A metrosexual New Year

So new year is fast approaching and many of us will be thinking about self improvement for the coming resolutions. More of us may even be on the receiving end of beauty products from under the Christmas tree.

So a lot has been made of the new media word “metrosexual” so I am curious about how little or much people here engage in it. How do you, if you do, take care of your appearance more than just the simple wash, rinse and repeat each morning.

Whether you take care of your toe nails, exfoliate your skin, make yourself smell good or prevent yourself from smelling bad, or go to ridiculously meticulous lengths to ensure all the hair in your beard are the same length… this thread is for you.

I myself am a wash, rinse, repeat kind of guy but the girls I live with do occasionally insist on taking a exfoliating rubbing stone to my knees and elbows occasionally because for whatever reasons they like a guy with smooth elbows and knees.

And you girls out there, since so many of you have invaded the gentlemans club (tee hee) what one self beauty treatment of procedure do you wish more guys would engage in.

BigDuffman

So wearing aftershave or deoderant is metro?? Hmmmm thats a bit much as most people should use deoderant in my opinion!?

I use after shave balm on my neck to cool the owl razor burn. Probably most metro thing I do though it keep the unibrow at by with a tweezers.

Otis Driftwood

Metrosexual is a new term?

OldGoat

Deleted User wrote: »

what one self beauty treatment of procedure do you wish more guys would engage in.

Don't have to be a wimmins to answer that one. Fingernails and hair.
If you can't manage those basics of hygene you are going to struggle to get a wimmins to pay you much attention.

krudler

I get dry skin on my forehead and patricularly around my eyebrows so i exfoliate every few days, aside from that its the usual stuff, since when i looking after your appearance metrosexual? its basic hygiene

Reward

Metrosexual isn't new, whats more its old hat, masculinity is back now and men were grooming themselves long before the term metrosexual came along.


If you want to age well, getting in the habit of using a moisturiser is a good idea, cleansing you face is too, especially of you live in a built up area. Myself I have an exfoliating scrub, clenser, mosituriser, something for around the eyes, a face mask and I like to have nice clothes. But I dont consider myself a metrosexual, I view that trend as being connected to misandry and men internalising misandry and an attempt to ramp up male consumerism which it did but aping women is not the way forward for men.
This is a new era, the western male is having something of an identity crisis, the media created identity is no good for us.. meterosexual or bumbling idiot subservient to his wife.

Sofiztikated

I shower daily.
I wash my hair nearly every day.
I use Yonka For Men Foaming Face Wash almost daily.
I use Yonka Lotion YK toner almost daily.
I use Yonka For Men Age Defense moisturiser daily.
I get my eyebrows waxed occasionally, to stop them meeting my hair/each other.

I'm still a manly man, I just happen to want nice skin. I don't tan, or use tinted moisturiser (well, used it once, and was horrific!)

Balls to Metro, skin care is not a bad thing.

I use moisturiser on my head after shaving it, I'm not at all metrosexual, at times I wouldn't mind being more metro as many ladies seem to like it. But I wouldn't be able to get away with it :pac: Happy enough being an Alpha male type.

Galvasean

nedtheshed wrote: »

Metrosexual is a new term?

In my day a metrosexual was someone with an unhealthy onsession with clocks.

killerking

If it has nothing to do with getting women into bed I am not interested.

CDfm

Metrosexual is a perjorative term for what used to be called well groomed & sophisticated. A kind of an adult "ghey" accusation.

What is the opposite of metrosexual. Unkempt, old fashioned , dowdy.

Time was if you went for a massage you would get "happy ending " questions from your mates and sniggers.

Thanks for the replies so far.

Just a small clarification, I never said it was a new word but a new media word. What I mean by this is that I have noticed the media latching on to it as a buzz word more in the last year or two than I have noticed it in the years before that.

There are still quite a lot of what they themselves consider “mens men” however. My own brother is an awful example. At a wedding when we all arrived in the hotel my oldest brother asked my other if he had any spare “after shave balm”. The latter brother ripped into him as if this was the silliest thing he ever heard of. I guess he feels “real men” just rip the face off themselves and go on their merry way.

dlofnep

Sh*t, shower, shave, brush the teeth and a bit of lynx. That's about as metrosexual as it gets for me.

Reward

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Thanks for the replies so far.

Just a small clarification, I never said it was a new word but a new media word. What I mean by this is that I have noticed the media latching on to it as a buzz word more in the last year or two than I have noticed it in the years before that.

There are still quite a lot of what they themselves consider “mens men” however. My own brother is an awful example. At a wedding when we all arrived in the hotel my oldest brother asked my other if he had any spare “after shave balm”. The latter brother ripped into him as if this was the silliest thing he ever heard of. I guess he feels “real men” just rip the face off themselves and go on their merry way.

Metrosexual is a deliberate ploy by corporations to construct a male that consumes beauty products and clothes like a female, not that there is anything wrong with personal grooming, but I think that men are correct to reject corporate and media constructions and faddish caricatures of themselves. At the same time a "real men dont wear aftershave" attitude or whatever is foolish too.

BopNiblets

dlofnep wrote: »

Sh*t, shower, shave, brush the teeth and a bit of lynx. That's about as metrosexual as it gets for me.

You could probably leave sh*tting off the list dude, unless it was a colonic or something.

The South Park guys did a good episode on metrosexuals a while back, pretty much nailed it.