14 Beauty Tricks Men Should Steal From Women

Men spend just over 20 minutes grooming each morning -- which clocks them in seven minutes faster than the average woman, according to one report.

How to spend those seven extra minutes? Maybe it's time more men "borrow" a few of the healthy habits women tend to incorporate into their routines.

So we asked the experts to tell us which beauty and skin tricks men should steal from women -- here, their 14 best suggestions (pedicures are optional).

 

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Stop washing your face with all-purpose soaps.

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While an all-in-one is convenient, it can also take a toll on the sensitive skin on your face. "It may seem that women have too many products, but using an 'all purpose' antibacterial soap can dry your skin," says Dr. Meghan O'Brien, M.D., a New York dermatologist and consulting dermatologist for Physician's Formula. Over time, drying out skin can cause irritation and even eczema, so opt for a gentle cleanser.

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While an all-in-one is convenient, it can also take a toll on the sensitive skin on your face. "It may seem that women have too many products, but using an 'all purpose' antibacterial soap can dry your skin," says Dr. Meghan O'Brien, M.D., a New York dermatologist and consulting dermatologist for Physician's Formula. Over time, drying out skin can cause irritation and even eczema, so opt for a gentle cleanser.

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[kewgardensnyc]

09:10 PM on 06/30/2011

Laura, if you don't like guys and are a lipstick Lesbian; relax, there is nothing wrong with that. Just don't project your taste onto us XY types. Yet your turning a man into a twink is revealing. Shape your eyebrows? Really; everything to make a guy, soft, moist, plump and looking like a Hindu goddess, not a Norse Viking. Now takes on manhood do change from time and time and place to place, but perfumed, mannered, oiled and eyelined guys were considered Asiatics by the Greeks who invented democracy. Again and again, studies have shown women prefer effeminate men except when they are ovulating--then they go for Mr. Macho. So obviously you were in one of you non-fertile periods when writing this. Boy-toys are fun, but they don't seem to have the drive to get to Mars & in 2011 we need manly men and powerful women. Despite the problems with male idiocies, violent men are those with low testosterone--not high. Women should not be intimidated with hairy, rough and a bit smelly blokes, we all know that we are just little boys looking for mommy to cuddle. In any case, as wise women have known this for centuries, it is better to reign, than to rule.

[ligligl]

10:31 PM on 06/26/2011

All the manly men are in the Wisconsin Supreme Court...

[Ryana Linette Rogers]

05:13 PM on 06/26/2011

I like a nice clean cut guy I'm sorry I like him to smell nice brush their teeth, take showers I think this article is nice and ther is nothing wrong with men taking care of themselves .I wish more men would do the stuff the recomend in this article.

[Pete Wood]

09:17 PM on 07/01/2011

any man can do the things you like in a man without becoming a twink. soap, toothpaste,and a razor. No waxing, pluckingor special creams.

[athleteboy]

02:38 PM on 06/26/2011

Do you remember in the other article the author complained that there are too many boy-man?

[Darryl Ehlers]

11:41 AM on 06/26/2011

Hi folks,
Many men don''t realize women, because of their make up can sport many different odors that men don't have, just because they are women and barers of children. Men don't like pigs in men and they are not a mans man which women should take notice. if they can not cut it in a mans world they can not cut it in a womens world. A real man loves a natural woman that does not pile on all the extras.Women who over do it looks like a clown. Men loves women who fantaizes and many things they do towards beauty as long it is natural soft color. We love you ladies you have a hard job. Darryl

[360Dunk]

11:17 AM on 06/26/2011

Men spend 20 minutes in the morning on grooming? Thanks, I now feel like a caveman because all I do is brush my teeth, put on deoderant, and slap on some fresh clothes. The other 17 minutes is spent getting over-emotional reading a HuffPost story.

[Pete Wood]

09:19 PM on 07/01/2011

TWO THUMBS UP++++++++++++

[Sal Spatafora]

12:24 AM on 06/26/2011

women didn't survive anything as per prior post...you's waste the most money on all that crap...people can sell woman a bridge...look at qvc,hsn, shopnbc...every ad is for women. only because you's buy anything ....andbelieve anything.....if you's don't like the way we are...find someone that smells nice but hits you and treats you like crap...oh wait but he smells nice and showers alot and gets manicures too....OH BOY WHAT A MAN!!!!!!..GO GET HIM

[JaffaKree]

03:21 AM on 06/26/2011

"You's" apparently uneducated.

You only think women will buy anything because ads for things you don't like may seem like a whole lot of nonsense for people who will buy anything.

Meanwhile, you're completely oblivious to the burger ads and your jock itch commercials because you will buy it.

[JaffaKree]

03:22 AM on 06/26/2011

By the way, your insinuation that men who smell bad and have bad skin (oh, I'm sorry, I mean men who are manly) don't hit women and treat them like crap is the icing on the cake to your lack of critical thinking skills.

[destin293]

07:41 PM on 06/25/2011

The media has pushed women to the brink with all the products pushed on us to change the way we look -- so it's only natural they go after men now. Just watch, they'll will make up a problem you didn't even know you had and sell your loads of products to fix it. Women already survived it -- good luck, guys!

[JaffaKree]

03:26 AM on 06/26/2011

Yes, because advising against anti-bacterials for the face and to do a mole check is really preying on the wallet.

