Aura: Looksmaxxing Looksmaxxing Knowledge Base
Practical guides to improve your face, jawline, eye area, skin, and overall presence. Skip the forum noise.
Softmaxxing for Women: What It Means and What Works
Softmaxxing for women explained: where the term comes from, which habits are worth your time, which claims to skip, and a simple four-week routine.
Makeup for Face Shape: A Flexible Placement Guide
Makeup for face shape, without the rigid rules: where blush and contour usually go, where guides disagree, and a simple way to find placement that suits you.
Oval Face Shape Hairstyles: Cuts That Work and Why
Oval face shape hairstyles explained: how to check your shape, which short, medium and long cuts stylists recommend, and how to brief your stylist.
Jawline Exercises for Women: What Works and What Doesn't
Jawline exercises for women, honestly reviewed: what the research shows, which moves are safe, what to skip, and styling tweaks that change how your jaw reads.
Oblong Face Shape: How to Tell and What Suits It
Learn how to tell if you have an oblong face shape, how it differs from oval and square, and which haircuts and glasses add width without adding height.
Glow Up Tips for Women: What Actually Works
Glow up tips for women that hold up: daily sunscreen, a shorter skincare routine, better sleep, hair and style basics, and a simple four-week plan.
Best Glasses for an Oval Face: Almost Anything?
An oval face suits nearly every frame shape, so size becomes the deciding factor. How to read the numbers printed on the temple arm and use them.
Hairstyle for Round Face: What Stylists Recommend
Find the right hairstyle for a round face: stylist-backed cuts, bangs and layers, where experts disagree, and how to brief your stylist with confidence.
Best Beard for an Oval Face: 7 Styles Ranked
An oval face suits most beards, which makes length-to-width the thing to get right. Seven styles ranked, plus the two worth approaching carefully.
Canthal Tilt in Women: What the Studies Found
What studies on women's eye angles actually found, why the famous 93 percent figure came from edited photos, and practical brow and makeup ideas.
Female Jawline: What's Genetic and What Isn't
What actually shapes a female jawline, what the attractiveness research shows, why mewing falls short, and the hair and makeup choices that help.
How to Get Hunter Eyes: 5 Tips That Actually Work
Hunter eyes are mostly bone, and bone does not move. What the term means, which traits are fixed, and 5 things that do change the look.
Glow Up Checklist for Women: 30 Days, No Nonsense
Sunscreen, sleep, hair, grooming and fit, in the order that actually matters, plus a four-week plan built so the first week is easy to finish.
Most Attractive Face Shape for Men: The Studies
No single face shape wins. What studies say about jaw width, averageness and masculinity, and how to style the shape you actually have.
The 7 Face Shapes: Find Yours in 30 Seconds
The seven face shapes, how to pin yours down from one straight-on photo, and how to use the answer for glasses and haircuts without it becoming a rule.
Low Maintenance Hairstyles: What 'Easy' Means
Low maintenance means three different things: daily styling, salon frequency and wash routine. Cuts sorted by which kind of easy you need.
Best Glasses for a Triangle Face: Frames That Work
Frames that add weight up top to balance a wider jaw, where the standard guides contradict each other, and how to size frames to your own face.
Best Glasses for an Oblong Face: And What to Avoid
Frames that add width to a long face, the styles that stretch it further, where expert advice contradicts itself, and the measurements to check.
Haircuts for Square Faces: Soften or Lean In?
Soften a square jaw or lean into it, both work. Stylist-backed cuts, fringe options, texture advice and a salon brief you can read out loud.
Best Glasses for a Diamond Face: Frames That Fit
Which frames balance prominent cheekbones, how to confirm you are actually diamond, and the fit checks that matter more than the shape rule.
Best Glasses for a Heart Face: What Balances It
Frames that balance a wider forehead against a narrower chin, the shapes that make the imbalance worse, and how to check fit before you buy.
Best Glasses for a Round Face: Sharpen It Up
Angular frames add definition a round face lacks, but width matters more than shape. Which styles to try, which to skip, and how to size them.
Best Glasses for a Square Face: Soften the Jaw
Round and oval frames soften a strong jaw, but the rule has limits. Which shapes to try, where stylists disagree, and the fit checks that decide it.
