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Manly Beauty- Men's Ranges

This is the first post in a series I will be doing for men titled Manly Beauty.The reason I am doing this is because I have a lot of male readers who directly email me questions as they find the blog aimed more at women.  for men went down quite well and I got a lot of encouraging emails from men who found it useful.. I hope this is also some help!

I find the men's cosmetic market to be lacking the same variety as the women's. I am so sick of seeing these limited men's ranges stacked pathetically next to isles worth of women's products. The lack of variety means a lot of men are using the incorrect products for their skin-type. Also.. whats with that horrible after-shave scent most of these 'men's products' smell like? No thanks!!

1.Men's Ranges
In this post you will find a few drugstore and higher end products for men that are actually quite good and that have been tried, tested & used by myself and men I know.
DOVE MEN+CARE
BODY & FACE WASH
(BRAND 1- Drugstore priced)
Dove kindly let me pick out some men+care products to try out. I tried these products myself as well as having a male friend test them (and now he's kept them!) I have quite sensitive skin and he has normal skin and neither of us had any unfavourable reaction. I only used the Daily Purifying on my face one time but it was quite nice. He uses both on his face & body (and as a shampoo.. lazy git) and so far no complaints. Just don't get it in your eyes!
This products lathers much more than the average shower gel product. A little seems to go a very long way which means it is great value. Combing that with the non-offensive, simple packaging I think its a great product.
The gel comes in 3 scents Clean Comfort, Daily Purifying and Extra Fresh.
I really liked Extra Fresh as it has a bit of a cooling sensation but I think Daily Purifying smells a bit nicer!

Why this range is good..
Caring- Their products are designed for men but in a more caring way. More nourishing for the skin (as opposed to stripping!) Because we know how men don't often moisturize..they now get that protection from their shower gel!
Scent- No artificial generic after-shave smelling products. The products have a distinctly masculine scent but in a more pleasant, gentle way.
Variety- There is also far more variety.. more scents and ranges to chose from. 3 shower gels to chose from. 3 variety's of deodorants (spray, rollerball & stick) and multiple fragrance choices to chose from.
Multi-use- I also like that their shower gel is gentle enough to be used as a face wash. It shows that they have paid attention to men's needs for more multi-use products. This also makes the product all the more portable. Perfect item for a gym bag!
Affordable- Similarly priced to most women's products. There is now no reason why your man can not have his own set of products in the bathroom cabinet that aren't extortionately priced!

Following feedback from its consumers Dove changed their as they found that 3/4 of men over 30 didn't identify to the stereotypical men's products advert.  to view the DOVE MEN+ CARE advert.
Personally I really like it. Its definitely more entertaining to watch than the usual sports start pouting and prancing about. A real man could definitely relate to it!
This line is part of Dove's Campaign For Real Beauty, to go to the official website.

Another drugstore brand worth checking out for me is Nivea men. Cheap and simple.. sometimes that's an unbeatable combination!

KORRES
(BRAND 2- Higher End Price)
Why this range is good..
Healthy For Skin- All products are mineral-oil free and contain SPF in the men's skincare. Great if you don't want to think about having to apply facial sun cream.
Natural- The products are enriched with natural plant extracts and should really improve the skin as opposed to simply maintaining its condition.
Price- It is more expensive but still not extortionately priced
The majority of the other Korres products have never been directly marketed as 'for women' aside from the make-up. All the moisturizers and body creams have always been packaged in an extremely neat, modern and unisex way. SO.. if the men's range isn't to your liking.. its not like the other products are for women only.
Travel Size- you can find a few travel sized products in a 'Men's kit'. This means you can try before you commit to buying full size as well as being very business trip friendly.
I am always giving this kit as a gift.. I find that its one of the few cosmetic gifts that goes down well with men. In particular the Absinthe shave cream & Borage Cream are big hits. I have converted quite a few men to this line!
Inside the kit..
Juniper & Rum Shower Gel- Personally I adore this shower gel!! Its got a very powerful smell to it.. very masculine and the rum adds such a sexy, spicy twist to it. Makes me go a little crazy.. literally I want to bite someone when I smell it!! Definitely a gel for a real man and not a little boy!
Absinthe Shaving Cream- Non-foaming so you may need to get used to it.. but I am convinced you will like it. It gives you a very, very close shave. Contains Vitamin E & Jojoba oil to keep skin hydrated and Absinthe and Aloe Vera to keep it from getting irritated. Really good stuff! Your girlfriend will want to use this on her legs so hide it!
Korres Borage Cream- This product I discovered around year ago when I forgot to pack my cosmetics case on a trip and I ended up using my uncles stuff.. this being one of the products. I fell in love with it! I am guessing this may be one of the reasons my 58 year old uncle looks about 45.. that and a lot of rakija ;)
Pros: Dries to a non shiny finish making it a perfect product for oily skin or for summer!Its a product for the younger and older man. An older man will appreciate its toning properties. It keeps your skin very supple and feels comfortable on it. Great hygienic pump design.. no dipping fingers in this!
Cons: Strong scent- Its a natural, herbal, masculine scent but I think it may put of people putting it on their face. AND.. the scent lingers. Which can be really annoying! The pump delivers a too generous amount.. you only really need half a pump to cover the face.

