Looksmaxxing 社区的地下美容经济：从 DIY 到黑市药物

TikTok/hyperiddarenApril 10, 2026Beauty / Beauty FeatureBeauty / Beauty FeatureInside looksmaxxing’s black-market beauty economySuspicious of established institutions and reluctant to be seen as participating in the ‘feminine’ consumption of beauty products, the men of the looksmaxxing community are turning to DIY hacksShareLink copied ✔️April 10, 2026April 10, 2026TextBrynn Valentine Step inside the looksmaxxing manosphere and you’ll be inundated with tips and tricks on how to become more attractive. Whether you want to achieve a chiselled jawline or obtain “hunter eyes”, the majority of this advice comes in the form of at-home, DIY hacks. There’s ‘towel biting’, which consists of chewing on a folded-up towel for approximately 15 minutes a day. Mewing, a tongue exercise used to improve the shape of the jaw. Facial exercises with names like “Zygopush” and “the Hunter Squeeze” aim to hollow out cheeks and make eyes more “wolf-like” in shape, respectively. And, of course, the infamous ‘bone smashing’, based on the idea that hitting one’s face with a household hammer will make the bones grow back ‘stronger’ and thus more defined. Even when it comes to the more invasive techniques (i.e. steroids, fat dissolvers and testosterone injections), looksmaxxers tend to opt for more untraditional, unregulated or anti-establishment approaches. Clavicular has said he used meth in the past as an appetite suppressant, alongside Retatrutide, an experimental weight-loss drug not yet approved for use. He started ordering testosterone off the internet when he was 14 and shared during an interview that he has experimented with injecting dissolvable collagen threads into his penis for volume. Manosphere influencers like Joe Rogan, meanwhile, claim the benefits of unregulated, experimental peptides (Rogan credited BPC-157 with healing a case of elbow tendonitis in two weeks), with many people turning to grey or even black-market suppliers to get their hands on them. While on si

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