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The Below The Belt Grooming Guide

GROOMING

T

he Final Frontier? Ten So, here’s everything you want
for anything below the belt; noyears ago ‘downstairs’ to know about ‘down below’
body likes to see sideburns
grooming was pretty much grooming but were too afraid to
poking out the side of a pair of
the final frontier in terms of keep- ask.
trunks, do they?”
ing up appearances. But with the
Shaving Private Ryan: Next So, if you fancy trimming, shaving
recent growth of interest in man- to the popularity of beards, I or waxing, here are a few pointers....
scaping, all eyes have shifted can’t think of another grooming
southwards in the pursuit of neat trend that’s proved as popular
1. Trim Before You Shave
and tidy nether regions.
as the removal of body hair (also A light trim is often all that’s
So much so that, according to known as ‘manscaping’), espe- needed to neaten pubic hair,
a recent survey by Gillette, one cially in the pubic area.
but if you want an altogether
in five men now sport a close
There are lots of reasons for smoother look, and are using a
trim down below (though given this – trends in porn, pressure razor to achieve it, trim the hair
that the survey
from partners and the fabled ‘opti- back first with a specialist device
also showed that 92 per cent of cal inch’ pubic hair removal sup- like the Philips Bodygroom,
women prefer a man with a tidy posedly provides have all been Braun CruZer6 Body, Wahl Body
trunk line, the other four fifths cited – but the bottom line is that Groomer or the King of Shaves
might want to consider some pu- some men just prefer the way it Prostyle Bodystyler (BELOW)
bic topiary, too).
looks and feels.
In fact, a whole industry has
“Hair-free skin can certaily
developed
around
keeping feel cooler and fresher, and also
men’s tackles clean and fresh, helps to reduce body odour,
so grooming below the belt isn’t especially during hot and humid
so much an eye brow-raising weather,” says body waxing exoddity, as a practice you should pert Andy Rouillard, owner of Axprobably consider taking up.
iom Men’s Grooming Salon. “As
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