Anyone else trying to looksmax before they go through with it?

[dontletthembribeyou]

I guess it's pretty sad and pathetic for a 22 year old to be talking about looksmaxxing. Realistically, I understand that it's probably over for me, but I feel compelled to at least try to become attractive before I CTB. Being ugly is the root cause of quite literally all of my problems (I understand that I'm in the minority here and that most people have problems regardless of how attractive they are), so I figure if I weren't ugly I would at least have a fighting chance in this world.
I'm giving myself until the end of this summer to be at least a 6/10 (preferably higher though); I'm maybe a 3.5/10 rn and I started as a 2/10. That way I'll be attractive enough to enjoy studying abroad next fall semester. If that doesn't work out, CTB it is.
The prospect of CTB if all of this fails somehow makes me more motivated to put in the work to better myself.
Is anyone else in a similar position? What are you doing/what have you done?

Below, I outline my own personal efforts to become attractive in more detail. It's not super relevant to this discussion but I wanted to include it in case anyone was curious.
I've already made decent progress, I think - finally understand how to dress in a way that won't get me made fun of and grew my hair down to my shoulders without bleaching or dyeing it for the first time since I was maybe 14. I went on Accutane a year or so ago, and now my skin is mostly clear, with the added bonus of my hair texture changing from pin straight to wavy, which makes it look fuller. I recently got on tretinoin and minoxidil to enhance these effects.
I got into pilates about a year ago as well and managed to transform my body pretty significantly, but I fell off the wagon during finals and lost basically all my gains, but I'm trying to get back on track. I improved by diet by cutting out gluten, and I'm trying to cut out added sugars next.
I'm still quite ugly because I have terrible bone structure (skeletal underbite, long face, low/flat cheekbones, sunken chest, and scoliosis giving me crazy asymmetry throughout my whole face and body). I can't afford braces or surgery or anything like that, so I've been doing the Mewing World course and Starecta, which I think is helping, but not as much as I would like it to. I've been meaning to teach myself some of the Schroth methods to improve my symmetry. I also finally managed to build a makeshift headgear, which I use for 30 minutes or more every day. The jury is still out on whether it will help me at all, but it does seem to give me an instant temporary facelift by relaxing the soft tissue around my mouth, so that's promising.

 

[pancakelover20]

yeah and its ruining my life lowkey lol. tomorrow im pinning some fucking peptides i spent a fortune on from some research chemical lab to try and help me get a better body/skin cause thats basically all you can do once youre done w puberty and your bones are developed. ugliness is basically my biggest reason for ctb rn.

 

[Bat12]

I guess it's pretty sad and pathetic for a 22 year old to be talking about looksmaxxing. Realistically, I understand that it's probably over for me, but I feel compelled to at least try to become attractive before I CTB. Being ugly is the root cause of quite literally all of my problems (I understand that I'm in the minority here and that most people have problems regardless of how attractive they are), so I figure if I weren't ugly I would at least have a fighting chance in this world.
I'm giving myself until the end of this summer to be at least a 6/10 (preferably higher though); I'm maybe a 3.5/10 rn and I started as a 2/10. That way I'll be attractive enough to enjoy studying abroad next fall semester. If that doesn't work out, CTB it is.
The prospect of CTB if all of this fails somehow makes me more motivated to put in the work to better myself.
Is anyone else in a similar position? What are you doing/what have you done?

Below, I outline my own personal efforts to become attractive in more detail. It's not super relevant to this discussion but I wanted to include it in case anyone was curious.
I've already made decent progress, I think - finally understand how to dress in a way that won't get me made fun of and grew my hair down to my shoulders without bleaching or dyeing it for the first time since I was maybe 14. I went on Accutane a year or so ago, and now my skin is mostly clear, with the added bonus of my hair texture changing from pin straight to wavy, which makes it look fuller. I recently got on tretinoin and minoxidil to enhance these effects.
I got into pilates about a year ago as well and managed to transform my body pretty significantly, but I fell off the wagon during finals and lost basically all my gains, but I'm trying to get back on track. I improved by diet by cutting out gluten, and I'm trying to cut out added sugars next.
I'm still quite ugly because I have terrible bone structure (skeletal underbite, long face, low/flat cheekbones, sunken chest, and scoliosis giving me crazy asymmetry throughout my whole face and body). I can't afford braces or surgery or anything like that, so I've been doing the Mewing World course and Starecta, which I think is helping, but not as much as I would like it to. I've been meaning to teach myself some of the Schroth methods to improve my symmetry. I also finally managed to build a makeshift headgear, which I use for 30 minutes or more every day. The jury is still out on whether it will help me at all, but it does seem to give me an instant temporary facelift by relaxing the soft tissue around my mouth, so that's promising.

