Trawling the aisles of your local supermarket may not be as satisfying as visiting your favourite department store, but with recession repair just peeping over the horizon, it’s time to address your mal-nourished bank balance with some budget beating grooming goods! Now, as the old saying goes, “You get what you pay for,” quality comes hand in hand with expense. But if decadent marketing and celebrity endorsements don’t mean all that much to you, try placing value for money at the ticker of your operation and try some of the best budget busting grooming products.

First up – Wingman Wipes

Fourth – Nickel Super Speed Moisturizer

Rules For The Modern Gentleman (available here) is the latest style-savvy app to take the iPhone by storm. Compiled by GQ Editor, Dylan Jones, Rules For The Modern Gentleman brings the “Dolce & Gabbana way of life” into the very palm of your hand. The app is totally free and encompasses all the modern tips a gent might need for dinner dates, corporate entertaining and generally, a more stylish approach to his lifestyle.

The dating game can be a mis-adventure for most, to say the least, but with Dolce & Gabbana’s Rules For The Modern Gentleman, entertaining your lady friend is more than taken care of with a comprehensive guide to wining and dining the special lady. One of our favourite tips, “You can’t choose who you fall in love with, but you can choose where you go to find them.” Basic common sense it may seem, but it catches the best of us out when we least expect it.

So why, after pruning my wardrobe, have Dolce & Gabbana now decided to polish my demeanor, I hear you ask?

Well, the App has been inspired by Dolce & Gabbana’s – The One fragrance. The idea being; when you don the fragrance, put your best foot forward, and if you follow the rules, forward it will go. A heart of Jasmine is lead-to by manadrin and peach top notes, ending with vanilla and masculine musk. Combine scent with stipulation and success is guaranteed.

Tried the App? We’d love to hear your experiences…

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Shaving is not only an arduous task, it’s an expensive one! Disposable razors can be pricey, some coming in at a whopping £12 for just 4 cartridges. Is there a way around this? Well, Razorpit – a brand new sharpening tool, claims to reduce your shaving related expenses by sharpening used blades back to suitable quality and ready for re-use. By simply stroking this silicone strip 3 times with a little shave oil and your used blade, Razorpit brings your cartridge back into form. But does it really work? We decided to put it to the test…. Read more →

When it comes to shaving, I have always backed tradition, a good razor, good oil and a bit of elbow grease. Well, time is becoming of the essence and we’re all struggling to keep up with the rat race of our hectic society, so when I was approached by Braun to try their latest electric shaver; Braun 3-380, I couldn’t refuse.

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BaByliss are really putting the “I” back into “I’m looking good” with their latest i-Stubble for men: a shaver with a unique flexing head that follows the contours of your face and provides one of the most polished and length-perfect shaves around.

Forget the clicking and sliding of most custom shavers as well because the BaByliss i-Stubble boasts a flashy LCD screen to let you take full control of your facial hair. Choose from a selection of fifteen motorized length settings and shave safe in the knowledge that you’ll start your day with stubble that is stylish and straight.

The shaver also sports a flexing head and a comb guide, with enough corners to reach even those hardest-to-shave areas. Simply twist and turn the flexi-head and then smoothly run it against the grain of your jaw line – you can then trim that difficult top-lip and nasal cavity area with no fuss whatsoever.

To finish, flip the comb guide back over the blade and trim any stray hairs for a polished and perfected look. And for that stylish shadow, opt for the 0.4 mm setting and shave away!

You’ll be the envy of every man and the want of every woman.

£60

www.babyliss.co.uk