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Despite not having shaved for 10 years, PPA award-winning investigative journalist and magazine editor Alex Harris moonlights as a style writer and grooming expert for brands such as Sunday Times Style, Men's Health and Mr Porter. Fed up of windy marketing terminology, his mission is to help you make sense of products and their promises, with the aim to keep your purchases streamlined and your wallet intact. He's regularly found moaning at @alexowenharris.
The best thing about beards, foamy-moustache fun times aside, is their impermanence. Maybe you’ll grow one and forever shall it remain. Perhaps you’ll sample stubble and then go running for the razor. Either way, it’s a switch-up to your style that’s intrinsically transient. No two days of bearding are ever the same. It’s perpetually changing. … Continue reading How to Choose the Best Beard Length In 2026 →
It’s time to come clean about your social media diet. Do you mindlessly gorge, like a greedily banqueting Tudor monarch, on every morsel of political proselytising, #foodporn imagery and toxic rants, with the calorific side dishes of fake news and erstwhile schoolmates’ saccharine overshares? Or do you eat clean, with a lean intake of Twitter … Continue reading What Social Media Is Really Doing To Your Life →
Few things are tracked as fastidiously as fitness. From beats-per-minute to miles-per-minute, winning, it seems, is all in metrics these days. But you needn’t be a mathlete to compete with the fitness hipsters. Thanks to technological leaps and fashion bounds, it’s now easy to muscle in on a numerical advantage yourself. And thank the tech … Continue reading The Best Fitness Watches You Can Buy In 2026 →
What do Brad Pitt, Drake and Cillian Murphy all have in common, aside from being in the top five of your girlfriend’s sexual freebie list? No, not money. Well actually, yes, that too. But we’re talking about the fact they’re all famous for sporting a sharp, handsome fade haircut. You know the type: styled on top, … Continue reading The Best Comb-Over Fade Haircuts And How To Get Them →
There’s one thing every action star has in common, aside from a hefty paycheque, and that’s a set of boulder shoulders. Those Hollywood PTs bulking-up the likes of Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson understand that shoulder muscle is what bookends the V-shape of any all-action testosterone physique. When it comes to your designs on a … Continue reading The 8 Best Shoulder Exercises – As Recommended By Ryan Terry →
Hey there, slick. What brings you to the fifties? Maybe you’re here to finally nail the perfect quiff. Perhaps you’ve got designs on a rockabilly pompadour a la Alex Turner or Sam Smith. Or is the plan simply to grease your hair back for the badass biker vibe you’ve always known would go well with … Continue reading The Best Pomades You Can Buy In 2026 →
Not often will you find honesty and marketing sharing a sentence. At its most fundamental, salesmanship is a process by which brands trick you into feeling like you need to buy things that you do not require, then convince that to stop using them is even worse than having never started. With grooming things are … Continue reading The Biggest Cons In Men’s Grooming →
Put aside those mental images of walnut-varnished torsos and arms as big as legs for a moment. Maybe you’re a muscly alpha male, all square jaw and chest-beating machismo. Perhaps you’re a drainpipe who’s literally allergic to sports. It doesn’t matter. Testosterone defines you as a man either way. And it’s so much more than … Continue reading The Man’s Guide To Testosterone →
Those Quality Street did a number on you, too, huh? Right. Now is the time for a good, hard look in the mirror. Go on, do it. Soak it all in. Yes, look at him. That’s you. What have you done to yourself? No, wait, don’t cry. It’s fine, buddy. Buddy? Wipe those tears. The … Continue reading How To Get Fit In 2026 →
This week, we announced the 50 best-dressed men in the world right now: a list of guys with impeccable, nonchalant style that you could copy until the end of your days. But for every well-dressed celebrity out there, we found just as many dud dressers, dad dressers, muscle-fit monstrosities and streetwear sick-ups. Brace yourself. This … Continue reading The Worst-Dressed Men In 2017 →
Howdy, Tom Selleck fans. While we’re apt to pay lip service to beards, it’s the mighty moustache that really gets our tongues wagging. They beef up any countenance and bring dignity to any lip. So perhaps it’s time you put your stubble where your mouth is and try on the manliest face mask available. That … Continue reading The Complete Guide To Growing A Moustache →
As Stoic philosopher and Roman statesman Seneca had it, “It is the superfluous things for which men sweat”. We’re not entirely sure if he meant date night and/or anxiety over upcoming feedback from your passive-aggressive boss. But all’s the same – don’t sweat the small stuff, chaps. Fear sweat smells the worst, after all. Of … Continue reading How To Sweat Less →
Everyone bar the proverbial hare knows slow and steady wins the race. Slow reading brings the most pleasure. Slaving over your art yields the masterpiece. Slow cooking your food makes for the best dishes. And yet, every now and then, a Pot Noodle is just what you need. So let’s investigate the instant. Future-proofing with … Continue reading How To Look Better By Next Week →
While we can all agree fragrance marketing is pure wind, one truism holds solid: we buy aftershave to impress the fairer sex. Don’t deny it. Much like undoing a few extra buttons on your disco ruffle shirt come Friday night, paying attention to what you put on your wrists is a modern form of peacocking. … Continue reading 7 Fragrances Women Can’t Resist →
If there’s one thing the recent uptick in male beauty treatments has given us, it’s a solid appreciation of portmanteau. From the dermal depths of ‘Brotox’ up to the smooth layers of ‘manscaping’, bolting a macho prefix onto the names of those decidedly ladies-only treatments makes them very manly indeed. And thank the grooming gods; … Continue reading The No BS Guide To Male Spa & Beauty Treatments →
They say time waits for no man. Which is why, collagen creams and anti-ageing products aside, all of us should seek to age with grace. No one likes a #cooldad, after all, with his trainers, Topman cardigan and ‘trendy’ haircut. Don’t be that guy. By the same token, it’s worth realising that your fragrances have … Continue reading How To Choose The Right Fragrance For Your Age →
You don’t choose facial hair; it chooses you. But not all are worthy. That’s why so many find cultivating a decent crop of face topiary like trying to farm the Sahara. But even if you’re one of the unchosen, not naturally gifted in the way of the beard, the right bit of nous can still … Continue reading How To Grow A Beard: The Beginner’s Guide →
Winter is coming. You don’t need to be dressed head-to-toe in black furs and clocking-in at The Wall to notice that fact. Just look at the signs. Grey clouds loom and grey faces abound. While we can’t do much about the weather, the latter problem falls right under our jurisdiction. So remembering to take your … Continue reading 11 Tips For Treating Men’s Dry Skin →