You can get braces for 100 a month, pretty affordable. When I was younger, I wanted to get into it more but struggled to see the potential

 

[Tobacco]

Being slightly below average looking and autistic are a bit part of my problems. I mostly believe in hardmaxxing only and I don't think I have nowhere enough money to worry about it, though I think getting a chin implant would be a huge improvement.

 

[fruitninjamaster]

I plan on starving myself and bringing back my eating disorder

 

[sanctionedusage]

lmao kind of
aesthetically, all i need is to get to bmi 14-17

but i also have a motive to alter my face enough to look unrecognizable and especially, unrelated to either of my parents. for my mom, thats kind of impossible and ive accepted that. but i think i can eradicate any traces of my dad's side with a few procedures, combined with being underweight. the problem is doing this without making myself less attractive obvi.

i'm caught between letting it go and going ahead to plan and save up for it. i'd probably do a lip lift, v line surgery, and a nonsurgical rhino. might be a huge waste of money since there's not much to lift (philtrum is 13mm), my jaw is already small, and my nose is also small, but i know the combination would create a totally different appearance. im sure once i just reach bmi 17ish i'll go for the least expensive and least time consuming one, call it a day and ctb feeling liberated from my disgusting bloodline

edit: also getting perfect boobs. thats non negotiable on the bucket list

 

[ipmanwc0]

I plan on starving myself and bringing back my eating disorder

human society and its values are shit and it should go extinct

 

[hellogoodbye999]

I guess it's pretty sad and pathetic for a 22 year old to be talking about looksmaxxing. Realistically, I understand that it's probably over for me, but I feel compelled to at least try to become attractive before I CTB. Being ugly is the root cause of quite literally all of my problems (I understand that I'm in the minority here and that most people have problems regardless of how attractive they are), so I figure if I weren't ugly I would at least have a fighting chance in this world.
I'm giving myself until the end of this summer to be at least a 6/10 (preferably higher though); I'm maybe a 3.5/10 rn and I started as a 2/10. That way I'll be attractive enough to enjoy studying abroad next fall semester. If that doesn't work out, CTB it is.
The prospect of CTB if all of this fails somehow makes me more motivated to put in the work to better myself.
Is anyone else in a similar position? What are you doing/what have you done?

Below, I outline my own personal efforts to become attractive in more detail. It's not super relevant to this discussion but I wanted to include it in case anyone was curious.
I've already made decent progress, I think - finally understand how to dress in a way that won't get me made fun of and grew my hair down to my shoulders without bleaching or dyeing it for the first time since I was maybe 14. I went on Accutane a year or so ago, and now my skin is mostly clear, with the added bonus of my hair texture changing from pin straight to wavy, which makes it look fuller. I recently got on tretinoin and minoxidil to enhance these effects.
I got into pilates about a year ago as well and managed to transform my body pretty significantly, but I fell off the wagon during finals and lost basically all my gains, but I'm trying to get back on track. I improved by diet by cutting out gluten, and I'm trying to cut out added sugars next.
I'm still quite ugly because I have terrible bone structure (skeletal underbite, long face, low/flat cheekbones, sunken chest, and scoliosis giving me crazy asymmetry throughout my whole face and body). I can't afford braces or surgery or anything like that, so I've been doing the Mewing World course and Starecta, which I think is helping, but not as much as I would like it to. I've been meaning to teach myself some of the Schroth methods to improve my symmetry. I also finally managed to build a makeshift headgear, which I use for 30 minutes or more every day. The jury is still out on whether it will help me at all, but it does seem to give me an instant temporary facelift by relaxing the soft tissue around my mouth, so that's promising.

Oh yes of course, I thought I was the only one. There are a few forums you can go to that have very helpful information, let me know if you'd like me to send you links to a few

yeah and its ruining my life lowkey lol. tomorrow im pinning some fucking peptides i spent a fortune on from some research chemical lab to try and help me get a better body/skin cause thats basically all you can do once youre done w puberty and your bones are developed. ugliness is basically my biggest reason for ctb rn.

