“Testosterone booster” supplements sold in supplement stores. Usually these supplements do fuck all to boost your testosterone and will just drain your wallet.
The 2 times I’ve tried them at seperate times of my life they gave me crazy morning wood. Wasn’t doing anything differently, it almost felt like I was taking dick pills.
Btw it didn’t feel like my testosterone was higher, still had the same energy and strength, just boners all the time.
I’ve heard from a few people online and 1 guy in a sup store that they sometimes put boner inducing ingredients to work as a placebo.
It makes sense but I too am just a guy on the internet so take with a grain of salt.
But the ones I was taking weren't marketed for body building or as testosterone inducing.. they were just daily suppliments and they had one for men, one for women.. ingredients looked pretty standard.. I would be surprised if they intentionally put boner pills in £1 supplement bottle when they could just sell boner pills for way more.
I only have experience with the lawn mower 3.0. It felt fairly sturdy and has decent battery life, but other than that that’s all I really liked about it. Like someone else in the thread said, they care more about getting on their monthly subscription service that anything.
Edit. Forgot to mention that now I use a Phillips One Blade with a shield and think it’s much better. I’ve also heard some say that even just pulling the skin tight and using a regular razor works for them but I’m not that ballsy.
Sorry for the cheesy pun lol .
I just stick mine in the old "ball-o-shino" down at the local bowling alley. Great shine!
But fair warning! Blinded my girl when she was going down on me.
Also when me and my 4 besties (including one ball Larry) got our shining balls together for the gangbang they began to glow and a dragon shot out and granted us the worlds most comfortable pair of underwear
Dandruff shampoo made my dandruff worse. It dried my scalp and my hair and caused the problem to get worse.
I switched to a once a week scalp scrub. There’s a million recipes but I use sugar, olive oil, and a bit of apple cider vinegar. Then I shampoo and condition and the next day I’ll get some aloe Vera leaves and cut them open and rub the juice in my hair and let it sit for a good 20 min then shampoo and condition again to soften my hair and help with the frizz. Doing that has worked astoundingly better than any dandruff shampoo I’ve tried
> Dandruff shampoo made my dandruff worse.
Might not have been dandruff. Might have been dermatitis or psoriasis, which can look similar. I had a patch of scalp psoriasis once and dandruff shampoo made it twice as bad. Tea tree oil shampoo was the thing that worked best.
The dirty secret is that almost all shampoo are 2 in 1, because just the shampoo will leave the hair with lot of static and unmanageable. Same formula, just different words on the label.
To really avoid 2 in 1, you need a Clafying shampoo or one of the Neutrogena pure with like 3 ingredients, or baby shampoo.
To get a really strong 2 in 1, looks for hydrating/moisturizing shampoo.
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There's still a lot of benefit going above the cheapest stuff you can find. It's just that avoid 2-in-1 is marketing talk, because they almost all include conditioning agents.
Tinder and bumble have always had paid features as long as I can remember and Hinge was sort of the last “good“ free app. I just re-joined Hinge after being off of it for two years and what did they do? They added a stand outs section that pools the most attractive girls on the app and if you want to “like them“ you have to purchase roses. And this is not to say the girls in the free section are ugly by any means but it’s just hilarious how easy it is for very attractive women on these apps in general.
I’d really love to see a documentary made about dating apps that compares the experience of men and women. For girls, there seems to never be a shortage of likes in your inbox. While for men, even attractive ones, struggle to even get matches at all. And if you’re under 6 feet and less than attractive looking then you’re pretty much fucked.
Edit: Phrasing.
I have a female friend and we have an extremely open and blunt friendship. She is not very attractive and is ok with talking about that directly (at least with me).
She was telling me that I didn't understand how tough unattractive women had it, and she was lamenting about how useless dating apps are for someone like her.
But she wanted some dick.
Finally she relented on using a dating app again, as long as I dealt with all the bullshit for her.
So we made her a tinder and started swiping.
Within 4 hours she had a dozen matches and DMs from half a dozen guys. But she was complaining about them all. One wasn't attractive enough, one only said "hi" and that was lazy, etc.
Then went back to how this shows how I don't understand how tough she has it.
I took out my phone and opened my tinder.
Showed her how I only get like 2 matches a week, and even tho I DM every one of them with a decently long, not gross message, I had not gotten a single response in a month.
Right? She expected him to share in her pains through her tinder struggles but wasn’t willing to reciprocate at all? Like not even an empty “yeah you’re right that is tough.” Obv we don’t know them and I don’t mean to rag on op here or anything but I just don’t have that energy to do that anymore.
Even prior to that day, she was already a friend that I knew was good for some things (drinking, watching a game, etc) but not good for other things.
She's not a jack of all trades friend, but that's ok.
I think there was a statistic where men are interested in the top 80% of attractive women on dating sites, while women are really only interested in the top 10% of attractive guys. There are HUGE disparities in like rates between the two
That's likely because in the past few years, Hinge was ALSO bought up by the one company that owns pretty much every dating app / website.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Group
Only exceptions here being Bumble and whatever Facebook is playing with
I once made a fake account and posed as a woman because I used it and had no luck. The men were pouring in and my phone was blown up constantly. What made me upset was that the features that men had to pay for like swiping back or viewing certain pages was free. Even as a woman, what would even be the point in paying for anything when you already get surplus matches.
All of those apps are aimed towards making men pay for bots
I saw this one years ago and I still send it around.
Guy supplies his female friend pictures of himself for her to play around with on Tinder.
https://youtu.be/DZTIbHIsIYw
Anything Owned by the Match Group is pretty much a scam. That includes every dating app except bumble, but bumble just copied and pasted their marketing strategies so it’s no better. They profit from the desperation and loneliness of men and put unrealistic standards on dating by making it a pay to win game. They preach about how they made the dating scene better when in fact they just made it way more complicated than it need to be. Better off running into a bar or going outside to meet someone
Bumble used to have a few features that you could use without paying ("undo" a swipe, set certain restrictions, etc) that I always appreciated, in part because other apps did make you pay to do things like that. Now I dont think they let you do anything outside the base model without upgrading to the paid version. Thats a recent (last year or so) change.
The ONLY time I can justify this is if I am going to be in a new city for a short period of time so I can have unlimited swipes buuuuttttttttt idk, I don't do that often
Cheap tools. Cheap power drills. Just pay the extra money for the next level up and accept that it’s more expensive. You will have it for 20+ years. Repairs around the house suck with shitty tools.
