‘Looksmaxxing’ young men are carving up their faces. Being ugly is a lot easier |
Take a second before you read this to look in the mirror. Go on, it’ll be worth it. I’ll be here when you get back.
OK, how’d that go? Did you like what you saw? Probably not. Feeling a bit puffy? See a zit in a conspicuous area? Did you want to punch yourself for the sin of experiencing the natural course of ageing? These feelings are normal. Being disappointed in how you look is a time-honored tradition; it’s just that now, we have the means to fix all that. GLP-1s mean you can lose weight quickly, without doing much more than shoving a needle in your bum a few times a month. Plastic surgery, Botox, fillers, Turkish hair plugs. We live in the golden age of techno-vanity, where “self-improvement” can be had for a few bucks (and days and days of living in bandages like a hipster mummy). The odious trend of “looksmaxxing” is the natural nadir of our collective obsession with not being ugly.
Within the fetid petri dish that we call the internet, looksmaxxing has taken hold with a subsection of otherwise functioning individuals. To be a looksmaxxer is to purposefully carve up your face, inject steroids into any willing orifice, and occasionally using crystal meth to suppress your appetite. This is not as appealing as it sounds, folks, because it also comes with a healthy........