Writes Becca Rothfeld, in "The Captivating Derangement of the Looksmaxxing Movement/In their warped and wrongheaded way, the omnipresent influencer Clavicular and his compatriots are intent on demystifying the ideal of natural beauty" (The New Yorker).
I'm not up for reading another article about Clavicular (or "his compatriots"). I'm more concerned with those who are actually successful in Hollywood who are ruining their natural beauty with "looksmaxxing." I can't look at them anymore, except in horror.
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"I'm more concerned with those who are actually successful in Hollywood..."
If memory serves Warren Beatty slept with virtually every starlet in hollyweird, and I would assume he's as far from looksmaxxing as its proponents would think.
Another post about Gavin Newsom.
These are mutants like in that series the besuty
To be fair, when I first read about Clavicular, I thought he'd be hideous in photos. He actually look really good. 1000% better than almost anyone else getting "work done" these days. At least he knows what he is doing.
Between tattoos, lip injections and this stuff, society is forgetting what attractive humans look like - especially beautiful, everyday women.
I really miss the everyday beauty of female servers, neighborhood moms and others. RIP
I thought Clavicular looked really good because he carefully curates the photo shoot. Really, 90% of what that dweeb does is just the artful use of a camera and lighting, like any fashion photographer. In the odd shots that showed him full-body next to that frat boy jock, he's got rather large hips and an untoned physique. His 'looksmaxxing' is all about his face and shoulders, the way I see it.
Anyway, beauty is such an 'eye of the beholder' type thing, is there really any need to be dissecting this?
“I'm more concerned with those who are actually successful in Hollywood who are ruining their natural beauty with "looksmaxxing." I can't look at them anymore, except in horror.”
You won’t have to, because they become invisible. The classic case is Jennifer Grey, who got her nose “fixed”…and vanished. I’m surprised people don’t learn from her example.
Three of the four posts today from NYC sources. To paraphrase Anne Elliot (Persuasion), perhaps such a large dose of New York is not healthy. May I recommend a broader reading list?
Real life hans from zoolander
Patrick bateman had an unseemly obession with his looks as well
Beauty is rooted in biological fundamentals: 1) Averageness is the "best" because it shows one has regular genetics and that one grew up with a good diet. 2) Youth is better than age because it suggests fertility and a longer life.
Lots of research. Simple principles. If one digitally combines several "plain" faces, they'll average out and the integrated output is model-level beautiful.
However, this looksmaxxing post is about mental illness and ruthless competition aimed at gaining a social advantage through appearance. This truly works too, as many people are influenced by looks.
Cue shania twain lyric
Diversitism (i.e. color judgment, class bigotry).
Are people who have spent a decade trying to tell us morbid obesity is beautiful now going to dump on people taking affirmative steps to maximize what nature gave them?
Jim Carrey recently came out to yell at Trump. People remarked as to what the hell happened to his face.
Of course, the original "looksmaxing" was when Jennifer Grey pretty much killed her career when she had her iconic nose pared down to the average look of Southern CA.
Feeling like a woman
Looking like a man
Sounding like a no-no
Mating when I can
Whistling in the darkness
Shining in the night
Coming to conclusions
Right is night is tight
Walking, walking
In the rain
Also rod stewart
"Fastidiously beautiful" makes no sense to me or anyone who understands the maxim, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One could be fastidiously groomed, or fastidiously clean, or well-mannered. One cannot demand beauty. Beauty isn't out there to be had by any means.
In addition to what Enigma points out above, last year I was reading an interesting book about animal culture and the author had a throw-away line about birds that I thought was really interesting--every species (not just bird species, every species) that appreciates beauty for its own sake, as an end in itself, finds the same things beautiful.
Do i have to say which lyric
Enigma,
There are some studies suggesting that averageness for facial features is the most pleasing to observers. That would be length of head, space between pupils, length, width and shape of nose and lips.
Height wise, the average U.S. adult male is about 5’9 and 1/4 and adult female is 5’4. Yet the fashion industry employs 5’10 women and 6’2 guys. Perhaps ideal height is well above average?
But there’s something to the “handsome” woman thing. Non-traditionally feminine features but striking looks with “strong, angular features.”
