The Fix | Eye Bags
If you’re stressed, tired, dehydrated or just very pale (like most of us, much of the time) chances are you’ve got some unsightly black bags lurking beneath your eyes. Caused by engorged blood vessels in the fragile skin beneath the eye — which show up due to toxins built up from lack of sleep — dark circles put on years and reduce confidence. What to do? Other than a good night’s kip and a few less shandies, there are a whole host of new products designed to pep up your eye area. [Read more...]
February 1st, 2012
The manliest manicure set ever
There’s nothing overly masculine about pruning your fingernails. At least, there wasn’t, until Czech & Speake introduced their ultra slick gentleman’s manicure set. Looking like something James Bond might keep in the false bottom of his briefcase, it’s an exquisite leather-bound kit housing an array of scissoring, tweezing, filing and tweaking implements made by Czech & Speake’s craftsmen in Solingen, Germany. [Read more...]
September 23rd, 2011
The Esquire body MOT – lunchtime workout
There are many things that put people off going to the gym – the sweating, the Euro house, the proliferation of dead-eyed men in singlets – but perhaps the biggest obstacle to building a regular workout into your routine is time. [Read more...]
August 30th, 2011
The airport-proof washbag
Cavity searches conducted with Marigolds, x-ray machines that let bored officials see through your clothes and queues of screeching kids destined for the row of seats behind yours – airport security is a place no man hopes to visit more than once. This summer, prevent Gary on treadmill six binning your bottle of Odin Owari and airport-proof your weekend-away wash bag. Here’s how. [Read more...]
August 9th, 2011
The barber of Savile
If you prefer a proper gentleman’s haircut rather than look like a cast member from Hollyoaks (or worse, Limahl), you will be interested to know that one of our favourite barbers in London, Pankhurst, has just moved to the thoroughly appropriate address of Savile Row. [Read more...]
February 7th, 2011
It’s hairdressing – but not as you know it
Lazarides, the art gallery that saw the commercial potential in Banksy, has another creative trick up its sleeve. This is that Johnnie Sapong, a star in the hairdressing firmament, works out of a quiet room hidden at the top floor of its central London town house. [Read more...]
February 3rd, 2011
Blog of the day – Facial Awareness
Looking around the well-groomed desks of Esquire HQ, the facial hair quota is far lower than this writer would like – three iron filing coated faces does not a beardy party make. [Read more...]
January 28th, 2011
The Manual – How to protect your body from ageing
You’re not getting any younger. But then, neither are we. So, with that miserable fact in mind, here’s our guide to battloing the ever-encroaching signs of ageing without resorting to more drastic measures. [Read more...]
January 12th, 2011
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