Today we’re going to talk about something really important: your beauty routines. What you do to look good, what buy to look better. Hard numbers re: what kind of coin you’re dropping on toners and moisturizers. Thinking about claiming you don’t use any of that crap? Let’s not play that game. You’re slathering $95 eye cream on your bags and you’re liking it.
Mr. Sullivan can rattle off a half-dozen creams that make up his daily routine: StriVectin moisturizer, Kiehl’s Abyssine Night Eye Cream, Kiehl’s Facial Fuel, something called Hydra-Energetic Ice Cold Ball Roller from L’Oréal. All in all, he estimates that he spends about $600 a year on such products. “I feel this is a small way to compensate,” he said.
Sales of premium skin-care products for men jumped 5 percent that year, and have risen another 12 percent so far in 2011, according to the NPD Group, a market research firm. Women buying products for men account for only 25 percent of those sales: most of the time, men buy these products for themselves….there is once again a demand among men for high-end skin-care products, in spite of a morbid economy and high unemployment. Or maybe because of it. The reason, beauty analysts say, is a changing attitude among men, who now associate healthy-looking skin less with vanity than with professionalism. At a time when job security is at a low, they say, men do not have to work in front of a camera to place a higher premium on being presentable. “Men today say they feel they have to look better to be competitive,” said Celeste Hilling, the founder and chief executive of Skin Authority, a brand of skin creams that introduced a men’s line in 2010.
So, walk us through it. Does the Ice Cold Ball Roller have a place in your cabinet? What’s the standard routine and what do you to punch things up on days when you’re trying to land a big deal, talk your way into a promotion and the like? How do you keep your pores tighter than the compensation committee during bonus season? For those who’ve been using beauty products to stay competitive for years, which one do you credit most with your success? What did you apply the morning you were told you’d been named CEO of Goldman Sachs? Is your skin collection larger than your significant other’s? Is there one ‘can’t live without’ item that you’d go circus freak crazy upon hearing the word ‘discontinued’?
Is this an article or paid advertising?
Get in line ladies.
P. North
Prettiest man I ever saw.
Too many American Psycho quotes to choose from…
"Men today say they feel they have to look better to be competitive"
Bwahahahahahahaha
Refer yourself to the tags.
"My name is Patrick Bateman. I am twenty-six years old. I live in the American Garden Buildings on West Eighty-First Street, on the eleventh floor. Tom Cruise lives in the penthouse.
I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now.
After I remove the icepack, I use a deep pore-cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser, then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb mint facial masque which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine.
I always use an after-shave lotion with little or no alcohol because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing "protective" lotion…
There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping you and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there."
PMCO, what is your beauty routine?
You write an article about facials and then use the tag "getting ahead without giving head". You'll need to elaborate as this makes absolutely no sense to me.
-L Tilton
Did you wake up this morning and say, "Today is the day I will leave the most unoriginal comment I can think of on Dealbreaker and I'm going to be proud of it"?
Bess, I only had sex with her because I'm in love with you.
-guy who's long Rules of Attraction/short American Psycho
I also into the ball-roller, no homo
Gay
Meanwhile, women today KNOW they have to look good to be competitive.
The Chief BitchSlut, after Matt, may have a point. It’s either AmericanPsycho, AmericanCriminal or BobbyTrendy. We’ve all been tricked. There never was a noble masculine American. Happy Holidays, sure
arming taser……..
you gettin tased bro!!!!
Morning and evening:
1. Wash
2. Tone
3. Firm
4. Moisturize
5. ????
6. Profit
The NYT covers everything and anything, difficult to criticize. Motherfuckers
Copying and Pasting from IMDB is the NKI
I step out for facials several times / week. There's nothing wrong with trying to feel beautiful.
L. Tilton
is this NKI ?
I ensure that my face maintains a healthful rosy glow by regularly consuming enough alcohol to kill a small horse.
5. Cold balls rolled over the eyes.
Bess, you can do better than this.
I tell all my employees this. Then I cum on their face.
-Literal Ping
A great quote for the St Crispin's Day season
“I feel this is a small way to compensate,” he said.
Sounds about right.
If you have to ask, it isn't.
Yellow is the color of my true love's hair.
