Talk about hearing only what you want to .....
Nope, that's not the role of women. That's the shit you do so you can brag to your girlfriends about how you have someone wrapped around your finger.
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Guy Opinion: Grooming Lounge for Men, DC - Good Taste or Gay?
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Talk about hearing only what you want to .....
Nope, that's not the role of women. That's the shit you do so you can brag to your girlfriends about how you have someone wrapped around your finger.
+1 for uzzz's bow
Don't bring irrelevant factors such as your desire to please women as justification to your liking getting pampered up in a beauty saloon.
Me,
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= 5 minutes
You,
= 30 minutes of femininity
I attract my fine share of women. I don't need to work for them, I'm the one they try to qualify for. So thanks for the advice, but I've got my bases covered.
My girlfriend actually models as a hobby and works as a nursing assistant everyday at a nursing home from 8-5 and sometimes even 6-930 after her first shift.....So when she gets back, and needs to relieve some stress, she wants sex from someone that doesn't look like a "whiny bitch boy, but a man that'll take me and do what he wants while taking care of me" (her words btw)
As for the body hair: Back hair is just no for me and her, it itches teh shit outta me, and she doesnt' like it so its gone....Chest hair/below the belt is only slightly trimmed cuz again it itches me and she likes it a bit more managed looking, but still there......
Again, i'm not worried about my style cuz it's done well for me all these years, and i don't plan on changing for anyone.
But I just wanna make it clear that i'm not bustin your balls, just pointin out my views on it. If someone likes it, they like it...more power to them. You like that whole clean cut ceo look, well then go for it. Nothin wrong with it at all cuz the man seems to have his life in order from what you're saying. But me.....I'm damn fine just the way I am.....except i'd like more monies in da bank plz. :1bluewinky:
My barber offers beer, dirty magazines, and piercings. Also tattoos on certain days. I don't have any tattoos or piercings, but I appreciate the environment. He also gives kick ass haircuts.
Oh wait, we're talking about spas.
Sounds to me like you'd want him to go have that pampered treatment more than he ever would. Instead of trying to change him why not give him something you know he'll love?
I don't think there is anything inherently gay about guys that like to go to spas and what not. But if they pretend they like to go because their gfs/wives tell them they should like to, then that's all kinds of gay.
Oh wait, we're talking about spas.
Sounds to me like you'd want him to go have that pampered treatment more than he ever would. Instead of trying to change him why not give him something you know he'll love?
I don't think there is anything inherently gay about guys that like to go to spas and what not. But if they pretend they like to go because their gfs/wives tell them they should like to, then that's all kinds of gay.
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You answered your own question before you even hit "post"...
He doesn't spend nearly as much time as YOU WOULD LIKE - is this a present for him or you? what would HE like?
Think of any present you want...any coaxing involved? no
Dude, you sooo speak the truth.
While I was a hygienic young man, I didn't pay attention to the details. When I was about 20 I was hanging out with some good party friends; ravers at heart, up for the down beat.
Noni notices my nails, which were longish and unkempt at the time, and says to me, "god damn Bradley, you better cut those things or she's going to dry up and go home!".
I nearly died a little cause Noni was a cutie and was my buddy's girlfriend at the time... except he was a complete chauvinistic douchebag. He wouldn't even sleep in the same bed as her when she was having her period for example.
His name is Chris Goudy and he eventually ended up stealing form a bunch of people in Vancouver, arranged to have his dad's audio store burned to ground in an organized crime insurance scam, and pretty much isn't welcome in that city any more.
Anyways, I digress.
I was completely horrified and ever since I've kept my shit in check. If I was ballin' I would definitely go to the spa. Get that stuff taken care of by professionals.
There must be a market for the Man's Man Spa though. Football on a Sunday afternoon, beer on tap, with lovely ladies tending to your grooming needs.
If branded correctly, that shit could do really well. May I suggest attaching a bowling alley so you can go knock down some pins with your pretty nails when you're all done? Or maybe a shooting range. OR MAYBE BOTH!!!!