Haircuts for Round Faces: What Stylists Agree On
Lobs, long layers, curtain bangs and pixies on a round face, where stylists openly disagree, and the wording to bring to your next appointment.
Best Haircut for a Triangle Face: 9 That Work
Nine cuts that add width up top to balance a heavy jaw, the styles that make the imbalance sharper, and barber wording that gets it right.
Best Haircut for an Oblong Face: 8 Cuts, 1 to Skip
Eight cuts that add width and visually shorten a long face, the one style that makes it worse, plus beard pairings and a barber script.
Best Haircut for a Diamond Face: 7 That Suit It
Seven cuts that widen the forehead and soften prominent cheekbones, which styles make a narrow chin worse, and how to brief your barber.
Best Haircut for a Heart Face: 7 That Suit It
Seven barber-tested cuts that balance a wide forehead against a narrow chin, the two styles to avoid, and the words to say at the chair.
Best Haircut for a Square Face: 9 That Suit It
Nine cuts that work with a strong jaw rather than competing with it, the styles that flatten the look, and how to ask for it clearly.
Best Haircut for a Round Face: 9 That Slim It
Nine cuts that add height and slim the cheeks, why volume on the sides works against you, and what to ask for so you leave with the right shape.
Best Haircut for an Oval Face: 10 That Suit It
An oval face takes almost any cut, so the decision moves to hair type. Ten styles, how to confirm your shape, and how to brief your barber.
Trimax Surgery: Procedure, Risks and Recovery
Upper jaw, lower jaw and chin in one operation: how it works, the risks that can be permanent, and why we don't recommend it for looks alone.
HGH Face Before and After: What It Really Does
HGH thickens the brow, lengthens the jaw and widens the nose, and the bone changes do not reverse. The risks, the law, and why we advise against it.
Looksmaxxing Chart: How to Actually Read It
What a looksmaxxing chart is actually measuring, how PSL scoring is derived, and how to read one without letting it become a verdict on you.
8 Jawline Exercises: Which Ones Do Anything?
Eight jawline exercises sorted by what the evidence supports: which build the masseter, which do nothing, and which put your jaw joint at risk.
Haircuts for a Receding Hairline: 6 That Hide It
Six cuts that work with a receding hairline instead of fighting it, why the comb-forward backfires, and the exact words to use at the barber.
Dimorphism: Why a Face Reads Male or Female
Sexual dimorphism explains why some faces read male or female at a glance. The specific features involved, and what the preference research found.
How to Thicken Eyebrows for Men: What Works
Brows thin from over-plucking, age and genetics, and each responds differently. What grooming fixes, what serums do, and when microblading makes sense.
How to Fix Asymmetrical Eyebrows: 5 Real Fixes
Most brow asymmetry is muscle and habit, not bone. Five fixes from shaping to filling, and when it is worth seeing someone about it.
Jaw Implants: Cost, Recovery and Real Risks
What jaw implants are, how the surgery works, the risks including nerve damage and revision, and why we don't recommend them for looks.
Softmaxxing vs Hardmaxxing: Where to Start
Softmaxxing is reversible and cheap, hardmaxxing is neither. What each involves, who each suits, and how to build a plan that fits your goals.
Ideal Philtrum Length: The Numbers Explained
Philtrum length is one of the ratios that shifts most with age. What the numbers are, how to measure yours, and what actually changes it.
Are Hooded Eyes Attractive? The Honest Answer
Hooded lids are one of the most common eye shapes, not a defect. What the research actually shows, and how to work with the lid instead of against it.
Mewing vs Bonesmashing: One of Them Is Dangerous
One is harmless and slow, the other causes permanent damage. What each actually involves and why the comparison gets made at all.
Bimax Cost: What the Price Actually Covers
What a bimax quote covers and leaves out, the risks no price includes, and why we don't recommend jaw surgery for appearance alone.
Compact Midface: Why It Reads as Attractive
A compact midface means a short distance between eyes and mouth, and it reads as attractive for a measurable reason. How to assess yours.
Ideal FWHR: The Number Everyone Measures Wrong
Facial width-to-height ratio is measured inconsistently across studies, which is why the numbers disagree. How to take it and what it predicts.
Hyper Masculine Face: The Traits Behind It
Brow ridge, jaw width, midface length and chin projection drive it. The science behind each trait, and which are trainable versus fixed.
