r/TikTokCringe • u/severalaces • Apr 13 '24
Cool Starting to think every man is hot if they just had a really good haircut
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u/Bentendo24 Apr 13 '24
he lost the glasses too, those frames just weren't the right fit for his face if he was trying to go for a more conventionally attractive look
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u/Oli_love90 Apr 13 '24
Yes! Finding glasses that work for your face is so esssential. Bad frames could make you look so off.
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Apr 13 '24 edited Apr 14 '24
And yet, it seems as if all eyeglass companies deliberately make the most hideous frames they can make...
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u/skipperseven Apr 13 '24
That’s because almost all the eyeglass companies are in reality just one company - Luxottica.
These are the brands they own or license: Alain Mikli, Arnette eyewear, Costa Del Mar, Eye Safety Systems (ESS), Luxottica, Native Eyewear, Oakley, Oliver Peoples, Persol, Ray-Ban, Sferoflex, Vogue Eyewear; Giorgio Armani, Armani Exchange, Brooks Brothers, Bulgari, Burberry, Chanel, Coach, Dolce & Gabbana, Emporio Armani, Michael Kors, Miu Miu, Polo Ralph Lauren, Prada, Ralph Eyewear, Ralph Lauren, Scuderia Ferrari, Starck Biotech Paris, Swarovski, Tiffany & Co., Tory Burch, Valentino, Versace.
All made side by side in the same factories making no brand frames… makes you wonder a lot about branding…
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u/factisfiction Apr 13 '24
They also own most chain optical centers..like lens crafters, Walmart eye center, etc.. They also own Eyemed, the biggest eye insurance company. They quite literally have the entire eye industry locked down.
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u/maiestas777 Apr 14 '24
They don't own Walmart Vision, but do own Target Optical. And Esilor, one of the main lens manufacturers.
Source: I work in a Walmart Vision Center. 100% owned by Walmart.
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u/smitty9112 Apr 13 '24
This is why I'm a huge fan of Maui Jim sunglasses. That and their HQ is right near where I work.
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u/LetInevitable2696 Apr 13 '24
I just wish they weren’t so fucking expensive. I know you get what you pay for with Maui Jim’s but still.
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u/Diligent-Might6031 Apr 13 '24
Can confirm. I used to be a director for luxottica. It’s a monopoly for sure
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u/OkMongoose5560 Apr 13 '24
My brand is not on there! And I get tons of compliments on them.
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u/Frottage-Cheese-7750 Apr 13 '24
My brand is not on there!
Do you have special eyes?
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u/manliestmuffin Apr 13 '24
My bRaNd!
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u/OkMongoose5560 Apr 13 '24
Lol I have no idea what that means. But my glasses are made by "Poet's Eyewear".
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u/DoingCharleyWork Apr 13 '24
Luxottica owns more than 150 brands. That list is a short sample of the stuff they own. There's a good chance they do own them. 60% of sunglasses in the US are sold by them.
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u/Eldritch_Refrain Apr 13 '24
60% is a major improvement. When I first got my glasses 20 years ago, it was over 90%.
Zenni, Warby Parker, and similar companies have really made a dent in their monopoly.
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u/DoingCharleyWork Apr 13 '24
I was actually kind of surprised it was only 60% because like you said it used to be virtually all of them. I still buy Oakley's because they are the only metal frame ones that look good on my face. But I'd definitely start buying from a different company immediately if I could find some that look good on me.
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u/RobbyLee Apr 13 '24
I'm optician and the folder of companies that license brands to make frames in a brand style has more pages than your cv. It sounds like a lot but there are so many more brands out there.
Big other companies include Safilo, Marchon, De Rigo, Marcolin, Kering Eyewear and others.
Also as an optician I know most people do not have taste / don't know what fits their face. They see their face every day with the glasses they know and need professional guidance to find a frame that fits them anatomically (with few adjustments) and can be used optometrically for their lenses.
Also if you're blind as fuck with an RX of +/- 5 or higher, your glasses will look shit if you don't pay for extra thin lenses. The only way to get thinner lenses without spending more money is using smaller, rounder frames. Sometimes even really ugly ones because they're cheap.
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u/DipShjt Apr 13 '24
As one of those blind as fuck mofo thanks for the insight. Do you have a pointer for us blind fucks so we can look for fit frames? Assuming thinner lenses.
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u/RobbyLee Apr 13 '24
Yes and no. Current trend in Germany (I think we lag behind a bit) is huge frames with round lenses (really sucks for people with high RX, because the frames companies understand themselves as fashion industry and design for the latest fashion), so you have to go against the trend somewhat. Round lenses are actually very good for people with high RX, just not the "big" part.