Well, after much considered judgment I think I'm going to go with the pedicure (skipping the manicure and clear nail polish which is a bit over the top) plus (drum roll!!) The Potomac:
The Potomac
It begins with the ultimate male experience, a hot lather shave. After the whiskers are gone, he’ll get his hair cut and styled. Sure it’s more costly than two bits... but it’s worth it. Allow 90 minutes.
Includes: Hot Lather Shave & Haircut.
The Potomac
It begins with the ultimate male experience, a hot lather shave. After the whiskers are gone, he’ll get his hair cut and styled. Sure it’s more costly than two bits... but it’s worth it. Allow 90 minutes.
Includes: Hot Lather Shave & Haircut.
Some of the best presents I've got I hated at first. Just like some of the men women often end up loving the most we hated or weren't attracted to at first. I guess it depends on whether or not you like to have your boundaries 'pushed' or not...
btw, love the sig..........
Funny that you should say that! I just clicked on their blog and read this:
"With zero debt on the L Street location, the Grooming Lounge was cash positive from the first day. The L Street store draws 60 to 70 men a day and grosses about $2.5 million a year in revenue, with a profit a bit under $200,000. The Tysons Corner store, which opened in 2006, does about $2 million in revenue, with a profit margin under 10 percent. The Web site now grosses around $1.75 million, and earns a profit of about $175,000.
A big source of revenue, 35 percent, comes from gels, shaving creams, moisturizers and other “solutions” that customers buy and take with them. The Grooming Lounge paid a New York laboratory more than $100,000 to create its own line of shaving and hair care products, and then sell it under the Grooming Lounge label. The margins on Grooming Lounge solutions are around 50 percent, helping boost the bottom line.
Gilman and Sarshar each take an annual salary just shy of $100,000, and in a good year add a 20 percent bonus. Profits are reinvested into the business for expansion and maintenance. The partners have borrowed about $500,000 for the Grooming Lounge product line and to expand to Tysons Corner. The payment on the debt is about $8,000 a month."
Seriously, I have nothing to do with them, I just went to google and typed in Male Spas in DC or Male Manicure DC (or something) and found them. Seems it's a lucrative biz!!!
The only way I'd go to one of these places is if my lady sent me there because they offered some sort of tea-bag-trim that would make her experience more pleasant.
You know, because I'm empathic.
You know, because I'm empathic.
I would think that the profit margins would be better than 10% in a business like that.
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Is 200,000 not less than 10% of 2.5 million? Why would they give dollars for one and percentages for another
Seems like you are pretty settled that you want to make this man do something he is not comfortable with.
He's successful already, chances are, he doesn't give a shit what he looks like.
Hell, I know a millionaire here and we went to the pub. He came in flip flops, adidas basketball shorts, and a white t shirt that had the crease lines still in it from when it was folded. He was still the shit and he knew it.
Success is an aura that doesn't require looking the part, just knowing you are the part.
Get him something he'll really enjoy and something he can use. Buy him a blackberry, netbook, a nice camera... something he'll want to use over and over again. You say he's a techie geek, so why don't you treat him like a techie geek!?
If you want to do something crazy, take him paintballing, riding a motorcycle or ATV, bungy jumping, skydiving, manly shit.
He's successful already, chances are, he doesn't give a shit what he looks like.
Hell, I know a millionaire here and we went to the pub. He came in flip flops, adidas basketball shorts, and a white t shirt that had the crease lines still in it from when it was folded. He was still the shit and he knew it.
Success is an aura that doesn't require looking the part, just knowing you are the part.
Get him something he'll really enjoy and something he can use. Buy him a blackberry, netbook, a nice camera... something he'll want to use over and over again. You say he's a techie geek, so why don't you treat him like a techie geek!?
If you want to do something crazy, take him paintballing, riding a motorcycle or ATV, bungy jumping, skydiving, manly shit.
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