Looksmaxxing for Beginners
The importance of appearance
A man's appearance influences first impressions, social relationships and professional decisions. Being perceived as attractive can lead to more favorable impressions and treatment in everyday life. Improving your appearance can therefore offer a considerable social advantage.
This guide helps you start your glow-up before exploring the rest of our resources.
- First Impressions: Making Up Your Mind After a 100-Ms Exposure to a Face (new tab). Psychological Science.
- Maxims or Myths of Beauty? A Meta-Analytic and Theoretical Review (new tab). Psychological Bulletin.
- The Effects of Physical Attractiveness on Job-Related Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Studies (new tab). Personnel Psychology.
The Pareto principle
The Pareto principle, often called the 80/20 rule, suggests that a small share of your actions can account for most of your results. This guide focuses on those high-impact actions to help you make meaningful improvements to your appearance with your time and effort.
Start your glow-up
Weight loss
Losing fat requires a calorie deficit, that is, spending more energy than you consume.
To do this, reduce your calorie intake, primarily by reducing carbohydrates. At the same time, practice walking, or more ideally strength training to maintain or improve your resting metabolism.
Muscle gain
Muscle gain is achieved through the phenomenon of muscular hypertrophy, consisting of the thickening of muscle fibers under the effect of mechanical stress and with the help of proteins. Strength training exercises therefore make it possible to stimulate this growth in a targeted manner, while the proteins and energy provided by the diet make it possible.
Hair density
Hair density depends on the density and thickness of the hair. In addition to the initial nature of the hair, in men, the most common cause of hair loss is androgenetic alopecia, also called baldness: sensitive follicles shrink under the effect of DHT, resulting from the breakdown of testosterone and slowing down the development of hair during the growth phase.
Skin
The skin is an organ that participates in the synthesis of vitamin D, allows us to perceive touch and protects against external aggressions while limiting water loss. It may be prone to dryness, irritation or excess sebum which makes it oily. Its pores can also be dilated or blocked, favoring the appearance of pimples. Its aging, accelerated in particular by UV rays, contributes to the appearance of wrinkles and irregularities. Skin tone and appearance are one of the main factors of beauty in men.
Eye area
The look is one of the major elements of facial attractiveness, made up of the eye, eyelids, eyelashes and eyebrows. Several of these points can be worked on to a greater or lesser extent to improve the look without surgery.
Smile
Its appearance depends on the teeth, gums and lips. The appearance of teeth, alignment problems or dry and chapped lips can change their appearance. Work around the lips is just as important.