Tallness is a dominance/adulthood/leadership signal and tall people have documented workplace and career advantages. With models, I suspect tallness is preferred because they can carry wider styles without looking abnormally fat. Ancient humans wore nothing, animal skins, or simple fabric coverings. They were also rarely obese.
It’s cellulite night at the duck lips and butt flaps club. Tickets are selling fast.
"She was prettier than Handel's favorite choirboy."
Just a line that has stuck with me from one of the Bernie Gunther series by the too-soon-departed Philip Kerr.
Philip Kerr is awesome. Great line.
"Man, I feel like a woman"?
"Okay, so you're Brad Pitt. That don't impress me much"?
Thanks for reminding me of Philip Kerr. Time to re-read.
Maybe it's just me, but nothing sets off a pretty face like being framed by a nun's habit. Think Ingrid Bergman, Deborah Kerr, Jenny Agutter, Loretta Young, Anne Meara.
I've seen pictures of Lenny Bernstein's butt boys - not a bunch of pretty faces. He must have been attracted to them for some other reason.
Frankly, I relate to this article. Its hard being so good-looking. I sometimes wish I wasn't just a pretty face.
What a great tragedy it was when Ann Margret fell from the stage in Vegas. The soft lines around the jaw were gone, replaced by a squared-off chin that made her look more masculine. Still attractive, but not the Kitten she was.
Thank you for letting me get this off my chest.
It's sort of true, but leave out the repetition of "beautiful" and "ugly." Ugly people can be strangely attractive. Male ugliness can appeal to some women's desire for brutishness or overpowering vitality. Strong personal qualities -- humanity or intelligence -- can turn ugliness inside out and make it attractive.
People who are too beautiful can be unattractive. Resentment enters into it. Being too beautiful makes people think that one is conceited and shallow. Beauty, as people say is only ... you know the rest.
If you can convince people that all your warts and wrinkles are signs of character, you're doing well.
Looksmaxxing is for guys in their twenties. They grow out of it. If you're still looksmaxxing at 30 or 40 there's something pathetic about it. Youtube also tells me that looksmaxxers turn out to be more attractive to other guys than to women.
In a world where nearly everything will soon be faked, having something not fake could be quite a differentiator.
Oh Lord, it's hard to be humble
When you're perfect in every way
I can't wait to look in the mirror
Cause I get better looking each day
To know me is to love me
I must be a hell of a man
Oh Lord it's hard to be humble
But I'm doing the best that I can.
As Redd Foxx said, beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone
"At last, acceptance proved to be the key to my ... problem." Something I read somewhere.
"You must first love and accept yourself to be able to give and receive love from others." - Fr. John Powell
Cute beats beautiful every time. And lasts longer, too.
Jimmy Soul , closet feminist, says:
If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life
Never make a pretty woman your wife
So from my personal point of view
Get an ugly girl to marry you
A pretty woman makes her husband look small
And very often causes his downfall
As soon as he marries her, then she starts
To do the things that will break his heart
But if you make an ugly woman your wife
You'll be happy for the rest of your life
An ugly woman cooks meals on time
She'll always give you peace of mind
If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life
Never make a pretty woman your wife
So from my personal point of view
Get an ugly girl to marry you
Don't let your friends say you have no taste
Go ahead and marry anyway
Though her face is ugly, her eyes don't match
Take it from me, she's a better catch
If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life
Never make a pretty woman your wife
So from my personal point of view
Get an ugly girl to marry you
In my experience, the most beautiful "models" don't obsess about their looks (the ones that really got it, know they got it). Not to say the best don't obsess about their look, depending on the shoot.
If you wanna be in Vogue or walk a ruway in Paris, New York or MIlan you gotta have a certain look.
Tall? Yes.
No hint of body fat? Check.
Beauty? Depends on how sick the designer and director are.
These people are professionals, right? Surely, they know. I'm afraid the joke's on us. Some of these models are butt-ugly freaks (anybody remember the cast pushing the new Jaguar?).
For every supermodel and high-end fashionista, there are thousands and thousands of hard-working, mostly normal people willing to stand-around for hours whlie others get their acts together or the weather cooperates or a dozen unfamiliar hands varnish your face, arrange your hair, adjust your clothing and position your body.
New, young faces don't stay new and young for long. Turnover is high. It's a lot more fun than working the fry station at Mickey D's, unless you get carried away with yourself.
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