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It’s Movember, and Edan Haddock is taking his first foray into face furniture   I’m a Movember virgin.   I’d never really paid much thought to mens’ health until last year. I found out my mother had cancer and naturally it got me thinking about my father’s health. While it felt natural to talk about mammograms or regular smear tests with my Mum, who we lost earlier this year, I still find it difficult to discuss the male equivalents with...
Threading, curling, Scouse brows and mascara face. Our man columnist Michael Hogan is deeply confused.   1. How much make-up you’re wearing Is my missus wearing none at all or has she just applied it so skilfully that I can’t tell? It’s a dark art, like witchcraft or “search engine optimisation”. Of course, all men think ‘natural’ is actually ‘none’, which makes for a rude awakening the first time you genuinely see her make-up free and think, “why are your eyes so much…further...
For Daniel Maier, a simple trip to the hair salon is fraught with impossible decisions and unknowable etiquette.   Haircuts, like life, were simple when I was a boy. Principally because I had no say in them, or it. A parent would take me to Gosforth High Street and instruct a man in a room to remove a deal of my hair, restoring the unremarkable bowlcut that had gradually lost its definition over the preceding weeks. At some point, roughly...