MOST GUYS TREAT WORKING OUT much as they do calling Mom. It’s a good thing to do regularly, but skipping it once in a while isn’t going to cause irreparable harm. If, on a Thursday night after a 10-hour slog at the office, you have a choice between putting on your sneakers or ordering takeout [...]

WHEN MARC JACOBS decided to improve his diet and exercise regimen three years ago, he also amped up his approach to grooming. The designer began getting regular facials, massages, manicures, and pedicures and now uses no fewer than five skin-care products a day. To finish, he applies Bang, his first new men’s fragrance in nearly [...]

THE GATES TO LILITH FAIR in Seattle don’t open for another hour or so, but thousands of women are already lined up outside The Gorge Amphitheater. In bikini tops and cargo shorts or braless in floor-length sundresses, the festival-goers gathered for the Sarah McLachlan-led summer tour that celebrates female musicians call to each other as [...]

“SWEAT and alcohol are both great social lubricants,” said David Barton, founder of the David Barton Gym. So in a move that might seem silly or inevitable, depending on your point of view, he has combined them. The gym chain became a watering hole at its locations in Chicago, Miami and New York when it [...]

IT was nearly 6 p.m. on Friday, an hour when many New Yorkers need a drink, and Sera Chi, the owner of the Dashing Diva nail salon on the Upper West Side, was greeting her regulars. “It’ll be about 45 minutes for a manicure,” she told them, “but you can have a Cosmo now.” Soon [...]

It wasn’t until some elementary schools banned Silly Bandz, those colorful plastic bracelets that are the latest fad among the pencil-box set, that Ramona Sidlo, who is 30, wanted them for herself. “I thought, ‘This is nuts that a rubber band is causing so much hype,’” she said. “If kids are going crazy over these, [...]

Because sometimes showering isn’t an option. After a long day (or very long night), the products in this Dopp kit will get you looking polished—and smelling fresh—in about a minute.

As guys are now discovering, there are shortcuts to enlightenment. Nothing clears the head like a heart-stopping, soul-cleansing blast of 200-degree heat. Welcome to the sweat shop.

Learn tips to protect yourself from dark circles, wrinkles, and razor burn.

These girls drank their way through the alphabet.

The hairstyle of the moment reaches skyward.

A tree house doesn’t necessarily require a tree.

In the Andes wine country of Chile, a bold young architect has dreamed up the perfect way to drink in the view.

After treating yourself to cookies and cocktails for a month, it’s time to shape up. Let’s see you do it by Friday.

The decade in facial hair was bookended by two extremes: boy-band Etch A Sketch stubble and the “weird beard” hipster mullah. Fortunately, as we head into the New Year, things are settling somewhere in the middle. The light beard is everywhere.

Lisa Bell just gave birth to twins. Her husband, Brent, is not the father. No big deal, he says. That’s life when you’re married to a surrogate mom.

These guys can’t get enough smell-good.

No product samples were provided to me for writing this piece: Fessing Up About Freebies in The New York Times.

The voice of sensitive males and author of a new novel, Juliet, Naked, explains why he no longer writes about sports and how he was artistically inspired by Levi Johnston.

If you have your mother on speed dial and seek her opinion about all of your dates, you have more in common with guys who sleep on Spiderman sheets than you’d probably care to admit.

Here’s how to perform damage control.

At some point, you’ve probably looked in the mirror, grimaced at your reflection, and said something like, “I look fat.” Meet the women of Operation Beautiful; they don’t ever want you to do that again.

Read my The Wall Street Journal Online Work Therapy column on gallows humor at work.

How brides became sexpots (see this Newsweek.com piece).

when everything around you is down. Read my new Work Therapy column in The Wall Street Journal Online today.

My thoughts on guyliner, in USA Today.

For those of you about to perspire, I offer these secrets to staying dry.

Meet Stu Rasmussen, America’s first transgender mayor. Here’s the story.

In the April issue of Details, three ways to get whiter teeth—and three ways that don’t work.

The Product Switch: You don’t wear a wool coat or a scarf in May, so why are you using the same grooming products all year? Here’s what to add—and what to ditch—to get your skin ready for warmer weather.

I might need to repeat it. My Hair? I Did It Myself. My Stylist Taught Me, The New York Times, Thursday Styles, March 5, 2009

On The Wall Street Journal Online column about what to do when a close co-worker gets laid off. Here’s the interview.