Grooming

What is Bonesmashing? Inside the Extreme Looksmaxxer Technique

As looksmaxxing enters our lexicon, the practice of bonesmashing—tapping your face with a hammer to shape your bone structure—is trailing close behind.
By Charlie Sosnick
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When you’re a teenager, your parents like taking stuff away from you: videogames, sleepover privileges, the car keys. When Braden Peters, who you know as Clavicular, was a teenager, his mom took away his hammer. She wanted young Clav to stop bonesmashing—that is, tapping his face repeatedly with a hammer to change his face shape.

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