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Sculpting jaws, giving scores: Inside the world of looksmaxxing

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One of the biggest influencers is Braden Peters, AKA Clavicular, a sharp-jawed 20-year-old known in looksmaxxing terms as "giga chad"; 10/10. Clavicular attributes his looks to, among other things, taking testosterone from the age of 14 and smashing his jawbone with a hammer to supposedly reshape his lower face - neither of which is recommended by health professionals. While he doesn't rate himself on a scale of one to 10 like Marvin, Leander feels happy with how he looks now, "80% of the time". If you are in that category, the "non-conventional attractive side", or, in Marvin's terms, a sub five out of 10, Leander says he "can understand why it pushes you into an incel corner" - though he does not himself condone that. He's always been interested in fitness and looking good, but only became involved in looksmaxxing when he began to lose his hair aged 21. "The problem is when impressionable 18-year-olds see people bone smashing and extreme looksmaxxing, it definitely does have a negative effect on their perception of what they should look like.

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