Clavicular is a 19-year-old online creator who has built a large audience around “looksmaxxing” — the belief that physical appearance is the single most important determinant of success in life, and that one should use any means necessary to optimize it. He began injecting testosterone at age 14, has used a wide range of pharmaceuticals and peptides throughout his adolescence, and is now preparing for $35,000 double jaw surgery with full facial implants in Istanbul. His worldview is rooted in genetic determinism, the halo effect, and the idea that modern dating and social hierarchies are overwhelmingly driven by looks.
How Clavicular Started Using Testosterone at 14
He decided at 14 that natural puberty was too slow and inefficient. His logic was straightforward: if exogenous testosterone would get him to his goals faster, there was no reason not to use it.
He was not motivated by insecurity or emotional pain. He describes himself as “hyperlogical” and says he was comfortable with his appearance at the time but simply wanted to optimize it as efficiently as possible.
He researched dosing on bodybuilding forums like bodybuilding.com and learned from figures like Derek (More Plates More Dates).
He started at 300 mg of testosterone per week and continued until age 16, when he began adding orals and later Masteron (a DHT derivative) at 17 for penile growth and masculinization during puberty.
He later incorporated aromatase inhibitors to prevent estrogen from closing his growth plates prematurely, speculating this added roughly 1.5 inches to his height beyond what his parents’ genetics would predict (father 6’1”, mother 5’4”).
His parents initially confiscated his testosterone, but eventually stopped intervening once they realized he would do it regardless.
His Philosophy: Results Over Effort, Looks Over Everything
Clavicular explicitly rejects the value of hard work for its own sake. He values efficiency and results. He sees the gym as a chore now and says he only trains because he has to, not because he enjoys the process.
He does not prioritize longevity or long-term health. He acknowledges his pharmaceutical use may shorten his lifespan but says he cares about “functional health” — feeling sharp and capable day to day.
He has no plans to stop using steroids. He expects to lower his dose to TRT levels eventually for maintenance.
He disagrees with the common self-improvement advice to “just be confident,” calling it a cope. His alternative: “do whatever it takes,” citing Rich Piana as an influence.
Why He Believes Face Matters More Than Physique
He noticed during a bulking phase that despite gaining muscle, his social treatment got worse as his face became bloated and broke out. This led him to conclude that facial appearance matters more than body.
He now estimates he spends 70% of his optimization effort on his face and 30% on his physique.
He argues that the average person can improve their looks significantly through logical, disciplined effort — roughly 30-40 percentiles on a looks scale — but most people lack the IQ or willingness to do what’s required.
The Looksmaxxing Rating System and His Place in It
The looksmaxxing community uses a scale: low-tier normie, mid-tier normie, high-tier normie, Chad light, and Chad. Clavicular has been rated “high-tier normie,” which he estimates translates to a 6 to 6.5 on a 1-10 scale.
He believes his upcoming surgery will raise his score by 1-2 points.
The community evaluates faces using precise measurements: midface ratio (distance from eyes to lips should equal facial width), facial width-to-jaw ratio, harmony score (a composite percentage), along with factors like dimorphism, angularity, leanness, and coloring.
These ratios trace back to ancient Greek aesthetics and are treated by the community as near-objective truths, similar to the Fibonacci sequence.
Matt Bomer is cited as having one of the highest harmony scores at roughly 94%.
The Surgery: Double Jaw Surgery and Facial Implants
Clavicular is flying to Istanbul for a Bimaxillary Osteotomy (BASSO) — advancing both the upper and lower jaw forward — combined with custom titanium facial implants designed by Giant Implants based on a CT scan of his skull, plus a rhinoplasty, all done in one session.
The total cost is $35,000. He chose Turkey over Italy because Turkish surgeons are willing to perform more extreme movements and will operate on patients who are already good-looking.
He decided on this surgery before he started social media, when he was working as a server and noticing that better-looking people earned more tips and better treatment.
Worst-case scenario: infection requiring implant removal, three months of antibiotics, and replacement. Aesthetic dissatisfaction is also possible but revisable.
He considers the investment logical because of the high ROI in career, social media virality, and dating.
Limb Lengthening Surgery: Going from 6’2” to 6’6”
Clavicular is seriously considering limb lengthening surgery to go from 6’2” (91st percentile) to 6’6” (99th percentile). He wants to be in the 99th percentile of everything.
The surgery involves breaking both femurs and lower legs (a “double LL”), then using distractors to slowly fuse the bone back together over 6-12 months. The first 3 weeks are hospitalized, the first 3 months largely immobile.
He justifies it with data: each inch above 6 feet correlates with roughly $500 more in average annual income in the US, and women on dating apps filter out the vast majority of men by height (e.g., setting filters at 6’3” eliminates ~95% of men).
He acknowledges most people can’t do this because they can’t afford to be out of work for 6-12 months.
His Daily Pharmaceutical Regimen
Testosterone propionate: 280 mg per week (a short ester to keep levels stable; he injects daily).
Accutane: 7.5 mg daily for anti-aging and collagen synthesis (systemic rather than topical for deeper skin layers).