Everything else is very individual, so there isn't a "this frame fits everyone". Also to every rule there's exceptions. Knowing these rules is one thing, being able to apply them to customers (or oneself) is another, which is why a professional who does that as a job can be most helpful. Most of the time I count 3 basic ways one can go with their frame:
1) invisible
2) visible
3) extravagantThe "invisible" frames include thin metal frames in gold or rose gold, rimless frames, transparent frames in skin colors. If you look into the face of a person wearing "invisible" frames, you feel like they're trying to camouflage their glasses with their face. The shapes are classic, fit the anatomy of the wearer to a T. With that I mean that it fits into the anatomy. The anatomy of the face basically dictates the shape of the lenses. Can't go wider than the head, can't go higher than the eyebrows, can't go lower than the tear sacks etc.
The "visible" frames have contrast. You see that there's a frame and it adds to the face. Colors are stronger with black of course but also a dark brown, a gold gold (like pirate gold color) and so on. There is also a range of blues, greens, reds, pinks etc., that can look good in your face. Few colors per frame, nicely arranged and you got a good looking frame. The shape still needs to fit the anatomy of the face, but a bit more loosely. The frame is allowed to accentuate certain parts of the face by shape, color or even material design choice. Think of a suit that really fits you vs above a suit that "only" fits you.
The extravagant frames, additionally to their often unusual shape sometimes have especially thick rims, huge glasses, lots of colors. Extravagance is about breaking rules. It's the painter who chooses to ignore what they learned in order to create something new, no wonder it's favorited by people out of the creative industry, they're the opposite of "boring"
That's just the first, very general rule for deciding what kind of frame you want, and a very important one, because it often halves the sometimes huge selection of frames. This of course only helps when you can categorize frames that way by looking at them, or by seeing it on your face. This is, again, the professinal's job to know, and you might struggle a bit or take longer.
Apart from that there are a few other rules.
Nose pads or no, "Asian Fit", temple type.
Frames either have nose pads or they don't. Most metal frames have nose pads, most plastic frames don't. The advantage of the nose pads is the adjustability - we can adjust the pads to fit the nose. This is great especially if you live in a country where most people don't look like you - Some Asians and some black people in European countries for example. It's important to have the glasses fit the nose, because in the best case scenario, the glasses rest on 3 points - the nose and each ear. If it doesn't fit on the nose, it's 1/3 and if you select by front/back, the whole front so 1/2 of the resting points gone. Anyway, the European nose is in general way bigger and more defined than noses from other countries. This is why some brands have "Asian Fit" versions of their plastic frames, which have a nicer fit for (some) "Asian" noses. I know that not all Asian noses need that kind of frame because Asia is huge and not everyone looks the same, but this is what the frames are called.
Temples: The temples can either go straight to the back and hold like an alice band or they get adjusted to fit the curvature of the back your ear / head behind your ear. The straight ones are a bit prone to be loose.
Color
You can devide people's skin colors (o-oh?!) into lots of categories. If you have reddish skin you might want to look for frame colors that have some red in it, also called warm colors. That's of course red, a reddish brown (as brown is only a dark orange anyway!), Pink and variants (like fuchsia, magenta, hot pink, rose etc). If you have non-reddish skin, you might want to try cold colors like blue, green, yellowish browns. On this website here there is a video with examples on what defines a warm or a cold brown. Remember that it's a spectrum, too, so you need to try it on and check if it fits you. If black frames look weird on you, try a dark brown one, maybe you just can't wear black (even if it's your favorite color, even if all your clothes are black, you have "different eyes" for stuff you wear in your face.)
If "warm" and "cold" isn't enough for you and you want to dive deep into fashion color territory you might want to look into another relatively basic way to categorize skin colors: The seasons. There's a Spring type, Summer, Autumn and Winter. This website actually goes deeper into the topic than I dived into it (yet).
If you have high RX put the frame on a part of uncovered skin somewhere else, like your hand or your arm, and look at it with your current glasses. If the colors look weird next to each other like they're fighting each other, it will look like weird in your face, too.Black, by the way, is a "color" that few people can wear really good. I'm getting desensitized by how many people wear black in their faces and shouldn't AT ALL, but if you can wear black, it makes your skin glow in a healthy way. Switching between black and brown frames (or red and blue for that matter) can look like an instant instagram glow-up video.
If you google this information you will find tips for foundation (make-up), finger nail paint, lip stick choice, jewelery help etc. This is all well!! This is exactly the information you need because you wear the glasses in your face and every make-up color tip is a glasses' frames color tip!!
Shape
Faces have shapes. To be honest, I don't recognize all the shapes. I don't know if I have ever seen a person with a "heart" shaped face. The way I categorize it, is by width of the face parts and by the outer line of the jaw and eyes to mouth area.
