Idris Elba. Jon Hamm. Johnny Depp. Ryan Gosling. Handsome men are often beautiful, but beautiful men are not always handsome. Beautiful men have an almost feminine prettiness to their appeal.
It evokes, whether real or imagined, a kind of introverted often unearned depth, a longing, a dreamy quality. Johnny Depp is both beautiful and handsome, particularly when he was younger and less of an asshole.
They all also have fairly luscious lips. Compare this to Ryan Gosling, who does not. They are soft and adorable, and as far as I can tell, they would never hit on you.
Although I realize someone somewhere has had sex with him, Justin Bieber is the epitome of cute. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is cute. Cute men never seem to age, which is great for cuteness but terrible for adult hotness. Good-looking men are all around us all the time and they are perfectly good-looking, but they may not inspire much more than this simple observation. There's a cognitive bias that men who look great on the outside are great on the inside. You know how, in films, the baddie is always grotesque and disfigured?
Blofeld from James Bond, Scar from The Lion King, Freddie Krueger… People have a cognitive bias that assumes the opposite is true: men who look great on the outside are great on the inside. If people are constantly surprised by your scouldrelry, and look genuinely scandalised every time they see you casually drop a kitten down a well or rob a grieving widow, it could be due to your foxy features.
Symmetry is said to be key to attractiveness, so if the guy gazing back at you in the mirror as you brush your teeth is indistinguishable from the gent in your passport, you could be onto a winner. Handsome men earn over 10 percent more than their homelier colleagues. Economist Daniel Hamermesh is the father of pulchronomics, the study of beauty and how it affects everything around it. If you live in a warm climate or are heading on a beach-bound vacation, this rule extends to any body part that will be seen when you pop your shirt off.
If you prefer to go with something electric, I recommend using a different tool for your body hair than the one you use for your face. Your best bet is probably the Meridian Trimmer.
As guys we tend to focus on the more basic grooming measures like brushing our teeth and combing our hair, but as it turns out, the handsome devil is in the details. For a case study, look no further than former comic relief and current Guardian of the Galaxy Chris Pratt:.
His eyebrows are clearly better groomed and more controlled than his younger self, as on point as his fitness, style and skin tone more on that later. Pick up a grooming kit and use the tweezer and tiny scissors to remove any stray hairs along the edges of your brows — and especially, of course, the ones in the middle above the bridge of your nose.
Speaking of grooming tricks you might not think of, when was the last time you gave much thought to your chompers? Personally I like to use whitening toothpaste in order to combat the daily deluge of teeth-yellowing coffee I subject my mouth to. Most guys have some variation of the same haircut for years and even decades, giving little thought to one of our most noticeable features. Your barber can only do so much. This is a mistake a lot of young guys make, and I have to admit that I was one of the worst culprits back in the day.
I spent a lot of time thinking about how to look handsome in high school, and I incorrectly assumed the answer was to gob product into my hair by the handful.
Not at all. Try using just one finger when you scoop it out of the jar, then apply it and style it appropriately. This method will help keep you from gobbing on too much. If you do need a little extra, you can always dip back in. Remember that grooming kit you bought after learning about the magic of maintaining your eyebrows?
Use a nail clipper to trim your nails regularly. For an in-depth look at how to do it right, check out this helpful guide from Real Men Real Style.
Whether you have acne, sun damage or premature wrinkles, fixing an existing skin problem is a lot harder than preventing it from happening in the first place.
Fortunately, adopting a daily skincare regimen that will keep your skin looking healthy and young is easy. As long as you choose the right products and be warned: there are a lot of shitty ones out there , applying them each day takes no more than 30 seconds. I did a full Lumin skin review awhile back and found their products to be really effective.
This one comes courtesy of fashion-world kingpin Michael Kors , who told GQ in My secret is Jergens self-tanning moisturizer. Gives you just a bit of color.
Now before I go any further, let me pause and acknowledge how bat-shit crazy this advice probably sounds. White male models had skin that was 15 percent darker than white female models, while the skin of black male models was 11 percent darker than their female counterparts.
Why do most male models have darker skin? Because women are apparently predisposed to finding darker shades of skin more attractive. As the Daily Mail wrote in summarizing the study:. Pick up some self-tanner and try it for yourself. By far the most effective thing you can do to upgrade your current wardrobe without buying anything new is get your shirts, pants and other core wardrobe pieces tailored. I personally swear by the blue suit and brown shoes combo.
And since good local tailors are easy to find thanks to review sites like Yelp and Google, this one should be a no-brainer. First, check out the fit guide at Business Insider to get a better sense of how your clothes should fit.
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