Article: From bone smashing to chin extensions: how ‘looksmaxxing’ is reshaping young men’s faces

[Pierce Manhammer]

Dear lord.

From bone smashing to chin extensions: how ‘looksmaxxing’ is reshaping young men’s faces

Chiselled jaws, pouty lips, hunter eyes: everything is up for grabs in the quest to increase ‘sexual market value’. But how did this extreme cosmetic craze become mainstream?

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"Chiselled jaws, pouty lips, hunter eyes: everything is up for grabs in the quest to increase ‘sexual market value’. But how did this extreme cosmetic craze become mainstream?"

 

[AmsterdamAssassin]

Cosmetic surgery targets the insecure.

 

[eli77]

Cosmetic surgery targets the insecure.

So true I think outside of lasik eye surgery everything else is very overrated

 

[AmsterdamAssassin]

So true I think outside of lasik eye surgery everything else is very overrated

Not really. Most cosmetic surgery came about to repair war-torn faces of soldiers and burn victims and correcting harelips. And I fully support people using cosmetic surgery to, for instance, remove what shouldn't be there, like wine blotches or big facial moles, but where do you draw the line? A nip here, a tuck there...