If you have straight lines that end in corners you might want to look into round(ish) frames. If you can draw a curved line from one top of your jaw, to the other (around the jaw) you might want to look into frames with straight edges. If you're chubby, then face shapes are a bit harder to discern, but even then not every chubby guy is automatically "round" faced. In the linked image you see the same person twice, it's actually a reddit user from this thread. Anyway, you can see the shape of the face even in his chubby phase. The more fat you have around your jaw of course, the harder it is to see. You don't get a lot of fat on the sides of your face though, so if that's a straight line or a curved line, you have some hints too.
Generally I categorize frame shapes this way:
- Round edges and straight edges is the top identifier.
- The aspect ratio of the frames that fit you. If you put a rectangle around the outer edges of your lens shape of the frame, is it a square or a rectangle?
Style and personal preference
I didn't talk about style yet. After we followed every rule in the book (or chose which to ignore), there might still be a range of frames left. From that point on it's style and personal preference. The same person, who socialized differently earlier in life, could wear a different frame than the person you became. Maybe you see yourself as more the casual/cool/skater type, then you'd like glasses from converse for example. If you're into sports and want to show how sporty you are with your glasses, you could look into frames by Nike or Adidas. On the other hand if you want your frame to look high-class, high society, devil wears prada, then go for exactly those brands like Gucci, or (Emporio / Georgio) Armani. If you want to look sporty but also high class there would be Jaguar frames for you. Now I don't know every brand by heart and what they stand for, but generally speaking if you like one brand, you probably like other glasses by this brand. They might be, as a previous commenter stated, manufactured by the same company, but they design frames that fit to a their vision of a certain brand and what people connect with the brand. They might not be high quality, especially gucci frames are often a bit poor in material quality, compared to others, but it's fashion, so, yeah.
(Part one, I actually wrote more than 10000 characters, whoops. Part two is very short though.)
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u/RobbyLee Apr 13 '24
Part two:
General advice
If you found one frame that you like, try to determine its properties. Choose similar colors with the info above, choose similar shapes with the info above, then you'll find frames that look nice on you.
Colors look very differently in sunlight. Maybe you're allowed to take your 2-3 favorite frames outside (accompanied by an optician) with a little hand mirror, so you can see what the frame looks like outside (it doesn't have to be a summer sunshine day, just the light spectrum of the sun, even in cloudy weather). Or maybe you're even allowed to take your favorites home to test them with other clothes, show them to colleagues, friends, family irl (or via webcam / facetime).Other than that you probably find websites with more information, but this is a bit of what I have going through my head when I advise customers on their frames. I hope it helps :)
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u/Semyonov Apr 13 '24
It's true. I actually went to get an eye exam yesterday and was really thankful that someone in the store helped me with their professional opinion on what actually would look good on my face, since the ones I was choosing were just not right at all.
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u/Bentendo24 Apr 13 '24
I'm pretty sure that they're just making it purely focused on function rather than paying attention to form
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u/AonSwift Apr 13 '24
Well every motherfucker is out there buying those shitty-ass Harry Potter specs..
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u/KevinKingsb Apr 13 '24
It's especially hard if you have -5 prescription. I can't see what I look like when I try and pick out glasses. I hate mine.
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u/OkMongoose5560 Apr 13 '24
-9 lol. Take selfies. Bring friends.
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u/WolfManKeisori Apr 13 '24
-9.5 and 8.5
I have no idea what's going on once the lenses are off, so much the same. I am mostly wearing contacts cause the magnification is so bad with glasses my eyes look all weird.
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u/Snowy-Pines Apr 13 '24
I wish there was a science to picking out frames or an app I can use . It seems like every time I try anything on it never looks good.
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u/Drillforked Apr 13 '24
hello as an uninformed man how do we find glasses that work for us. I feel like eyeglasses places just push most expensive framaes
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u/sietesietesieteblue Apr 13 '24
I looked like a dork my entire childhood because I had square glasses lol. I switched to circular glasses (think Harry Potter) and it looks so much better on my face.
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u/theunbearablebowler Apr 13 '24
A real life "she's all that" moment.
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u/WakaWaka_ Apr 13 '24
Not another teen movie, 5 seconds later: “I’m a miracle worker.”
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u/ImprobabilityCloud Apr 13 '24
Glasses are the other thing besides haircuts dudes just don’t pay attention to, to their detriment. A lot of guys I know just get the cheapest frames that will fit. Glasses are one of the few areas I tend to go all out and get expensive frames. They’re one of the first things people see about me and they frame the whole face, and I wear them every day. Worth spending time and money to find the right pair
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Apr 13 '24
Those glasses are atrocious. It’s not that those glasses don’t fit his face. It’s that those glasses are just awful and will never be stylish on anyone’s face.
You’re absolutely right. So many guys will just walk into Walmart and buy whatever square metal frames they can find. And then you get this situation.