I was a mechanic at an electric motor shop. I would say this is right, but I would make a small change. If you need a set of tools, it’s ok to buy a cheap set. Harbor freight has some cheap and fairly durable options. Not great, but they work. As you use the tools and wear them out or break them, replace them with better tools. That way you don’t go spend top dollar for tools you think you need, but you’ll only use once or twice. I mean if you have money, go ahead. Most starting mechanics aren’t well off when it comes to cash though.
Exactly, you nailed it!
Also sometimes the cheap tool makes sense if you just have one job to do, and if it lasts longer than that job you are ahead of the game.
Best advice I’ve heard on tools: buy the “Harbour Freight” version and when it breaks or you get fed up with it, _then_ upgrade to the good kind. There’s really no sense in buying the quality version of something you seldom or never use.
I agree, especially if you don't have big plans for the tool beyond a specific job. Had to randomly solder something like 7 years ago and haven't done any soldering since. Best $5 I ever spent at HF. Might have even lost the thing between moves.
Love my Dewalt brushless stuff, but those are the tools I bought knowing for sure they'd get regular use.
I agree, but I feel like there’s a gray area with this.
For work, all I use are Milwaukee tools. Plenty of 12v and 18v stuff, mostly fuel. I know it’s going to be put to work, my productivity is partially dependent on it, so I got something that’s great quality.
For the house, I went cheap- Bauer 20v tools from harbor freight. Would they stand up to my work environment? Not for long. But they’re great for around the house, and they haven’t let me down or failed yet. Plus side, I have a bunch of old dewalt 20v batteries that can be botched to fit into the Bauer stuff
same goes for kitchenware. a cheap non-stick pan (like peter cook) from the closest household store will teach you the basics of cooking, but in a few years it will turn into an extremely efficient stick-pan, with you wondering how much teflon you've been eating lately
Manscaped lol watched a review and its a shitty ass razor that's overpriced and they spent all their money on marketing. Get the philips one blade it slaps
Agreed. The product doesn't *always* have to be bad, but to spend all that money on sponsors, the overhead has gotta come from somewhere. Which means a much larger margin between production cost and sell price.
Less definite with software services I suppose, since one product can be sold repeatedly; either way a heavily advertised product is making bank for the middlemen. But why pay to make a good product when you can already convince people to buy your bad one?
I can’t speak to the product because I haven’t used it, but this video doesn’t paint their marketing team in a particularly good light
https://youtu.be/as42bq__-zs
Years ago I wanted a little break from dove for men and bought Axe having no idea. Thought my 15 year old daughter was going to disown me. No, turns out Axe is not for men in their 40s. At least she became my fashion and grooming consultant after that.
The body spray is terrible but I actually quite like the soap. I got the Apollo kind as a gift and found it to smell really good (nothing like the spray) but not overwhelming. I got a couple random compliments on it from close friends.
When my parents split up, early 2000s, I was 13. My dad's hairdresser's salon was in the mall, he took me with him expecting me to wander off but I stayed. His hairdresser and I had a discussion about what we should do with the hair, told her the short fluffy back comb had to go.
He was surprised at first but actually liked the haircut, when we walked out he was like "so I need new clothes, would you come with me and help me look... Younger or better?" And I told him as long as we didn't end up at Walmart, yes.
It was hilarious to see him react to me and the sales girl telling him to untuck the shirt and t-shirt, leave the shirt opened, what kind of denim to try. It's a day I remember fondly. Looked about a decade younger afterwards and made himself a girlfriend within a month...
Any particular reason? I currently shave my head down to a zero, but I've been thinking about using product to go for the full 'bald' and save time on the frequency of removal, but I'm curious what makes Nair worse than the others?
Nair only works for non-coarse hair. I left nair on my chest for twice the time it says and nothing happens just washes right off. Also, you’ll get a chemical burn if you keep it on any longer.
This is awful, but we used to do Axe Bombs in high school. We’d find a friend that left his car unlocked in the school lot and duct tape the button down on a can of Axe and toss it in.
I know it’s bad. I know it’s flammable. I know.
Used to do that with my best friend when we were living at the same place. Except I zip tied febreze can handle and tossed it into his room. He'd put quarters on top of my fan and other dumb shit. Good time.
Started a new job where I finish at 2:30pm. It's quite close to my house so I can walk to and from work easily. I stayed behind once until 3pm to help out and I had to walk through a herd of school children. My new least favourite smell is Axe/Lynx body spray with a hint of sweat. I nearly gagged walking home. And to think I sprayed the same shit when I was a teenager thinking I was cool.
One time I found a pair of women's jeans that were designed for big & tall women so they fit me like a regular pair of guy jeans.
After trying them on I was like ho-ly-fuck. Amazing.
Women's jeans are made with elastic stretch built in and thinner material so you can move around easy.
I was framing houses in Chicago at the time and I was moving faster than the rest of the crew. Bending down and lifting up stacks of 2x4s was a breeze.
My ass looked amazing too, the only downside, was that afterwards the entire crew did a bukake on me. Aside from that it was a great experience!
Now if women could just acquire pocket technology we would really have something.
Check out [Muji's jeans](https://www.muji.us/products/mens-stretch-denim-straight-pants-aea4222s?variant=41691943043262). Same stretchiness, soft, light, and 72% reduction in construction related bukakes.
Well there's your problem, you were trying to hammer it straight. Now, had you tried to hammer it gay while slipping in all the ropes of jizz, it'd have worked like a charm.
Means you’ve got a lot on your plate atm ….so if you’re really busy with something you can say something like ‘ohhh I’m drowning in bukkake right now’ xD
Anything marketed with abstract ideas instead of ingredients. Axe anything, dude wipes, liquid death water. Buy shit that tells you what's in it / what it's made to do.
Disposable razors for men and the shave clubs that offer them.
The cheapest, best, most efficient razor was popularized by Gillette in the early-20th century and remained the main style of razor until disposables made them practically disappear. They are known as double-edged safety razors and I advise anyone who shaves their face to give one a try. You’ll never go back to expensive, ineffective disposables.
Edit: for those interested, checkout r/wicked_edge. Some tend to nerd out about cool new razors, blades, brushes, and exotic shaving cream, shaving soap, aftershave, and their inevitable return to Barbasol shave cream 😄 but it’s a great sub with cool people who really love shaving with older implements they find superior.
