variance [ 3 ]. In understanding the maintenance of genetic variation in attractive traits, it is worth noting that an individual's attractiveness depends not only on their phenotype, but also on the distribution of rivals'...
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Bigen. Pronounced "Beijing." Sounds almost magical. "Bigen Blackout." That's what the hood calls it. A mystical mix of chemicals whipped up and applied to hair, and like magic—or Magic Marker, as it were—beards look blacker, more asymmetrical, and hair looks thicker and fully restored. In a layman's hands, Bigen is nothing more than semipermanent hair dye. But in the hands of a master barber, Bigen becomes a fountain of inky youth applied in such a way that a razor-sharp hairline can be shaped and manipulated, or tufts of hair sprouted on the face look like a full mass of beard. Hairlines are sculpted tightly back into their starting blocks; beards become so sharply angled that...
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Did you know the beard is a historical emblem of power? That’s why influential men in history like Lincoln, Norris, ZZ Top, and even Santa and Jesus wear the beard. But during all this time they came, they went, they came again, and they went again. People always perceive full beards as a sign of aggressiveness, masculinity and of active testosterone in the body. Men with beards are often seen as more angry, aggressive, dominant and therefore as being an alpha male. On the other hand men with groomed beards display that they take good care of themselves and are healthy. A study by Barnaby Dixson and Paul Vasey found that both men and women associate beards with maturity, power and higher...
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Male grooming is bigger than ever, with more and more men becoming increasingly concerned about their looks and hygiene. In 2016, it is expected that male grooming will be a $21 billion industry. According to research by Datamonitor Consumer, hair products and shaving products top the list as being the most used, which is not surprising, however, there has been a huge surge in the facial skin care department, sun care products, and beard products. This is an interesting statistic because it begs the question – why has the male grooming culture become so enormous? Maybe men have stopped using their wives’ skin care products and have started buying their own. Maybe there is something bigger...
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