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Hardmaxxing
Hardmaxxing is the forum term for changing the face through procedures: orthognathic jaw surgery, chin and cheek implants, rhinoplasty, blepharoplasty, and injectables such as fillers. It is the opposite of softmaxxing. BecomeTen never recommends any of it, and the potential score describes only what is reachable without a procedure.
Also called: hard maxxing, surgerymaxxing, procedural looksmaxxing
What is hardmaxxing?
Where softmaxxing covers everything a routine can do, hardmaxxing covers everything that needs a clinic. The line is not surgery versus no surgery; injectables are not surgery but they are a procedure performed by a licensed practitioner, and the community files them under the same word. The common thread is that a third party alters the face.
What does the term cover?
| Category | Examples | What it targets |
|---|---|---|
| Bone | Orthognathic surgery, genioplasty, jaw and cheek implants | Structural traits: gonial angle, chin projection, maxillary position |
| Soft tissue surgery | Rhinoplasty, blepharoplasty, canthoplasty, buccal fat removal, submental liposuction | Nose, eye area, lower-face definition |
| Injectables | Hyaluronic acid fillers, botulinum toxin | Volume, lines, temporary contour |
| Hair | Transplant | Hairline and density |
This page defines the categories; it does not assess them. Whether a procedure suits a face is a clinical judgement that depends on imaging, health history and examination, none of which a photo provides.
Why does BecomeTen exclude it from potential?
Potential is what is reachable without surgery, and the caps are set per area by what genuinely moves without a procedure: harmony +6, eye area +10, jaw and chin +14, skin +25, hair +20. The potential image follows the same rule; it changes skin, hair, grooming and moderate facial fat and may not redraw a nose, a canthal tilt or a jaw. A ceiling that included surgery would be a promise the methodology refuses to make.
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What can a photo show about hardmaxxing?
Only what the face looks like now. A photo cannot show whether a trait would respond to a procedure, whether the bone under the tissue is what the forum guesses, or whether a previous procedure has been done. BecomeTen reports each structural trait as a directional band and tags it structural. Structural means the plan will not promise a fix, not that the report recommends one.
Questions
Is a hair transplant hardmaxxing?
Yes, it is a procedure, so the community and this glossary file it there. BecomeTen's hair potential rests on what the evidence supports without a procedure, mainly medication: a 2002 randomized trial in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology compared topical minoxidil strengths with placebo in men with androgenetic alopecia. That is a talk-to-a-doctor step, described, not prescribed.
Why is there no 'with surgery' potential score?
Because it could not be honest. Predicting a surgical outcome from a selfie would be false precision on top of a medical decision the app is not qualified to make. The non-surgical ceiling is enforced in code, and every structural weak point is labelled so you know which column it sits in.
Are fillers softmaxxing or hardmaxxing?
Hardmaxxing, by the usual community definition and by this glossary, because they are a clinic procedure with a licensed practitioner. The report may describe what the evidence says about fillers with an evidence level attached, but they are never part of the potential score or image, which change only skin, hair, grooming and facial fat.
Sources
- 1.Hyaluronic acid fillers: a comprehensive review — Facial Plastic Surgery (2009)(Opens in a new window)
- 2.A multicenter, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study of the efficacy and safety of botulinum toxin type A in the treatment of glabellar lines — Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (2002)(Opens in a new window)
- 3.A randomized clinical trial of 5% topical minoxidil versus 2% topical minoxidil and placebo in the treatment of androgenetic alopecia in men — Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (2002)(Opens in a new window)