i know that looksmaxxing is an old trend now, but i’ve thought about this concept for quite a while. looksmaxxing by my understanding is the concept in which you attempt to make yourself more conventionally attractive, pursuing lengthy beauty routines, improving your hygiene and becoming the most attractive version of yourself you possibly can be.
when the whole looksmaxxing trend arose, i questioned why people were talking about this like it was something new? as women, or at least in my experience i’ve been attempting to improve how i look my whole life. trying to become the prettiest version of myself i can be. with everything showers, makeup routines and push up bras, us girls have BEEN looksmaxxing.
at 14 years old i began to gain consciousness as to the way i look. before that i hadn’t had a thought about how pretty i was compared to other girls or the way my body looked. even when i heard people talk about insecurities they had on the internet, though i had the same features as them, i just thought why would i be insecure about that?
but soon i discovered the power that beauty held and the grip it had over women in society and began trying to make myself beautiful. it started with mascara but soon i had hours dedicated each day in improving my look and still do to this day. since then i’ve watched thousands of videos instructing me on how i can make myself prettier, with makeup and gua sua and shaving and so forth. this is my life now, from the second i wakeup to the second i go to sleep im improving my beauty. whether or not that’s a bad thing is another topic, but this is most girls reality, we style our hair, apply makeup, shave our bodys, style our clothes all to look better.
so naturally when men began talking about looksmaxxing i couldn’t help but think that this is nothing new. in fact ive been mewing since 2022 when upon my research stumbled upon it, not that it was called that back then. though im glad looksmaxxing is a trend so boys have some kind of motivation to put in similar efforts girls do already, it reminds me, as so many things do, how different men and women are.