DIY style, Do-It-Yourself style.
In today's video, gents, seven things a man can do himself to improve his image, save
money, and save time.
Skill set number one a man can pick up to improve his style and save time and save money:
Learn to sew.
We're talking about basic sewing skills here.
I'm not expecting you go out and build bespoke jacket.
That can take a lifetime almost twenty years of work to be able to get up to that skill
level.
But, within twenty minutes you can learn the basics of how basically to sew on a button,
how to hem your trousers, how to dart a shirt.
These things are very simple.
And guess what?
They're incredibly useful.
You won't have to take everything to a clothier or a tailor or to a seamstress to get adjusted.
You can start to do some of these yourself, save yourself money.
It's also about, hey, you're walking into a big meeting and you just had a button right
here where you are about to tie this, you know, put together right here popped off.
How can you reattach?
Well, guess what?
You're at a hotel you go down, you ask for the emergency sewing kit which many hotels
have this and you're able to immediately sew on that button.
Again, I don't know why men are sometimes turned off by this.
Maybe it's society which is somehow put this as woman's work.
But, that could be nothing further from the truth because when it comes down to it you
wear clothing you want to look great in your clothing, your clothing sends a symbol of
who you are, what you stand for, and you don't want to let something, you know, if it breaks
down, you need to know how to repair it the same with the car.
The same with many other things, it's about being self-sufficient.
Do-It-Yourself tip number two:
Learn how to take care of the biggest organ in your body.
Gentlemen, I'm talking about your skin.
It's funny, we spent a lot of time in the gym working on our muscles, but what covers
our muscles what covers our body?
When people look at us in the face, what do they see?
They see our face and your skin is a reflection of your health, it's a reflection of who you
are, and you want to take care of it.
So, focus in first on the food that goes in your body. Understand that it has a huge effect
on your skin.
You want to focus in on putting the right food into your body.
Next stop number two let's talk about actually conditioning taking care of the skin.
And if you get really bad rashes, if the environment is pulling out moisture from your skin, it
makes sense, right?
To add it right back in to make sure you don't get crack hands, to make sure on your face
you're not getting wrinkles and looking worn out before you need to be.
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Do-It-Yourself skill set number three:
Know how to steam, know how to iron, know how to press your own clothing.
Guys, this is going to save you're a lot of time, it's going to save you a lot of money.
Let's look at how much you can spend over the period of a year.
Fifty two weeks in a year, you spend $10 to $20 every single week getting your clothing
sending it off to the drycleaners.
Okay, that's $500 to almost over $1,000 per year you're spending on this service.
And, with that type of money even with half of that you could get a great steamer, you
could get a great iron and all of a sudden you can do this at home.
Now, some of you guys are saying, okay, Antonio, well, I want to save time, that's the whole
reason I take it out there.
But think about how long it's at the cleaners, sometimes it's there for twenty four hours
for forty eight hours for seventy hours.
Sometimes they lose your things.
There's also the time of going to and from.
But, if you batched process your ironing and you're steaming, you'll find that, hey, I
get very good at it, I can get very fast at it, I'm able to fully control get it exactly
how I want and be able to do it in the comfort of my home.
If you want more details on how to steam, iron, and even press clothing, I'm going to
put some directions down in the description of this video.
Go check it out.
Do-It-Yourself style tip number four:
Whiten your own teeth at home.
Why do you want to have a white teeth?
Because white teeth are a sign of health that make you look like you have a great smile.
Not for everybody if it really doesn't matter to you , then don't worry about it.
But, again, if you're the face of your company, if you're meeting with people, if you're smiling
a lot, shaking, and engaging with new prospects, you're a real estate agent, maybe this is
going to be something that people are just going to love your smile and they're going
to be more open to your message.
So, DIY teeth kits for whitening your teeth, you'll find them all over the place.
I've recommended some, go ahead and go search my channel.
You'll see there are certain companies I highly recommend and I've tested.
But when it comes down to it, you just want to make sure that you don't overdo it.
And that's what I love about those kits.
