Christmas mistakes every man has made
Here’s a list of useful hints for our male readers at Christmas. It tells us:
A cautionary list you can use to sail smartly through the festive season
The jumper
This is usually a mistake that a man will make only once when he believes that he can pull off Christmas knitwear and tread that fine line between hilarious and tacky. Then you catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror and realise that Christmas jumpers, any Christmas jumpers, should be left to students and Americans.
The Christmas haircut
This is a hectic time and it’s easy to keep putting off your Christmas haircut as you concentrate on other more important things – like rating every supermarket mince pie out of 10. Then, before you know it, it’s 4pm on Christmas Eve and you realise that your barber has shut up shop and gone to the pub. So… could you do it yourself? Why not?
“A lot of the time it’s just the edges of the haircut that make it look untidy rather than it being long,” advises Dan Gregory, Braun’s grooming ambassador. “Use the multi grooming tool such as the one in the Braun Multi Grooming kit MGK3085, and go with one of the longer lengths on the clipper combs to give a fresher finish to your existing haircut by trimming around the back and sides.” Job done.
The pre-lunch punch
What better way to kick off proceedings on the big day than with a festive punch for all your lunch guests? Unfortunately, you unleashed your inner mixologist and ended up free-pouring the ingredients – and although the result is delicious, it’s also absolutely lethal. This has resulted in grandma slurring her words and uncle Fred taking off down the street on the skateboard you bought for the kids’ Christmas. Better get the coffee on, quick.
The Xmas beard
Putting on a bit of Yuletide timber is as inevitable as your tree lights shorting the house electrics. So you try to cover up the effect of the extra calories by growing a beard and then deciding you don’t need to maintain it because you’re not back at work until the New Year this means you could end up looking like a Christmas castaway.