THE COSMETICALLY INCLINED METRO MAN! MONDAYS WITH MEG!
Meg here! Lets talk men and products! I don't want to "talk men" I find most of them quite boring and would rather sit with my girlfriends and discuss most anyhing but. I'm not a male basher or anything, I just think when we start to analyze them we're just giving them too much credit. When one of my girlfriends will put me on the task to "Find out where he thought it was going after they kissed" I will dutifully place the friend call. My guy friends answer is usually on the lines of "Oh, I don't know I haven't really thought about it. Hey, what's going on tonight? Want to go eat in a few?" So whatever. I mean studies have all shown women do not wear makeup and dress cute to impress men, most often it is done to look good in front of the harshest critic...Other women.
Men do not seem to spend time writing script about women in their head. There are now some thoughts that used to be "female issues" that occupy their brain.
"Meg, what products do you think I should be using?" Yup, that zinger comes up more then you'd think. Guys tend to ask me that as much as if I have any single friends they could date.
I know when HOM and I were living together I started to slowly notice it. In the shower, I would reach for my Suki face scrub and notice a lot of it missing. Then my Kiehls lip balm was gone, soon my Stephen Knoll hydrating mist spray ended up in his toiletry bag. These things weren't going away on their own. My very non-metro husband was starting to turn...Into a product whore.
Cosmetic companies are starting to realize it as well, men's lines are starting to crop up everywhere. I knew some crazy stuff was going on when two of my guy pals were talking...About eyecream.
I'm just wondering if this is something you've been noticing too? Is your moisturizer bottle a bit lighter then you remember leaving it in the morning? On the Holiday wish list are Jack Black products next to the golf driver?
Should we help them? Twice a month or so should we do a round-up of the best male products?
Do you share your stuff? Does your guy get the "male version" I am going to send your responses to my guy friends that ask me what works best for men. It's not something I know a ton about, being a female and all. It's hard enough for me to keep track of what works best on the ladies!
Ladies, please post and help mankind know what floats your guys boat! Besides beer, the game and oh yeah, you!!
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It took my boy two months to work up the nerve to ask me out, the scaredy cat. But that's beside the point! The point is, when I first started staying over his house, I noticed that his "skincare routine" involved Dove soap, water, and occasionally an extra-strength Stridex pad- and he complained that his face got greasy all the time. I gave him some Neutrogena stuff to try, which helped a lot, for a time. Then I took home a huge block of Lush's Fresh Farmacy for myself and took a chunk of it with me to his house. As I was washing my face, he was like "What's that? You told me never to wash with soap!" I explained what it was and he tried it, reluctantly. Now he goes through bars of F.F. faster than I do! He says that I've changed his life just by recommending that little product, which makes me smile. I got lucky- after that first breakthrough, he's not been shy about asking me skincare questions.
this is a good idea! i'm a man and i started reading your webiste after you guys came into my store (i'm daniel from jo malone scp) i get so many of my guy friends who ask me for advice on skincare more and more recently it's hilarious!
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My manly-man:used to run cold water in the shower and head out the door looking like a million (I love/hate the beasts!) but I am pleased to report that he now has a nice lil' "routine" he follows pretty religiously using the "Zirh" line of products that I gifted him with a couple of years ago...fabulous highly-effective,easy to us,awesome customer service and website:http://www.zirh.com/Everything they do it just so good,lots of samples and extras in orders too! Hand cream is LUSH "Dream Cream",I keep it near his closet and he scoops on the run.Fixes everything fast!Also likes some L'Occitane for men and some Tommy Bahamaproducts.They have the same skin as we do and I see a HUGE dif in the overall condition of his at this point! The eye-cream he still shys away from but lip balm is his new BFF,LOL!THAT he WILL snag if I leave it lying around.Funniest product story: I used to use a "color depositing" shampoo for my red hair...he has his own shamp in shower but always grabbed my much pricier stuff and had been asked not to.He's blonde and one day,came out of bathroom with peachy-red hair...I knew what he had done and asked him why he persisted in using my shamp? "I didn't use your stuff,you're always saying that I do!"I calmly(trying hard not to burst out laughing...) walked him to the mirror and the look on his face was sooooo pricless! BUSTED BIG TIME!!!
