Ladies, there are going to be some fabulous giveaways and fundraisers for October's Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I'm afraid however that in all of my preparations, I've slighted the dudes. September is in fact Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. As a college-educated, well travelled woman I hate to admit that I don't completely know what a prostate is. I'm pretty clear on the fact that it's some sort of organ or gland in the male nether region but really I'm not too concerned with anything "down there" other than well you know, the John Thomas. So I'm educating myself (apparently this prostate thingy is a crucial neighbor of the beloved John Thomas) and bringing you a simple way to aid the yang to our yin.
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On Thursday night I found myself congealing with the cushions of my couch, temporarily defeated by the vacillations of my relationship to life. Although I rarely search for solace in my television, itself a gift from someone clearly baffled by my disdain for the medium, my brain was too broken to search elsewhere. Jubilation erupted from me however as I discovered it is officially the beginning of Football Season. As if the world is conspiring with my joyful anticipation, the weather here in North Carolina has dutifully dropped ten degrees in the days since, saluting the eminent entry of fall and its glorious brigade of linebackers.
Football is the one passion that I never thought I would be able to manipulate to fit under the heading of Spa. Products. Organics. and Travel, but not so this season. Football fever hit me last year at this time and I'm gradually indoctrinating myself into the world of downs, end zones, and lambeau field's countdown to the next Superbowl where the majority of Wisconsinites, I think, see it as their God-given right to face their new leader in exile, Brett Favre. But just after Matt Leinart towed up the loosening bow line of his reputation I noticed something. Namely the commercial below which, using the requisite amount of female flesh and a threat of the ever-important male fear of being a "looser," assured all men tuning in for Thursday night football that they indeed need to rid themselves of gray facial hair.
Then I watched a few male cologne commercials. By halftime, I began to think that the brief but already passe jaunt of the metro-sexual onto the social map had in fact only been the beginning of a longer, lasting attempt to lasso men, real-live football-watching men, into a more feminine ideal. Today I came across Chrisopher Hitchen's hilarious report on his year in beautification, recorded in a three part series for Vanity Fair. If you click on nothing else, please I beg you, use this link to see the most hilarious picture of a man in a spa that I have ever seen. But after reading about Hitchen's tooth whitening and yes, his bikini waxing, and witnessing the parade of male colognes and hair dyes during my football viewing, I was left unsettled. I suppose if I spend the majority of my time in the fall testing beauty and skincare products while watching football, it is only fair to allow men the same privilege. But something inside me just finds it ridiculous. As drama filled and crazy as Brett Favre's summer was, wouldn't it have been even more humiliating if he had also eliminated the gray in his beard with Just for Men? Ironically the slogan for Just for Men is "Stay in the Game." But from a my point of view (and remember I'm a woman obsessed with beauty products) I do not want to jocky for space with a man at the bathroom counter so he can dye his beard. No, I would have to say that man would be out of the game. I suppose part of me just wants men to be men.
In the words of Americana storyteller and country singer Brad Paisley,
"These days there's dudes getting facials Manicured, waxed and botoxed With deep spray-on tans And creamy lotiony hands You can't grip a tackle box Yeah with all of these men lining up to get neutered It's hip now to be feminized But I don't highlight my hair And I've still got a pair Yeah honey, I'm still a guy."
I know it's very close-minded of me. I just like a man who can grip a tackle box. That said, I am not one to fight a turning tide - and as hefty portions of ESPN's advertising are now coming from male beauty products - clearly the tide is turning. So, if there is a man out there who wants to start writing the newest column for this blog, Beast's SPOT, send all applications to beautys.spot@yahoo.com.
Here is your stunningly beautiful weekly reminder, featuring the YonKa male model (otherwise known as the official Hunk of Burnin' Love).
The contest lasts until April 28.
Whoever posts the most comments on Beauty's Spot in those 30 days will receive a care package full of samples (with daily use, each bottle lasts about two weeks). The care package will include the majority of products in Yonka's AMAZING skin care line for men! And I will throw in one full sized Yonka for Men product.
The winner gets to write his own blog entry reviewing the Yonka Products! (We'll call this our first Beast's Spot entry in honor of Beauty Spot's first male reader, Mr. John C.)
Ladies, I'll count your comments too if you have a man in your life who you'd like to gift the prizes to. Thanks to BeautyGoneGreen for their generosity!
Weekly Reminder!Here is your stunningly beautiful weekly reminder, featuring the YonKa male model (otherwise known as the official Hunk of Burnin' Love).
The contest lasts until April 28.
Whoever posts the most comments on Beauty's Spot in those 30 days will receive a care package full of samples (with daily use, each bottle lasts about two weeks). The care package will include the majority of products in Yonka's AMAZING skin care line for men! And I will throw in one full sized Yonka for Men product.
The winner gets to write his own blog entry reviewing the Yonka Products! (We'll call this our first Beast's Spot entry in honor of Beauty Spot's first male reader, Mr. John C.)
Ladies, I'll count your comments too if you have a man in your life who you'd like to gift the prizes to.
It has come to my attention lately that I have some serious difficulties communicating with men. (My apologies to the kind young gentleman who was unfortunate enough to be the medium through which I learned this lesson.) So I have decided to make the best of it and make the first Beauty's Spot contest an exclusive opportunity for good communication with, and good skin care for, the male readers! Here is how it works:
The contest starts today (March 29) and will end 30 days from now (April 28).
Whoever posts the most comments on Beauty's Spot in those 30 days will receive a care package full of samples courtesy of BeautyGoneGreen.com (with daily use, each bottle lasts about two weeks). The care package will include the majority of products in Yonka's AMAZING skin care line for men! And I will throw in one full sized Yonka for Men product.
The winner gets to write his own blog entry reviewing the Yonka Products! (We'll call this our first Beast's Spot entry in honor of Beauty Spot's first male reader, Mr. John C.)
Ladies, I'll count your comments too if you have a man in your life who you'd like to gift the prizes to.
I will post weekly reminders about the contest, featuring the YonKa male model (otherwise known as the official Hunk of Burnin' Love). He is French and a former construction worker who was scooped from the construction site in an act of providence to become the face of Yonka's line for men. Thanks to BeautyGoneGreen for their generosity!
Ladies, there are going to be some fabulous giveaways and fundraisers for October's Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I'm afraid however that in all of my preparations, I've slighted the dudes. September is in fact Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. As a college-educated, well travelled woman I hate to admit that I don't completely know what a prostate is. I'm pretty clear on the fact that it's some sort of organ or gland in the male nether region but really I'm not too concerned with anything "down there" other than well you know, the John Thomas. So I'm educating myself (apparently this prostate thingy is a crucial neighbor of the beloved John Thomas) and bringing you a simple way to aid the yang to our yin. 