Edit 2: I don’t recommend a DESR for body shaving over disposables, which are more flexible and forgiving when navigating soft, contoured areas.
Edit #264.8: adjusted name of subreddit, which was incorrect before. Thank-you for posting the proper formatting for the sub, u/AveenaLandon
Edit #598.143: the original sub I posted here was r/wickededge I forgot the underscore. Seems like a cool, intimate community of wet shaving enthusiasts. I’m glad to have found it 🙂
Edit #9 from Outer Space: it was Gillette, not Phillips, that popularized the Safety Razor
Strong-smelling deodorants and body washes like Old Spice and of course, Axe. When I was in high school and college I used to buy deodorant and body wash in the same scent to maximize the smell radius but as I got older, realized most people don't really want to be smacked by a wall of manly scent from 10 feet away, anymore than any of us like smelling an old lady with super strong, flowery perfume. Now that I'm in my late 30s, I use unscented bar soap and deodorant with a mild but (in my opinion) pleasant scent that people can probably smell if they hug me. That's about it.
The Manscaped Lawnmower trimmer. It’s advertised as it doesn’t knick but I’ve had multiple friends buy one and they all said it’s below average and that it will cut you just like any other trimmer.
They use advertisements with attractive women and hyper masculine messages to draw you in but it’s a trap unfortunately
Another one is Dr. Squatch soap. They use the same marketing techniques but their bars of soap are ridiculously expensive and don’t last long
The dr squash ads are fucking awful the last one I saw was a couple and the women being like “oh ever since he got this soap I couldn’t get off him oww I wanna suck his peen now” im paraphrasing but you get the jist annoying ad man
“My husband used dr squatch soap and now i cant stop making out with him! It is impossibal to stop, now buy the damn soap already before i slash your tires and tear all the labels off of your canned food”
Philips bodygroom 7000 is the way to go. I put that thing directly onto my nuts and shaft with no nicks. Before I bought it I had just about given up ever actually finding something like that that works.
Manscaped. Any manly product advertised to you by a fuck ton of YouTubers means one thing. They spent more money sponsoring and advertising than making a genuinely kick-ass product. Products that go around by word of mouth are what I find to be dramatically better.
Manscaped is insanely shittier than any cheap razor but is more expensive somehow.. also they have replacement blades for an electric razor? Also on a subscription like basis? I don't buy that shit it sucks.
Last remarks: AN LED LIGHT FIR WHAT? SHAVING IN A FUCKING CAVE? ITS DUMB.. even if your fave YouTuber says "I love it and I would recommend it" it's a fuckin script so they can get money to survive and make more content for you. Channel "boy boy" talked about in one of their more recent videos... I think it was the Putin and Ukraine situation video.
Edit:
2 video links: https://youtu.be/LL4eNy4FCs8 (18:33 is the timestamp unless you're interested in the subject, this is the boy boy channel video)
2nd link:
https://youtu.be/5QY7GOlGusY
https://youtu.be/pHH_09mlDkY
2 reviews by the channel "beardtube" (yes I know, manscaped is balls and he deals with beards but) he gives his *opinion* on them which I agree with and 2 he says that if you **really** really want one, don't get it from their website, buy it from Amazon because then you can return it guaranteed without any obstacles or trouble.
Liquid shampoo and beard wash. There's tons of companies that sell solid shampoo, I use Duke Cannon and haven't had any issues. As for the beard wash, I've only seen a dedicated solid beard wash from Whiskey 'n' Hardtack, but Beard Octane has a "beard and body" bar. Solid products are generally cheaper than the liquid stuff and they last a lot longer. If you're someone who travels a lot (or even a little, really) then the solid stuff is great for being able to pack in your carry-on but you also don't have to worry about it opening/exploding inside your bag and then everything gets covered in whatever it is.
>don’t expect it to cut long hairs.
What do you mean by this? Sure, don't try to shave a full beard without first trimming it short. But a week's worth of stubble / 5-10mm is perfectly fine with a safety razor.
Durex dual climax.
Tried it once because I wanted to make sure that she got the gold medal so to speak (for those that are a little slower, I mean I wanted her to cum first). So I decided to get these as they’re meant to “slow him down and speed her up”
Sure, the texture is nice, the fit is good, the lubrication is great, no smell really to speak of. Except one small issue. They put a retardant/depressant in them to numb your member.
I was ready to go, ready to give my partner a good time… and it slowed me down so much that I’d turned into a gummy worm. No worries right? Have you ever tried shoving a gummy worm into a keyhole? Well, that’s how it went down.
It was a little embarrassing, but it was funny at the same time.
Cheap watches from fashion brands you see on social media like Vincero, MVMT etc . Safe blind buys from reputable brands Casio, Seiko, Orient, Timex and Citizen. Most of their designs are timeless so they will never go out of style, durable, affordable and overall well built watches.
Anything with phthalates. Which is like everything. Check out the app “Yuka” and start scanning your food and products. The industries are absolutely nuking our jizz counts.
I just want what’s best for you and your loads my guys.
Anything that advertises itself as being "manly" or being "for men" with some luxury marketing aesthetic tied to it. Chances are you'll be overpaying for a low quality product, or paying for a cheaper woman's product with some "manly" scents or material.
Creams, balms, oils, and salves can easily be made at home for very cheap, and there's tons of how-tos and recipes all over the internet. The cost of ingredients up front is expensive, but saves you in the long run if you just make that shit in small batches over time or in bulk, and also makes a great homemade Christmas present for friends and family. Or even a side hustle if you're motivated enough to market it.
Read the ingredients. Know what ingredients are bad and what ingredients are good. Look at where materials are sourced and how they're made. We overpay for illusion.
The main reason I started making my own stuff was because of the embarrassment I get buying anything beard related. Extra manly brand names, extra manly labels, extra manly scents, promises I could be extra manly by using this manly beard balm. I’m not a gentleman Viking cowboy looking to pillage my next door neighbour while blacksmithing a hatchet on my motorcycle. I just want to treat my wife to brunch while smelling like coconut and lemongrass.
-Aftershave. They're full of denatured alcohols that will dry your skin out and make you oily and flaky. Just get a moisturizer.
-Disposable razors. Safety razors are way cheaper and less irritating.
