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Looksmaxxing (n.) is the mostly male online pursuit of maximizing physical attractiveness, from grooming and fitness to surgery and drugs.
Looksmaxxing (n.) is a skincare routine that got its vocabulary from a forum that resents women.
Looksmaxxing (n.) is the discovery that men, too, can be told they are never quite enough.
Looksmaxxing (n.) is chasing a ranking that nobody you'd want to date is actually keeping.
Looksmaxxing (n.) is learning the word for every flaw before learning anyone's name.
Mewing, pressing the tongue to the roof of the mouth to reshape the jaw, has no solid evidence that it changes facial structure.
Its "PSL" attractiveness scale takes its initials from three forums where the movement grew: PUAHate, Sluthate and Lookism.
Looksmaxxing (n.) is the beauty industry's oldest pitch, finally sold to boys in the language of a video game.
The earliest known use of "looksmaxxing" traces to a forum on Lookism.net in June 2015, years before TikTok made it mainstream.
Looksmaxxing (n.) is mostly drinking water and doing push-ups, described as if it were a heist.