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Author: Kristen Barber Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 0813572657 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 149
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The twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of man: the metrosexual. Overwhelmingly straight, white, and wealthy, these impeccably coiffed urban professionals spend big money on everything from facials to pedicures, all part of a multi-billion-dollar male grooming industry. Yet as this innovative study reveals, even as the industry encourages men to invest more in their appearance, it still relies on women to do much of the work. Styling Masculinity investigates how men’s beauty salons have persuaded their clientele to regard them as masculine spaces. To answer this question, sociologist Kristen Barber goes inside Adonis and The Executive, two upscale men’s salons in Southern California. Conducting detailed observations and extensive interviews with both customers and employees, she shows how female salon workers not only perform the physical labor of snipping, tweezing, waxing, and exfoliating, but also perform the emotional labor of pampering their clients and pumping up their masculine egos. Letting salon employees tell their own stories, Barber not only documents occasions when these workers are objectified and demeaned, but also explores how their jobs allow for creativity and confer a degree of professional dignity. In the process, she traces the vast network of economic and social relations that undergird the burgeoning male beauty industry.
Author: Benjamin Aaron Publisher: ISBN: 9781985695078 Category : Languages : en Pages : 176
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Husband & wife and master soap & skin care making duo, Benjamin & Amanda Aaron, have assembled over 90 recipes for men!From shaving soap to cuticle balm, this book comprises all of the latest and greatest trends in the burgeoning men's grooming industry.From the DIYer to the business mogul, these men's grooming recipes will aid you in your quest to create a fun afternoon of crafting, or revenue for your business. We hope you enjoy the recipes and blends found in this book, and that they serve as a foundation for even more creativity.This book includes:Detailed, step-by-step recipes for over 20 different product categories!A brief synopsis into the reasons behind the ever-trending men's grooming industry.A different essential oil blend for each recipe in the book!
Author: Kristen Barber Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 0813572657 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 149
Book Description
The twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of man: the metrosexual. Overwhelmingly straight, white, and wealthy, these impeccably coiffed urban professionals spend big money on everything from facials to pedicures, all part of a multi-billion-dollar male grooming industry. Yet as this innovative study reveals, even as the industry encourages men to invest more in their appearance, it still relies on women to do much of the work. Styling Masculinity investigates how men’s beauty salons have persuaded their clientele to regard them as masculine spaces. To answer this question, sociologist Kristen Barber goes inside Adonis and The Executive, two upscale men’s salons in Southern California. Conducting detailed observations and extensive interviews with both customers and employees, she shows how female salon workers not only perform the physical labor of snipping, tweezing, waxing, and exfoliating, but also perform the emotional labor of pampering their clients and pumping up their masculine egos. Letting salon employees tell their own stories, Barber not only documents occasions when these workers are objectified and demeaned, but also explores how their jobs allow for creativity and confer a degree of professional dignity. In the process, she traces the vast network of economic and social relations that undergird the burgeoning male beauty industry.
Author: David Scott Bartky Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595493114 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 106
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Are you (or someone you know) a guy who always wanted to know what to do to look your best but didn't know who to ask or where to find out the information? If so, this book is perfect for you. Men everywhere want to know what to do from the comfort of their own homes to improve their appearances, but until now didn't know how to find out. Grooming Secrets For Men has helped men all over the world look their best. Here are the topics discussed in the book: Skin Care Give Yourself A Facial Blackhead Removal Skin of Color Shaving Beard Maintenance Body Hair Body Odor Top Four Grooming Tips Sex and Men s Grooming Hairpiece/Toupee Maintenance Options For Coloring Your Hair How To Have Thicker Looking Hair Healthy Teeth Finding Your Own Style What To Wear The Traveling Man Grooming Tips While On A Date How To Look Your Best In Photographs How To Walk So You Look Your Best Exercise and Healthy Eating Quick Tips Helpful Links and Books Obviously there s something helpful for any man in this book Author David Scott Bartky has been helping men all over the world look their best for years through his website, www.thestylishman.com, and now you can get in on how to improve your appearance. If you're a guy who wants to improve his appearance and look your personal best, or you want to look your best for job interviews, dates, or for your significant other, this book is for you. This also makes a great gift for the guy in your life, or for any guy you know that needs help in these areas."
Author: D'Angelo Thompson Publisher: ISBN: 9781098325268 Category : Languages : en Pages : 66
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Grooming is essential but it's also important to be aligned physically, emotionally, and spiritually. A quick self-care men's grooming book, I wish I had gotten as a young man. Discussing diet, hygiene, skincare, shaving essentials, expert tips, fitness, and mental health.
Author: Garrett Munce Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1507212550 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 256
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This straightforward and illuminating guide offers self-care techniques—from skin care to stress relief—designed for modern men who want to live longer, look better, and feel calm, focused, and happy. Taking care of your mind, body, and soul is important to living a longer, more satisfying life and helps you feel confident in your daily interactions with others. In Self-Care for Men, author Garrett Munce—grooming editor for Esquire and Men’s Health and confirmed self-care practitioner—teaches you how to improve your physical and mental health and overall well-being through these easy and practical tips and exercises—from grooming to meditation—that are proven to work. Practiced by men like David Beckham, Snoop Dogg, and Adam Levine, self-care is a key component to overall wellness. This helpful guide introduces you to anti-aging products and practices, explains why masks are the HIIT workout of skincare, and shows you how to relax when you’re on the go. Offering advice on a range of topics from hair care, supplements, detoxing, the wonders of CBD, improving your energy levels, and more, Self-Care for Men will not only help you look and feel better, but live a happier, heathier, and more successful life.
