This is you, maybe you’re 18 and you’re on Youtube and type in “how to get a lean
jawline”.
You see Bretty Maverick giving you advice on mewing.
You see Mariio Adrion sucking in his cheeks, you see Alpha M doing…
whatever the hell this is.
If you’re a girl you see The Daily Student, where in the before she’s deliberately smiling
and in the after she’s giving us her best Zoolander look.
OppServe is literally tilting her head down to giver herself a double chin, but she’s
so lean she can’t.
What I’m trying to say is that there is a lot of misinformation on this topic, and
at QOVES, if you’re new here, I’m going to give it to you straight like your dad should
have years ago.
In the west, we have a preference for sharp, angular features, so wanting to lose facial
fat to expose your sharp bone structure underneath is understandable, it is a Western criteria
of an attractive face, but herein lies our first problem for why many of you don’t
get results.
You just don’t have the sharp bone structure underneath.
Many of you watching are still young, so chances are that you either reached your full facial
development yet.
Most faces stop developing at 25, but technically your facial bones move all throughout your
life.
To achieve a lean, hollowed out look, your bone structure has to be greater than your
facial leanness.
If you’ve ever seen a starving or emaciated child, they are unfortunately very skinny,
but their facial development is juvenile, because they’re children, obviously, not
adult male models.
The common myth of just starve yourself to get hollow cheeks or look more mature is wrong,
you do need to be relatively lean, but your bone structure is the more dermining factor.
A fitness science Youtuber, I personally quite enjoy, Vitruvian Physique, has very defined
bone structure and even at higher bodyfat the definition is still there.
Derek from the More Plates More Dates channel once got down to absurdly lean but no disrespect
to Derek, his bone structure is not that remarkably striking, and it’s apparent at his lean
levels.
At a much healthier bodyfat, his buccal corridors do carry more fat, whereas Igor’s from the
first channels do not show it as easily, and that’s because the jaw gonion, this landmark
of the jaw, is not very wide for Derek’s and for most people.
This creates a convex shape, instead of the desirable concave of hollow, modelling faces
which pulls the skin laterally outwards that so many of you keep asking advice for.
If you fall into this first category of people with insufficient facial development, a weak
jaw or narrow face then chances are you should probably see an orthodontist first.
We’ve made countless videos on Orthodontic topics from how diet influences your jawline
to bad sleeping habits that make your face asymmetric, it’s not all genetics.
The oral habits that you develop from 6 months to 17 years largely determine if you will
reach your genetic potential and most faces do not.
If you have less than ideal bone structure, see an orthodontist first because braces and
expanders may fix your structural issue.
If you want immediate results you can also get gonion implants and cheek implants but
again, we’re trying to correct with surgery what should have been with orthodontics in
your childhood and this a bandaid solution too.
Lastly you can try orthotropic methods like mewing to force your face to grow outwards,
but I recommend this last because you probably want faster results and if you’re watching
this video now from teenage to adult-hood, it requires more force, effort and time to
get results.
But let’s get back on track, the original question was why your face never looks lean.
The most obvious answer is that you’re not at a low enough bodyfat, but as I just showed
with the examples, even being in an absurdly lean state is not enough to get a sharp enough
face.
If your jaw width is narrow, it simply won’t pull the jawline skin, the submental and chin
sharp tightly enough to create an aesthetic outline.
Same goes for the cheekbones, if they’re flat, it won’t create an aesthetic Ogee
curve, the eyes and browbones and so many other features are all dependent on having
a few mm extra of bone than the average person to pull the fat and skin tight.
However, most of you are also young, meaning that no matter how lean you get, you will
still have juvenile fat pads.
Baby-fat sticks around into your mid to late 20s, and it makes both men and women look
more neotenous.
This is an advantage to women as they can stay youthful for longer, but a disadvantage
for men, as they generally want to look more older and mature.
So if you’re after the hollow cheek look or a sharp jawline, assuming that you’re
taking care of yourself now, that fat will naturally shed in due time just be patient,
and once it does, you may find yourself even missing it.
Another option is buccal fat pad removal, but as Dr Linkov shows, many surgeons are
against it because the benefits are not worth the risks.
Also aesthetically, it can make you look ghoulish and overly gaunt as you age naturally and
the other baby-fat pads naturally disappear.
The last and most obvious reason that no one wants to hear is that, realistically, you
carry too much fat for the look that you want.
Having worked in the modelling industry, you come to appreciate the incredibly sacrifices
that the models with these desirable sharp faces make when it comes to food.
Some meticulously track their calories eating as little as 1500 a day, others practise one
meal a day protocol so that it’s impossible for them to go over.
Some recreationally smoke to suppress appetite, others use supplements like Yohimbe to satisfy
hunger cravings.
If it was easy, everyone would be able to do it, and obviously none of this is healthy,
but to get a face like that, it’s a combination of above average bone development and above
average leanness, not one without the other.
While Igor from Vitruvian physique looks aesthetically pleasing even at higher bodyfat due to his
strong bone structure, it wouldn’t make the cut as a model, also he’s very wide
and built, wouldnt fit into many clothes.
The face that most of you aspire to have is unachievable for almost all of you.
These men and women are unusually tall with higher caloric requirements but they also
eat less too.
I don’t think they starve themselves to have a striking face, although that is a factor,
but rather to fit into clothes, because most male models are not allowed to gain muscle
either or else they will become too bulky, it’s all about fitting into one size fits
all clothes, and if you cannot, then you lose out on income.
If you had that fear weighing over your head, I doubt you would eat much either.
Just to clarify this video is not promoting you to starve yourself or to develop an eating
disorder.
However you need to be realistic in realising the sacrifices that go on behind the scenes
to achieve an unachievable look.
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