Another higher priced men's range worth checking out is Kiehl's. A huge variety of products.. even 3 men's lip balms. Mindblowingly amazing but a tiny bit expensive!

Hope you enjoyed my men's post!! Even though this post is for men, if you have a boyfriend, brother, father or son.. you may find it helpful when it comes to buying things for them. More to come in the next week. If you have any requests let me know!

Learn to Make Women Orgasm

`m always a little puzzled when I hear men giving out advice on giving women orgasms. Granted some men have this area of intimacy mastered, but those men are few and far between. Who knows what's pleasurable to a woman better than a woman? If you want to give her body numbing orgasms that will make her weak in the knees there's just a few things you need to know.

When it comes to giving women orgasms you must start with stimulating her brain before you even attempt to stimulate her body. Most women will tell you that they have to feel some sort of intellectual and emotional connection with a man before they can let go enough sexually to reach climax. That's one of the reasons so many women fake having an orgasm. They realize soon after lovemaking starts that they just aren't feeling connected enough with him. So get to work wooing her before you two ever even think of being intimate. Find out what interests her non-sexually and engage her in conversation, show a genuine interest in her before you move things to a more intimate setting.

When it comes to the actual act of being intimate, most women crave the same things. Oral sex is definitely at the top of the list when it comes to giving women orgasms. The most common complaint I hear from other women is that the man they are with just doesn't have his technique perfected or he's in a rush. Foreplay doesn't have a time limit. In fact, if you are skilled at bringing a woman to an orgasm or orally or manually with your hand by stimulating her g-spot, focus on that before you move to intercourse. She'll adore you for it and it will make her want to be with you more and more. (source :

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Misandry at Hamilton

Mangina professor Keith Edwards


Rape culture is a term used within women's studies and feminism, describing a culture in which rape and other sexual violence against women is common and in which prevalent attitudes, norms, practices, and media condone, normalize, excuse, or encourage sexualized violence

That is just one of the definitions for rape culture I found online. It is as good a definition as any for something that does not, and never has, existed. And it has been taking its rightful place alongside a nonexistent gender wage gap, nonexistent employment discrimination, nonexistent media bias and a nonexistent domestic violence crisis that only affects women, continuing the litany of nonexistent feminist outrages.

This collection of imagined slights and hurts form the basis of Lie Culture. And it is nothing new. We have been lying to women since the first one asked, “Does this mastodon hide make my ass look fat?” Rather we have been lying to women since the first one started crying and getting cold in the bedroom when being told the truth. And that trump card, issued in the name of survival biology, has long ensured that for the most part, women will not be inconvenienced with reality. And nor will men who want to remain on their “good” side.

In that light, feminism has succeeded, by and large, by counting on public willingness to accept two mutually exclusive realities at the same time. First, women are exactly equal to men in capability, aptitude, strength and every other measure of human potential. And two, women are the weaker, unsupported victims of stronger, more aggressive men, requiring government and all other manner of intervention to give them a helping hand. Yes, people, when you buy the lie, they are both at the same time. It’s like saying Pee Wee Herman could beat the crap out of Mike Tyson in a fair fight, but we need to give him a .45 auto before he gets in the ring.

