Men's Grooming Products Review - Mensgroom

Metrosexual is dead. Thank goodness. I was so sick of that word. Damn Ryan Seacrest for pushing metrosexuality out of the closet and making regular guys feel inferior for not waxing their eyebrows or getting caramel colored highlights.

However, as disgusted as we were with the term, the novelty of it got ordinary men to think about their grooming habits, or sometimes lack thereof. Now that the media has killed the metrosexual, men are free to indulge in their grooming fantasies without fear of a scarlet letter. They don’t have to read reports of their clandestine day-spa activities and nose hair trimming plastered in magazines and national newspapers. It’s not that men don’t want to groom; they just don’t want to talk about it.

I recently read a funny quote on groominglounge.com that said, “You can have a closet full of designer suits, maintain a stable of exotic sports cars and date a Swedish supermodel, but if you're guilty of common grooming gaffes… you're just a poser.”

Simply put, there is no excuse for not being well-groomed. Take it from a woman, ragged nails, dirty unkempt hair, a dull complexion, and skin harder than sandpaper are not manly, they’re simply disgusting. But there is a very thin line between simple grooming habits and raiding your woman’s vanity for her anti-aging potions and night creams.

While P. Diddy, the rap impresario and New York man-about-town, may preserve his sexy with Pro-Activ, you’re above the style chain of skincare products sold on late-night infomercials or drugstores. You need something that doesn’t scream medicinal—or worse, feminine. And forget about products with lots of steps.

I recently came across Mensgroom, a high-end skincare line made of natural ingredients such as Birch Sap, Marsipium Tree Bark, Soy protein and Pea extract. The packaging is simply designed chocolate-brown tubes and square-shaped bottles encased in clear plastic. Very chic, yet a guy wouldn’t be afraid to sit them front and center in the medicine chest.

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