(What is wrong with critical thinking these days? Hm.)

Oh lordy, Johnson-and-Johnson is in cahoots to get men to buy more unnecessary floss!

(rolleyes)

No, let's not wash our faces at night, lest the soap company rake in the ill-gotten dough!

(lol)

[Kev n]

07:24 PM on 06/25/2011

Even though many men see this as too much primping, I remember my father's generation as being somewhat narly and sometimes unpleasant smelling to be around. Grooming was just not something most of them did. Shave, shower and poop was about it.

[millewk]

07:23 PM on 06/25/2011

Just more of the Chicafication of the American Male!

[JaffaKree]

03:28 AM on 06/26/2011

Yes, please. Boycott floss and grow gnarly unchecked skin cancer. That's about what you're saying.

[jaegermeisterdf]

07:08 PM on 06/25/2011

Can't imagine why he is your "ex".

[bobboreo]

06:48 PM on 06/25/2011

Men do not have to sit to urinate but u should wipe aftrer urinating; & if you plan on number 2 wet you some toilet paper to make sure everything on backside is clean before pulling up pants. Never like to smell like urine or poop in case u get something nice unexpectantly! Nothing worse than a man that makes u gag when trying to do something nice to relieve his stress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nashrodman]

07:09 PM on 06/25/2011

AMEN to that! I ALWAYS "wipe" when I piee, and following #2, I gotta shower! If I happen to be away from home when #2 happens, you can rest assured that NO ONE will be "going there" until I've showered!!!

[garystartswithg]

11:51 PM on 06/25/2011

lol -- i like to live alone -- dirty as i want to be.

[shenson1116]

06:36 PM on 06/25/2011

The media in this country is bound and determined to turn all men and boys into chics.

[tanamarie]

07:48 PM on 06/25/2011

So clean is a chick thing?

[JaffaKree]

03:30 AM on 06/26/2011

If only people *only* like you got the skin cancers they advise you to check. Unwise minds like yours should be selected out much more efficiently.

[gbsmittty]

06:20 PM on 06/25/2011

Wrong. Next story...

[JaffaKree]

03:31 AM on 06/26/2011

I agree. Please don't floss or check your cancers. I wouldn't want you to stick around long enough to procreate (or procreate any more if you have already).

[Xak999]

06:04 PM on 06/25/2011

I figured most of the men who bothered to read this would act that way. But other men my own age (50) wonder why I look so good (I never say) and why many women are more attracted to me than to they (and again, I never say). So no, I'm not going to help out my competition by putting up other 'tips' I secretly follow. Yet, I do hike 12 miles twice a week and climb mountains and go camping. Plus I have a very thick, full head of hair. Even educated men have always had this warped sense that whatever the opposite of feminine is, that's masculine. For instance, if women are clean then men should be dirty. Men consider it manly to defy their human body and are willing to risk loss of life and limb to prevent being called 'girly.' It goes a little beyond common sense. Real men have REAL jobs, and get dirty doing them or their manhood is somehow compromised. Remember the Swine (H1N1) flu when everyone was encouraged to wash their hands often? I still ran into the same bumpkins (in suits too) in men's rooms going without handwashing, (even after a #2!). No fatal, contagious disease is going to keep THEM from being manly!... or stupid.. or ignorant... taking their germs back to their table, girlfriends, wives, children, and yes, any new man they shook hands with.

[gbsmittty]

08:31 PM on 06/25/2011

If you have other men wondering why you look so good, then you've just explained yourself. Headed to New York tonight? Next story please...

[Xak999]

04:05 AM on 06/26/2011

Paying very close attention for anythihng you can use against somebody, huh? Someone must have gotten out of the wrong side of the bed this morning... or maybe somebody went male pattern baldness in their 30s? It DOES sound like that kind of jealousy. Your comment says a lot more about you than it does about me. But nice try. You stay in your dirty work clothes and feel manly by the tried and true methods of gaining weight, losing your temper, and having everyone be miserable around you. Misery loves company! Just hope you don't have any sons you feel the need to start them on smoking cigarettes--(manly as that is) and make sure no none catches you washing your hands. One thing about women I've found is they LOVE dirt!

[garystartswithg]

12:05 AM on 06/26/2011

yeah -- but in this list how many things do you do? i am 48, look 38, get hit on by boys and girls in their 10s and 20s, and its not because i pluck my eyebrows and use a bronzer.
i have found almost the inverse to be true -- if i go a couple months without a haircut i get followed home. if i am too kept i think i look too unaproachable. imperfections aren't such a bad thing.

[Xak999]

04:11 AM on 06/26/2011

Well there's no accounting for taste now is there. 10's and 20s, huh? Somehow being followed home by an 11 year old boy sounds very unsavory. I can also achieve the same results by not getting my hair cut for months at a time too. It alll depends on where you live, what part of town you live in and who your potential suitors are--and whether you want anything to do with them or not. Some of us don't have very high standards, but there's nothing wrong with that. And I don't follow every one of these suggestions, only a handful really, Hope it made you feel better to pick on someone attracting the opposite sex in a way that is completely foreign to you. After all, aren't we all supposed to be exactly the same? Diversity? What's that? If it works for me in my professional capacity and it doesn't for you in yours, does that make a case that invalidates my methods?