Minoxidil and dutasteride: for hair loss prevention and regrowth.
Retatrutide (a GLP-1 agonist): 15 mg per week — an extremely high “giga dose” for appetite suppression and leanness. He acknowledges this dose is unhealthy for the heart but values leanness above all.
Melanotan 2: daily for tanning without UV damage.
Crystal methamphetamine (dextromethamphetamine, the prescribed isomer): at roughly 1/10th of a prescribed dose, used as a mild stimulant and appetite suppressant for “hollow cheeks.” He clarifies this is not the street meth (l-methamphetamine) people associate with Breaking Bad.
Pregabalin and phenibut: used occasionally on weekends for anxiety reduction and sociability as a less toxic alternative to alcohol.
IGF-1 and HGH: used occasionally for growth pathways.
Softmaxxing vs. Hardmaxxing
Softmaxxing (non-extreme, high-impact changes) accounts for roughly 70% of achievable gains:
Getting tan and getting lean are the two most impactful things anyone can do.
Other effective softmaxxing: mewing (proper tongue posture during development), self-tanning, teeth whitening, veneers, better-fitting clothes, shoe lifts, dying hair/eyebrows, cologne, lifting weights, oral minoxidil for eyebrows.
Cope (ineffective or counterproductive): keto diet (depletes energy and impairs motor unit recruitment), bone smashing (dangerous, risk of CTE), thumb pulling (can’t replicate palate expansion), tattoos, wearing rings and chains, voice training, fillers (migrate over time, never dissolve, can block lymphatic drainage).
Frauding and Makeup for Men
“Frauding” means using deceptive enhancements: makeup, shoe lifts, wigs, shoulder pads. Clavicular argues women fraud the most (makeup, padded bras) and men should compete on the same level.
He recommends concealer for under-eye bags (caused by recessed infraorbital bones, not lack of sleep), microblading pencils for eyebrow gaps, and strategic makeup application.
He is strongly against fillers, arguing titanium implants are superior for bone-related issues because fillers migrate, never fully dissolve, and require constant reapplication.
The Halo Effect and Social Observations
The halo effect means attractive people are perceived more favorably in every domain: they receive lighter prison sentences (40% less), get better jobs, earn more tips, and can behave in ways that would be unacceptable for unattractive people.
Jeremy Meeks is the extreme example: arrested for assault and battery, bailed out by women on Facebook who found him attractive, then became a model.
Clavicular worked as a bouncer and observed that roughly 1-2% of men — the very tall and very good-looking — went home with the most attractive women every night, often without saying a word.
He argues status and money are far less practical levers for most people than looks, because competing on status requires seven to eight figures, while looks can be improved significantly with far less.
Women, Hypergamy, and Relationships
Clavicular believes women are driven by hypergamy — dating above their looks level — and that this has left non-top-tier men with almost nothing in the modern dating market.
He says a woman with a rich but unattractive man will “never truly love him” — this is called “beta boxing.”
He contradicts Myron Gaines’s view that money is the primary threat in relationships. Clavicular says a better-looking man will always be the bigger threat than a richer one, because women are not rational actors and will sabotage a comfortable relationship for physical attraction.
Personally, he says he values personality in his own relationships and wouldn’t leave a girlfriend he loves for a model, but he recognizes this is a luxury of someone who already has the looks he needs. He optimizes his appearance knowing it helps maintain a partner’s attraction.
IQ as the Real Bottleneck
Clavicular argues that IQ is the primary genetic limitation preventing most people from ascending. You need high IQ to earn the money for surgeries, to understand the research, to make the observations that motivate extreme action, and to manage complex pharmaceutical protocols safely.
He estimates an IQ of 110 is the minimum threshold for properly applying everything he discusses. The average is 90-100.
He believes most people “live in fantasy land” and cope rather than face uncomfortable truths about how looks-determined life outcomes are.
He identifies as likely on the autism spectrum, seeing his neurodivergence as a superpower that allows him to process information without emotional bias and accept harsh truths immediately.
Health Scare and Risk Tolerance
At 16, his blood pressure reached 190 (from excess sodium combined with high-dose testosterone) and he went to the hospital for an EKG and blood pressure medication. This was his worst pharmaceutical complication.
He frames his entire life as an experiment in human optimization for a generation. He predicts that in 10 years, teen use of HGH, aromatase inhibitors, and peptides will become far more widespread and normalized.
He would absolutely let his own son follow the same path under his supervision, believing he now has the knowledge to avoid the mistakes he made figuring things out alone.
What He Thinks Will Change
He predicts the next major pharmaceutical breakthrough will be a cure for baldness that can regrow hair even after it’s fully lost — he expects this within 5 years.
He believes generic IGF-1 (Increlex) is currently gatekept by Big Pharma, costing around $180,000 per month and accessible only to billionaires. He considers it the best growth pathway available because it doesn’t interfere with the endocrine system the way steroids do.
He sees the current food environment in America as so poor that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are essentially necessary adaptations, calling them a “miracle drug” for the times.
