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"Have you ever noticed that your man spends a lot of time in the mirror when getting ready for work in the morning? Or that he has no problem paying top dollars for his fave grooming products? Well, that&amp;#x27;s because he wants to look just as pretty as you do! (Ok, I kid. He probably wants to look handsome, not pretty.) And now there&amp;#x27;s a OMG-inducing new study that backs all this up! Allure and GQ magazines recently published their collaborative &amp;quot;2010 Beauty &amp;amp; Grooming Survey&amp;quot; which polled 1000 men and 1000 women in the 18-49 years old age range. The survey results included the following &amp;quot;Huh, who&amp;#x27;da thought?&amp;quot; factoids: - There&amp;#x27;s a seven minute gap between men and women when it comes to time spent on their beauty regime. [Translation: the ladies take just a handful of minutes more primping in front of the mirror than the gents.] - Compared to 10 years ago, 63 percent of men say they enjoy their daily grooming routine while 72 percent say they feel under even more pressure to care about their appearance. - Men use an overall average of 11 beauty products (only 5 less than women). - Men usually spend about $121 on grooming products ($73 less than women). - Oh yeah and that term &amp;quot;metrosexual&amp;quot; is soooo (in the words of Fergie) 2000 and late: At least 93 percent of men say that they think the word is &amp;quot;offensive, dated and doesn&amp;#x27;t describe me.&amp;quot; Now then: Is anyone really surprised to see that men want to look as good as women do?! Because I&amp;#x27;m not. I come from a family full of boys (three brothers to be exact) and I think they would spend more time in front of the mirror than I did growing up! (Yes, hard to believe it, but there was a time when all I wanted to do was run around outside and play kickball. Gotta love that tiny, country town living!) Now, if any man teases you for taking awhile to beautify yourself, don&amp;#x27;t be afraid to spout out these statistics (preferably while you&amp;#x27;re applying your &amp;#x27;gloss, just to make the point). So what do you think, ladies? Are your jaws currently dropped in amazement after reading this? Or (like me) do you think yeah, it&amp;#x27;s great to have the hard stats, but don&amp;#x27;t really find them that surprising? Have you found that your significant other is using more beauty products than you are? (My ex was notorious for using my super expensive Kerastase shampoo! So annoying.) What are some of the beauty products you use that your man has a tendency to borrow? See what else men like to do when it comes to beauty: Men And &amp;quot;Product&amp;quot;: What Does Your Guy Put On His Head? Man Cleavage: Let&amp;#x27;s Discuss Remember That Trend of Women Dying Their Hair Gray? Apparently It&amp;#x27;s Caught On With Men, Too *** More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage Photo: Thinkstock "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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