Style Guide May 2009

Personal Grooming

Looking nice is not only about wearing the right clothes and looking aesthetic, its about how you carry yourself. I believe it is really very important to maintain a daily personal grooming routine.

Personal grooming can be applied to the following areas:

• Hair
• Nails
• Hygiene
• Teeth
• Eyes
• Body and Facial Hair 

Women usually are much more talented and trained to look after themselves and maintain their grooming rituals, however I want to tell you about my best friend, he is the perfect example of personal grooming for all those men out there. Recently he approached me and asked me to help him with some styling, wanting a wardrobe face-lift especially for his evening out with the ladies. Upon visiting his home I saw a whole section and collection of grooming goodies. Embrace yourself as I enlighten you to his grooming routine that he revealed to me:- relaxing massages in Malaysia to his hair immaculate and cut religiously every 5th day. Manicured and pedicured, not to forget a bit of eyebrow threading; his aftershave and cologne collections, his daily creams and his designer creams that he used when he meets his ladies; he works out minimum three times a week, incredible hulk muscles, sauna-ed, steamed and Jacuzzi to conclude; I must say he has the best skin and glowing complexion on a man that I’ve come across in along time. 10/10 for hygiene and cleanliness. To add he has a fabulous shoe collection!

I especially want to highlight teeth in your grooming section, and yes the secret of grooming is to have clean and healthy white teeth. Smile is confidence and can attract anyone with a smile; get you that job promotion or even your future partner.

I adore my best friend because he really takes pride in his appearance. I can confirm and he is not gay but a typical metro sexual male!! He is not too keen on this word however his behaviour and attention to detail itself states nothing but perfection. If he can do it we all can aim for such grooming perfection. We all need to maintain our looks, health and aesthetics, which will promote confidence and enhance our personality.

These simple polishing techniques can make us look from ordinary to fantastic. Remember you are the leading lady/man in your movie. Become the super star you really are and groom yourself to a ‘Super Confident You’!