-Guy That's Half Lying Because He's Madly In Love With Shannyn Sossamon
I live in a rundown studio right off the I-95 on ramp in Stamford. My name is Timothy Sykes. I'm 27 years old and work as an a trader at RBS. I believe in not taking care of myself and a horribly unbalanced balanced diet and complete lack of an exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll punch myself in it repeatedly while placing ScottTrade orders for penny stocks. I can do 1000 now. After I stop the punching I JO&C to old copies of trader monthly and stills from Wall St. Warriors. In the shower I desperately hope for hot water, then realize it was turned off last week. Then I use the store brand combination body wash and Shampoo that I got 20 cents off on with a coupon at CVS. After that I put on a 12 year old pair of sweatpants and yearn for the days before my mother kicked me out of the house.
So you've spent all this time and $ on your face, and one night you go out with the boys and some asshole pops you in the face…messes you up good. You probably wish you had appearance insurance? Well, you can get it. Our teams are as passionate about your appearance as you. For example, if you phone us for appearance Insurance, you will speak to an RAA qualified adviser, it’s a pre-requisite for our team.
I will give you ten minutes to get your balls off my face, then I am going to do something drastic.
Ok then, anyone know where I can go to receive a quality facial?
Men paying $95 for eye cream? Utterly ridiculous, what a waste.
I mean, a very good eye cream can be had from l'Occitane for less than $40, and it works really well with their firming lotion; and I'm particularly fond of their lightly scented body wash, as well as their soothing non-oily after shave cream.
Talk to Rami
when Mistress Kat takes out the Ice Cold Ball Roller, my skin immediately tightens
I ejaculated onto my face once. By accident. But I can't say I hated it.
-Equinox steam room lurker
I endorse this message. BTW, $600/yr on product? Pussy Amateur.
-mrp
Did it work? If not, I'll be the guy at Minetta's tonight dressed like a peacock…literally.
Great holiday stocking stuffer. We're still getting Thank You letters from last years' gift package of high end creams.
-MF Global Client Relations
People who annoy you?
I didn't realize that this strategy worked for men too
Shannyn Sossamon looks like a tranny in real life.
Do better than what? Comment on a semi-absurd article in a humorous way? Which is to say, 50% of what Dealbreaker does, always?
My dad's a dermatologist and he says that all of those creams and lotions are bullshit.
- annoying kid who everyone went to high school with
If you want a portable way to tone and tighten your face, may I suggest the Lush Cosmetics "Breath Of Fresh Air" facial toner/tightener spritz.
-mrp, who just realized that is pretty flaming gay but hey it works for me nonetheless
I doubt pmco is a necrophiliac.
the feeling of excitement after popping the largest blackhead in my life > any bonus Ive ever received in this industry
No, it's the day he woke up and thought he could finally fulfill that fantasy about Bess tasering him (and really, who here HASN'T had that one?). Christmas is comin' early!
she does not need one, she wakes up and she is beautiful.
I routinely let the girls of Beamers us my face as a toilet. This costs double the amount of your average lapdance but my skin thanks me for it.
*use
Derm is a competitive discipline. Props to your Dad. If any of us were smart we would be in medicine.
Shut up, layman.
Scheisse!
Women like a stiff man.
Step 1 – Wife shaves my back
Step 2 – Shave face w/disposible CVS razor
Step 3 – Apply CVS aftershave (for sensitive skin)
Step 4 – Tuck twig/berries between legs
Step 5 – Borrow wife's tampon
How does her large intestine taste?
These are very impressive copy and paste skills… can you come in for a chat?
-HR Sales and Trading at every firm
I just figured he woke up and never had a thought, nor ever will.
Underrated post.
real good
Beamers D Team > Dealbreaker D Team Commentariat
I prefer a man who wears bronzer – love that orange glow
The main page has Matt articles. Tolstoy. Search brings Tolstoy quotes being imo mundane. Nothing ground breaking but routine like press conferences, op-eds, just about everything ‘cept satire maybe. Then Le Carre’ with Fiedler and Leamas, the quotes about liking ignorance in the West. THEN I FUCKIN’ REALIZED, that’s what we’re losing, the ability to be a moron and make a living! Now I have to tweeze my eyebrows, Motherfuckers.
Who cares, the guy is fucking hot.
-Female guest
Cheapo. Creme de la Mer. It's the only way.
you skipped a step
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Now that's how you get pink eye.
-Drury
wait until this guy finds out the dude that left that on his face is not really a movie producer
pimple cream says 'i want to look lovely today,' flabby torso says 'i can't buy abs at CVS'
He's 27 dumbass. Why don't you watch the movie and type this verbatim instead of copying it off of a website. Didn't even bother to read the rest due to your initial incompetence.
- Your MD
Re: Ice Cold Ball Roller
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Herbstreit skin > all
-A Man
Wait a minute. I have been getting facials for years now and I have nothing to show for it…
All you need is a solid chrome dome for the CEO job.
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