Thus every area where feminism has shaped public perception has forced intellectual integrity into the shadows.

Rape culture is just the latest offering in string of imagined curses on the lives of our all powerful, yet strangely helpless women. We don’t just have a problem with rape as a crime, but we are all complicit in it. The culture itself wants women to get raped. The criminal justice system, from police to prosecutors to judges and juries, all smile and wink and look the other way as already traumatized women get raped a second time by a system that is indifferent and uncaring. The media is in on the action, glamorizing sexual violence against women. And our colleges? They’re the worst. We might as well leave mattresses and handcuffs between the bushes on campus to make things a little more convenient on the rapists.

Yeah, that’s the ticket. Rape is hawt, dude, it’s all the rage. We hear this all the time now from the same people that say chivalry is a patriarchal conspiracy, while demanding that men still practice it. Never mind that the simple and often false accusation of rape will destroy a man’s life. Never mind that it happens all the time because women can count on the system to react with mindless vengeance on their behalf. Forget about all the men who have unjustly served the lion’s share of their adult lives behind bars because we are desperate to convict somebody, anybody, when a rape has been alleged. Just accept it. We all want women to get raped and we have built an entire culture that will ensure it happens.

Just ask Keith Edwards, feminist blowhard and Indoctrinator-in-Chief at Hamilton College. He has developed a new program for all freshman males (read: rapists), who attend that school. It’s a class called “She Fears You.” The intent of this program is to combat rape culture, by branding innocent students, all male, as sexual deviates in waiting, and treating them that way from the first day they attend school at that institution. Edwards is hell bent on proving to young men how unambiguously dangerous they really are. All men are potential rapists, and Edwards is going to by God set them straight.

Oh, and according to the good professor, they are also racists and homophobes, a couple of bonus pejoratives he tossed in for good measure. Perhaps it was to give his reeducation camp a well rounded effect, or maybe to cover what few men attend that aren’t actually rapists. Hell, they’re men, there has to be something wrong with them, right?

Obviously this is a political operation, and one that seeks to invade and destroy the very consciousness of any man that chooses to get his education at Hamilton. Despite objections from students, many of the faculty, the Hamilton Alumni organization, and other concerned groups, the elite powers to be at that institution backed the crusading Edwards, and pressed forward with the class- even sending out threatening emails to male students, warning them, in bold red letters, that the event was mandatory.

It is hard to fight off the knee jerk reaction to grab Edwards by the scruff of his neck and give him an earful of reality, like the fact that only a microscopic fraction of men are rapists. Even better, one might press him to answer, if such alarm is warranted from the mere presence of males in the university setting, then where were the equally strident warnings that should have gone out to all the female students and their parents? Why are they not being warned about the dangerous “rape culture” that awaits them in the school they have chosen to attend? I mean, shouldn’t women be damned afraid to attend Hamilton?

Aside from the fact that you would not get a credible answer to any of those questions, there is actually a more important and less pursued concern in the midst of all this contrived hoopla.

What about all the men in those classes who have already been sexually abused and victimized by female teachers in the elementary schools, middle schools and high schools they attended prior to attending Hamilton? The fact is that there is an all but silent epidemic of female teachers in America that are sexually abusing, raping, young male students. And they are getting away with it, either at the hands of a judicial system that seldom delivers more than a slap on the wrist to the perpetrators, or the media that is as likely to play the “hot for teacher” angle as it is to covering it like the crime it is. This, and much worse is fostered by an indifferent and misandric culture that ultimately either finds blame with the male victim, or sees him as just another guy who got lucky, or both.

Oh yeah, 12 year old Johnny should be high fiving it because his 36 year old math teacher groomed him into satisfying her perverse sexual needs. Maybe his celebration will end when she comes back pregnant and sues him for child support, and wins because the same judicial system that convicted her for raping him now thinks he is liable for the child that rape produced.

There’s your fucking rape culture. The only one that ever existed. It targets men, not women. And it continues unabated while feminists caterwaul and shriek about a problem that only exists in their imagination.