How to Grow Masseter Muscle Without Wrecking Teeth
The masseter does hypertrophy, but chewing hard gum daily wrecks teeth and jaw joints. What builds it safely and what the dentists see.
Accutane Before and After: Month by Month
What accutane photos show month by month, the side effects that need monitoring, why results differ, and why it is never a looksmaxxing shortcut.
Buccal Fat Removal Gone Wrong: What You Can't Undo
Buccal fat removal cannot be undone, and the hollowing often shows up years later. The real risks, who regrets it, and why we don't recommend it.
Jaw Filler for Men: Before, After and Regrets
What jaw filler realistically changes for men, what it costs year after year, the risks, why some regret it, and why we don't recommend it for looks.
Brow Ridge in Men: Why It Changes a Face So Much
The brow ridge shapes how deep-set the eyes look and reads as masculine. The anatomy behind it, and what can and cannot be changed.
Gonial Angle: The Jaw Number That Matters Most
The gonial angle is the single most cited jaw measurement and the most misreported. How it is taken on an x-ray, what is normal, and what shifts it.
Small Eyes on Men: Actually a Problem?
Small eyes often sit under a strong brow ridge, which reads as intensity rather than weakness. What the perception research found.
How to Get Low Set Eyebrows: What Actually Works
Brow position is bone plus muscle tone. What grooming and shaping genuinely shift, what makeup fakes well, and what requires a procedure.
How to Ascend: The Realistic Looksmaxxing Path
Ascending is mostly unglamorous: body fat, sleep, skin, grooming, fit. The sequence that compounds, and the shortcuts that waste a year.
How to Grow Your Maxilla: Age Changes Everything
Maxillary expansion works reliably before the midpalatal suture fuses and gets surgical after. Where that line falls and what to do on each side.
Oval vs Diamond Face: The Difference Is Subtle
The difference comes down to cheekbone width against forehead width, and it is subtle. How to tell them apart and why it changes your frames.
Volufiline Lips: Before, After and the Catch
What volufiline actually is, how long before anything shows, how the results compare to filler, and whether it holds up when you stop.
Brow Ridge Implants: Cost, Risks and Recovery
What brow ridge implants involve, the risks that can be permanent, what they cost, and why we don't recommend them for appearance.
Orbital Box Osteotomy: Before, After and Risks
Skull surgery that moves the whole eye socket: what it involves, the risks including vision loss, and why we don't recommend it for appearance.
Thin Lips on Men: Attractive or Not?
Lip fullness carries far less weight for men than for women. What the studies found, which features matter more, and what makes a real difference.
Why Big Noses Read as Unattractive (and When Not)
Nose size matters less than projection and the angle to the lip. What the ratio research shows, and what actually changes how it reads.
Is Your Maxilla Recessed? 5 Signs to Check
Five signs you can check yourself: the bite, the nasolabial angle, the under-eye, the lip position and the profile line. Plus when to get imaging.
How to Get Forward Growth: What's Still Possible
Forward growth is largely set by childhood. What posture, chewing and breathing can still influence as an adult, and what they cannot.
How to Mog Someone: What It Actually Takes
Mogging is mostly height, posture and grooming, not bone structure. What actually creates the effect, and why chasing it tends to backfire.
MTN vs HTN: Where Do You Actually Land?
Mid-tier and high-tier normie describe overlapping ranges, which is why people argue about them. What separates the two in practice.
Clean Shaven vs Stubble: Which Suits Your Face?
Stubble adds shadow along the jaw, clean-shaven shows the bone itself. Which suits your face shape and skin, and what the perception research says.
Forward vs Downward Growth: Why Your Face Changed
Whether the face grew forward or downward explains the jawline, the airway and the chin. What caused it, and what is still changeable.
High vs Low Cheekbones: Which Reads Better?
High and low cheekbones are about where the malar bone sits, not how sharp it looks. How to identify yours and what each does to the midface.
Does Chin Filler Migrate? What to Watch For
Chin filler migrates more often than clinics admit. Why it happens, how to spot it, the risks beyond migration, and why we don't recommend it for looks.
Eye Spacing: The Ratio That Shapes Your Look
Eye spacing is one of the few facial ratios with consistent research behind it. What your IPD means, how to measure it, and what it does not predict.
