Specific pores, to be fair.

So what's the deal with conditioner? Should I even be using it with short hair? I tend to use Dove conditioner every day when I shower. It makes it feel so smooth afterwards. Is it a bad idea to condition daily?

At work, a good guideline is to dress slightly better than everyone else. Dress like your boss, and you look promotable. Don't dress too much above your position or you look ridiculous. Do over-dress for an interview or first day, if you don't know how to do it. (Exception for construction sites and the like, obviously).

For a professional position, if you wear jeans they have to be new and solid coloured. And probably only on Friday.

Question: how do you pick good glasses? Unfortunately, I'm going to want some for awhile (at least until my eyes "stabilize" and Lazik is possible). I presume you can't get the lenses too small or it's a pain in the ass to look out of.

Question 2: Some people advocate "peacocking" when going out to pick up at bars, malls, etc. Wearing something distinctive, like a crazy hat, glasses, boots, to call attention to yourself and stand out. Yes/no?

Go to the store and just try a bunch on until you find some that look nice on you. Take a friend or ask the people in the store.

If it looks nice, sure, but all of that sounds ridiculous to me.

Anyone have good advice on eczema? I developed it a couple of years ago, about 6 months before I was diagnosed with diabetes (I have NO idea if they're correlated, or if 18 is a strange age to get eczema), and it's still going strong. It's on my hands, and they're very dry because I wash them so much... I'm kind of a germ-a-phobe. So aside from the whole "don't wash your hands as much" and "use lotion" advice, whaddaya got?

Get a Cortisone cream. I think you need a prescription to get it, so go to your doctor and ask him/her about it. It helps a lot. I used to get it on my ankles and feet when I was little, and I get it on my hands now if I use anti-bacterial soaps. That might be part of your problem, too. I use Ivory soap for everything now.

The best razors are the old safety - one blade razors. The shave the closest and if you do it right, cut the least and cause the least irritation. Together with a good lather and a wet face, it's incredible. Don't push down though.

Also, Hi everyone. Some kid named Lukage told me to come here.

The best way to have a perfectly shaped head of hair all the time is to shave it all off.

When I did used to have hair though, I can say that VO5 Sculpting Wax is just about the best option for any sort of gravity defying styling. It holds pretty solid without the horrible stickiness you get with gel.

Also, always, always iron a shirt before you wear it. Even ones that claim to be non-iron need ironing. Especially be sure to iron a shirt before you wear it the first time otherwise you'll likely have stupid horizontal creases across your chest. People in scrumpled shirts look like twats, simple as that.

Oh yeah, one more thing. Never tuck a t-shirt or shirt into your trousers unless you have on a jacket or a tie. Not only do you look like a fucking tool with it tucked in, it also accentuates your belly.

Generally yes, however if you have to ask, then probably no. It's only good if you really know what you're doing and have a good sense of your own style, otherwise you'll just look like a tool.

I second everything said here, especially the part about tucking in your shirt. Even if you don't have a belly, just don't do it.

Random retort: The best thing in the world to get blood out of clothes is your own spit. Your body produces enzimes or whatever to disolve your own blood much more effectively. (I tend to do this when I get a new razor)

I have never ironed a single piece of clothing I own. I'm comfortable, and I don't have to put any effort into being comfortable. I even got a really, really good job in a wrinkled pair of pants. *shrug*

If you think you might get bad breath, go buy a tongue scraper. We bought one for my dad a long while back and the improvement was instant. Shortly afterwards I bought one for myself since my best friend had really rough bad breath and I started to become really self conscious about it worrying that maybe mine was bad and I just didn't notice. Used the same guy for at least four years now, and it just broke the other day (noooooo ;_; ). Gotta buy a new one at the supermarket as soon as possible since I'm constantly worried that I stink now. :(

Also, I totally agree with BM. I don't know why any guy would wear a shirt without an undershirt. When it's cold out, you get an extra layer for warmth. When it's hot out, your undershirt will stick to you, but your other one won't (at least, not as noticably). It's also good if you get pit stains because they're on cheap undershirts instead of your normal shirts.

And for whoever it was above that was asking about glasses, bring a person or two whose sense of style either agrees with your own or you can trust to do a good guess at what kind of glasses you'd like instead of what they like. When I go shopping for new glasses I can't really see myself in them (have to be within 4" of the mirror to get a good view, so I can't really see how I look overall), so I really need someone else's help to do it. Also, don't worry about lenses being too small; I've had really big lenses as well as tiny ones and you get used to it either way. The only problem is if they aren't wide enough and you can't see out your passenger-side mirror in your car. I hated having to constantly turn my head to look out that one.

The best tip I can give to my fellow hairy men is that shaving cream is a scam. It just makes your skin mushy and weak. If you were handed a can of shaving cream the day you hit puberty, you may not even know that you can shave without it. Try it, I guarantee your skin will thank you.

:eyebrow: Will, that is terrible advice.

Unless you feel the need to have horrible red bumps all over your skin, a rough face, and buy new razor blades every week, I don't suggest taking it.

No, if the razor is sharp enough, there's really no need to use cream. Maybe it just takes some time to get used to it.

Maybe it's different for women, but dry-shaving is HORRIBLE for my skin. I've done it many times when I've been in too much of a hurry to bother with shaving cream or soap (which works just as well, at least for me) and the results are always really, really bad.

They are. That's why it's important to always change the blades on your razor and apply aftershave, preferably one with skin moisturizers, so that your face doesn't start feeling like a freshly plucked chicken.

I find shaving cream to be effective for reducing irritation and conditioning the hair as well as providing a slicker and more lubricated surface for your razor. I don't think it has an effect on the actual shaving of hair or how well of a shave you get. My face feels less irritated afterwards when I use some type of cream or gel, I guess because not as much raw skin comes up with the razor and the razor cut through the hair much more neatly because the hair was softer.

I don't know if it weakens the face. In seven to eight years of shaving I've drawn blood precisely two times, and purely by accident, so cutting myself is the least of my worries.

Razor bumps occur when a hair has been cut too close and falls below the surface of the skin. When it begins to grow back, it grows into the skin rather than out. Its most common with people who have curly hair.

I use shaving gel becuase I find it helps soften my particuarlly tough facial hair. Hot water and shaving gel means I get a shave the feels like I'm actually cutting the hairs off rather than ripping them out of my skin.

Dry shaving is terrible for my skin as well. I normally just use soap and water and I get a nice, smooth shave.

All you people and your shaving abilities. I'm convinced that my skin just sucks. I've tried everything... various after-stuff, various gels, soaps, shampoos, razors, dry/wet... BOSH. If anyone out there SERIOUSLY had HORRIBLE razorburn every time they shaved and found something to magically make it disappear... let me know.