MEN’S SKIN CARE - A GEEK’S PERSPECTIVE.

MEN’S SKIN CARE, A GEEK’S PERSPECTIVE.

Men’s skin care is a growing topic amongst the Quora community. Guys want their skin to be healthy and look young. Ladies want their man’s skin to look young and be healthy. The post below talks about why guys should care about their skin and how they should go about the daunting process of finding the right skin care products for their unique needs. Enjoy!

WHY SHOULD GUYS GIVE A FOX ABOUT THEIR SKIN?

1. Your Skin is Wonderfully Complex.

Skin is the largest and fastest growing organ in the human body (sorry to burst your bubble guys, and ladies). Like your fingerprint, tour skin is unique to you and nobody else. Your skin regulates your body temperature while keeping aggressors (germs & bacteria) out and your insides ‘in’ – we’re talking heart, lungs, blood & muscles here. You even feel things through the nerves in your skin. Your skin is constantly changing in response to intrinsic (i.e. sebum production and ageing) and extrinsic (i.e. weather, location, diet, shaving) factors that are part of our daily lives. So yeah, you should take care of your skin.

2. Guys Should Care More Than Women About Their Skin.

Guys sweat more than females (we have more and larger pores). Guys feel less damage than females (we have less nerve endings). Guys have dirtier skin than females (hunting woolly mammoth, playing hoops in the blazing sun). Guys experience ~5,000,000 close encounters with very sharp (and sometimes very dull) blade over a lifetime for the sake of a mug that is as smooth as a baby’s bottom.

3. Healthy, Young-Looking Skin Gives You Confidence.

Taking care of your skin can prevent premature aging, avoid unsightly breakouts and protect you from dangerous UV rays. With healthy, smooth man-skin, you can even step up a whole man level. Lets say you’re a 7 out of 10. Well, you aren’t going to turn in to Ryan Gosling, but you may get bumped up to an 8. This ‘boost’ in man confidence manifests itself with improved career prospects and improved mating prospects. Yes, It’s crude. It’s blunt. Some may even say shallow, but like it or not, its true.

Here is a ‘guy familiar’ analogy….

Lets say that you buy a new, souped-up car with leather seats and all the extras. It’s your baby. Nobody messes with it. You take good care of it. You wash it often, vacuum the inside, condition the leather and never skip an oil change.

Time goes by and your car’s ‘younger brother’ – AKA a new-model year - comes out with a new body, a new engine, new insane color options, 19-inch wheels, etc. You’ve gotta have it. It will be hard to part ways with your current baby, but hey, we all have to move on at some point.

You put your baby up for sale on an online site like Car Soup or Auto Trader. You see other cars similar to yours that have similar mileage ‘fighting’ for a buyer’s attention. You are not too bothered by this because your car is PRISTINE; you took good care of it. When it comes to negotiating price with a buyer, you know that it will be hard to find a car that is in as good a shape as yours. You price at a premium. You get premium dollars for your car. You use that money to buy your new car.

You see, your skin is not that different. If you take good care of it, it will look good. If it looks good you’ll feel confident. You’ll get that job. You’ll get the girl. You’ll get that ____________ [insert word that most buoyantly floats your boat]. It’s all about confidence.

I WANT TO GIVE A FOX. SO WHERE DO I START?

The Research Phase.

Most guys have no freaking clue what type of skin they have or what their skin needs. No worries, we shall Google-it. Uh-oh, holy guacamole, a simple web search for a variety of common skin care terms yields over 21,000,000 results on average**, WOW! That is a tad overwhelming. Even if only 5% of the content out there was ‘legit’ – probably not too far from reality, it would take an average human devoting 10 minutes to each result about 20 years to read it all (no sleep breaks, no food breaks, no pee breaks – you get the picture, it’s fu***ng impossible!). Where do you start? Who do you trust?

**Share Weighted Results represents the market share weighted number of results from both Google and Microsoft search properties.**

The Shopping Phase.

To add insult to injury, there are thousands of brands and tens of thousands of products out there most of which claim ‘silver bullet status’ for solving your particular needs. Again, Where do you start? Who do you trust?

SOUNDS DAUNTING. WHAT SHOULD I DO?

When many options are available (AKA: Information Overload), nothing beats knowledge. This approach works for virtually any circumstance in life, not just skin care and will serve you well no matter what you do. Arming yourself with the right knowledge about your skin can take time and effort, but over the long run it will pay off. You will look great. Feel confident. Save time. Save money.

IS THERE A BETER WAY TO ‘HACK’ THIS?

Buying skin care without first understanding your skin is like buying a stick shift car but you only know how to drive an automatic. Know your skin so you can get the right stuff and look your best. Save time and money. Introducing Beast Data-Driven Skin Care (https://beast-skincare.com), Skin Tools For Guys. Engineered by Geeks. It’s simple; just take the FREE Skin Profile. It takes about 4 minutes and within 24 hours, you’ll get a one-of-a-kind Skin Profile that is unique to YOU and nobody else. Our human experts and proprietary algorithm look at over 300 data points to assess your current skin situation. The Skin Profile is basically a blueprint of YOUR skin at this point in time. It will tell you exactly what your skin needs and why. You can use this knowledge to shop for the right skincare product for your man-face. You’re welcome.

DISCLOSURE

I am one of the founders of Beast Data-Driven Skin Care. I’m a proud geek with skin and I enjoy using skin care product to clean, protect and repair my man face. I have always been perplexed by the voluminous amount of skin care information available out there. Information that is mostly opinion based, often ill researched, all too often comically wrong and sometimes even mythical – I’m talking purple unicorn here. So I took it upon myself to bridge the rational - emotional gap in the world of skin care with awesome technology of the human and of the artificial kind.

Happy Skin Care Hunting!