Just get surgery if you're already spending so much on peptides, you should only really be using retatrutide for weight loss and ghkcu for your skin but the effects are debatable

 

[maylurker]

i tried, i look better but it doesn't help, every attention feels superficial, i know that there's always bigger fish in the sea so it doesn't matter even if i hardmax, i'd still be capped at someones baseline, and you can't charismamax so you'll still be a depressed weirdo that occasionally gets shallow attention that doesnt make you happy

 

[pancakelover20]

Oh yes of course, I thought I was the only one. There are a few forums you can go to that have very helpful information, let me know if you'd like me to send you links to a few

Just get surgery if you're already spending so much on peptides, you should only really be using retatrutide for weight loss and ghkcu for your skin but the effects are debatable

idek why surgery would help me thats the problem. i have some face fat i wanna get rid of so thats what im using the reta for, just general fat loss. and ghkcu even though my skin isnt really bad as long as i keep my diet in check. maybe melanotan too.

i though about aqualyx but when my face gets too lean it makes me look even more chopped for some reason because of my features. ive been 18 bmi and 30 bmi in my life so ik my way around how i change.

its not like i have a specific problem like my nose is too big or something its just everything is fucked so idk if its worth the money to do surgery. especially cause i could just end up looking botched as fuck lol

 

[hellogoodbye999]

i tried, i look better but it doesn't help, every attention feels superficial, i know that there's always bigger fish in the sea so it doesn't matter even if i hardmax, i'd still be capped at someones baseline, and you can't charismamax so you'll still be a depressed weirdo that occasionally gets shallow attention that doesnt make you happy

Then I guess it's over

 

[maylurker]

Then I guess it's over

its over if ur nd u'll never enjoy ur life to the fullest without prescriptions even then

 

[ForeverSubhuman]

I know it won't help with my situation. Just leanmaxxed. Will try and stay lean for a month or two and then hop on gear. Ctbing this year hope I can rep 2 plates and hit 160 ripped atlst.

 

[blackpillhopeless]

I looksmaxed for about 5 years from 27 to 32. I looked the best I ever did at 32, improved my face from a 5 to a 6 and built an 8/10 physique, people thought I was 22 when I was 32. Unfortunately I still couldn't attract the women I wanted due to being Indian and autistic, I just got a whole lot more attention from women I wasnt attracted to. Attractive women were sometimes attracted to me but then lost interest when they realised I am autistic, some other autistic women were attracted to my personality but not my looks. And so I got depressed and started gaming heavily at 32, now I'm 33 and have lost all my progress and started balding too.

 

[dontletthembribeyou]

yeah and its ruining my life lowkey lol. tomorrow im pinning some fucking peptides i spent a fortune on from some research chemical lab to try and help me get a better body/skin cause thats basically all you can do once youre done w puberty and your bones are developed. ugliness is basically my biggest reason for ctb rn.

I've been so curious about peptides but I'm broke lol. Best of luck twin

You can get braces for 100 a month, pretty affordable. When I was younger, I wanted to get into it more but struggled to see the potential

Conventional orthodontics ruin your face. I had braces from ages 8-12 and it royally fucked my development. I'm looking into myo therapy though

I plan on starving myself and bringing back my eating disorder

lmao kind of
aesthetically, all i need is to get to bmi 14-17

I have a great deal of experience with restrictive EDs. I will say that if your goal is to become more conventionally attractive, starving yourself is not going to help. With extreme weight loss, you are going to lose muscles just as much as or more than you are going to lose fat. Even if you're not looking to look muscular, it can fuck up your proportions, posture, and even your face. Not to mention the effects it will have on your skin/hair/nails and on the way you smell. I know EDs are glamorized with models or whatever but they already have top 1% bone structure. Us ordinary girls are better off just getting lean.

i'm caught between letting it go and going ahead to plan and save up for it.

I'm also saving up for surgery. If it doesn't materialize I can just donate all that to charity and feel good about it while dying

Oh yes of course, I thought I was the only one. There are a few forums you can go to that have very helpful information, let me know if you'd like me to send you links to a few

Just get surgery if you're already spending so much on peptides, you should only really be using retatrutide for weight loss and ghkcu for your skin but the effects are debatable

I'd be interested in the forums. I lurk on looksmax (can't post because I'm female) and I used to use Vindicta but it's gone way downhill lately. There is good info on Whole Body Breathing sometimes, but it's dead.

i'd still be capped at someones baseline, and you can't charismamax so you'll still be a depressed weirdo that occasionally gets shallow attention that doesnt make you happy

Unfortunately I still couldn't attract the women I wanted due to being Indian and autistic, I just got a whole lot more attention from women I wasnt attracted to.

