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"Moisturiser Men"

Of the 4 men in my uni flat this year, two use moisturiser.
Why?
Because, as both the slightly camp one and the guy who doesn't fall too far from the tree of the stereotypical macho bloke say, they like to have soft skin.

Since some guy in high school came in wearing make-up one day (not to drag extremes, just seemed to be trying to look.. nice, i guess was what he was misguidedly going for) i've always responded to this with a blatant inability to understand why.
So now i'm going to give it some thought.
Because if i don't i have to go back to writing my coursework.

What comes to mind as being wrong with entering the feminine world of beauty products (FWBP)?

Well, it seems a bit pretentious on the surface, and it's not really regarded as a man thing to do.

Before the feminists try to claw apart my face i'd like to point out that i'm just going over historical fact and its logical conclusions now:
In the past, women were less able to be financially independent of men. Instead society expected them to marry off and settle down. In the dating and mating game their looks must have been a key offensive weapon, so validating the FWBP. I think i hear feminists howling at the moon tonight, so i won't be touching modern day with a ten foot pole, save to say that it's easy to see how the batton of FWBP has been passed down through the generations.
However, this isn't the only justification for self-grooming. Most people take some degree of pride in their appearance. Rumour has it some men even comb their hair (though few have been known to go near an iron. Or is that just students?)
Anyway, i think we can all accept pride in one's appearance as a norm, present in men and cats that lick themselves (though not dogs, they're really dumb if they think that makes them look nice), as it is in women.

So is there really anything wrong with men furthering their grooming with moisturiser and make-up? I guess you could argue there has to be a boudary, and it should fall short of the threshold of the FWBP, but looking at it in another light, maybe being critical of the men who do enter that once forbidden place is a deeply in-set means of trying to affect the same goal as 'excessive' grooming - that is, character the perception of others.
Raised by the cold unfartherly hand of expectation of what a man should be, attempting to assert superiority over those who defy the grain could be to pursue the 'man' goal as moisturiser seeks the beauty goal.
And in this light the moisturiser men seem to me slightly less psychologically messed up.

I started this post hoping to validate my lack of undertanding for my self-moisturising friends. At the moment i think maybe they're smarter than the rest of us. Maybe.
I've not found dry skin to be a problem yet, and by wearing make-up i would probably defeat the point of trying to look better and expose myself to all kinds of ridicule (purely from people who'd not read this thread you understand), but when the FWBP does call, as it surely will, i might just be willing to answer.

Have to admit, I use Nivea for Men exfoliating stuff and soap - have no choice, though. Years of cycling in all weather means that the skin on my face gets extremely dry. If I don't use it... 'orrid flaky skin.

Stop short of the actual moisturiser, though. :-)

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> When I want soft skin, I rub Man Milk into my face.
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Mmmm, salty clean.

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> When I want soft skin, I rub Man Milk into my face.

ROFL.

make-up wearing men are a real turn on. just look at Dani Filth.....

yeah i mean it.

Eating Soup made with Man Milk would be a horrifying experience for bearded men, as people would always get the wrong impression.

I'm beginning to think somebody's hacked into Snuggly's account...

When I want soft skin, I rub Man Milk into my face.

there are a number of things which prevent me from growing a beard.

Not least of which is that I would become terrified of soup.

Oh how I wince.

Verily it is pain from whence the void did puke up the world and created suffering through the human condition: all shall depsair when realising their own mortality.

Shaving away at your own soul on a daily basis is foolish and we should stop. Let's all grow beards and become enlightened, though slightly crusty, people.

And we shall have our freedom.

i sometimes have to use moisturiser, but only because I have an irritating ecsema patch on my chest, which requires attention, otherwise it flares up into a leprous haze.

Unless you have a genuine excuse, you should not use moisturiser.

A man's skin should resemble a man's nature.