>>5722
>>5723
Personally I always go with Joop! Homme but I'd trust anything under the brand. The ladies certainly seem to like it without it being the aftershave equivalent of Lynx Africa.

Sage ticked because OP has already gone out and bought some but I still want to add my voice to the choir for any lads looking in future.

>>5729

While you're there, see if they've got any Denim.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5TuGQcXgc8

>>5718

Old spice

>>5741

Thanks, grandad.

>>5706
Can you recommend any specific shoes or shops?

The only shoe shop (selling formal shoes) I know is Clarkes and their range is poo.

>>5732
What's your budget? The last pair of decent smart shoes I bought were about £80 from Harvey Nichols.

If you use shoe polish on Crocs it looks leather.

>>5733
I spent around that on my last pair

>>5706
So I suppose this would fit the bill right?

http://www.harveynichols.com/brand/bobbies/204779-le-splendide/p2903417/

Get a different beard trimmer? A lot of them have detachable heads so you can probably just buy a slightly longer blade protection thingy.

Get it trimmed by a barber.

>>5712

Pop down to your nearest Brantanos before they close for good. You might find something.

You couldn't press "ctrl+t" and type "shoe" into your browser? I find it hard to believe you wear clothes.

>>5712

Last time I checked it's about £20-25 for new heels at Timpsons. If you can find an independent cobbler near you it might be a little cheaper.

As long as the uppers aren't falling apart, it's definitely worth it, you're doubling the life of the shoe.

Thanks lads. Apart from you, >>5714. You're a wrong 'un.

>>5715
Plus one for Timpsons - they're actually very sound.

>>5681
How long does one of the 100g ones last?

>>5683
Four showers/baths.

OP, I've been thinking about this over the past few days, and I think the correct answer to your question is that you've misunderstood the problem.

The "oily film" that you feel with a shower gel is not necessarily the result of any oils or moisturisers in the gel.
Ordinary soap (sodium tallowate/sodium stearate etc.), is very very bad at dealing with water hardness. Soap draws the calcium out of the water and forms soap scum. That "squeaky clean" or dry feeling you have after using soap is the film of soap scum left behind on your skin.

Modern shower gels have chealating agents added (commonly some variety of EDTA), this keeps the hardness dissolved in water, which leaves your skin feeling slick after it's cleaned. Even in the "sensitive" gels such as the Sanex which don't have a chelating agent in, the main sufactant (SLS) is much less affected by water hardness than a traditional soap, so it still gives more of an oily feeling than soap.

Try this experiment: Buy a pack of borax substitute. Dissolve a few teaspoons of it in a bowl of water, and then wring your hands in it. You should notice that the water feels weirdly slippery. It's not making your skin oily, it's because it's stopping any of the minerals in the water from sticking to your skin.

>>5686
You are awesome. I tried your weird experiment and it was great. Never thought sticking my hand in slippery water would be so therapeutic.

I also went and checked the water hardness of the area I live in, and it is really bad. All in all, I guess you are right Chemistlad. I went back from using soaps to my cheap shower gels, since the slippery feel isn't me just being dirty.

>>5686
I love posts like this.

>>5642

I wonder if I'll be able to grow a beard if I stop masturbating five times a day.

>>5642
Maybe post, well, anything to prove your bollocks?

Unless you have a dicky ticker, minoxidil is quite safe. It's not particularly expensive if you buy the generic stuff, but it only works for about 40% of men.

To be honest, I think you're better off just dubbing your head.

>>5646
There's no truth to it. You can be a chronic wanker and still grow a decent beard, if someone who definitely isn't me (honest guv!) is anything to go by. My uncle, 50 and balding, likes to have a go at my facial rug, and I just tell him he must be jealous he can't grow one now.

>>5641

I went to a proper hair salon, first this poncy place in Chiswick and then when I moved up north a Toni & Guy. The head stylist in both places was an older guy who knew exactly how to cut my hair so that my on top thinning really doesn't show us much. I suppose once you get to a certain stage then even this kind of optical illusion won't really work and you'll have to just accept life and buzz the lot.

Personally I made a sort of pact with the devil where he gets my soul if I don't go bald or lose any teeth before 40. Looking back I should have shot for 50.

>>5633
Neither of us did.

>>5633

A chanologist went over to Nepal for his Buddhist cult. He told everyone he met there to use britfa.gs.

>>5637

You too could look as dashing as this chap.

>>5629

No. He doesn't know the site exists, although he does know of his status as piemaster. He sent me a Timpsons apron and a signed pic of himself. I've not got a pic of the apron at hand, sorry if this is a problem.

Incidentally OP pic is not him, but another fat guy with a smile.

Regards,
Memeforcelad

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>5605
>>5596
With these 'traditional' creams and soaps and what have you, are they meant for traditional safety razor and/or a cut-throat razor only or will they be fine to use with a standard issue Gillette jobby?

>>5606
NO. Under no circumstances try this. There are really awful stories about what's happened to people who have.

Yes, you can use it with a cartridge razor. It's just lather, does exactly the same job as stuff from a can.

>>5607

THANKS OBAMA.