We should have been paying attention to this, doing something about it. But instead we begin an era of marching young college men into academically disguised indoctrination camps, targeting their innate masculinity as a social evil, and insisting they become something more appealing in the eyes of gender ideologues. In doing so we reveal another of the many realities that we are so often loathe to examine.

It is not the students we need to worry about, but the teachers. Whether it is the perverted schoolmarm with a secret taste for little boys, or the ideologically depraved and effete academic activist with an administrative pass for ax grinding, the educational environment is now one that can only be described as predatory.

This might offer some insight into why our boys and young men have been falling ever by the wayside in school, or how they so often end up in chemical handcuffs like Ritalin for sake of an autocratic teacher’s convenience.

But hell, without the truth we are going to have a tough time addressing those things as well.

Magazines in the Spotlight: Encens


Regular readers may have noticed that it has been quite some time since our last 'Magazine In The Spotlight' post but this is not want of trying. I have been frequently and somewhat furiously finger flicking my way through the racks at newsagents and bookstores far and wide before leaving empty handed. Of course, I have encountered the usual suspects but for one reason or another these have failed to truly excite me and therefore warrant a post. I relayed my woes during a recent shopping jaunt at b Store and thankfully proprietor Matthew Murphy stepped in and offered the name of a title that had previously been unknown to me, Encens. His enthusiasm for the title was infectious. As I left the store with my purchases I instantly began my search of Soho for the publication which came to fruition at the ever reliable Compton News. Since finding it I have struggled to put it down which is no easy task given the weight of this style beast. 

Encens number twenty six stands apart from previous issues as it signals their departure from the bi-annual format. Now published once yearly, the publication has taken on several properties which would classify it closer to a book. Firstly, the thickness and hardcover bound, its qualities as an object are just as powerful as the visual stories inside. During his Fashion Pioneers talk with Imran Ahmed, Jefferson Hack highlighted the growing importance of specialisation and what visionary science fiction author and futurist William Gibson terms mooks: “a hybrid of a book and a magazine where stories can be told in depth with beautiful photography.” Encens is undoubtedly more 'mook' than magazine. It is an exploration of the two editors, Samuel Drira and Sybille Walter, aesthetics and something of a manifesto against disposable fashion. Stylist Drira and photographer Walter share a passion for the drape and fall of clothing, a subtle tailoring and a softness of finish and form. Throughout this weighty hardback, there is an incessant delivery of their vision as opposed to a summation of the trends or season based investigations that we have come to expect from style magazines. This vision is contained is shared within everything from an interview with Yves Saint Laurent taken from Vogue in November 1983 to a celebration of the menswear design talent of Damir Doma and Kris Van Assche. Despite the temptation to scan every single page for you, I've decided to pick out a few highlights. Let the images inspire...














Moving back and forth from the present to the past, the editorials and features have a timeless quality. Fashion magazines tend to constantly strive forward. Even though the latest collections may have been influenced by styles or characters from yesteryear, these influences tend to be ignored. Magazines are blinkered to the past. Encens however, takes a fond gaze at the aesthetics of the past which still should have clout today. The publications stands for an independent and long terms approach. Neither Dirra nor Walter are obsessed with clothes of the moment. For them, the best fashion has three common denominators - simplicity and style but also a sense of timelessness, the capacity to either be or become a classic. In one feature they celebrate Kris Van Assche and Damir Doma, declaring their designs to be menswear at its best. A fluid silhouette, void of the typical restriction of menswear, stripped of the 'for men only' labels. Both have a desire to render the ready made boxes of menswear, sharing ideals of versatility and a nomadic existence. The following quote from Per Spook in another feature echoes these ideal...

"One of my golden rules is to be at ease in a garment. Men hate feeling confined. Likewise, discretion, rather than disguise. A man's wardrobe must have its own personality, yet not be recognisable. I have always preferred the classicism of a great simplicity, natural materials, cuts that are worn loose, and since my clothes do not have linings, they remain light and supple." Per Spook.

Encens' relevance exists in the very fact that it is not grounded in any sort of fast fashion, instead quite the opposite. Although seasonality is expected in fashion, I respect and admire anyone who turns against those implemented measures of time. I heartily recommend that you add this publication to your reading list, consider it pleasurable homework.

