Is a man less masculine if he straightens his hair? Yes or no?

In a word… yes.

Hair straighteners have been a staple of every girl on this side of the moon’s beauty toolkit for several years. Its easy-to-use ceramic plates straighten your hair into a perfectly straight hair fall with a minimum of effort, training, and time. Gone are the days when nights were ruined for women who got caught up in a frantic mess of overheated blow dryers, sticky hair formula, big bulky brushes, and tears of despair. Now this element of the beauty regimen has become a breeze, apart from a few burns from those crazy hot dishes.

But the question is: can guys use them? Well of course they can use them. It is physically possible for a man to buy them, grow his hair, and then straighten it. (Maybe not in that order though.) But should it?

If the latest ads from cosmetics and hair care companies are anything to go by, then there’s no doubt that it’s cool now for men to look good. Gone are the days when a ‘real guy’ was a man with bruised knuckles, a beer-stained beard, and an unhappy sex life. Now that we are in the 21st century, men have picked up on the fact that women like men to look good, and one way to do that is to have nice hair.

For millions of men who have been cursed with shyness due to their genetically decreed hair style, hair straighteners have been a godsend that propelled them into the arms of beautiful women they might otherwise be afraid to approach. . Sideways glances and hindsight comments from their uninitiated peers aside, men can now enjoy the freedom to express themselves in the hair department in a way that styling grease and a razor never could.

For many who think that this is the beginning of the end of masculinity, they would be wrong for two reasons. For one, hair relaxers are just one in a long line of styling and beauty products that are slowly making their way into the average man’s routine alongside aftershaves and chocolate hair products: look for curlers, eyeliner and concealer in the men’s section soon. For two, this is not the sign of diminished masculinity in society; this is simply a sign that men are standing up for their rights in the same way (perhaps not exactly the same way) that women have fought for theirs throughout the last century. Men have the right to straighten out!