I’ve been getting a lot of questions about Movember lately:

What’s that thing growing on your face?

I’m growing a mustache to  raise money for prostate and testicular cancer research. Consider it the equivalent of a pink ribbon. Want to support my mo’growing effort? Donate here!

When will you shave it off?

December 1st, but I might keep it longer. We’ll see!

What if I support fighting prostate and testicular cancers but can’t afford to donate?

Luckily, November 18th has been declared the official “Have Sex with a Guy with a Mustache Day.” Because, let’s be honest, not everyone can look like Tom Selleck or a Burt Reynolds with a mustache. Join the army of women who want to support the cause and watch this great video!

For more information about Movember, visit movember.com and wahlnation.com

Dress your dog in Mulberry this winter. Just don’t let your dog dress better than you. [Fashionista]

Angelina Jolie to star in a Gucci movie? Variety reports that she’s close to signing on to play Patrizia Reggiano, the matriarch who was jailed for 29 years for planning the assassination of her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci. [Fashionista]

Tom Ford talks about his debut feature film, A Single Man. Say no more. [Out]

Not sure where to find your favorite moisturizer or aftershave? Lucky for you, we’ve got some of the web’s best sites for men’s products just a click away.

If you’ve got a favorite online shop, post a comment and share with the rest of the class!

Grooming Lounge – The Washington, DC based salons for men (favored by Capitol Hill movers and shakers) also offers a popular online store with Baxter, Barc, Acqua di Parma, ClarinsMen, Dermalogica, Geo F. Trumper and many more.

SkinCareLab – The SoHo spa that has become a favorite of celebrities offers a great selection of highly effective products. Each product line is chosen by the spa’s owner, cosmetic dermatologist Bradford Katchen, MD. The site offers hard-to-find products from La Roche-Posay, Clinique Medical, REN, and SkinCeuticals.

Blue Bee Men – The online home to one of Santa Barbara’s most stylish stores stocks John Allan’s, Baxter of California, Malin + Goetz, Molton Brown and L’Artisan Parfumeur.

Sephora – The mothership of beauty products has an extensive collection of products for men including hundreds of colognes. Look for Anthony Logistics, Zirh, Ole Henriksen, Clinique, and Lab Series. That’s just for starters.

SpaceNK – Part of the British Invasion of SoHo in NYC, Space NK is an awesome shop to find hard-to-find products and a number of products from the other side of the pond. Check here for The Art of Shaving, MenScience, Philip Kingsley, Frederic Fekkai, Dr. Hauschka, Diptyque, Eve Lom and more!

MenEssentials (Canada) – The Canadian motherlode of grooming products features everyone from Men-U, Truefitt & Hill, Urth, Marvis, Sharps, Proraso, Nickel and Jack Black, American Crew and more.

New York nightlife mainstay and tranny performance artist Amanda Lepore has jumped onto the celebrity fragrance bandwagon. She has launched a fragrance called “Amanda” with notes of champagne, steamed rice, cucumber, strawberry and mandarin…seriously. What did you think Amanda would smell like? [NY Times]

Adidas’ newest line SLVR (it’s eco-friendly, relatively affordable and functional clothing, not a Motorola phone, we swear) has opened a new store in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. [NY Times]

NowSmellThis has a great review of Guerlain’s Mouchoir de Homme (Gentleman’s Handkerchief), a true classic scent (it was created by Jacques Guerlain himself in 1904). Unleash your inner fop and inhale this potent potion. [NowSmellThis]

The Van Wagner billboard company has rejected a new Armani Exchange ad meant for the Meatpacking District in NYC because of a naked man’s behind is visible in the background. Have they never seen the Tom Ford ads with the fragrance bottle wedged between a woman’s thighs and barely covering her vajayjay? [The Cut & Towleroad]

Football star and Gisele-lover Tom Brady admits to his grooming routine. He wears moisturizer and so should you. Be like Tom. [Butterfly Diary via The Cut]

New York Magazine gave us another reason to dislike male models (and, perhaps, ourselves). In a stroke of genius and cruelty, they handed a particularly baby-faced chap named Cole Mohr a video camera and asked him to document New York Fashion Week. The resulting 2-minute video not only crushes your dream of someday walking down a runway in New York that’s not part of JFK airport, but it makes you loathe models more than you did two minutes earlier. They are younger, prettier, gayer and more vapid than you could ever hope to be. It doesn’t really matter, but it sure makes for great entertainment. Did anyone check his ID to make sure he’s old enough to smoke and drink vodka?

[The Cut]

(Photo: Getty Images)

I have always been a purist when it comes to shaving. Electric razors never toppled the tried-and-true shave gel and Mach 3 razor combination because they never cut as closely, always missed patches, were a pain to clean, caused irritation, and were just all around annoying. That is, until the Braun Pulsonic changed everything.

Launching in September, the Braun Pulsonic offers a number of innovations that narrow the divide between wet and dry razors. While you will still get a closer shave with your Mach 3 or Fusion, the Pulsonic is a great razor for anyone who is sensitive to wet shaving methods and prone to razor bumps, ingrown hairs and bumps.

Here’s a quick list of what makes the Braun Pulsonic a shaving dream:

Pulsonic technology: Imagine if your Sonicare toothbrush and your Gillette Fusion Power razor had a baby. Well, that’s basically the Braun Pulsonic in a nutshell. It produces 10,000 vibrations per minute and ossilates to the right and left to expose and shave more hair while reducing friction between the blade and your skin.

Adaptive design: The razor’s head flexes and pivots to adjust to the landscape of your face..

Three-stage cutting system: Between the two foils of the razor, you’ll find a trimmer. Here’s how it works: The first foil shaves the short whiskers, then the trimmer slices longer whiskers to a shorter length that will get shaved clean by the second foil. This prevents passing over the same area repeatedly, which often causes irritation.

The Clean & Renew System: Braun’s Pulsonic razor comes with a dock that helps to charge, clean, disinfect and keep your razor acting like a well-oiled machine. The 9595 model even includes a Fast Clean mode that can sanitize and clean your razor in just 25 seconds in case you can’t wait for the whole process. . One of the best features is the razor’s meter that shows how much battery life is left and when the razor needs to be cleaned.

Additional Trimmer: The razor includes a small trimmer on the backside for shaping your facial hair or or touching up your sideburns, too.

Smart Plug: The charger automatically adjusts between 110 and 240volts for international travelers.

Energy Star Qualified: Braun’s Pulsonic is the first battery charger that is Energy Star compliant. Saving the planet is good.

The Braun Pulsonic hits stores in September and will sell for $239–$269.

Photo courtesy of Braun.

This isn’t Ford’s first time flaunting nudity in ads. During his reign at Yves Saint Laurent, he featured full-frontal nudity of a man for the M7 fragrance ad campaign. It seems Ford is back to his old tricks. Welcome back, Tom!

[WWD]

“According to Australian researchers, rapidly growing melanomas are thicker, symmetrical, or elevated, have regular borders, and often itch or bleed. They do not fit the ABCD rule for melanoma, which stands for asymmetry, border irregularity, color irregularity, large diameter, the team notes.”

So make sure that you check with your dermatologist if you notice any quickly-growing spots! Spot-checks, at least once a year, are vital to catching skin cancer.

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Here’s a handy guide from WikiHow.com with a number of tips for getting rid of stubborn hickeys. I’m not sure which of these actually work, but the cold spoons thing certainly sounds like the most valuable tip. I don’t recommend scraping yourself with a coin.

What do YOU do to get rid of or cover a hickey? Post a comment with your fun tips and stories.

[WikiHow to Remove a Hickey]