Don't get the DIY where you like mix things you do it on your own, that I don't like because
you can't control the concentration, don't go out use hydrogen peroxide or things like
it.
Don't do that, buy an actual kit because you're still going to save a lot of money versus
going to the dentist.
Do-It-Yourself style tip number five:
Learn how to cook.
How is this a style tip?
Well, I talked about it earlier, but when you control the food that's going into your
body, you're able to control your weight, you're able to control oftentimes how your
skin looks, you're able to maintain the shape that you want to with a lot less effort than
if you're just trying to do exercise alone.
And your body, a fit body is the base of a well-dressed man.
Guys, pay attention to these details to the small to the things going in your body it
makes such a huge difference.
Do-It-Yourself style tip number six:
Learn how to clean clothing properly specifically how to treat stains.
So, that's one of the worst things whenever you've got really nice clothing and you get
it dirty and you're like, oh, my gosh, did I just ruin this, did I just damage it.
If you have a wool sports jacket and you just spilled barbecue sauce or wine all over it,
you've got a silk pocket square and somehow somebody thought it was good to took to take
it out and use it to wipe their hands.
Those are things which oh you're like, oh, like how do I treat it?
So, in the description of this video I'll link over with a support article and that
support article, I'll link to how to treat all different types of stains.
And it's amazing though how you can actually salvage clothing if you treat it quickly and
properly.
Let's say you're sitting down with that nice pair of wool trousers and you sit right on
a piece of gum, well, what do you do?
Well, immediately you want to take it and you want to cool them down, you want to take
some ice put it right there on the gum because most likely it was hot, that's how it started
to get into the wool.
So, you want to free, you know, cool it down really fast, get it hard, then to start to
chip it off and break it off.
If you get blood on something, run cold water over it.
Yes, even if it's wool and oftentimes will never put anything hot on this, but actually
use cold water immediately.
Cold water is actually going to solve a lot of immediate problems, but the key is to treat
immediately and figure out exactly how to do this.
You could with the internet at your disposal, you can oftentimes find this information,
but like I said I'll have the handy little chart in the support article.
Do-It-Yourself style tip number seven is actually to put a rubber sole on the bottom of your
shoes.
Yes, you can do this.
Yes, there are kits out there.
Why would you want to do this?
Okay.
So, if anyone has ever owned a pair of leather soled shoes, it's a sign of quality, but also
this can be incredibly slippery.
I know some of you guys have fallen down, I have fallen down.
So, it's great when you've got, you know, they've got like a little bit of a rubber
sole right here, but sometimes you want a lot more traction.
Well, you want to buy one of those kits, they'll use a certain type of cement, occasionally
they'll use these small tacks that you can hammer right in.
And, the key though is to make sure that you have the sole right here and right here.
You don't want to just put it in the back heel or just put it in the front.
Now, if you put this bottom on, understand that you will actually lengthen and allow
the shoes to last a little bit longer, but you're going to have to change that pretty
regularly.
All right, guys so now it's your turn.
I want to hear from you down in the comments what do-it-yourself style tip would you have
added to this video?
What did I miss, what have you been doing yourself to improve your style and to save
money and to save time?
And, gentlemen, go check out the sponsor of this video, PMD Men.
I'm going to pull up their website one more time.
I want you to go check out this personal microderm tool.
Again, I had it inspected by an aesthetician.
I have used it myself.
This thing is incredible.
For and remember, this helps to reduce enlarged pores, it helps to eliminate ingrown hairs,
and it smoothes rough skin.
At the end of the day, guys, what I'm trying to do is equip you with tools that you can
use to improve your style to look better and to feel more confident about yourself.
In the description of this video, I'm going to link to PMD Men.
I met the founders, they come up to StyleCon.
Good company, I support them.
And at the end of the day, guys, take action on what I'm talking about in this video.
I really love seeing you guys down in the comments add value.
We created a great community here at Real Men Real Style and thank you for supporting
me, thank you for supporting the community, and thank you for supporting this channel
and building it up to what it is.
Gentlemen, take care.
I'll see you in the next video.