And yes, drinking a lot of water is one of them.

The prevalence of beauty in today&#39;s world is not to be scoffed at and that includes&nbsp;men&#39;s grooming, which a lot of us find hard to&nbsp;convince&nbsp;the typical men in our lives.

But, take it from stylist Matthew Henson, also known as &quot;the man who dresses A$AP Rocky and The Weeknd&quot;. He has&nbsp;been at the top of the fashion game since his late twenties&mdash;around the same age, uncoincidentally, that this stylist started his regimented grooming routine.

It doesn&#39;t matter what&nbsp;the fashion or beauty-related task is at hand, it seems one modus operandi stands true for Henson: it&#39;s not about achieving the &quot;right&quot; look,&nbsp;it&#39;s about&nbsp;finding the right items to enhance&nbsp;your&nbsp;look. 

And the L&#39;Officiel USA team caught up with the stylist to the stars to find out what grooming tips and tricks (which include a lot of Dior skincare and jugs of water!) keep him looking so fresh and we have the deets for you to pass on to your&nbsp;man.

See how you can enhance your man&#39;s looks with Matthew Henson:

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Tell us about how you start your mornings.

Usually, I wake up, and as boring as it sounds, I drink a ton of water. Because I have no idea what I&#39;m going to encounter during the day, I try to hydrate as much as I can in the morning. Then, I am somebody who substitutes Kind bars for full meals, so I&#39;ll have a Kind bar and then hopefully at some point, sometime during the day I&#39;ll be able to eat again.

Hydrate again, a little food. Then, I am a freak for skin, so I exfoliate my skin and moisturize a lot. I use this vitamin booster &ndash; a vitamin booster &ndash; from Dior. I use it every morning with my moisturizer, I use it as a combo. It keeps my skin super hydrated throughout the day.

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Have you noticed a difference from when you first started your skincare regimen?&nbsp;

Yeah. I have combination skin, so I can be either really dry or really oily. Basically, what I think it did is even the texture of my skin out. Now, it&#39;s not oily or dry. It&#39;s just skin, it&#39;s just matte, most of the time.

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Are there any grooming practices you try to avoid? Some guys don&#39;t shave, some don&#39;t moisturize.&nbsp;Is there anything you might avoid?&nbsp;

I don&#39;t really clean my skin with a facial cleanser, I just use water. I think sometimes when you do too much to your skin, it shows immediately. Even the most organic face wash, there&#39;s still too much going on in there.

I wash my face with cold water and I&#39;ll scrub it with a loofah or something after, nothing too fancy. And then, I&#39;ll just moisturize, and that&#39;s normally all I need, since I&#39;ve been taking care of my skin, which happened admittedly started happening when I turned 30. Preparation for the old days starts now.&nbsp;

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When talking to your clients, or your friends&nbsp;who are men, what do you think guys do wrong when it comes to grooming?&nbsp;

I think when you do too much, in a way that is not your natural self. I know some guys that love to have their beards tapered to a T and it looks like it&#39;s drawn on. Same thing with eyebrows.

Some guys trim their eyebrows or remove their unibrow, those are the things that are so unique to men that I think they should be maintained and kept. Looking like your authentic self. I think, outside of that, I think that&#39;s pretty much it. Facial hair and eyebrows should be left alone.

I agree. I know you mentioned some of the Dior products earlier, but is there another one that might have changed your life? Or one that you&#39;re hoping to try out?&nbsp;

You know what&#39;s funny? A mentor of mine wore the fragrance Bois D&#39;argent&nbsp;and he wore it every day, for years. So every day, it&#39;s such a familiar scent for me and it has so many memories attached to it, so I want to find a Dior fragrance for me so that I can do the same thing and wear it every day and have it attached to so different points in my life.

Bois D&#39;argent is the one I know best, but I&#39;m excited to try more of them.&nbsp;It&#39;s light, it&#39;s nice and light. Do you remember the cartoon, Pepe Le Pew? It&#39;s almost like you can see the way it smells and it&#39;s so inviting and it&#39;s amazing.

Get your man groomed to perfection with stylist Matthew Henson

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