- I want my mask back.
I want my moisture.
I want, you know, my usual hair routine.
(upbeat music)
Hi, I'm Spenser, and this week I, a woman,
am going to be using men's beauty products.
I'm gonna be taking all the things that I usually use,
and replace them with what men around my office use.
What exactly do you use to wash your face?
- Water.
And, hand soap?
- Hand soap.
So, basically what you're saying is that you wash your face
with body wash.
- Well, yes, 'cause it's part of my body.
- Would you consider yourself a clean guy?
- No.
- Now, Troy, what do you wash your face with?
(laughs)
- I use Irish Spring.
- What do you use to wash your face?
- The bar of soap.
The same bar of soap I use to wash my body,
and my hair, and everything.
- Okay, what kind of soap is that, do you know?
- Irish Spring.
- Okay.
- I like to use Men's Dove Care.
- Zack, what do you use to wash your body?
- I use Old Spice Swagger.
- Are you a two-in-one kind of guy?
- I'm not a two-in-one kinda guy.
Am I?
- Nothing crazy!
- No two-in-one?
- Two-in-one!
- Do you use Head and Shoulders 2-in-1?
- Okay, I just bought Head and Shoulders 2-in-1
for the first time literally yesterday,
because I don't need to use conditioner,
'cause my hair doesn't need it.
(piano music)
- I think for everything that I bought,
I only spent around $30.
If I was gonna buy a female product,
that would typically be a little bit more expensive.
I washed my hair with that two-in-one shampoo.
A lot more lather, by the way,
than most of the hair products that I use,
which was fine and felt great,
but it felt wrong.
The minute I got out of the shower after using
the two-in-one conditioner and shampoo combination,
I knew that brushing through my hair
was going to be one of the hardest things I had
to do that day.
Usually my brush just like glides through my hair,
because of all the conditioner
and hydrating stuff I put in it,
but that is not the case.
(yells)
Oh my God.
Inside I am panicking, since I have to do this for a week.
Am I gonna have any hair on my head by the end of the week?
Who's to say.
After using the Irish Spring on my face and my body,
I felt pretty dry.
Everything feels so dry (whimpers).
I still don't think that you should be washing your face
with hand, or body, soap.
I felt suspiciously clean after I washed my face
with the Irish Spring.
Also, the entire time I was doing it,
it felt very wrong.
It went against everything I've ever stood for
in terms of skin care, and I feel so dry right now.
So, today is the beginning of day two.
Last night I washed my hair with the Old Spice 2-in-1,
which I was very nervous about.
Even when I was in the shower,
it just felt a little less moisturizing
than the shampoo I usually use.
To be honest, now that it's dry,
it feels pretty good.
I did notice I had a few tiny little pimples pop up
on my face overnight.
I've got some new friends.
Got some new friends on my face, all right.
Hmm.
Hmm!
Could that be the bar of soap?
On my face?
Before I left for work, something funny happened.
My roommate's mom and her aunt have been staying with us
for the week, and as I walked out of my room today
to go to work, her mom said to me,
"You know, when I walked into that bathroom,
"I got a flashback of my dad."
And, it's just so funny,
because it's because the bathroom smells like Irish Spring.
So, that's fun!
When I got to work, I actually talked to Lindsay
and let her know that I had washed my hair
with two-in-one shampoo.
- Okay, wait, wait, wait, it's actually shiny.
- I know.
- Wait, wait.
(laughs) Oh man, I don't wanna support this, but--
- It's really not that bad.
- It's not that bad!
Also, you have color treated hair,
so you should be using special things.
- I know, I have like two masks.
- Does it have sulfate in the two-in-one?
- Oh God, I haven't even looked yet!
- Oh!
That's the no-no.
- I can answer, it does, indeed, have sulfates in it.
Am I excited that I have put that in my hair for a week?
No!
Also, I washed my face with Irish Spring.
Good morning everyone!
I have, new pimples coming in.
I've got a few, I've got a few here, few here.
