09
Nov

GROOMING LOUNGE BOYCOTS SESAME STREET ON ITS 40TH ANNIVERSARY

Stored in: Embarrassing Issues, Gentlemen Musts, Random Observations

TO: Bert/Sesame Street
FROM: The Grooming Guys
RE: Your Unibrow & Setting A Poor Example For 40 Years
Dear Bert:
This has gone on long enough. For awhile we brushed it off as being quirky and cute, letting it slide because of your status as an iconic character on a classic children’s series. We bit our collective tongues as [...]

02
Nov

Real Gents Should Never Wear…

Stored in: Embarrassing Issues, Gentlemen Musts, Random Observations

It’s much easier to complain about a problem than to fix it.  Every body knows this.  And while we almost never take the simple way out, here are some real problems men put on their bodies every day.  We don’t really know how to fix to these problems… other than to tell guys “you should [...]

25
Aug

Cleanliness Sure Is A Pisser

Stored in: Embarrassing Issues, Random Observations, Uncategorized

It’s tough and expensive to be a well-groomed man — but even tougherer more expensiver to be a neurotic clean freak. We bring this up in lieu of a recent situation that tested one of the Grooming Guy’s cost vs. cleanliness equilibrium.  Let us know what you, as an undoubtedly clean and polished gentlemen, would have done [...]

14
Apr

Dude Shaves Like A Lady

Stored in: Embarrassing Issues, Random Observations

This blog is going to make us look a bit bad,  a tad disorganized and maybe even slightly disconnected from what we do for a living.  Long story short — one of the Grooming Guys shaved with a variety of women’s razors all last week.  Sure we get more than our fair share of freebie razors sent [...]

04
Feb

A Compulsive Man’s Guide To Public Bathroom Etiquette & Cleanliness

Stored in: Embarrassing Issues, Gentlemen Musts, Random Observations

As you might have guessed, the Grooming Guys are a bit obsessed with cleanliness, appearance and sanitation. Hence, it’s been more than a few times that we’ve sat in our D.C. offices to review proper public bathroom protocol, complain about bathroom etiquette infringers and detail how a true gentlemen can exit such a locale gracefully without actually [...]

07
Oct

Lend Us Your Ears Brothers — Then Trim Them

Stored in: Embarrassing Issues, Grooming Tips

The Grooming Guys aren’t young bucks, but certainly wouldn’t be categorized as “older” gents either.  Mid 30’s-ish is where we reside, as do probably a good number of our co-workers and personal friends.  Reason we bring up this age demographic is because there are many men in this age segment who think they are too [...]

18
Aug

Phelps Credits Grooming Lounge With .01 Second 100m Butterfly Victory

Stored in: Embarrassing Issues, Grooming Tips

Fresh off the heels of his .01 second win in the 100m medley, Olympic Swimmer Michael Phelps credited Grooming Lounge with providing the aerodynamic edge he needed to barely beat out Serbian Milorad Cavic.
“It was a victory by the smallest of margins. When it’s that close, you have to credit something and all I can attribute my extra [...]

04
Aug

Shaving Ryan’s Privates? Or Yours?

Stored in: Embarrassing Issues, Grooming Tips, Product Introductions

Let’s face it.  Most men over the age of 30 have more body hair then they would probably like.  Whether it rests on their chest, back, under their arms, on their arms or in that oh-so private area, it’s a tricky situation to tackle.  Guys just have no idea how to address it in a [...]

29
Apr

Unwanted Hair Awareness Month

Stored in: Embarrassing Issues

As most of you probably know by now, May is Unwanted Hair Removal Month (UHRM) at the Grooming Lounge.  This nationwide effort, led by yours truly, begins later this week and is designed to help men who quietly suffer from UH-related ailments such as uni-brows, hairy ears, back hair, neck fuzz, etc. It’s a quiet [...]

06
Aug

AN OPEN & URGENT MEMO TO BERT

Stored in: Embarrassing Issues, Random Observations

August 7, 2007
TO: Bert/Sesame Street
FROM:  The Grooming Guys
RE: Your Unibrow & Setting A Poor Example
Dear Bert:
This has gone on long enough. For awhile we brushed it off as being quirky and cute, letting it slide because of your status as an iconic character on a classic children’s series. We bit our collective tongues as [...]

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