I think that just because Car & Driver and Playboy don't have beauty editors, it doesn't mean men aren't any less sensitive or self-conscious about how their skin looks. They are always trying to impress us girls aren't there? My boyfriend is a sweater - he has a physical job so he get's really self-conscious about the b-acne that we all know and hate. I was like...well for only $19.50 I can get you the Clinique spray that prevents just such! And he got hooked! And I always compain that his skin is so oily when I kiss him I get a greasy film on my face. So I talked him into trying Cosmedicine Medi-Matte and using the Anthony Clay mask once in a while! And he just loved that it really made a difference. He finally believed that cosmetics aren't necessarily a big scheme to take women's money. Sometimes they actually help!
Katie
My very manly hubby is addicted to his John Varvatos Skin products. I don't think hecould possibly live without them anymore. Especially the lotion. My guy shaves hishead and this is the only thing he wants on his noggin. JV has a full line of VERYluxurious items and I think more men should know about them. Its not a metro thing...its a matter of taking care of yourself. Your skin is your largest organ and shouldnot be ignored. I also treat my guy to pedicures...again...a matter of hygiene and not just for the metro guys. I say BRING on the male product beauty reviews!!!
Love, hugs and shoes...Angie
My brothers are more into products than my husband (who I'm slowly converting). My younger-older sibling (middle child) likes salicylic acid gels for his acne and ingrown hairs that he gets, and silicone serum for his hair. He insists on gentle facial cleaners, but "manly" body washes. I'm thinking of getting him a care package for his birthday right after Christmas, so he has stuff for when he starts gradschool (stuff that he would normally not buy himself, since he can't get it in his grocery store, and that's "how real men shop," or something).My youngest brother likes hair gels and lotions, but I have no idea when types, because he hides them.My husband... so far it's only serums for fizzy hair, nice shampoos and conditioners, and occasionally cologne or lotions, but I'm working on him. He used to not wash his face at all *shudder*.
I try, I really really try, but no luck. Great after shaves and colognes though are one of his passions. I love them all because they smell so good. But the man face creams I bought are still full, some unopened. I can't even get him to put sunscreen on.
Beste Hilsin
When there was a massive sell out in boots no 7 protect and perfect serum ,it was reported men as well as women were bulk buying it,they started using their wives product,got addicted and started buying it themselves.Now they make a special manly version for men ,it comes in a grey and orange bottle instead but that probably the only difference.I think its quite funny when they put their skincare products in black bottles and then they buy them.
PotionPrincess♥
My dad is very into perfumes and face creams. My mom never used those stuff until she met him!
I think it's great when guys are willing to take care of themselves with a little bit of skincare product :) No, they prob won't dare talk about this handcream or w/e around other dudes, but nothing wrong w/taking care of your skin :)As long as I don't see any guys trying to steal my eyeliner/blush/concealer/etc. ;)
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my cousins love cologne :D everytime they visit they smell so good :D i think its nice when guys actually put some effort into their skin and stuff.
woww.
My guy is a product whore. He loves skin care and does the whole routine. He cleanses, scrubs, uses eye cream, mosturiser and sunscreen.For a while there I couldn't work out how he was using his eye and face creams so quickly until one day I watched him and discovered that the correct way to apply eye cream is to imagine a mask that goes halfway down the cheeks and to the top of the forehead and apply eye cream to the whole area. Moisturiser then follows and that is applied to the whole head (my guy is bald). When I say the whole head I really mean that, he puts it all over his head, his ears, the front and back of his neck.As if that's not funny enough, the test to see if the eye cream is working is to squint as hard as he can and then peek out one eye to see if his wrinkles have reduced or are less deep.
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haha! OMG YES.my brother is completly obssessed with finding the perfect cleanser!
I am not a big fan of overly primped metro men (my ex as one of them, he used bronzer, coloured his hair,waxed his chest, took more time to get ready than me... it got old quickly) but I do like a well groomed guy who smells good, so bring on the reviews. My dh is the opposite of a metro, but maybe I can buy him some stuff to make him change his ways ;)
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