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Taming the hair on your face and neck doesn’t have to be pain. Follow a few simple rules and you will always look perfectly groomed.

Taming your hair is a very important step that can make or break a first impression. Guys—keep it under control and you will enjoy the attention you receive. And for Pete’s Sake, shave with the grain of the hair to avoid those little bumps that look like 8th grade acne!

Facial Hair
Let’s face it–it’s easy not to shave. There are plenty of beard varieties out there: the traditional Goatee, the Stinger, the Balbo, the Chin Strap, the Klondike, etc. The one you choose and how you wear it says a lot about you. I think that anything goes, but just keep it clean and “tight” unless you’re in a career that allows you to be or look like a rock star. And if you have already achieved rock stardom, then it really doesn’t matter what people (including women) think! For the other 99.5% of us, we’ve got to pay attention to the details.

I get asked a lot about coloring the beard and using “Just for Men” products. My advice is this: don’t go overboard on the color. Just add a little and adjust. Don’t leave the stuff on too long either – it looks like shoe polish and it smells. Use it, don’t abuse it. A little grey looks fine as long as it is proportionate.

Neck Hair
Hair running down the back of a guy’s neck looks just as bad as hair dropping below the chin line on a guy who wears a beard. Just don’t do it. Make sure you take some care in shaving here. Let’s take a moment address each side.

Back of the neck

There is nothing worse than showing a beard growing on the back of your neck. If you already shaving in the morning, a good every other day swipe of the razor to the back of your neck is always a good idea. Make sure you use a little shave cream and take short strokes DOWN away from your hairline. Use a finger as your guide and, with your razor, make short strokes down from your “finger guide.” Wash your neck and view your work. Repeat if necessary. You could even enroll your kid to help dad shave or they can just hold a mirror to guide you. Either way, you win with a clean neckline.

Front of the neck
If you’regrowing a beard, there is no need to allow the hairline of your neck to join your chest hair. That is just wrong. You are only going to confirm for the next woman you meet that you are a Wooly Mammoth. You leave her no mystery, only misery.

To defend against potential misery, create a shave line from below the chin line, down the neck. Just take a look in the mirror and draw an imaginary line across your jaw line and chin line and shave down your neck. It looks very clean and actually showcases your beard.

Nose and Ear Hair
You probably don’t notice it much, but females will. We all have it and it grows faster as we get older. Keep it under control and you won’t look like some kind of caveman.

Nose Hair
I don’t like the battery powered nose clippers for two reasons. First, they create more ingrown hairs than you want or need and it’s painful to heal from them. Secondly, they don’t work as well as a cheap pair of scissors. Those $3 “curved” cuticle scissors are sharp, easy to use and cheap. Just look in the grocery store toiletries aisle next to the area where they sell hair brushes, nail clippers, combs and such. Those same scissors can also come in handy for the ear hair as well. I don’t why it grows there as we get older, I just say, clip it once a month and you’ll be fine.

Eye Brows
I’m not going to go too far into this topic because only some of you will understand me and others will just say, “I don’t get it”…and that’s okay. This page is dedicated to those who don’t get it so maybe they’ll read this and become a bit more enlightened.

Trust me–women want to see your eyes. However, they will have a difficult time seeing them if there is a bushy caterpillar floating across your forehead pretending to be an eye brow. I will simply make a proposition to my members and give you the “try it, if you don’t like it…don’t do it again!”

Eyebrows are typically waxed and can be done separately or during a facial. Either way, it’s a little pain, with a lot of gain.

If you don’t get a compliment during the first two weeks after your “Brow Wax”, then don’t invest in it again. I could be wrong, but I’mgoing to bet that in just the first week somebody is going to say something about how you “look different” and they don’t know what it is. They will guess anything and everything, but probably won’t come up with what is different. I would love for a member to post their story.

I hope you guys have learned a little something about taming the hair, and that you’ll try at least some of the ideas. It may be new and different, but this is what your whole transition as a single dad is about, right? You’re discovering things that are new, different and hopefully fun, exhilarating and rewarding.

Richard JaramilloRichard “RJ” Jaramillo, is the Founder of SingleDad.com,
a website and social media resource dedicated to single parenting and specifically for the newly divorced, re-married, widowed and single Father with children.
RJ is self employed, entrepreneur living in San Diego and a father of three children. The mission of SingleDad is to help the community of Single Parents
“Make Life Happen…Again!”

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Richard “RJ” Jaramillo, is the Founder of SingleDad.com, a website and social media resource dedicated to single parenting and specifically for the newly divorced, re-married, widowed and single Father with children. RJ is self employed, entrepreneur living in San Diego and a father of three children. The mission of SingleDad is to help the community of Single Parents “Make Life Happen…Again!”