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“Swallow A Piece Of Gum & It Will Sit In Your Stomach For 7 Years”
“Humans Use Only 10% Of Their Brains.”
“The Salahi’s Are The IT Couple In Washington, DC.”

Fact or fiction?  Reality of myth.  To be honest, we don’t know the validity of any of these statements.  You see, we’re not Gastroenterologists, Neurologists or local [...]

Back in 2001 when our online destination was in its infancy, Grooming Lounge’s primary business came from providing men with solutions to their “Embarrassing Issues.” As we saw it, there were a handful of grooming items that men wanted and needed, but would go without if acquisition required interacting with another human being. The list [...]

Grooming Lounge was all set to publish a Top 10 List, complete with pictures and comments on the most well-groomed stars at this year’s World Cup. But, just when we were finishing, a guest of our DC Barbershop alerted us to a grooming gaffe in the Germany vs. England game that trumped all the solid [...]

The crew here at Grooming Lounge certainly views things through tinted glasses. Those spectacles tend to focus our thinking strongly toward grooming and service-related genres – so we hope you’ll understand if the following observation seems off base. 
BATTLING SWEATY DRAWERS AND FENDING OFF NETHER-REGION CHAFING ARE AMONG THE AMERICAN MAN’S TOP CONCERNS.
Bogus you say?  Impossible that the modern gent ranks “jewel-focused” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We get a lot of questions here querying how men should prepare (from a grooming perspective) for important events such as job interviews and big dates.  More so than one would think, these two seemingly different occasions are quite similar in that their success depends quite a bit on first impressions (a lot has to [...]

It happens to every guy. Admit it. Even those with the most unwavering adherence to strict exercise plans and healthy diets have been in a public situation where they just gotta let one fly. Us Grooming Guys aren’t above broaching the topic it if it helps a gent maintain his status… so here are our [...]

If there’s anything we’ve learned in the men’s business over the past 10 years, it’s that the “little things make all the difference.” Time and time again we’ve been told that the details are often what our guests remember most after visiting with us. We’re talking about cleanliness, the way they were greeted, the beverage [...]

One of the most common questions we get in our Grooming Lounge stores relates to our Signature Hot Lather Shave and why we do it like we do it.  Many are curious to learn that it’s not the “spaghetti western” version of a shave — you know the one in which the wise, mustached barber [...]