There's a level of skincare etc which is acceptable, I think
Especially if you don't want to look 40 when you reach 40. David Beckham is so far past that level he's forgotten what it looks like
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 10:41, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

I've moisturised since I was about 12,
as I have rather fair and sensitive skin, like that of a romantic poet (who gets all the chicks).
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 10:43, Reply)

Moisturising is just logical
I'm frequently told I don't look my age, and there's a good reason for that.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 10:44, Reply)

If your skin is so dry that you regularly look like you suffer from leprosy
then moisturising might be acceptable, but ONLY if you do not mention it in conversation, or swap tips or in any way acknowledge that you do it.

Anything other than that is womanly.
( Kroney, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 10:43, Reply)

I disagree
Obviously it's not something you talk about down the pub, but there's no shame in wanting to look younger than you actually are
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 10:44, Reply)

I think there's a considerable amount of shame in it.

( Kroney, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 10:45, Reply)

Why?

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 10:47, Reply)

The only reason women are obsessed with looking younger than they actually do
is because they've had it drilled into them for tens, if not hundreds of years, that it is the only way they will look attractive. Now cosmetics companies are trying to do it to men and, despite us knowing damned well that it's a marketing scam, it's fucking working.

I am a 31 year old man. I am in the prime of my life. Why on Earth would i want to look any different and throw money at snake-oil cures in the doing of it?

Like I said, if you've got a medical reason to need it, that's one thing. Doing it for vanity's sake is vapid.

You're a man, take pride in that. If you act like man and take confidence from it, women will like you better for it than if you don't have wrinkles. Worrying about how pretty you are is stupid.
( Kroney, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 10:50, Reply)

Your argument is based entirely on the notion that moisturising doesn't actually have any effect on skin
with which I disagree. Simple as that.

If I'm honest, I envy your self-confidence, genuinely. Unfortunately I don't share it. You can say that marketing companies target people like me, you'll have to take my word for it that other than the aforementioned moisturiser I don't indulge them. I wish I could take pride in my looks or my masculinity as you suggest, but it's not that simple.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 10:56, Reply)

Moisturiser works if your skin's dry. It will make you look as you should look if your skin worked properly.
It does not make you look younger.
( Kroney, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 10:57, Reply)

I don't see the point in continuing this argument

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 10:59, Reply)

I am 31.
I can still easily pass for 28. I put this down to my catalogue model good looks and my dapper sartorial choices.

Like I say, chicks dig me.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 10:50, Reply)

They feel sorry for you, that's all.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 10:55, Reply)