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How to Dress Like ‘Mad Men’? Just Ask the Designer!


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The ’60s style seen on Mad Men seeped right into the fashion spotlight just like Sex And The City did to Carrie Bradshaw and her Manolo Blahniks. But when you want to go all out Mad Men, there’s really only one day to do it, Halloween. This year we’re expecting to see more than a one Don Draper and Joan Holloway trick or treating on Halloween. So we asked the woman behind Mad Men’s fashion, costume designer Janie Bryant, how to perfect the Mad Men look.
“For women, definitely if you want to do Betty Draper go for the full skirt and petticoat and matching handbag and pumps,” Janie explained to OK!. “For Joan, a tight wiggle dress in a jewel tone color. Don’t forget the red wig, imported, and the pen on the chain. For Peggy, a pleated skirt is great and then a blouse with a big bow at the neck.”

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Although Janie would have the ultimate costume closet to choose a Mad Men look from, don’t expect to see her dressed in a blond wig as Betty Draper on Oct. 31. Says Janie, “I don’t even like Halloween!”
A costume designer who hates Halloween? Perhaps it has something to do with living in L.A.
“I mean in L.A. it’s so different; most of the girls are wearing the shortest, shortest, shortest skirts they can possibly find,” Janie tells OK!. “I haven’t been in New York for Halloween in a while and I’m going to be here this year so I’m excited to see how many people are dressed up like Mad Men characters.”

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Janie is in NYC her Maybelline-sponsored launch of her new book, The Fashion File: Advice, Tips and Inspiration from the Costume Designer of MAD MEN.
“So much of the book is about becoming your own leading lady and developing your own personal style,” Janie told OK!. “Mad Men has really inspired fashion designers and people wearing more 60s inspired clothing on the street. It’s been really interesting to see that and also I love it!”
The crew has gotten used to seeing Mad Men look-a-likes on the streets.
“The crew passes emails and Facebook messages back and forth and say, ‘I saw Don Draper and Pete Campbell on the street!’” Janie said.

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Her book is just one of the many ways she’s making it easy to capture the classic Mad Men look day to day. Early this year she launched her own 60s inspired QVC fashion line, Janie Bryant MOD, and soon she’ll be launching a new line of fashionable garbs.
“Oh, I am so excited about the next line!,” she tells OK!. “There are going to be some great handbags. I just saw the samples. They’re lovely! Also, I designed this amazing cabbage rose printed short little swing coat with a matching pencil skirt that I love. I also designed an amazing lace trench coat. It is so cute! I’ll do those shows in February. I was feeling very romantic.”

Only men swimmers for Asian Games

Khade-Sejwal
Times of India
BANGALORE: With the Swimming Federation of India (SFI) deciding to strictly adhere to the qualification standard, India will field an all-men swimming team for the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou.

Top men swimmers, including Sandeep Sejwal and Virdhwal Khade, will carry the country's hopes as SFI announced a nine-member squad for the quadrennial event on Thursday.

It is for the first time since 1998 Bangkok Games that the Indian swimming contingent does not have a woman swimmer in its ranks. "None of the women swimmers met the qualification times set by the federation," national coach S Pradeep Kumar said, explaining the reason for not including women swimmers in the squad.

The swimmers needed to clock the sixth-place timing of the last Asian Games to make the cut. But all the girls came a cropper in three qualification meets — junior nationals, senior nationals and Federation Cup — held this year.

"The dropout rate among women swimmers is alarming. We had lot of swimmers in the junior level. But once they started concentrating on academics they failed to perform in swimming," Pradeep said.

"Even in Karnataka, which is a traditional swimming powerhouse, the dropout rate among girls is high. In the men's section, we can pick from a talent pool of 5,000. But in the women's section it is only 500," he said.

In 1998, the Indian squad for Asian Games had five women swimmers as Nisha Millet, Meghna Narayan, Abhinaya Shetty, Shikha Tandon and Richa Mishra vied for honours. But the numbers started dwindling from then on. Only two women — Richa and Shikha — took part in the 2002 Busan Games, while only Shikha carried the hopes of Indian women in the 2006 edition in Doha.