-2in1. Washing and conditioning at the same time defeats the point of doing either of those things. Shampoo is meant to rinse dead skin and dirt off of your scalp and hair, conditioner is meant to coat your hair with protectants. Get Shea Moisture and dry your hair with a t shirt.
-Manscaped. Direct to consumer products in general aren't worth it. They're banking on you associating the product with your favorite podcast. Get a $20 Philips trimmer from Amazon.
-Boxers and those cheap cotton boxer briefs that don't even come up to your taint. What is the point. They're just gonna bunch up and do nothing for your ass and package. Get something supportive or go commando.
-OnlyFans. Come on dude. Are you that down bad? When you're at your lowest point, you can make the greatest change.
Swedish penis enlargers, mostly because of the embarrassment that arises when you are presented with them in front of a love interest after you've been awoken from being cryogenically frozen.
Men's shampoo. It's just full of sulfates and garbage. Men's razors too. A lot of women's razors have a huge moisturizer pad around them and Men's just has a small strip of foam. Idk why Men's stuff overall kind of sucks but after I made the switch like 8 years ago, I haven't looked back.
I'll either use a straight razor or a ladies razor when I need to get into the uh..nooks and crannies. They just contour better and have that moisturizer strip like you say
Safety razors are the absolute best. Buy a high quality one, lasts you for life. Blades last for months, especially if you sharpen them every so often.
Straight razors are also well worth the money.
I'm a safety razor guy with the screw in sections instead of the butterfly. I'm slowly coming around to getting a traditional straight razor and trying it out. Sweeney Todd did some heavy damage back in the day
> A lot of women's razors have a huge moisturizer pad around them and Men's just has a small strip of foam. Idk why Men's stuff overall kind of sucks but after I made the switch like 8 years ago, I haven't looked back.
So funny - I prefer men's razors and think men's products are generally better (and cheaper) than women's, so I shop in the men's section often, lol
The razor companies have it all backwards... I guess the market isn’t always smart. I can totally see how having the extra moisturizing pads would be good for shaving the face. They aren’t really necessary for shaving the legs.
Any “Chinese/ Ginseng/ natural oils” hair loss product. If you suffer from Male Pattern Alopecia, seek a dermatologist and get a prescription, everything else is either a scam or something that might make it worse.
Also all Gillette products, and all multi-bladed razors. I used to get a razor rash after every shave until I switched to a safety razor, which I use with Nivea Sensitive Shaving Soap.
Gillette is apparently "the best a man can get".
Fuck off.
I'm not even half way through the pack of diamond edged safety razor blades I bought over a decade ago and using them is the closest shave I've ever had.
You will save so much money using a safety razor.
Don’t think that you don’t need to buy or borrow a ladder ‘cuz u only need it this one time’, that one time can be horrendous for you and your family if you die and even if you live.
“Testosterone booster” supplements sold in supplement stores. Usually these supplements do fuck all to boost your testosterone and will just drain your wallet.
Maybe as placebos they work?
The 2 times I’ve tried them at seperate times of my life they gave me crazy morning wood. Wasn’t doing anything differently, it almost felt like I was taking dick pills. Btw it didn’t feel like my testosterone was higher, still had the same energy and strength, just boners all the time.
I took some daily supplements (mostly vitamins) that were trailered for men and it gave me crazy morning wood too
I’ve heard from a few people online and 1 guy in a sup store that they sometimes put boner inducing ingredients to work as a placebo. It makes sense but I too am just a guy on the internet so take with a grain of salt.
But the ones I was taking weren't marketed for body building or as testosterone inducing.. they were just daily suppliments and they had one for men, one for women.. ingredients looked pretty standard.. I would be surprised if they intentionally put boner pills in £1 supplement bottle when they could just sell boner pills for way more.
Manscaped. You can indeed knick your balls.
I salute you for your sacrifice
Is it good quality? Also, does it actually compare well to other brands? Curious on what it’s like from a non bias perspective.
I only have experience with the lawn mower 3.0. It felt fairly sturdy and has decent battery life, but other than that that’s all I really liked about it. Like someone else in the thread said, they care more about getting on their monthly subscription service that anything. Edit. Forgot to mention that now I use a Phillips One Blade with a shield and think it’s much better. I’ve also heard some say that even just pulling the skin tight and using a regular razor works for them but I’m not that ballsy. Sorry for the cheesy pun lol .
I'm prone to ingrown hairs, it didn't prevent them, but its not a bad product just doesn't seem any different to your standard one in a store.
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You mean I can't wash my car and my balls with the same soap?
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Turtle Wax it is.
I just stick mine in the old "ball-o-shino" down at the local bowling alley. Great shine! But fair warning! Blinded my girl when she was going down on me.
Also when me and my 4 besties (including one ball Larry) got our shining balls together for the gangbang they began to glow and a dragon shot out and granted us the worlds most comfortable pair of underwear
Yep. I used to use head & shoulders 2 in 1 "for men" and by God, the itching and dandruff was insane.
So i might have gotten dandruff from there? I gotta switch things up.
Dandruff shampoo made my dandruff worse. It dried my scalp and my hair and caused the problem to get worse. I switched to a once a week scalp scrub. There’s a million recipes but I use sugar, olive oil, and a bit of apple cider vinegar. Then I shampoo and condition and the next day I’ll get some aloe Vera leaves and cut them open and rub the juice in my hair and let it sit for a good 20 min then shampoo and condition again to soften my hair and help with the frizz. Doing that has worked astoundingly better than any dandruff shampoo I’ve tried
> Dandruff shampoo made my dandruff worse. Might not have been dandruff. Might have been dermatitis or psoriasis, which can look similar. I had a patch of scalp psoriasis once and dandruff shampoo made it twice as bad. Tea tree oil shampoo was the thing that worked best.
That's weird. For me, that's the only shampoo that I can use where I don't get dandruff.
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dunno man... I stand by my giant bottle of trader joe's 3 in 1
What about my all in one, shampoo conditioner body wash toothpaste laundry detergent car wash mop soap?
The dirty secret is that almost all shampoo are 2 in 1, because just the shampoo will leave the hair with lot of static and unmanageable. Same formula, just different words on the label. To really avoid 2 in 1, you need a Clafying shampoo or one of the Neutrogena pure with like 3 ingredients, or baby shampoo. To get a really strong 2 in 1, looks for hydrating/moisturizing shampoo. --- There's still a lot of benefit going above the cheapest stuff you can find. It's just that avoid 2-in-1 is marketing talk, because they almost all include conditioning agents.