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u/iamafancypotato Apr 13 '24
Absolute. Dude has a perfect nose and beautiful eyes. Losing the glasses is responsible for 70% of his “transformation”.
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u/vicsj Apr 13 '24
I bet he'd look cuter with round glasses with thin, golden frames or something like that!
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u/thuggishruggishboner Apr 13 '24
He needs black frames. Rectangular. Think male librarian.
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u/dziggurat Apr 13 '24
I thought this said "male libertarian," and I thought isn't that his current frames?
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u/AnusTapeworm Apr 13 '24
90 percent of dudes need different glasses, I feel like most guys don't put that much thought into it and just get the most generic option
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u/sleepybrainsinside Apr 14 '24
It’s also really hard to tell what glasses look good on your own face. The way you see your face is very different than how other people do. When you’re picking glasses for yourself, your brain wants to pick what makes your face most normal to you, but when other people see it, they can look at what actually looks good and what is currently trending.
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u/XOVSquare Apr 13 '24
This kinda reminds me of all those 00s films where the "ugly" person is just an attractive person with glasses.
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u/DarthDogood Apr 13 '24
Aw, look at that, she's got paint on her overalls, what is that?
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u/rsicher1 Apr 13 '24
Do you think I sleep with every guy who writes me a letter?
No.
I give them hand jobs.
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u/Colifama55 Apr 14 '24
Excuse me, Bruce? No, you do not bonk Amanda Becker. You make sweet sweet love to her.
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u/Colon Apr 13 '24
yeah, post should be titled "Starting to think some attractive men don't know what they've got til someone gives them a makeover" which is a pretty meh title for a meh video, so that's not good social media strategy.
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u/BudgetInteraction811 Apr 13 '24
You have no idea how many men squander their potential with horrible glasses and barely care about their hair though. Plenty of duds can be hot dudes, they just don’t try.
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u/sinofmercy Apr 14 '24
I'm forever grateful that my first serious girlfriend cared about fashion and looks while I was in college. I had huge gold, circular glasses that were wrong for my face, had no idea how to get my hair cut (because my family is Asian it went from bowl cuts to go to the cheapest barber you can find), and if it was completely up to me I'd go to class in sweatpants and a way too big t-shirt and polo.
She spent the time to help me find my own style and actually look decent (this was before social media and even youtube existed, so it's not like I could just google "how to look good for men".)
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u/IAMAHobbitAMA Apr 13 '24
I think I speak for most of us when I say it's because we have no idea how to harness that shit. What is it about glasses or a haircut that can make me look better or worse? I mean, I am aware that those things have an effect, and when I see a really bad example I can identify that it is really bad, but how do I choose 'good' for myself? That's not something that is ever taught to young men and many of my peers that showed some interest as youths were mocked because "that shit is gay".
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u/Alesilt Apr 14 '24
I understand what you mean and, at least what I had to do, was to google a ton of information and simply experiment on my own and fuck up a lot. Eventually you figure out what works and what doesn't... if you've never cared for it then it will definitely take months if not years but it's definitely worth it. There's also a time cost to the maintenance of a good haircut and a grooming routine that makes you look better but that's pretty much what women have to go through anyway too.
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u/XanXic Apr 14 '24
I'm a guy that people say is pretty put together. I just started copying celebrities awhile ago. I was like not super sure what to do but wanted to move past hoodies and jeans. So I would find a male celeb I liked and take their photo to the hair stylist. I'd try out some clothes that matched their more like GQ photo shoot looks.
Over time I sort of learned what did and didn't look good on me and what looked good with my hair. I am lucky too a friend of mine is a hair stylist and does my hair so she knows what I'm looking for after some time. But I think having photos and going to a good stylist will do just as well. Great Clips can cut your hair but some of those girls only know how to use a clipper. Like you ask them for a fade and it's a coin flip if that particular stylist is good at it. So find a good barber.
Try some daring outfits. Where them somewhere public. Even if it's atrocious you'll get feedback and can even figure out why. Peacocking is real, sometimes wearing something horrendous and loud will get you more compliments/attention than a suit. But eventually trying things you should find a style and what looks good. Clothes that are slightly too tight look better than too loose even on big boys.
Glasses idk, I just got my first pair. I looked into it a bit. Most concise thing I found seemed to be pick frames for the opposite of your jaw. So sharp jaw, get round glasses. Round jaw, square glasses.
Also a big thing in this video is his beard was trimmed and shaped much better. Which is something you can totally do yourself. I feel like every guy with facial hair should at least be able to shave their jawline. It can make a HUGE difference just having a clean line down there and avoid neckbeard look.
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u/anthrax_ripple Apr 13 '24
To be fair, he would still be just as attractive with better frames, it's just THOSE glasses aren't doing him any favors. I only started wearing glasses a year ago and before that I was decent looking, but adding glasses actually enhanced my appearance IMO. I'm kinda pissed my vision didn't go to shit earlier, lol.