Expressing shock, Nisha Millet said lack of dedication towards swimming has cost the Indian women dear. "They concentrate on education. It's not easy to find a balance between your studies and competition. It's time the girls took to swimming seriously. Otherwise, we won't see women swimmers in next Olympics too," she said.

After a week-long confusion, the preparatory camp for the Games began at the Sports Authority of India, South Centre on Thursday. SAI officials in Delhi had directed the SFI to start the camp on Oct 21. But the officials in Bangalore got the letter only on Wednesday. "We lost seven precious days," lamented Pradeep.
Of the nine swimmers, only Sejwal and Khade met the qualification marks in the individual events while other made the grade in relays. Sandeep will compete in the 50m, 100m and 200m, while Khade will figure in 50m and 100m freestyle and butterfly events.

Team: Sandeep Sejwal, Rehan Poncha, Virdhawal Khade, Aaron D'Souza, Rohit Havaldar, Arjun JP, Mandra Divase, Balakrishnan MB, Anshul Kothari.


Read more: Only men swimmers for Asian Games - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/events-tournaments/2010-asian-games/Only-men-swimmers-for-Asian-Games/articleshow/6831869.cms#ixzz13jLyTxu3

Seth Kuhlmann by Rick Day

Here's Seth Kuhlmann of Major Models photographed by Rick Day.





A very gloomy hump day here on my side of the globe, thank goodness for these men, they'll keep my awake at work. Yes I browse these while in the office ha!



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Representing Argentina

Here's Paolo! I've read he's a singer and model from there. More about him please!






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Your parents having sex: Neutral, yikes or LOL?

Your parents having sex: Neutral, yikes or LOL?

A year ago, a Singaporean Christian teenager condemned me for writing about sex because she thought of sex as disgusting. When I asked her, "How were you made? Your parents must have had sex to have you unless they opted for in-vitro fertilisation?" she replied, "I am made by God." In Hollywood movies, whenever teenagers see or think about their parents having sex, it's yikes. Maybe that's where that teenager got that attitude.

My friend accidentally saw his parents having sex and he quickly called his girlfriend to take a look. They were both laughing about it.

When I think of my parents having sex, I'm neutral. It's like, what do I expect? Of course they had to have sex to have me. There's nothing disgusting about it. And nothing about it warrants a LOL from me unless they were sustain some strange but harmless injury from sex and try to cover it up with lies!

How do you feel about your parents having sex?

Here are some examples of Do's and Don'ts:

I am No Fashionista, But I Know What Looks Good


By special request, I am making this post public. If you want the back story (or any other story) you will have to subscribe to my other blog.

Men, this post is for you. And ladies, if you agree with me please say so, because some of the men who are guilty of these fashion faux pas may not believe me. At the tail end of this post are some pics to give you an idea what I am talking about.

First if you are a little heavy (or obese like El Bloberino) there are certain things you should never do:

1. Never wear a shirt tucked in. It accentuates your blobby belly. It frightens us when we see a prominent gut hanging over your pants. It frightens us and we want to look away. Instead, find a nice T-shirt that you can wear out or a nice button-down that has an appropriate hem-line for hanging out. Trust me. This looks way better then tucking in the shirt!

2. Please don't wear polo shirts. This makes you look old and way too conservative. Again, stick with a nice T-shirt or button-down that is fashionable. And please iron your shirt before you go on a date with us.

3. Never wear a belt with your shirt tucked in if you have a gut. This looks awful. First of all, if a man is going to pull off a belt at all, it should cut across his mid-section parallel to the ground. If your belt line cuts across and angles up in the back, this looks terrible. It makes your butt look like it starts at your lower back. Girls do NOT like this at all. If you are going to wear a belt, wear it under your shirt that is tucked out. On the other hand, if your belt is successfully parallel to the ground and is not hidden under your belly, you can wear cool belts all the time. This looks good with any outfit. But follow the rules on the belt wearing please!

4. Avoid light colored jeans. Avoid jeans that are high-waisted. This is a must for all people everywhere actually, including women. Light colored, high-waisted jeans just make your butt look bigger. They are not attractive at all. They are very 80's and out of style. Instead pick a pair of modern jeans, with a lower rise, that are dark denim. This is much more attractive – even on men who are a little heavier.