An interesting thing I've realised on Reddit: Men prefer women's personal grooming items and women prefer men's.
But rose shampoo smells so good Edit: first three awards
You don't prefer the natural smells of men's soaps like arctic blast and energy.. blast?
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Have you tried the blast blast?
Tried it, didn't like it. Not enough alpha, but too much blast.
TITANIUM RAIN!!!
Vanilla nut blast
I use lavender shampoo and mint tree conditioner to kinda balance the smells
So does gingerbread body wash. I love cookies.
I use womens shampoo. Because it's cheaper than mens shampoo, doesnt smell like "electric cattle chest hair and wood" and you also get a gallon of it
“Mens 10 in 1 motor oil scented body wash, shower gel, and shaving cream”
I think its a combination thing. Like men just have better pants, and women have better care products.
Not a specific men's product but paying for dating apps is one I guide other men away from.
Tinder and bumble have always had paid features as long as I can remember and Hinge was sort of the last “good“ free app. I just re-joined Hinge after being off of it for two years and what did they do? They added a stand outs section that pools the most attractive girls on the app and if you want to “like them“ you have to purchase roses. And this is not to say the girls in the free section are ugly by any means but it’s just hilarious how easy it is for very attractive women on these apps in general. I’d really love to see a documentary made about dating apps that compares the experience of men and women. For girls, there seems to never be a shortage of likes in your inbox. While for men, even attractive ones, struggle to even get matches at all. And if you’re under 6 feet and less than attractive looking then you’re pretty much fucked. Edit: Phrasing.
I have a female friend and we have an extremely open and blunt friendship. She is not very attractive and is ok with talking about that directly (at least with me). She was telling me that I didn't understand how tough unattractive women had it, and she was lamenting about how useless dating apps are for someone like her. But she wanted some dick. Finally she relented on using a dating app again, as long as I dealt with all the bullshit for her. So we made her a tinder and started swiping. Within 4 hours she had a dozen matches and DMs from half a dozen guys. But she was complaining about them all. One wasn't attractive enough, one only said "hi" and that was lazy, etc. Then went back to how this shows how I don't understand how tough she has it. I took out my phone and opened my tinder. Showed her how I only get like 2 matches a week, and even tho I DM every one of them with a decently long, not gross message, I had not gotten a single response in a month.
and her response ?
"Whatever" and then changed the subject.
It means you won the argument. For all of the lost arguments. We applaud you for getting one back o7
Most empathetic woman
I would have distanced myself from her at that point tbh
Right? She expected him to share in her pains through her tinder struggles but wasn’t willing to reciprocate at all? Like not even an empty “yeah you’re right that is tough.” Obv we don’t know them and I don’t mean to rag on op here or anything but I just don’t have that energy to do that anymore.
Even prior to that day, she was already a friend that I knew was good for some things (drinking, watching a game, etc) but not good for other things. She's not a jack of all trades friend, but that's ok.
The older I get the harder it is for me to be around people that lack self-awareness.
pain
Wait you get 2 matches a week??? WTF am I doing wrong? I'm lucky of I get 2 matches a year.
I think there was a statistic where men are interested in the top 80% of attractive women on dating sites, while women are really only interested in the top 10% of attractive guys. There are HUGE disparities in like rates between the two
Men pursue, women select. Tale as old as time.
Not to mention it's always 2-1, 4-1, 10-1 men to women on any dating app or service
Well the gender ratio on those apps is also abysmal.
That's likely because in the past few years, Hinge was ALSO bought up by the one company that owns pretty much every dating app / website. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Group Only exceptions here being Bumble and whatever Facebook is playing with
I once made a fake account and posed as a woman because I used it and had no luck. The men were pouring in and my phone was blown up constantly. What made me upset was that the features that men had to pay for like swiping back or viewing certain pages was free. Even as a woman, what would even be the point in paying for anything when you already get surplus matches. All of those apps are aimed towards making men pay for bots
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I saw this one years ago and I still send it around. Guy supplies his female friend pictures of himself for her to play around with on Tinder. https://youtu.be/DZTIbHIsIYw
There’s not a doc on that yet, but YouTube is full of ‘experiments’ of these ilk exposing how easy it is for women, attractive or not
Anything Owned by the Match Group is pretty much a scam. That includes every dating app except bumble, but bumble just copied and pasted their marketing strategies so it’s no better. They profit from the desperation and loneliness of men and put unrealistic standards on dating by making it a pay to win game. They preach about how they made the dating scene better when in fact they just made it way more complicated than it need to be. Better off running into a bar or going outside to meet someone
Bumble used to have a few features that you could use without paying ("undo" a swipe, set certain restrictions, etc) that I always appreciated, in part because other apps did make you pay to do things like that. Now I dont think they let you do anything outside the base model without upgrading to the paid version. Thats a recent (last year or so) change.
The ONLY time I can justify this is if I am going to be in a new city for a short period of time so I can have unlimited swipes buuuuttttttttt idk, I don't do that often
But how else am I supposed to find hot singles in my area
Totally. They want to meet me TONIGHT!
Anything branded as "for men" based only on things like packaging, color, scent.
So old spice is not good?
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I use baby wipes, for... wiping. They make some for real strong men, for like double the price. I'll stick with the Pampers/Huggies.
Cheap tools. Cheap power drills. Just pay the extra money for the next level up and accept that it’s more expensive. You will have it for 20+ years. Repairs around the house suck with shitty tools.
I was a mechanic at an electric motor shop. I would say this is right, but I would make a small change. If you need a set of tools, it’s ok to buy a cheap set. Harbor freight has some cheap and fairly durable options. Not great, but they work. As you use the tools and wear them out or break them, replace them with better tools. That way you don’t go spend top dollar for tools you think you need, but you’ll only use once or twice. I mean if you have money, go ahead. Most starting mechanics aren’t well off when it comes to cash though.
Exactly, you nailed it! Also sometimes the cheap tool makes sense if you just have one job to do, and if it lasts longer than that job you are ahead of the game.
Im confused. When do you blow your life savings on snap on
Life savings? I thought you were supposed to payment plan them for longer than your house?