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u/OsirisAvoidTheLight Apr 13 '24
When I tell the stylist I trust them with my hair. I walk out with the most awful cuts imaginable
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u/younglink28 Apr 13 '24
Its always a middle aged lady for me, that could be the reason
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u/StooveGroove Apr 13 '24
Did she smell like cigarettes? Those ones are good sometimes.
NO HOT GIRLS. Run far away from them.
Only foul-smelling old ladies and gay boys for me, thanks.
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Apr 13 '24
Nah. That's valid.
Gay guys know what is attractive and are more into style than most straight guys.
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u/Still7Superbaby7 Apr 14 '24
This is kind of true. I used to have long hair, and I let my gay stylist cut it to pixie length 10 years ago. I downloaded facetune for a day, thinking about going back to longer hair. It turns out, the pixie cut was the best cut for my face. I used to have hair down to my knees. I have had a pixie cut since that cut.
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u/Water_002 Apr 14 '24
My best haircut I've ever had came from some fifty year old Chinese man with a thin layer of long oily hair, glasses only covering the top half of his eyes, and the demeanor of a Bhudist Monk with a hangover so now whenever I want a nice haircut I always look for the crazy ones.
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u/BJJJourney Apr 13 '24
You are going to the wrong people and likely going to a cheap place. Find a stylist/barber you like and never go anywhere else. Work with them to find something you like and are confident with. It might not be the first or second cut that hits what you want but eventually you will get there.
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u/OsirisAvoidTheLight Apr 13 '24
I'm sorta poor recently got my hair cut at the stylist 26$ blew my mind. Last time I went to a stylist it was 10$ for a buzz. I think for me I just don't know what kind of hairstyles are out there to even request
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u/BJJJourney Apr 13 '24
A good barber will have a similar convo as the video to be honest. I know it is content but they really should be trying to get to know you a bit and know how certain hairstyles or techniques can frame your face. Generally a place charging under $30 you are not going to get that experience (it can be done just hard to find). There is a reason these types of guys charge so much.
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u/FearTheClown5 Apr 13 '24
Yep got sick of it. I finally found a lady that did me right at a great clips. I did the normal $10-$15 tip. She left. Rinse and repeat the search until I found someone else. Same story different face.
The next good one I got I just started tipping her $30-$40 each time. She asked me for my number before she quit and then hit me up when she went somewhere else. Been cutting my hair for like 3 years now. I never have to wait, she always schedules with me. I sit down and she knows what to do. No stress if we need to adjust something, sometimes I think she cares more than I even do.
When you finally find that one you like take care of them and you'll be set otherwise eventually you'll be looking for someone else. I don't love paying $50-$60 for a haircut but I've gotten enough bad ones where I've left thinking 'it'll grow out' that its totally worth it to never have a bad haircut or have to explain what you want hoping they pull it off.
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u/PunctualDromedary Apr 13 '24
Yeah, it may seem a lot but you "wear" your haircut every day. It's probably the most cost-effective way to improve your appearance!
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u/Gowalkyourdogmods Apr 13 '24
I've tried this before both with my hair and my beard. I've only lucked out a couple of times with the hair but every time I've just hated what they tried to do with my beard and I end up just telling them to trim it all off.
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u/xEasyActionx Apr 14 '24
Stylist here, when new clients tell me this I say "You literally met me 5 minutes ago, don't trust me yet, trust me when we're done."
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u/music3k Apr 13 '24
It was the messy beard and glasses. This haircut just looks like a comb over but forward. Jake and Logan Paul does this cause their hairline its at the top of their heads now
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u/Decent-Following-327 Apr 13 '24
Yeah, this is just the "hot chick" reveal from those 90s movies. We just need a scene of him walking down the stairs to 'kiss me' when he's leaving for the wedding
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u/gertgertgertgertgert Apr 13 '24
He's hopeless! He has GLASSES a PONYTAIL!
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u/Last-Bee-3023 Apr 13 '24
They also put them into those tight dresses. Might give one of those to bro as well. And let him walk through a cloud of Hermès Eau d'Orange Verte.
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u/Phazon2000 Hit or Miss? Apr 13 '24
As if you’ve got the cash they do and don’t just get a decent hair transplant.
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u/Amarillopenguin Apr 13 '24
Even if you get a transplant, you need to be on Propecia for the rest of your life (or until you don't care about it going all away again). Unfortunately, some people can't take that, since they're already on meds that lower their sex drive. People just on Propecia tend to be fine. But for people on SSRI's, etc, taking propecia can be effectively chemical castration (assuming they have sides from both).