As a woman, my main goal of looksmaxxing is getting basic human decency rather than romantic attention. If anything, I'm a little afraid to become legit attractive and have people hitting on me all the time. So, for me it's more about stuff like being wanted at well-paying jobs, and not getting harassed (mooing, barking, slurs, people throwing shit at me, people pointing and laughing, etc) when I go out in public. I don't think that's something men have to deal with unless they're legit like 1/10

I know it won't help with my situation. Just leanmaxxed. Will try and stay lean for a month or two and then hop on gear. Ctbing this year hope I can rep 2 plates and hit 160 ripped atlst.

I think it's good that you're pursuing a goal. Keep it up

 

[Forveleth]

I was in great shape the last time I attempted. It was the most depressed I have ever been. My looks did not help my life/mental health at all.

 

[fruitninjamaster]

I have a great deal of experience with restrictive EDs. I will say that if your goal is to become more conventionally attractive, starving yourself is not going to help. With extreme weight loss, you are going to lose muscles just as much as or more than you are going to lose fat. Even if you're not looking to look muscular, it can fuck up your proportions, posture, and even your face. Not to mention the effects it will have on your skin/hair/nails and on the way you smell. I know EDs are glamorized with models or whatever but they already have top 1% bone structure. Us ordinary girls are better off just getting lean

I just love the feeling of starvation and when my body slowly shuts down, I have seen myself at my lowest and know I looked HORRIBLE, how ever, it was so nice to only have one care in the world.

Plus I love being good at it!

 

[badatparties]

Nope, in one hundred years all the morons at your funeral will be dust.

 

[dontletthembribeyou]

Nope, in one hundred years all the morons at your funeral will be dust.

Very true. For me though it's just like a last ditch effort to avoid needing to ctb

 

[Bootleg Astolfo]

I used to be mistaken for a famous (gay, granted) pornstar and im still sad and alone lol

 

[alstroemeria55]

If the walking greasy whales I see in public can find companionship, I'm pretty sure "looksmaxing" isn't the problem...

 

[Proton]

I guess it's pretty sad and pathetic for a 22 year old to be talking about looksmaxxing. Realistically, I understand that it's probably over for me, but I feel compelled to at least try to become attractive before I CTB. Being ugly is the root cause of quite literally all of my problems (I understand that I'm in the minority here and that most people have problems regardless of how attractive they are), so I figure if I weren't ugly I would at least have a fighting chance in this world.
I'm giving myself until the end of this summer to be at least a 6/10 (preferably higher though); I'm maybe a 3.5/10 rn and I started as a 2/10. That way I'll be attractive enough to enjoy studying abroad next fall semester. If that doesn't work out, CTB it is.
The prospect of CTB if all of this fails somehow makes me more motivated to put in the work to better myself.
Is anyone else in a similar position? What are you doing/what have you done?

Below, I outline my own personal efforts to become attractive in more detail. It's not super relevant to this discussion but I wanted to include it in case anyone was curious.
I've already made decent progress, I think - finally understand how to dress in a way that won't get me made fun of and grew my hair down to my shoulders without bleaching or dyeing it for the first time since I was maybe 14. I went on Accutane a year or so ago, and now my skin is mostly clear, with the added bonus of my hair texture changing from pin straight to wavy, which makes it look fuller. I recently got on tretinoin and minoxidil to enhance these effects.
I got into pilates about a year ago as well and managed to transform my body pretty significantly, but I fell off the wagon during finals and lost basically all my gains, but I'm trying to get back on track. I improved by diet by cutting out gluten, and I'm trying to cut out added sugars next.
I'm still quite ugly because I have terrible bone structure (skeletal underbite, long face, low/flat cheekbones, sunken chest, and scoliosis giving me crazy asymmetry throughout my whole face and body). I can't afford braces or surgery or anything like that, so I've been doing the Mewing World course and Starecta, which I think is helping, but not as much as I would like it to. I've been meaning to teach myself some of the Schroth methods to improve my symmetry. I also finally managed to build a makeshift headgear, which I use for 30 minutes or more every day. The jury is still out on whether it will help me at all, but it does seem to give me an instant temporary facelift by relaxing the soft tissue around my mouth, so that's promising.