This one's gettin' worse.
I've got some around my nose.
I can only imagine that's because I washed my face
with Irish Spring.
Not a coincidence that it was happening
as I was using soap on my face.
Also, according to the guys in my office,
they don't wash their hair everyday.
Personally, I only wash my hair maybe once a week,
and in between that I never get it wet.
I'm being told that although guys
don't wash their hair every single day,
they do get it wet when they're in the shower.
Which I don't fully understand,
but listen, I'm here for the experience.
I don't know about you,
but whenever I'm not washing my hair,
I'm not getting it wet.
I'm avoiding water at all costs.
I said to someone at work, I was like,
"Oh, I didn't wash my hair today,
"but I did get it wet."
And they were like, "Oh, that's fine.
"It just looks like the slicked back look."
That's not the look I was going for.
My hair was just greasy.
When I used the Dove soap on my face and my body,
it actually didn't feel that bad.
I felt like it was a little bit more moisturizing
than the Irish Spring.
The Dove bar soap felt much better on my face,
in that it didn't make it feel like
it was like stripped of everything.
The Irish Spring kind of made it feel like, you know,
it was stripping everything good away from my skin.
However, my skin was dry.
Okay, I got two days without using moisturizer on my skin,
and I have to call it here, because my face is so dry.
It's itchy, it feels so tight.
I'm calling in the moisturizer,
and I'm calling it an emergency, because I need this.
I don't know.
It's so thick and I feel so like greasy and shiny.
Like, I'm all for being dewy,
but (laughs) this is like another level.
I feel better, but was it worth it?
(laughs)
Day four.
I woke up in the morning, it was the weekend.
I did wash my hair with the two-in-one Old Spice today,
and I also washed my body with the Dove Men Plus Care soap,
and I washed my face.
I have come across an issue.
For people that know me,
I don't wear makeup during the week,
but during the weekend I have a habit
of wearing some pretty full glam makeup,
which means I'm probably gonna have to wash my face
with soap to get it off.
I did go out Saturday night.
I was dancing, and you know what?
I smelled great.
The deodorant lasted me all night.
Now, we're in the home stretch.
I am like, "Okay, this isn't too bad."
My hair has felt fine, you know,
I'm thriving, I'm living.
However, one of the last days, I woke up,
it was a whole different problem.
Good morning, world.
It's official.
(uptempo music)
My hair is suffering the consequences
of using men's products.
I knew this day would come.
I can't say that I'm surprised.
I'm a little upset.
Just look at this.
If you could only feel,
how crunchy this hair is.
I am glad I'm putting myself
on the internet looking like this.
But, you know what, I said, "Spenser,
"let's brush through it.
"It might not be that bad,
"you probably just slept on it crazy.
"You had crazy dreams or something,
"like you were probably rollin' around."
No!
So, I finally brushed out my hair (breathing).
You know, after waking up looking crazy.
And even after brushing my hair,
still dry!
Still dry!
I'm really thriving over here, look at that.
(scoffs)
I decided, you know what?
I'm not washing my hair.
I'm not getting it wet.
I'm just gonna pull it back, and you know what,
we'll go back to the Irish Spring.
We'll give it another try.
It couldn't have been that bad.
You know, I'm sudsin' up, I'm washin' up,
and I'm like, "You know, this smells fine",
but I was suspiciously clean.
That's the only way I could describe it.
I was suspiciously clean.
I was squeaky clean.
Your face should not squeak when you put your hands on it.
After this week, my skin is dry.
It is lacking moisture.
I'm breaking out a little bit.
And my hair,
my hair's real dry.
It doesn't matter who things are marketed towards,
it's whether a product is good or not.
Some of these products were great.
They'd be great for whoever wants to use them.
For me, personally, in my opinion,
not my thing.
However, I do have a new favorite deodorant,
and that is the Old Spice deodorant.
I've got it on right now.
(sniffs) That's fresh.
That's a fresh pit.
(bright music)