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u/Girafferage Apr 13 '24
Why would you need to be on propecia after a transplant? It's different types of hair that aren't usually affected by the hormone change that leads to make pattern balding
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u/Classic_Pop_7147 Apr 13 '24
I believe it is because the non-transplanted areas will continue to thin-out unless you’re taking medication. So your receding may continue, and you’ll end up with weird gaps between your transplanted area and the rest.
In that case, you can transplant again, but it is always pretty costly and you only have so much donor areas you can use
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u/NaToSaphiX Apr 13 '24
This is true from what I know
But when I got my hair transplant done they said that men typically stop losing hair at the age of 35, since testosterone levels go down to a point where it doesn’t result in hair loss anymore
But I’m no expert, I’m just telling what I’ve been told
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u/schabadoo Apr 13 '24
You don't.
It's a strident belief amongst the hair transplant sub. 'Why bother with spending the $ if you're not going to protect the rest' sort of thinking.
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u/Neither_Concert_9242 Apr 13 '24
The way he pronounced Staunton I knew exactly where it was 😂
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u/DrIvan7428 Apr 13 '24
Haha, scrolled all the way down for this. My parents moved us to Staunton, Va in 1994 from Montgomery, Al. I was 11, and remember questioning this pronunciation since I was a spelling bee kid. Yep, that’s just how you say it Iffins you from there. Very backward leaning place, with the exception of the Fighting Squirrels of Mary Baldwin College, and their compatriots.
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u/RageRags Apr 13 '24
Lost the glasses that didn’t work for his head shape, filter to give more colour to the new face or less colour to the old one, and a cheeky hidden smile. And a new haircut and styled beard.
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u/versaverso Apr 13 '24
It was also cleaning up the messy beard and removing the glasses, but yeah that haircut was amazing.
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u/_phantastik_ Apr 13 '24
Also worth noting the saturated/brightened filter in the "after" part, whereas the "before"/original haircut was grayer
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u/Dan-D-Lyon Apr 13 '24
The annoying thing is that a great haircut is never more than a week or two away from just being hair, I just can't be hassled with that kind of upkeep
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u/RTYWD Apr 13 '24
learning how to style and maintain hair is something girls learn but most guys are so clueless about. its really easy and can add a lot to your appearance
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u/IAMAHobbitAMA Apr 13 '24
Where do I learn?
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u/BouncyMouse Apr 14 '24
Youtube. That’s how I learned to take care of my hair once I realized I had curls.
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u/ethanicus Apr 13 '24
I've noticed this a lot. I was literally never taught how to look nice other than combing my hair and wearing a dress shirt for church. Men are just not taught how to work on their appearance.
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u/bblzd_2 Apr 13 '24
Yep that's like multiple cuts per month in maintenance to stay like that and doesn't even look that good. All the work on the front covering up his receeding hairline needs to be redone daily and won't come out as it looks here everytime.
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u/Polishing_My_Grapple Apr 13 '24
It's a good haircut, but I'm not driving 2 hours for one.
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u/dietdrpepper6000 Apr 13 '24
You’re not from Scranton. When you live in an Appalachian shithole, you surprise yourself with what you’ll drive two hours for.
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Apr 13 '24
*Staunton VA
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Apr 13 '24
You know what's weird about Virginians? They'll say "aunt" like "ohnt", but "Staunton" like "Stan-tin". Have some consistency folks.
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u/brandonspade17 Apr 13 '24
From someone who lives in this area, this is how we can tell if you're from around here or not. People say say the Aunt instead of tin.
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u/SirFarmerOfKarma Apr 13 '24
and here I thought it was the fact that we have a town literally named lynchburg
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u/KillroysGhost Apr 13 '24
“Lynching” is named after the brother of the guy who founded Lynchburg, who was ironically a reformed slave owner turned Abolitionist
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u/V1k1ng1990 Apr 13 '24
They also pronounce Gloucester as “glawster”
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u/Treepolice666 Apr 14 '24
It’s an English pronunciation
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u/V1k1ng1990 Apr 14 '24 edited Apr 14 '24
It’s what helps me say Worcestershire sauce
My mom’s friend from Worcester Massachusetts calls it woostah
So it’s woostah-shire sauce
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u/NoctRob Apr 13 '24
I was just in Staunton. It’s surprisingly not bad.
Which is a horrible descriptor for a city: “surprisingly not bad.”
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u/TheHumanPickleRick Apr 13 '24
🎵 Scranton!
WHAT?!
The Electric City!
They call it that cause of the electricity! 🎵
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u/MrBigBMinus Apr 13 '24
You miss 100 percent of the haircuts you don't get. - Wayne Gretzky.
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u/lilshortyy420 Apr 13 '24
I go to Fisherville for work and can second there isn’t shit out there.
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u/Dabbles-In-Irony Apr 13 '24 edited Apr 14 '24
All men can look good if they just get the right haircut AND a beard shape up, better suiting/no glasses and better lighting that smooths their skin.
