Men are Band-Aid wimps

ONE of the great mysteries of the universe has been solved: whether it hurts more to take a Band-Aid off quickly or slowly.

Hair Today, Groan Tomorrow: Men Who Brave The Trip To Rio

More young men are opting for intimate hair removal. Liz Porter reports on a painful new trend.

Salon Surge As Manscaping Soars

MEN are paying for costly cosmetic procedures such as laser hair removal and Botox in unprecedented numbers, with the less fair sex making up half the clientele at some city salons.

Shave Body Hair

Results from a recent Gillette Venus survey reveal that men grossly underestimate how often women perform beauty rituals a fact that will come as no surprise to the ladies.

Whacks Aplenty For She Who Confuses Her Waxing

LAST WEEK, WE considered wax as a noun. Now it's wax as a verb. At least two of these exist. The first is a clear offshoot of nouny wax: it is to wax, as in "I put my car in to be waxed" (that is, to be polished with wax). Or "she went to the beautician to be waxed" (to have wax applied for hair removal). So here wax equals doing something with wax.

Must Have Epilator

WINTER is a time to chill on leg-shaving and check out hair-removal systems.

Hollywood Kings With No Hairs Apparent

Quiz: Who was the last Hollywood star to publicly display his body hair?

Time To Get Your Body In Shape For The Summer

IF you use just one skin-care product daily, that product should be a broad-spectrum sun block, as prevention will always win over treatment. That's the word from Dr John De Launey, a consultant dermatologist and former medical director of The Skin and Cancer Foundation of Australia. And it i

Hair-raising Scourge Has Us Living On The Razor's Edge

W E humans have mastered just about everything there is to master. We've conquered space and the oceans, we've cured the incurable and we've managed to keep Bert Newton on television non-stop for 300 years. But that old body hair problem just keeps eluding us doesn't it? No matter what we c

Wimbledon's New Cleanskin Reveals Barely There Hair

LONDON, Thursday: There's one thing we now know for sure. Andre Agassi is not at Wimbledon for the tennis. Tennis is just the sideshow as the reigning King of Wimbledon provides the three-ringed circus. The main show yesterday was called Barely There Hair, starring Agassi's somewh

Hair Today, Even More Tomorrow

YOWCH | I just plucked out a hair from my new beard. Not out of masochism, just curiosity as to why this filament of facial fungus should attract so much attention, criticism and ire, as painful personal experience and the letters page opposite - which has carried a surprisingly hot debate on b

In Trim For The Hair-free Alternative

Guaranteed to bring a tear to the eye but catching on fast is hair removal for the all-Australian male. An increasing number of men are demanding the hair-free alternative - body waxing and electrolysis - and a booming industry now stems from the male desire to lose back, chest, shoulder