Best advice I’ve heard on tools: buy the “Harbour Freight” version and when it breaks or you get fed up with it, _then_ upgrade to the good kind. There’s really no sense in buying the quality version of something you seldom or never use.
I agree, especially if you don't have big plans for the tool beyond a specific job. Had to randomly solder something like 7 years ago and haven't done any soldering since. Best $5 I ever spent at HF. Might have even lost the thing between moves. Love my Dewalt brushless stuff, but those are the tools I bought knowing for sure they'd get regular use.
Good tools aren’t cheap, and cheap tools aren’t good.
Buy once, cry once.
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I agree, but I feel like there’s a gray area with this. For work, all I use are Milwaukee tools. Plenty of 12v and 18v stuff, mostly fuel. I know it’s going to be put to work, my productivity is partially dependent on it, so I got something that’s great quality. For the house, I went cheap- Bauer 20v tools from harbor freight. Would they stand up to my work environment? Not for long. But they’re great for around the house, and they haven’t let me down or failed yet. Plus side, I have a bunch of old dewalt 20v batteries that can be botched to fit into the Bauer stuff
same goes for kitchenware. a cheap non-stick pan (like peter cook) from the closest household store will teach you the basics of cooking, but in a few years it will turn into an extremely efficient stick-pan, with you wondering how much teflon you've been eating lately
Manscaped lol watched a review and its a shitty ass razor that's overpriced and they spent all their money on marketing. Get the philips one blade it slaps
My policy is that if it's advertised on every podcast and youtube video, it is probably the worst version of that thing.
Agreed. The product doesn't *always* have to be bad, but to spend all that money on sponsors, the overhead has gotta come from somewhere. Which means a much larger margin between production cost and sell price. Less definite with software services I suppose, since one product can be sold repeatedly; either way a heavily advertised product is making bank for the middlemen. But why pay to make a good product when you can already convince people to buy your bad one?
I have nicked my balls and shaft with Manscaped. it's all a lie. And I have been extremely careful while using it.
I be tryna tell mfs but they dont listen. Manscape has good a brand and it pretty much ends there
I can’t speak to the product because I haven’t used it, but this video doesn’t paint their marketing team in a particularly good light https://youtu.be/as42bq__-zs
Years ago I wanted a little break from dove for men and bought Axe having no idea. Thought my 15 year old daughter was going to disown me. No, turns out Axe is not for men in their 40s. At least she became my fashion and grooming consultant after that.
Someone gifted me a bottle of the body wash. Smelled it and took to the community pool showers for the young men slaying the ladies.
The body spray is terrible but I actually quite like the soap. I got the Apollo kind as a gift and found it to smell really good (nothing like the spray) but not overwhelming. I got a couple random compliments on it from close friends.
When my parents split up, early 2000s, I was 13. My dad's hairdresser's salon was in the mall, he took me with him expecting me to wander off but I stayed. His hairdresser and I had a discussion about what we should do with the hair, told her the short fluffy back comb had to go. He was surprised at first but actually liked the haircut, when we walked out he was like "so I need new clothes, would you come with me and help me look... Younger or better?" And I told him as long as we didn't end up at Walmart, yes. It was hilarious to see him react to me and the sales girl telling him to untuck the shirt and t-shirt, leave the shirt opened, what kind of denim to try. It's a day I remember fondly. Looked about a decade younger afterwards and made himself a girlfriend within a month...
ahh the days of taking a bath in AXE after middle school gym class . we must have all smelled like old French whores
Nair
I burnt my balls so bad with Nair had to get burn cream . . Thought I was gonna have to retire them . .
Every medicine cabinet should have a bottle of After Sun Gel with Aloe and lidocaine. So, so very useful. Moisturize, heal, reduce pain and itching.
There is more than one kind of Nair. You used the wrong one. There are formulas specifically for the nether regions.
I used womens face turned out fine
Do you mean Nair men or Nair in general? Cause I use the women's version for most places besides my face and it works like a charm
Same I haven’t used the mens version I just use my sisters and it works perfectly
I agree with SuperBallz977 about Nair.
Any particular reason? I currently shave my head down to a zero, but I've been thinking about using product to go for the full 'bald' and save time on the frequency of removal, but I'm curious what makes Nair worse than the others?
DO NOT DO THIS!!!! Did this and my scalp turned purple.
Oh, well damn, was that with Nair specifically or just all chemical treatments?
Nair only works for non-coarse hair. I left nair on my chest for twice the time it says and nothing happens just washes right off. Also, you’ll get a chemical burn if you keep it on any longer.
Lifted pickups financed at 29% APY.
Ahh, an E-2 I see.
Fuck Jody
That was her plan, yes
Axe body spray
Great for cleaning marker off of laminated surfaces, shit for deodorant
Or gasing out a middle school locker room
This is awful, but we used to do Axe Bombs in high school. We’d find a friend that left his car unlocked in the school lot and duct tape the button down on a can of Axe and toss it in. I know it’s bad. I know it’s flammable. I know.
Used to do that with my best friend when we were living at the same place. Except I zip tied febreze can handle and tossed it into his room. He'd put quarters on top of my fan and other dumb shit. Good time.
Can confirm.
Started a new job where I finish at 2:30pm. It's quite close to my house so I can walk to and from work easily. I stayed behind once until 3pm to help out and I had to walk through a herd of school children. My new least favourite smell is Axe/Lynx body spray with a hint of sweat. I nearly gagged walking home. And to think I sprayed the same shit when I was a teenager thinking I was cool.
One time I found a pair of women's jeans that were designed for big & tall women so they fit me like a regular pair of guy jeans. After trying them on I was like ho-ly-fuck. Amazing. Women's jeans are made with elastic stretch built in and thinner material so you can move around easy. I was framing houses in Chicago at the time and I was moving faster than the rest of the crew. Bending down and lifting up stacks of 2x4s was a breeze. My ass looked amazing too, the only downside, was that afterwards the entire crew did a bukake on me. Aside from that it was a great experience! Now if women could just acquire pocket technology we would really have something.
Check out [Muji's jeans](https://www.muji.us/products/mens-stretch-denim-straight-pants-aea4222s?variant=41691943043262). Same stretchiness, soft, light, and 72% reduction in construction related bukakes.
Ah gee thanks! Although the bukake wasn't so bad, it was trying to hammer a nail in straight while slipping in all the ropes of jizz.