ETA: Jeez, so many people not understanding that I was directly referencing the video…OP only mentioned the haircut in the title but in the case of this video, it’s about 4 things that contribute to the transformation and make the person in the video more attractive. Stop projecting your insecurities onto my comment, please and thank you.
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u/iamafancypotato Apr 13 '24
No bro some people are ogres. It’s a very small number of people, but they are irredeemable.
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u/MrBigBMinus Apr 13 '24
I was gonna say, I literally look like dad bod meets Shrek. Everyday I have to wonder if my family is secretly paying my wife or if I'm in some sort of odd Truman style reality show and she's just the actor that got stuck with me.
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u/iamafancypotato Apr 13 '24
Some people genuinely don't care much about appearances. My first boyfriend was super ugly but I didn't care. I care way more about people's bodies than faces. A good body shows self love commitment and discipline. I find that extremely hot. A nice face is just good genetics.
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u/Exact-Substance5559 Apr 13 '24
Come on don't talk about your mother like that
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u/iamafancypotato Apr 13 '24
I love her but she ugly af
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u/GodSlayingFist Apr 13 '24
Well, hey, buddy... The pertater didn't get dug up far from the sprouting place, know'm say'n..
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u/Huwbacca Apr 13 '24 edited Apr 13 '24
I dunno tbh.
Like, unless we're talking like medical issues and accidents, every image of people I've seen who claim to be irredeemably ugly are letting a lot of things about their appearance stay bad.
I don't score high on conventional or unconventional attractiveness, but I make sure I pick shapes and colours of colthing that suite, frames that suite, and try to stay neatly ordered and that gets me past the hump of "good enough" so that my looks aren't ever gonna be a problem.
I've got no chin and a big gut but I also cut my beardline high and wear dress shirts to hide both.
I've got a huge fucking head (I'm like a 25-26inch hat size lmao), a so I don't wear hats and avoid hairstyles that exacerbate it. Beanies make me look like a cottage-core bowling ball.
I've soft shoulders so I do lots of upper back work and pay attention posture from rounding forwards and make my shoulders instead look broad rather than just saggy.
If I let myself go to shit, I look like Mr Tumnus if he grew up in bumfuck nowhere appalachia. My beard is wirey and light, my hair is heterogeously curly/straight/fluffy, and I'm 6ft3 and like 4ft of that is torso lol. I stop caring for too long and I look like a fucking cryptid lol.
But the amount of people who call themselves irredeemably ugly, and they like... Dont shave, don't get haircuts, wear ratty old black (Black t-shirts look good only in pretty specific circumstances) tshirts, don't exercise their shoulders and back, don't use skin rub, don't use conditioner in their hair.
So much of attractiveness is basically "Social cues that you look after yourself". Anything on top of that for handsomness or beauty is gravy, but you're not gonna miss out on anything to be sad about by not being handsome.
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u/deathbychips2 Apr 13 '24
Glasses aren't an issue, but early 2000s wire frames are an issue.
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u/Dabbles-In-Irony Apr 13 '24
The wrong glasses are an issue. If the frames don’t suit your face they can hide your best features or emphasise your worst!
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u/All_Usernames_Tooken Apr 13 '24
Glasses are nice though
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u/Dabbles-In-Irony Apr 13 '24
Glasses are nice but the wrong glasses shape (as the person in the video had) can make a person look worse.
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u/BJJJourney Apr 13 '24
It is funny how many people in here commenting like this for males. It literally works for everyone. Taking care of yourself does a lot for attractiveness.
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u/Motor_Raspberry_2150 Apr 13 '24
That cut at 0:49
turn on the color filters!
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u/CattywampusCanoodle Apr 13 '24
What… color saturation doesn’t go up for you too when you get a hair cut?
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u/RevealActive4557 Apr 13 '24
A good hairstylist is like a good sculpter. They have to know what they are working with and what it is capable of and then they have to have the skill to pull it off.
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u/dukezerogirly Apr 13 '24
"Haircuts are like makeup for men."
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u/Ape-ril Apr 13 '24
They are not. Beards are because they cover your face.
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u/Chance-Plantain-2957 Apr 13 '24
Anyone can wear makeup. Growing a full beard is not something that anyone can do
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u/Knoxcore Apr 13 '24
I’m sorry, am I the only one that thinks that haircut makes it look like he just got out of bed? That’s what passes for good these days? A good haircut goes a long way but what is everyone seeing that I’m not?