Downturned Medial Canthus: What Can Be Done
A downturned inner corner changes the eye more than most people realise. What causes it, and which surgical and non-surgical options exist.
Ramus Length: The Jaw Measurement Few Check
Ramus height sets how long the lower face reads and is rarely checked. Where it is measured, what is typical, and what it means for your jaw.
How to Fix Negative Canthal Tilt: Real Options
Canthal tilt is set by bone and ligament, so mewing does nothing for it. What the real options are, from styling to canthoplasty, and what each costs.
Y Taper vs V Taper: Which One Reads Better?
The Y taper comes from lat width high on the back, the V from the waist. What separates them and how to train toward the one you want.
Wide vs Narrow Palate: Why It Changes Your Face
Palate width affects the face, the airway and the bite together. How to check yours, and what expansion can do before and after the suture fuses.
Short vs Long Ramus: How It Shapes Your Jaw
Ramus height drives the lower-face ratio more than the jaw angle does. What each variant means and what can realistically be done.
Are Deep Set Eyes Attractive? What Studies Found
Deep set eyes read as intense because of the brow ridge above them. What perception studies found, and how lighting and brows change the effect.
Narrow Clavicles: How to Tell in 10 Seconds
A tape measure and a doorframe settle it in ten seconds. How to take the measurement properly, what counts as narrow, and what it means for your frame.
How to Get Rid of Itachi Lines: What Fades Them
Those lines under the eyes come from volume loss and repeated expression, not tiredness. What fades them, what hides them, and what prevents them.
How to Get Positive Canthal Tilt: Honest Options
The tilt is set by where the ligaments attach, so no exercise changes it. What styling achieves, and what the surgical options actually involve.
How to Fix a Recessed Maxilla: What Works by Age
What is possible depends almost entirely on whether your growth plates have closed. Expansion, surgery and the honest limits at each age.
Narrow vs Wide Clavicles: Can You Change Them?
Clavicle length is fixed after growth and sets your shoulder width. How to measure yours, and what training can and cannot compensate for.
High vs Low Lat Insertions: Can You Change Them?
Lat insertion height is genetic and sets the width of your V-taper. How to check yours, and what training can and cannot compensate for.
Good vs Bad Maxilla: See the Difference
What separates a well-positioned maxilla from a recessed one, how it changes the eyes and the smile, and which interventions work at which age.
Hunter Eyes vs Almond Eyes: Spot the Difference
Hunter eyes describe the brow and the tilt; almond describes the lid shape. The two get confused constantly. The anatomy that separates them.
Bimax Before and After: What Actually Changes
What double jaw surgery changes in the face, which of its risks can be permanent, and why we don't recommend it for appearance alone.
Flared Gonions: Why Your Jaw Looks Wide
Flared gonions make the jaw read wide from the front and odd from the side. What causes the flaring and which options actually address it.
How to Raise Your Hyoid Bone: Does It Work?
The hyoid is suspended in muscle and floats with your posture. What the swallowing research shows, and what to expect from training it.
Recessed vs Normal Maxilla: How to Tell
The profile line from forehead to chin settles it in one photo. How to take it, what to look for, and what the options are if it is recessed.
Hunter Eyes vs Prey Eyes: What Separates Them
Prey eyes sit under a flat brow with visible sclera above the iris. The specific traits behind each, and which parts respond to styling.
Bigonial Width: The Jaw Number Measured Wrong
Bigonial width is the distance between your jaw angles, and it is measured wrong constantly. What it is, how it is taken, and what the research shows.
How to Shave Without Cream: What to Use Instead
Water alone is the worst option. What to use instead, from conditioner to oils, the grain rule that matters more than the product, and the aftercare.
How to Get a Clean Shave Without Razor Burn
Razor burn comes from technique and pressure, not the blade. The prep, the grain direction, the aftercare, and the mistakes that cause bumps.
Flat vs Recessed Maxilla: How to Tell Them Apart
A flat maxilla and a recessed one are different problems with different fixes. How to tell them apart and what is realistic at your age.
Positive vs Negative Canthal Tilt: How to Tell
Measure the inner and outer corner against the horizontal, not against a photo taken from below. How to tell yours and what it does to the eye.
Minoxidil on Eyelashes: Why Doctors Say Don't
Why minoxidil near the eye is a bad idea, what Latisse risks too, what thinning lashes can signal, and why we don't recommend either for looks.