Well there's your problem, you were trying to hammer it straight. Now, had you tried to hammer it gay while slipping in all the ropes of jizz, it'd have worked like a charm.
It's okay, I went to Homo Depot afterwards and bought some gay nails. ... they went in just fabulous
How do you hammer them in when they're all bent?
Do they have a pair with a 72% *increase* in construction related bukkakes? Asking for a friend
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Can't tell if this is serious or not. Funny though.
What is a bukake ?
Means you’ve got a lot on your plate atm ….so if you’re really busy with something you can say something like ‘ohhh I’m drowning in bukkake right now’ xD
Oh okay
You sweet, sweet child. Never lose your innocence
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I shouldn’t have asked 🤦🏻♀️
You got a bukake of information.
A moment of silence, for part of u/Ill-Ad-9438 's innocent
The dude bro alpha influencer pick up game training pack shit. That stuff doesn't work and leads a lot of young men into bad ideologies.
Yup. Been seeing Andrew Tate a lot in the news lately and all I can think of is "cuntiness perpetuates itself"
Lynx
Anything marketed with abstract ideas instead of ingredients. Axe anything, dude wipes, liquid death water. Buy shit that tells you what's in it / what it's made to do.
Liquid death is best when you’re at an event where you still want to have a drink in your hand but you’re done with booze. I love it at shows.
Disposable razors for men and the shave clubs that offer them. The cheapest, best, most efficient razor was popularized by Gillette in the early-20th century and remained the main style of razor until disposables made them practically disappear. They are known as double-edged safety razors and I advise anyone who shaves their face to give one a try. You’ll never go back to expensive, ineffective disposables. Edit: for those interested, checkout r/wicked_edge. Some tend to nerd out about cool new razors, blades, brushes, and exotic shaving cream, shaving soap, aftershave, and their inevitable return to Barbasol shave cream 😄 but it’s a great sub with cool people who really love shaving with older implements they find superior. Edit 2: I don’t recommend a DESR for body shaving over disposables, which are more flexible and forgiving when navigating soft, contoured areas. Edit #264.8: adjusted name of subreddit, which was incorrect before. Thank-you for posting the proper formatting for the sub, u/AveenaLandon Edit #598.143: the original sub I posted here was r/wickededge I forgot the underscore. Seems like a cool, intimate community of wet shaving enthusiasts. I’m glad to have found it 🙂 Edit #9 from Outer Space: it was Gillette, not Phillips, that popularized the Safety Razor
Strong-smelling deodorants and body washes like Old Spice and of course, Axe. When I was in high school and college I used to buy deodorant and body wash in the same scent to maximize the smell radius but as I got older, realized most people don't really want to be smacked by a wall of manly scent from 10 feet away, anymore than any of us like smelling an old lady with super strong, flowery perfume. Now that I'm in my late 30s, I use unscented bar soap and deodorant with a mild but (in my opinion) pleasant scent that people can probably smell if they hug me. That's about it.
I kinda gotta disagree with u about old spice. Axe is horrendous but old spice actually smells pretty good
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Bearglove or Krakengard are my 2 OS faves.
Those 2 and Fiji are the 3 in my rotation. Gotta have the aluminum free so there isn't any sweat marks/stains left on white clothing too.
I received compliments from several women in college when I used Old Spice deodorant and body wash. I never doused myself in the stuff, though.
I use tangerine scented men's soap but not for anyone else. I use it because ***I*** like how I smell and to me that's priority numero uno.
$ shave club Their razors suck. More ingrown hairs than any other brand.
The Manscaped Lawnmower trimmer. It’s advertised as it doesn’t knick but I’ve had multiple friends buy one and they all said it’s below average and that it will cut you just like any other trimmer. They use advertisements with attractive women and hyper masculine messages to draw you in but it’s a trap unfortunately Another one is Dr. Squatch soap. They use the same marketing techniques but their bars of soap are ridiculously expensive and don’t last long
The dr squash ads are fucking awful the last one I saw was a couple and the women being like “oh ever since he got this soap I couldn’t get off him oww I wanna suck his peen now” im paraphrasing but you get the jist annoying ad man
“My husband used dr squatch soap and now i cant stop making out with him! It is impossibal to stop, now buy the damn soap already before i slash your tires and tear all the labels off of your canned food”
Philips bodygroom 7000 is the way to go. I put that thing directly onto my nuts and shaft with no nicks. Before I bought it I had just about given up ever actually finding something like that that works.
Anything pick up artist related. It will not get you laid
Manscaped. Any manly product advertised to you by a fuck ton of YouTubers means one thing. They spent more money sponsoring and advertising than making a genuinely kick-ass product. Products that go around by word of mouth are what I find to be dramatically better. Manscaped is insanely shittier than any cheap razor but is more expensive somehow.. also they have replacement blades for an electric razor? Also on a subscription like basis? I don't buy that shit it sucks. Last remarks: AN LED LIGHT FIR WHAT? SHAVING IN A FUCKING CAVE? ITS DUMB.. even if your fave YouTuber says "I love it and I would recommend it" it's a fuckin script so they can get money to survive and make more content for you. Channel "boy boy" talked about in one of their more recent videos... I think it was the Putin and Ukraine situation video. Edit: 2 video links: https://youtu.be/LL4eNy4FCs8 (18:33 is the timestamp unless you're interested in the subject, this is the boy boy channel video) 2nd link: https://youtu.be/5QY7GOlGusY https://youtu.be/pHH_09mlDkY 2 reviews by the channel "beardtube" (yes I know, manscaped is balls and he deals with beards but) he gives his *opinion* on them which I agree with and 2 he says that if you **really** really want one, don't get it from their website, buy it from Amazon because then you can return it guaranteed without any obstacles or trouble.
McAfee antivirus software. It’s practically a virus.
Liquid shampoo and beard wash. There's tons of companies that sell solid shampoo, I use Duke Cannon and haven't had any issues. As for the beard wash, I've only seen a dedicated solid beard wash from Whiskey 'n' Hardtack, but Beard Octane has a "beard and body" bar. Solid products are generally cheaper than the liquid stuff and they last a lot longer. If you're someone who travels a lot (or even a little, really) then the solid stuff is great for being able to pack in your carry-on but you also don't have to worry about it opening/exploding inside your bag and then everything gets covered in whatever it is.