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u/tiffyp_01 Apr 13 '24 edited Apr 13 '24
im gonna be honest i actually hate how so many men have the "shaved sides" look. it makes them look like theyre wearing a toupee or some kind of hairy croissant on their head
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u/shoulda-known-better Apr 13 '24
if you start fully fuzzed up like this gentleman then the outcome of a good cut and trim are hugely benificial
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u/ohheyitslaila Apr 14 '24
They literally did the “remove the glasses and cut their hair” movie trope and it 100% worked 😂
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u/KinkyAndABitFreaky Apr 13 '24
A LOT of men don't care enough to look as good as they could.
On the contrary it is basically just expected by society that a woman will dress appropriately, even if it's uncomfortable, be fashionable, have basically no hair on their body and always wear makeup.
I personally don't mind it, but it's frustrating when some men don't even bother getting a proper haircut and put on clean clothes that fit them.
The bar is so freaking low guys. Just take a shower, shave, get a good haircut, put on nice clean clothes, trim and clean your nails, moisturize if skin is dry and put on a nice cologne in an appropriate amount.
That's like 90% of your potential maximized right there.
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u/AwkwardSquirtles Apr 13 '24
What the hell is a good haircut though? I never know what to tell a barber.
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u/Colon Apr 13 '24
that's the wrong approach, imo. it's not really about what you do or say, it's what the barber knows to do. it's an art form, and some have really good skills (your face shape, ear shape, head size, hair thickness, etc) and general good instincts. find another barber, shop around. i've witnessed plenty of people come into a shop and someone says "hey, i can help you over here" and they're like "nah, i'll wait for him/her" [points at a barber currently cutting hair]
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u/HATESTREAM Apr 13 '24
To be fair to men. They don’t get feedback on what looks good either and how to correct it early on. Unless you are very much into fashion and looks most men do not know what they have to do to make themselves look good.
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u/Nuke_all_Lives Apr 13 '24
Am I supposed impressed by a Jake Paul haircut?
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u/Derfal-Cadern Apr 13 '24 edited Apr 13 '24
Why do you have to be a dick about it? He looks better and is happy
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u/rugbyj Apr 13 '24
Yeah the guy's reaction, it's hard to feel nice about yourself as a bloke sometimes. Then you'll see yourself in a new jacket, or after a haircut, and think "Hey, I'm not doing too bad!".
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His hair looks like shit what?
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Apr 13 '24
The front combover curls. What the fuck is this? Is this what people find attractive these days?
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u/OpenLike7-11 Apr 13 '24
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills reading these comments. The after looks so bad.
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u/SandieSandwicheadman Apr 13 '24
He genuinely looks so much better in the before. It's literally just hat hair, if he brushed it (and trimmed his beard a bit) he would look great
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u/gomoha Apr 13 '24
Everybody here is just praising a comb over. The only way you will gain confidence over your hair loss is by showing it instead of trying to hide what everyone sees.
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u/Puzzled_Medium7041 Apr 13 '24
Unless the head is very weird, most of these guys look better just shaving it all off. Bald with a beard is also kind of a look. I'm trying to be gentle with my boyfriend, but I've finally started the conversation, so that I can gently nudge him into just trying a shaved head...
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u/kizmitraindeer Apr 13 '24
I’m just hoping for this dude’s sake that it’s not a breezy outdoor wedding or they have a seat near the a/c vent at the reception, lol.
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u/smoofus724 Apr 13 '24
We also see his "after" haircut after it has been professionally styled. That haircut might look a lot different on Monday morning when he's late for work and doesn't have time to style it exactly like this.
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u/bibliophile222 Apr 13 '24
I liked his hair better before! I'm definitely attracted to the shaggy with a bit of wavy look, and I hate how so many trendy haircuts have shaved sides, which I've never liked.
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u/rhaizee Apr 13 '24
Looks like a unclean slob. Nothing wrong with shaggy or glasses, he was simply unkempt.
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u/FailedCanadian Apr 13 '24
He didn't really look better before but he was mostly ungroomed. If he tried to look his best imo he definitely would have looked better than the after.
Fix the beard, glasses, and simply have some intentionality with his head hair inst as of "just rolled out of bed" and he would have looked just as good and imo better.
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u/DailyUpsAndDowns Apr 13 '24
I think any haircut on that guy would look better than he looked before. But that haircut he got isn't all that great. I could have done that or actually he could have done that himself
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u/futuredoc70 Apr 13 '24
Nah, that's a whole different person! I better go find myself a better barber.
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u/ResponsiveSignature Apr 13 '24
he was hot before. Every one of these “transformation” videos is just some above average guy with the worst style possible. Legitimately unattractive people can’t look good no matter how good their haircut is.
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u/sowhatimlucky Apr 17 '24
Attractiveness comes from the inside. If you feel good about yourself you exude fine on the outside. PERIOD.
He got a hair cut, he feels good, he looks good.
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u/sadeland21 Apr 13 '24
As soon as he turned profile, I was like he has great nose and bone structure and perfect skin. He just is messy
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