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While the "low bf" advice is a requisite for a chiseled face (of course), water retention is the biggest monster in here. Bodyfat is easy to lose unless you have death metabolism, kinda easy to maintain if you are not a total slob and it changes in a way steadier way. Water retention is volatile, requires a more restricted diet to get rid of it, lots of more external factors cause water retention than they cuse bodyfat, and it can mean the difference between full face and hollow cheeks even if your bodyfat is already at minimum.
Most people just don't think about water retention because its much less noticeable when your bf is also not very lean. Its specially cruel because being low bf is not enough for males, you have to also control every aspect of life that can give water retention, and they are more punitive and unforgiving than those who give you actual fat gain. Also a high bodyfat low water retention face will look actually BETTER despite having less jawline, than a low bodyfat high water retenntion one. The seconds looks actually more bloated and "wrong" despite jawline being almost intact. Water retention also worsens how skin looks in a way bodyfat alone doesn't. Why do you think barret is looking like some marbel god one day and you see him next week looking like a tranny chimpunk? I very much doubl he has such wild weight shifts: its all water retention making or killing a man's looks. Same happened for me when I had low bodyfat and still high water retention, I could look like a different person from one day to another. The reason its so underrated is that water retention harms your looks more noticeably when you are already in "ripped" levels of bodyfat. I personally went from looking awful with completely swollen face (despite the jawline) to have pretty defined hollow cheeks while staying at the SAME bodyfat and my abs being almost the same in all the process. In all my years of fighting for facial leanness, only the first 1-2 months were actually lowering bodyfat, the rest was all fightin the damned water retention.
Sure being low BF is a requirement, but male looks are completely dependant on facial definition, and water retention means the difference between having a completely dull face or a striking one, even if you are doing all things correctly regarding bodyfat levels. thats also why bodybuilders with ripped bodies sometimes also have "inexplicably" fat faces. General tips for lowering water retention are the obvious avoid sugars avoid salt, high water intake and avoid things like depression medication. Dyurethics are good too, like coffee (without added sugar of course), and tricks like emergency getting wasted night before an important day can save you from bloat in case you are in a hurry (don't overdo this or youll get more bloat in the long run).
Thinking about this makes me rage HARD agaisnt the body positivity movement being all about womens bodyfat percentage while males are consistently "killed" by water retention in a much cruel and unforgiving way, due to facial chisel being a KEY component of male beauty.
Most people just don't think about water retention because its much less noticeable when your bf is also not very lean. Its specially cruel because being low bf is not enough for males, you have to also control every aspect of life that can give water retention, and they are more punitive and unforgiving than those who give you actual fat gain. Also a high bodyfat low water retention face will look actually BETTER despite having less jawline, than a low bodyfat high water retenntion one. The seconds looks actually more bloated and "wrong" despite jawline being almost intact. Water retention also worsens how skin looks in a way bodyfat alone doesn't. Why do you think barret is looking like some marbel god one day and you see him next week looking like a tranny chimpunk? I very much doubl he has such wild weight shifts: its all water retention making or killing a man's looks. Same happened for me when I had low bodyfat and still high water retention, I could look like a different person from one day to another. The reason its so underrated is that water retention harms your looks more noticeably when you are already in "ripped" levels of bodyfat. I personally went from looking awful with completely swollen face (despite the jawline) to have pretty defined hollow cheeks while staying at the SAME bodyfat and my abs being almost the same in all the process. In all my years of fighting for facial leanness, only the first 1-2 months were actually lowering bodyfat, the rest was all fightin the damned water retention.
Sure being low BF is a requirement, but male looks are completely dependant on facial definition, and water retention means the difference between having a completely dull face or a striking one, even if you are doing all things correctly regarding bodyfat levels. thats also why bodybuilders with ripped bodies sometimes also have "inexplicably" fat faces. General tips for lowering water retention are the obvious avoid sugars avoid salt, high water intake and avoid things like depression medication. Dyurethics are good too, like coffee (without added sugar of course), and tricks like emergency getting wasted night before an important day can save you from bloat in case you are in a hurry (don't overdo this or youll get more bloat in the long run).
Thinking about this makes me rage HARD agaisnt the body positivity movement being all about womens bodyfat percentage while males are consistently "killed" by water retention in a much cruel and unforgiving way, due to facial chisel being a KEY component of male beauty.