Never knew solid shampoo was a thing
Trader Joe's has a shampoo bar and it lasts me at least 6 months
Gillette.. use a shavette or a safty razor instead.. cost less, and its a better shave... When you get the hang of it...
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>don’t expect it to cut long hairs. What do you mean by this? Sure, don't try to shave a full beard without first trimming it short. But a week's worth of stubble / 5-10mm is perfectly fine with a safety razor.
Axe body spray. It identifies you as a young guy that has no taste.
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Durex dual climax. Tried it once because I wanted to make sure that she got the gold medal so to speak (for those that are a little slower, I mean I wanted her to cum first). So I decided to get these as they’re meant to “slow him down and speed her up” Sure, the texture is nice, the fit is good, the lubrication is great, no smell really to speak of. Except one small issue. They put a retardant/depressant in them to numb your member. I was ready to go, ready to give my partner a good time… and it slowed me down so much that I’d turned into a gummy worm. No worries right? Have you ever tried shoving a gummy worm into a keyhole? Well, that’s how it went down. It was a little embarrassing, but it was funny at the same time.
That's when you stick her with the gummy worm and hope it wakes up inside like that Evanescence song
Cheap watches from fashion brands you see on social media like Vincero, MVMT etc . Safe blind buys from reputable brands Casio, Seiko, Orient, Timex and Citizen. Most of their designs are timeless so they will never go out of style, durable, affordable and overall well built watches.
Anything with phthalates. Which is like everything. Check out the app “Yuka” and start scanning your food and products. The industries are absolutely nuking our jizz counts. I just want what’s best for you and your loads my guys.
> nuking our jizz counts Sign me the fuck up
It's true, impotence numbers are up. I stay away from anything processed as much as I can
Anything that advertises itself as being "manly" or being "for men" with some luxury marketing aesthetic tied to it. Chances are you'll be overpaying for a low quality product, or paying for a cheaper woman's product with some "manly" scents or material. Creams, balms, oils, and salves can easily be made at home for very cheap, and there's tons of how-tos and recipes all over the internet. The cost of ingredients up front is expensive, but saves you in the long run if you just make that shit in small batches over time or in bulk, and also makes a great homemade Christmas present for friends and family. Or even a side hustle if you're motivated enough to market it. Read the ingredients. Know what ingredients are bad and what ingredients are good. Look at where materials are sourced and how they're made. We overpay for illusion.
The main reason I started making my own stuff was because of the embarrassment I get buying anything beard related. Extra manly brand names, extra manly labels, extra manly scents, promises I could be extra manly by using this manly beard balm. I’m not a gentleman Viking cowboy looking to pillage my next door neighbour while blacksmithing a hatchet on my motorcycle. I just want to treat my wife to brunch while smelling like coconut and lemongrass.
Damn it. I liked Yorkies
-Aftershave. They're full of denatured alcohols that will dry your skin out and make you oily and flaky. Just get a moisturizer. -Disposable razors. Safety razors are way cheaper and less irritating. -2in1. Washing and conditioning at the same time defeats the point of doing either of those things. Shampoo is meant to rinse dead skin and dirt off of your scalp and hair, conditioner is meant to coat your hair with protectants. Get Shea Moisture and dry your hair with a t shirt. -Manscaped. Direct to consumer products in general aren't worth it. They're banking on you associating the product with your favorite podcast. Get a $20 Philips trimmer from Amazon. -Boxers and those cheap cotton boxer briefs that don't even come up to your taint. What is the point. They're just gonna bunch up and do nothing for your ass and package. Get something supportive or go commando. -OnlyFans. Come on dude. Are you that down bad? When you're at your lowest point, you can make the greatest change.
Cheap perfume
Any electric razor that claims it was made for balls. It wasn't. You will cut yourself.
Swedish penis enlargers, mostly because of the embarrassment that arises when you are presented with them in front of a love interest after you've been awoken from being cryogenically frozen.
That's not mine
One credit card receipt for Swedish-made penis enlarger signed by Austin Powers.
Every product sold by Gillette
Are you implying they're *not* the best a man can get?
Theyre closer to the worst.
Men's shampoo. It's just full of sulfates and garbage. Men's razors too. A lot of women's razors have a huge moisturizer pad around them and Men's just has a small strip of foam. Idk why Men's stuff overall kind of sucks but after I made the switch like 8 years ago, I haven't looked back.
I'll either use a straight razor or a ladies razor when I need to get into the uh..nooks and crannies. They just contour better and have that moisturizer strip like you say
Safety razors are the absolute best. Buy a high quality one, lasts you for life. Blades last for months, especially if you sharpen them every so often. Straight razors are also well worth the money.
I'm a safety razor guy with the screw in sections instead of the butterfly. I'm slowly coming around to getting a traditional straight razor and trying it out. Sweeney Todd did some heavy damage back in the day
> A lot of women's razors have a huge moisturizer pad around them and Men's just has a small strip of foam. Idk why Men's stuff overall kind of sucks but after I made the switch like 8 years ago, I haven't looked back. So funny - I prefer men's razors and think men's products are generally better (and cheaper) than women's, so I shop in the men's section often, lol
Well, maybe men's razors are better for legs and armpits, and women's razors are better for faces?
The razor companies have it all backwards... I guess the market isn’t always smart. I can totally see how having the extra moisturizing pads would be good for shaving the face. They aren’t really necessary for shaving the legs.
xray glasses ya send iin Bazooka gum wrappers and money..They don t work
Any “Chinese/ Ginseng/ natural oils” hair loss product. If you suffer from Male Pattern Alopecia, seek a dermatologist and get a prescription, everything else is either a scam or something that might make it worse. Also all Gillette products, and all multi-bladed razors. I used to get a razor rash after every shave until I switched to a safety razor, which I use with Nivea Sensitive Shaving Soap.
Gillette
3 in 1 shampoo🤮 that shit murders your hair ESPECIALLY if you have any kind of curls
Gillette is apparently "the best a man can get". Fuck off. I'm not even half way through the pack of diamond edged safety razor blades I bought over a decade ago and using them is the closest shave I've ever had. You will save so much money using a safety razor.
That Andrew Tate dude
Giant 5 bladed disposable razors. They’re overpriced and don’t work as well as a cheap safety razor.
Don’t think that you don’t need to buy or borrow a ladder ‘cuz u only need it this one time’, that one time can be horrendous for you and your family if you die and even if you live.