Author: Heather Widdows Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691197148 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 360
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How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves good or bad, a success or a failure. Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal, showing how it is more dominant, more demanding, and more global than ever before.Heather Widdows argues that our perception of the self is changing. More and more, we locate the self in the body--not just our actual, flawed bodies but our transforming and imagined ones. As this happens, we further embrace the beauty ideal. Nobody is firm enough, thin enough, smooth enough, or buff enough-not without significant effort and cosmetic intervention. And as more demanding practices become the norm, more will be required of us, and the beauty ideal will be harder and harder to resist.If you have ever felt the urge to "make the best of yourself" or worried that you were "letting yourself go," this book explains why. Perfect Me examines how the beauty ideal has come to define how we see ourselves and others and how we structure our daily practices-and how it enthralls us with promises of the good life that are dubious at best. Perfect Me demonstrates that we must first recognize the ethical nature of the beauty ideal if we are ever to address its harms.
Author: Kieron Webb Publisher: Running Press Adult ISBN: 0762462507 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 357
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Man vs. Hair is your step-by-step guide to the latest and greatest in men's hairstyling and facial hair grooming. Groomed hair is a red-hot street style for men, inspired by bloggers, sports stars, actors, and models. With Man vs. Hair you can learn just how they do it. This is a collection of sixty fashionable men's hairstyles and facial hair looks. Step-by-step tutorials featuring simple how-to illustrations take the guesswork out of styling, while on-trend fashion photography demonstrates how to wear each 'do. With advice for different haircuts, types, and lengths, plus plenty of grooming tips, Man vs. Hair is the ultimate resource for amazing beards, braids, sideburns, mustaches, man buns, buzzcuts, and much more! Sharply packaged and easy to use, this is an ideal gift for any man of style.
Author: Autumn Whitefield-Madrano Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1476754055 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 288
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“A fascinating look” (The Boston Globe) at how we think and talk about beauty in the twenty-first century—and the unexpected and often positive way that beauty shapes our lives. For decades, we’ve thought of beauty as a negative influence in our lives. We feel insecure in the face of retouched, impossibly-perfect images. We worry primping and preening are a distraction and a trap. But in Face Value, journalist Autumn Whitefield-Modrano dispels this one-sided beauty myth and examines the relationship between appearance and science, social media, sex, friendship, language, and advertising to show how beauty actually affects us day to day. Through meticulous research and interviews with dozens of women across all walks of life, she reveals surprising findings, like wearing makeup can actually relax you, you can convince people you’re better looking just by tweaking your personality, and the ways beauty can be a powerful tool of connection among women. Provocative and empowering, it celebrates a relaxed brand of feminism, one in which it’s equally okay to feel fierce in your fake eyelashes and confident when going makeup-free. Face Value is “an immensely valuable work, one that seamlessly—and impressively—combines the tropes of the academic lit review and the memoir and the work of cultural criticism into an engaging, and timely, follow-up to The Beauty Myth” (The Atlantic).
Author: Trina C. Publisher: Hyperink Inc ISBN: 1614648395 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 33
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ABOUT THE BOOK Those pants you cut into knee shorts five years ago are getting threadbare: The fringes are so long they flutter in the wind like little strips of crepe paper. When you look in the mirror, you ignore stuff you don't think is important, like nose hairs, a few zits here and there, bushy eyebrows. You've probably spent your entire life not really caring about personal grooming other than showering, shaving and using deodorant. And you've always thought, why should you? It's the women who need to look good for you, right? Women like their men to look manly, and that means rough hands and filthy fingernails...right? Yeah, not so fast, buddy. See, when a woman sees you, she instantly makes a decision about whether you are a potential partner based on how you look. If you make a habit of looking like a homeless man in raggedy clothes, you might have more luck panhandling on the corner than finding a date. What you think doesn't matter does, and women are funny creatures, they notice little things that you've never given a second thought, like that monobrow you're sporting. So how do you go about improving your grooming habits? You listen to the experts. Learn from women, take a few hints from men who always seem to look good. Or, you can read this easy grooming guide and apply the lessons you learn here to your daily life. Trust us, the ladies will thank you for it. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK 1. Rock the bald look. If you choose to go bald, do it the right way. Cut your hair close to the skull, and then shave it off with a good quality razor. Don't use a cheap one, use one of those triple-blade razors to get the smoothest, closet shave. You might nick yourself here and there, but once you get the hang of shaving your head little injuries like that will be fewer and farther between. A bald head does come with some responsibilities. You have to take care of your new hairless pate, otherwise you could end up with sunburn, sun spots, freckling, and even wrinkles! Every morning, massage your head with a blend of aloe vera gel, cocoa butter, and coconut oil. This will leave your head so smooth you'll think it's a baby's butt. After all this, spray it with some strong sunscreen. Use a waterproof or sporting-strength sunblock in an SPF 50 or higher. Remember, the skin on your head is more sensitive, and it's the first thing on your body the sun's rays hit. Keep it covered, and keep it healthy... Buy a copy to keep reading!
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