CORRECTING AND REPLACING FEATURE/Clean Shave Gets the Rave: Survey of Attitudes about Facial Hair Reveals That ``Less is More''.To download high-resolution, print-ready JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. images, click on the thumbnail image above. WARNING: these images are very large (800K+) Click here for caption Feature Editors CORRECTION...by The Gillette Company FEATURE... NOTE TO MEDIA: Multimedia assets available http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.092403/bb12 BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 2003 In BW5548 issued Sept. 24, 2003: Third graf, second sentence of release should read: And, women find the clean-shaven look to be sexier than stubble or a moustache moustache Pitchfork, Whale's tail Interventional cardiology A popular term for the distal bifurcation of the left anterior descending coronary artery. See Collateral circulation. (48% versus 3% and 3% respectively) (sted: And, women find the clean-shaven look to be sexier than stubble or a moustache (46% versus 22% and 9% respectively)). Also the graph located at http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.092403/bb12 has been replaced with a corrected version. The release reads: FEATURE/CLEAN SHAVE GETS THE RAVE: SURVEY OF ATTITUDES ABOUT FACIAL HAIR Noun 1. facial hair - hair on the face (especially on the face of a man) hair - a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"; "each hair REVEALS THAT ``LESS IS MORE'' Stubble is out...clean-shaven is in. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a recent survey of both women and men, conducted on behalf of Gillette MACH3Turbo Champion, less is more when it comes to facial hair. The survey revealed that almost half the women polled said they preferred the clean shaven look over every other style - including goatee, moustache, soul patch Noun 1. soul patch - a small patch of facial hair just below the lower lip and above the chin Attilio beard, face fungus, whiskers - the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face , beard and of course, stubble. When asked why they prefer clean-shaven men, women typically referenced the physical discomfort or the lack of intimacy involved in kissing someone with facial hair. Clean-shaven men were also more likely to be perceived by women as more honest than men with facial hair. And, women find the clean-shaven look to be sexier than stubble or a moustache (48% versus 3% and 3% respectively). Lucky for men, almost half (46%) of them sport the clean-shaven look. For those men who do choose facial hair, the goatee is the style most frequently worn with 21% of men wearing them. Stubble (12%), moustache (11%), large sideburns side·burns pl.n. Growths of hair down the sides of a man's face in front of the ears, especially when worn with the rest of the beard shaved off. [Alteration of burnsides. (6%) and chin beard (5%) follow, with soul patch (4%) and full beard A full beard is a type of downward flowing beard with either styled or integrated moustache; i.e. a full-grown, long beard. Unlike many other beard styles, a full beard makes use of nearly all of a male's facial hair. (2%) as the least popular styles. When men were asked who most influenced their facial hairstyle, women topped the list, with male friends following a distant second place. Additionally, a significant number of women (29 %) said that men should shave every day -- even on weekends. About the Survey Five hundred women and 400 men, between the ages of 15 and 30 were polled by Knowledge Network on behalf of The Gillette Company. About Gillette The Gillette MACH3Turbo Champion is available to consumers across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. in food, drug, convenience and mass merchandise outlets. The suggested retail price of the Gillette MACH3Turbo Champion razor set (razor, organizer and two cartridges) in the U.S. is $8.99. The suggested retail price of a MACH3Turbo 4-pack of cartridges in the U.S. is $8.99. Headquartered in Boston, MA, The Gillette Company is the world leader in male grooming, a category that includes blades, razors, and shaving preparations. Gillette also holds the number one position worldwide in selected female grooming products, such as wet shaving products and hair epilation epilation /ep·i·la·tion/ (-la´shun) depilation. ep·i·la·tion n. The act or result of removing hair, as by mechanical or chemical means. Also called depilation. devices. In addition, the Company is the world leader in alkaline batteries and manual and power toothbrushes. Note: A photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.092403/bb12 |
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