Minoxidil Eyebrows: Before, After, Side Effects
What minoxidil on eyebrows really does, why results fall out when you stop, the side effects, and why we don't recommend it for appearance.
Mandible vs Maxilla: Which One Is Your Problem?
Most jaw complaints are actually maxillary. How to tell which bone is the problem, since the fix for each is completely different.
Masculine Face Shape: The Traits That Define It
The specific features that make a face read masculine, how much each contributes, and which ones respond to anything other than genetics.
How to Grow Masseter Muscle: The Safe Way
Hard gum builds the masseter and damages teeth at the same time. The training that works, the dose that does not wreck your jaw joint.
Looksmax for Women: The Guide Nobody Writes
Skincare, facial structure, body composition and the habits that genuinely move the needle, written for women rather than adapted from male advice.
Chin to Philtrum Ratio: The Harmony Rule Explained
The chin-to-philtrum ratio is one of the clearest proportion rules in facial analysis. The numbers, how to measure yours, and what shifts it.
How to Raise Your Hyoid Bone: What's Possible
The hyoid sits in soft tissue, not fused to anything, which is why claims about raising it are overstated. The anatomy and what training can do.
K Shami's Height and Frame: The Full Breakdown
K Shami's listed height versus how he looks on camera, how frame and clavicle width change perceived size, and what is trainable.
K Shami Debloat Powder: Does It Do Anything?
K Shami's debloat powder, the claims behind it, and what actually causes a puffy face. Sodium, sleep and alcohol do more than any powder.
Sharpened Canine Teeth: Trend or Permanent Damage?
Filing canines is permanent and the enamel does not grow back. What the trend involves, what dentists say, and the reversible alternatives.
Dark Spots at the Outer Eye: Causes and Fixes
Dark patches at the outer eye are usually post-inflammatory or vascular, and the fix differs. The causes, the proven ingredients, the routine.
Hairstyle Forum Advice: What's Right, What's Junk
What hairstyle forums get right about matching cuts to face shapes, which rules are recycled nonsense, and what stylists actually use.
Does Bonesmashing Work? What Doctors Say
Bonesmashing claims repeated micro-trauma thickens facial bone. What the surgical literature says, what actually happens, and the permanent risks.
Jawmaxxing: What Moves the Needle, What Doesn't
Body fat does more for a jawline than every exercise combined. What genuinely works, in order of effect, and what to stop paying for.
Pheromone Max: Does Any of It Actually Work?
Pheromone sprays have almost no evidence behind them. What actually affects how you smell, and the grooming basics that do the work.
The Looksmaxxing Scale: Where You Actually Sit
How the looksmaxxing scale is built, what each band actually describes, and how to turn a score into something you can act on this month.
Face Forward Aesthetics: What Actually Moves a Face
Which facial structures actually drive how a face reads, which changes move the needle, and which popular fixes are noise. Evidence first.
Flat Maxilla: Causes and What Can Still Change
A flat maxilla changes the eyes, the nose and the smile at once. How to tell if you have one, and what is realistic at your age.
Eyebrow Dye Before and After: Worth It or Not?
What eyebrow dye before and after really looks like, where the brow should sit relative to the eye, and whether minoxidil does anything for brows.
Minoxidil Beard: Real Timeline and Real Risks
What minoxidil on the face can and cannot do for a beard, the side effects, what happens when you stop, and why we don't recommend it for looks.
Malar Bones: What Really Sets Cheekbones Apart
The malar bones are what people mean by cheekbones. Where they sit, how they shape the midface, and which changes are real versus marketing.
Hunter Eyes: What They Are and Who Can Get Them
Hunter eyes come from a low brow ridge over a positively tilted eye, both set by bone. What creates the look and who can realistically get it.
The PSL Scale: What Each Rating Actually Means
Where the PSL scale came from, what each rating band actually describes, and why the same face gets rated two points apart on different forums.
What Is Looksmax? The No-Nonsense Explainer
What looksmaxxing means, where the term came from, which parts have evidence behind them, and which parts are forum mythology.
Mewing: What It Changes and What It Can't
Mewing changes tongue posture, which can affect soft tissue. What it does not do is move adult bone. The technique, the evidence, the limits.