5. Please don't ever wear pleated pants. Never never never. Please. These are hideous and make you look fat. If you have to wear these for work (which you don't have to, because you buy your own work clothes, right?) please change into a nice pair of jeans or pants that are flat in the front before you go on a date with us. Pleated pants are old fashioned, unattractive, too conservative, and just don't look good at all. At all. Not even at work. Seriously.

6. Wear a nice pair of shoes. They can be sneakers if they are nice - not fresh -white-just-off-the-shelf sneakers. I mean sneakers which look cool. Please stay away from work boots, hiking boots, tennis shoes or old ratty shoes on a date. Please.

7. Please avoid styling your hair like a conservative republican or Mormon. Even if you are a conservative republican or Mormon we don’t want you to look like one. This means don’t part your hair down the side and brush it over like your mom did to you when you were 5 on picture day at school. This is a very uninteresting hairstyle for men. Look at all male celebs – they have nice fashionable hairstyle. So can you.

8. The worst offenders do all of the above at once. You know who you are.

Men, when you care about your appearance it impresses us. Especially if your physique is not perfect. We like men who know how to dress and make the most of their appearance. We do it for you, can you do the same for us?
Here are some examples of Do's and Don'ts:



As you can see in the above picture, so many things are wrong here. Big gut, accentuated by a belt and a tucked-in shirt. No no no! AND high-waisted light colored jeans???? This is never a good uniform for any occasion. Just throw it away.


Now do you see what I mean about pleated pants??? And the belt that cuts at an angle up to the back??? And the polo shirt to boot???? Men. Come on. You can see this isn't a good look, right? Please stop!
Now we're talking. This man is heavier than the average man and knows how to dress. A very nice button-down that is meant to wear untucked. This is perfect even if you are a skinny little guy.

Gerard knows how to rock a white T, cool jeans and baseball cap. A+. If a man showed up on a date with me looking like this, I would love it. I would be impressed that he knows how to dress casual and still look great.

This is Andrew Garcia from American Idol. I really like his style. Graphic, cool T's with a nice pair of jeans, a belt that fits correctly and even a chain. I love his beanie cap. The only thing I would change would be the color of his jeans. I would make them darker.

Justin is giving a great example of how to be casual and look awesome. Dark, low rise jeans. A belt that is parallel to the ground. And of course a perfect ensemble of T and cardigan. This is a great look for a date.

Johnny is awesome and full of interesting style. Here is he toned down but I like the simplicity. Nice dark blue jeans and a simple black T with a properly worn belt. You can't go wrong with this.

I am in love with Hugh. Anyway, this is a good example of a nice button-down worn out with a nice pair of dark jeans. Casual. Perfect. Sexy.
This is what I mean by a cool pair of sneakers. These are made by Steve Madden. Men, there are so many cool shoes in the world that are casual, comfortable, and look great.


Please. Try out some--if not all--of these tips on your next first date. I would bet you one million dollars your girl will be impressed.

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De Majorca - Welcome to the 18th Century

I was approached a couple of weeks ago and was asked to make a few 18th century Spanish suits, as well as a number of American Naval Uniforms from the era.  Included in this array of military finery:


All of these uniforms include what you see in the photos.

The sim owner was really happy to see so many uniforms being made, but she lamented the fact that the Spanish Officer Uniform above this one wasn't black and red.  So I made the Nobleman.  I'm a softy.

This one isn't strictly 18th century.  It's a bit earlier, having come straight out of the late 1600's, but what are you gonna do?  Those Spaniards were snappy dressers.

Here we come to America and its sea-faring Military types.  Uniforms were traditionally reserved for officers.  Cannon Fodder, or what we'd call The Fighting Men, were lucky to have a coat to wear, let alone anything that resembled a uniform.

Colorful, aren't they?  You can bet your life that the guys in these uniforms didn't do much of the dirty work.

All of these suits are available at my shop in Burmilla.  You can also find them at the Boston New Harbor.  Simply do a search inworld for "18th Century" and head to New World, or De Majorca.

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