Grooming

Ultimate Spring Cleaning, Day 29: Be Charitable

April 19, 2010Grooming

Ultimate Spring Cleaning is a 30-day project to clean and declutter not only your house, but your life. Each day you’ll get a housecleaning assignment, an assignment that involves the world around you, and a project to clear your mind. You can start anytime at the Ultimate Spring Cleaning main page. On the penultimate day [...]

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Ultimate Spring Cleaning, Day 24: Fresh Air

April 14, 2010Grooming

Ultimate Spring Cleaning is a 30-day project to clean and declutter not only your house, but your life. Each day you’ll get a housecleaning assignment, an assignment that involves the world around you, and a project to clear your mind. You can start anytime at the Ultimate Spring Cleaning main page. Great news: if you’ve [...]

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Ultimate Spring Cleaning, Day 23: Auto-tune

April 13, 2010Grooming

Ultimate Spring Cleaning is a 30-day project to clean and declutter not only your house, but your life. Each day you’ll get a housecleaning assignment, an assignment that involves the world around you, and a project to clear your mind. You can start anytime at the Ultimate Spring Cleaning main page. Our last day in [...]

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Tao of Bachelorhood Podcast: Grooming Product Reviews

March 10, 2010Grooming

I continue celebrating one year of this site with the first Tao of Bachelorhood Podcast. It may be a little rough—back in the college day I was all over the college radio station, but it’s been a while since I last carried a solo narrative—but at least it should be informative. We kick off the [...]

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Do Real Men Moisturize?

January 26, 2010Grooming

There are two schools of thought on men’s facial products: “Real men don’t put anything on their faces except maybe some musky, spicy after shave.” “I look at Tommy Lee Jones and think maybe I can do better.” You know, there’s something to be said for that weathered look that adds so much character to [...]

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12 Best Posts of 2009

December 31, 2009Grooming

Well, the Tao hasn’t been around for quite a full year yet, but I’ve put a lot of content into the ol’ place, and it’s a great time to reflect on the stuff I think you can most learn from, or be entertained by. Also, I’m putting my time into finishing off the Starter Workout [...]

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Christmas Gifts for Men: The Shaving Kit

December 9, 2009Grooming

With Christmas around the corner, I thought it might be a good idea to offer a few ideas for that man on your Xmas list…or for yourself. Let’s start with something every man (except maybe Zach Galifianakis) needs: a close, smooth shave. The kind that doesn’t come from a quick slathering from a can of [...]

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Body Hair: Keep, Trim or Shave?

November 14, 2009Grooming

I’ve gone over this before, but from the moment we grow our first short hairs until it starts growing out of ridiculous places, the question is: Grow it, groom it, or scrape it? If I was a hermit, would I let my chest hair run wild and my nose grow a mustache out from within? [...]

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