(A good day to you Sir!)

I still have residual stubble with a safety razor no matter how many passes I do. Is it because I don't go against the grain?

>>5611

Some razors are quite mild and won't give a very close shave without an against-the-grain pass. If you have coarse stubble, you'll probably need an against-the-grain or across-the-grain pass with most razors. A super-aggressive razor like the Muhle R41 will give a very close shave in a single pass, but they'll rip your face to bits if you don't know what you're doing.

>>5547
This isn't going to end well.

>>5547
Is Gilly in the bunny suit?

It didn't take Columbo to work out that this is the work of some "Master Troll" who has stolen images that, glaringly, are of all different resolutions, sizes and image quality. They've assumed this poor, hapless furry fella's identity and as they have al been uploaded from the same Apple device (hence the image.jpg on every picture) it's not difficult to work out that, yes; OP is a shitehawk.

Do with this information what you will, lads.

>>5551
Furry? He's clearly just on some Chinese excursion. I've visited an Asian Tiger myself and there are loads of people dressed up in animal costumes promoting things in transport hubs.

>>5551

If OP is a bellend and /poof/ is a sfw board...

>>5507
I had sexual encounters with a woman this year before I found her most hidden tattoo. The word BOWIE on the nape of her neck, usually covered by long hair. I wasn't sure about her already and was even less sure after finding that.

>>5517

I almost shagged a lass with Pete Steel's face covering her calf. I'm glad I didn't.

https://www.reddit.com/r/badtattoos/

>>5483
>OK, but if you can only find deep social interaction from wearing tattoos that other "likeminded" people deem interesting then you need to work on your own personality and leave the house more often.

You're extrapolating a whole lot from a whole lot ofnothing there. I said they lead to conversations, not that those are the sole kind of conversation I have. And I clearly leave the house loads, or how else would I get invited to all these hedonistic parties all the youths are at? Dear me, you need to work on your mental gymnastics a bit there. 2/10 SEE ME.

Also, I know right, what markets are even open nowadays that haven't run off with everyone's coins or are even slightly trustworthy or coded securely? I've actually gone back to street connections for ketamine, but the quality is hardly consistent so it's lead to me turning down bags from time to time for lack of better sources. Whinge whinge wah bring back SR1.0 etc. etc.

>>5508
On a serious note, the back of the ear or lobe would be "invisible when naked" only when you're viewed from the front, so I suggest to you my stealthiest tattoo locations, which are (in order of stealth) insides of the toes or insides of the fingers (the sides facing towards your little finger > the sides facing your thumbs, due to the slight angling of the digits as they extend from the palm, especially when viewed from the front.)

I have a very small tattoo in precisely this location on my hand and no one, to date, has ever noticed it unless I have pointed out to them that it's there. I should probably get it touched up though, sadly there's no good padding in the dermis of the hands so ink tends to fade fast and takes more skill to tattoo there in the first place.

>>5317
Felt gets dirty too easily. It will look really old when it isn't as old. It pisses me off.

>>5322

Also the white sole will stain fairly quickly over winter. Converse All-Stars seem to be like jeans, in that they look better when they're a bit battered.

>>5323
I always find them dreadfully uncomfortable, but Vans Eras are equally muted and presentable. They're essentially the Vans Authentic with some padding around the ankle to make them ten times comfier.

My feet smell. I guess I need to stop wearing the same pair of socks for a whole week.

Anyway, I've had a pair of Nike Air Force 1s for a year, and I don't think I like them. I wore my older trainers today. They were a pair of those Adidas skater type trainers. Very comfy, light-weight and discreet. The AF1s are heavy and it feels like they suffocate my feet.

Maybe you lads could recommend something discreet, comfy and light.

I hate shopping. All those choices, and the thought of regretting what I buy means I will become frozen and indecisive. A little anxious too. So I usually buy online, but shoes are a cunt to buy online since an Adidas size 8 aren't the same as Nike size 8. Absolute bollocks.

For a casual shoe, I'd personally always go for the type of vaguely trainer-styled shoes that are sufficiently distanced from actual trainers that you'd never do any actual sport in them and probably wouldn't be barred entry to a club for wearing them. Pic related for example, they're similar to what I wear.

No tips at all, you're just going to have to go outside and find one.

A little old woman that owns an alterations shop isn't going to bend you over, but might make a mess of something more complicated, whereas a minor job at a tailors will cost far more than it would in an alterations shop. It's a trade-off between how well you want the job doing and how much you want to pay for it, really.

What's the job?

>>5387

>flames

All I would need is for flame shirts and New Rocks to come back into fashion and I'd be knee deep in 18 year old Goth clunge all over again.

Get yourself a sword cane. I believe they're illegal, but IIRC you can still buy them if they're an antique.

>>5389

Alternatively, you could get yourself a shillelagh/blackthorn stick.

>>5390

http://www.coldsteel-uk.com/store/Sticks.html

There is one like that here I like the look of, but I reckon the paint might chip off so I'm hesitant. There are other options, although some of them strike me as being penis extensions for emasculated disabled males and might have the problem of form over function which would make it a waste of money.

Pimping stick?