9 Grooming Habits That Turn Off All Women

9 Grooming Habits That Turn Off All Women

#3. Chewed hangnails

Women love to look at your hands because we imagine them touching us. That fantasy is a lot less satisfying when the skin around your nails is gnawed into hamburger. So stop biting and apply hand lotion around your nails before bed. It’ll soak in overnight, and after a couple of weeks you’ll undo the damage.

#4. Nose hair

You know what nose hair says to us? “I’m old and never look in a mirror.” If you don’t want to drop the cash on an electronic nose-hair trimmer from Brookstone or Sharper Image, buy a small pair of scissors in the makeup aisle of a drugstore. Make trimming another Sunday ritual. Lift your chin in front of a mirror, look up your nose, and assume women see you from that angle. (We’re generally shorter.) Then trim appropriately.

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