I'm doing the same

 

[maylurker]

If anything, I'm a little afraid to become legit attractive and have people hitting on me all the time.

depends on your base if you are unattractive to begin with there's no way to get more than one level above (low mid high tier) without surgeries even then surgeries can get botched or u would just look uncanny. so no need to be scared of becoming stacy

 

[dontletthembribeyou]

If the walking greasy whales I see in public can find companionship, I'm pretty sure "looksmaxing" isn't the problem...

It's more about avoiding discrimination (esp from employers) than companionship. I'm already in a relationship. The world HATES ugly women and will do everything in its power to stop us from succeeding

 

[LastAcrobat]

I just want to look presentable, make it all a bit less gruesome for the people who have to find me.

 

[Liebestod]

I've already accepted that it's over for me. That's why I'm ropemaxxing.

 

[tricho_maniac]

Me, i am gonna try to looksmax my subhuman looks to atleast MTN level, if it works out and people and women stop being a piece of shit to me then well and good, or else i have a shotgun ready to blow my head off. And i wont go down easily, ill take some with me.

 

[dontletthembribeyou]

Me, i am gonna try to looksmax my subhuman looks to atleast MTN level, if it works out and people and women stop being a piece of shit to me then well and good, or else i have a shotgun ready to blow my head off. And i wont go down easily, ill take some with me.

I agree that life starts at mid but I don't know why you would want to "take someone with you". Surely it's better to be forgotten by the world than to be remembered as an ugly murderer.

 

[ladyofsorrows]

I've already accepted that it's over for me. That's why I'm ropemaxxing.

same. i'm genuinely irreparably ugly.

 

[whocaresnobodycares]

I don't think many people find THEMSELVES attractive. I mean, it's someone else's job to find you attractive enough to want to.... whatever. No, really: have sex, kiss, date, photograph for a magazine, whatever it is, it's never your OWN responsibility to find YOURSELF attractive. get up and take a shower and put on some nice clothes, maybe, but I think it'd be truly W E I R D if someone FOUND THEMSELF SOOO attractive that they think about it and talk about it a lot.

I think societal beauty standards are false and absurd.

I find myself unattractive, but that's not why I don't pursue relationships of sex/ love/ kissing/ etc. anymore.

I don't because I hate myself and Life, society, capitalism, what's happened to music and film this century, talking to strangers, and I'm old now so KINDA am going into a male-menopause state where I don't even really LIKE THE IDEAS of kissing or sex anymore.
Plus I want to isolate myself so I can kill myself easier, as some people say on here.
Plus I'm broke as fuck. And live in a SHOEBOX apartment with my brother and his (mentally-ill hoarder) boxes and boxes AND BOXES of junk. There is no TV or furniture. He has a chair. I have this bed. THAT"S IT. And a nutty cat (I like the cat but again, there is no room to myself or privacy).

Saturday Night Live once did a skit where Corbin Bernsen was dating this woman and they were talking about how unapologetically he found himself attractive, and wasn't that unapologetically honest and healthy? .... but THEN he started up a video tape of HIS OWN FACE. He expected them to spend the evening WATCHING IT.
The point of the skit is -- MAN, THAT GUY is fucking nuts! Thinking he was THAT hot was The Joke.... literally....

You say you aren't normal looking. You have congenital defects. My last girlfriend was under 5 foot, and had anthro. multiplex congenita. She had an inability to bend her arms or legs, couldn't really (to be graphic about it) give head because she can't open her jaw all the way (she has special dentists who COME TO HER apartment, because, well, you know the old dental phrase "open wide"? She can't DO that0.

SHE broke up with ME, after a while. We're still friends because, well, she's really fucking cool, and I like her as much as anyone I've ever loved, as a person.... and I was not her main boyfriend WHEN we dated; she was polyamorous.... and I STILL think she's sexy as fucking HELL, a decade later.

So you may think nobody would find you attractive, but I'm telling you, SOCIETAL STANDARDS AIN'T SHIT compared to meeting ACTUAL cool people who don't follow them.

MIND YOU -- if that's all beside the point, and you wanna die because Life Sucks, well, like I said, I'm right there with you. But you don't have to want to fuck yourself. Look who's MOST FAMOUS for saying they'd WANT TO fuck themself-- it's that nutter from Silence Of The Lambs, isn't it? And who else ACTS like they're ALL that? Paris Hilton? The Jenners? Nicki Minaj??
Good fuckin CHRIST, be GRATEFUL you don't look like them. They're hideous inside and out.
I'd rather have sex with a tree.