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Gift of the Day: Shaving Tools
How much do you want to bet that "the guy who has everything" does not have a Sterling Silver Razor Set? Does he really need a $2K+ razor set? That's beside the point -- the premise is that even the guy who has everything doesn't really have everything. More broadly, one rule of thumb
Within the umbrella of our Men's Grooming department, you can pretty much divide the products up into 3 categories: grooming tools (razors, badger brushes, etc.), grooming products (shave creams, aftershave balms, etc.), and kits/gift sets (travel kits, starter kits, etc.). Today, we'll focus on grooming tools which includes razors, brushes, and razor & brush sets.
Buying grooming products for a gentleman should be pretty well restricted to mothers or wives/partners buying for him. His executive assistant or fraternity brother from college buying it for him will only telegraph the fact that he is dirty and he stinks. Then again, perhaps that's a message needs to hear. Instead, focus on grooming tools or kits.
Grooming tools are definitely the most popular men's grooming gift for a couple reasons:
- Considering the number of times a man will shave in his life (let's assume 4x a week from 18-68 for nice round numbers and you get 10,400 shaves). Anything that makes a daily ritual more enjoyable is a welcome gift.
- He will be reminded daily of you and your gift, and with a razor or brush, it will last for years, if not decades.
- Grooming tools are very masculine. Just the word "badger" in "badger brush" evokes imagery of Neanderthal man hunting down the little creatures for their precious hairs and then affixing them to a piece of wood with tree sap to improve his daily shave.
- Chances are he's using the razor that came with the blades at the drug store where he bought it. He probably doesn't own a badger brush, and if he has had one, he can probably use a new one (a life in the bathroom will take its toll eventually).
Grooming kits are a great way to introduce him to a new brand, or to new products, but we'll make that case another day. Our assortment of some of the best grooming products & tools in the world can be found here...
Posted at 11:38AM Dec 11, 2008
by Ami Arad in Grooming |
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We Failed you this Mo'vember
Gentlemen -- our faithful readers, customers, and fans -- we have let you down. It is now November 26th, and we are just getting around to telling you about MOVEMBER! The truth is, we were warned a couple weeks back, but we honestly thought it was just a grooming company's ploy to sell more products. Turns out, it's a real movement aimed at increasing awareness of prostate cancer.
What is Movember? Well, "Mo" is Australian slang for moustache, and so Movember begins on November 1st, when a "Mo Bro" registers his clean shaven face. He then spends the month growing (and grooming) his Mo. The month culminates in a Movember party, currently scheduled for 7 cities. If all goes well, we'll be hosting one next year in San Francisco!
Why the need? According to their site (and who are we to argue), prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in the U.S. with one in six American men developing the disease and 27,000 men dying of the disease every year.
Spend a couple minutes on the official Movember website, and we suspect we'll see you growin' a Mo next year with us!
Posted at 10:04AM Nov 26, 2007
by Ami Arad in Grooming |
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