You know you are so right about this and I meant to mention it earlier. Only people who are like 22 can get away with having no body fat without it making their face look worse. Past 30, they will start to look older, hollow, and drawn, and past 40 they will start to look like full on skeletor with sunken eye hollows and cheeks if they go too low fat. Your abs or your face -- always go with your face!!
My guy is solidly in this middle aged stage where a choice must be made, and his face looks best when he has a bit of a belly and some love handles. But he does one of those ultra marathons every year or two (he enjoys torture, I guess) and every time, by the time he's done training and ready for the race, he looks drawn, hollow, the sparkle goes out of his eyes when he smiles, and even his salt and pepper beard turns greyer! That really happens, it literally gets more grey when he's in body-wasting mode, and he ages himself at least a decade, every time he does these stupid races. He goes back to looking nice once he stops the crazy training and stops being so ripped. Every time he does one he says it will be the last, and I rejoice, but then a year later he always ends up getting a hankering to torture himself again. 🙁
Anyway, good points, even though I have never heard of a few of these guys you picture.
I totally believe you about your man aging before your eyes like Benjamin button every-time he trains. I mean that’s what happens with me and Hugh Jackman everytime he trains for a new Wolverine. I always go — oh nooo! And you were doing so well! Now I’ll have to ignore you exist for a while before I can see your face again!
I’m mostly Irish, so my face has the opposite problem — I need to work out my neck to make it huge enough to eat up superfluous skin. Whether my face looks better with or without fat is not something I can afford to care about; I just need it to be *tight*.
Fascinating technique. Everyone else is trying to fill up that extra skin with fillers of fat. Vicious Mole just goes for straight muscle as a filler.
Saw Michael Moynihan on an unfortunately high def screen last night and he is absolutely suffering from this problem. High def screens really are cruel to everyone over 25.
Guy got cut but not buff. There's a name for it: skinny ripped. People at the gym make fun of them. Its not attractive because its not attractive. Only group who likes this type are gay men. It's the body of sickly looking ultramarathoners. Even swimmers have better builds
Men have always overestimated how attractive women find gay men, that was a large part of the whole metrosexual/Queer Eye thing, probably going all the way back to the dandies and fops, if not into pre-history. I think it has to do with gay men tailoring themselves to the male gaze, and on some level men being enticed, even if they suppress it. They simply assume that women share their own views.
You know you are so right about this and I meant to mention it earlier. Only people who are like 22 can get away with having no body fat without it making their face look worse. Past 30, they will start to look older, hollow, and drawn, and past 40 they will start to look like full on skeletor with sunken eye hollows and cheeks if they go too low fat. Your abs or your face -- always go with your face!!
My guy is solidly in this middle aged stage where a choice must be made, and his face looks best when he has a bit of a belly and some love handles. But he does one of those ultra marathons every year or two (he enjoys torture, I guess) and every time, by the time he's done training and ready for the race, he looks drawn, hollow, the sparkle goes out of his eyes when he smiles, and even his salt and pepper beard turns greyer! That really happens, it literally gets more grey when he's in body-wasting mode, and he ages himself at least a decade, every time he does these stupid races. He goes back to looking nice once he stops the crazy training and stops being so ripped. Every time he does one he says it will be the last, and I rejoice, but then a year later he always ends up getting a hankering to torture himself again. 🙁
Anyway, good points, even though I have never heard of a few of these guys you picture.
I totally believe you about your man aging before your eyes like Benjamin button every-time he trains. I mean that’s what happens with me and Hugh Jackman everytime he trains for a new Wolverine. I always go — oh nooo! And you were doing so well! Now I’ll have to ignore you exist for a while before I can see your face again!
Thank you for reading 💜
I’m mostly Irish, so my face has the opposite problem — I need to work out my neck to make it huge enough to eat up superfluous skin. Whether my face looks better with or without fat is not something I can afford to care about; I just need it to be *tight*.
Fascinating! I hope your wife is happy with your efforts! Ces la vie friend!
And thank you for reading!
Fascinating technique. Everyone else is trying to fill up that extra skin with fillers of fat. Vicious Mole just goes for straight muscle as a filler.
Saw Michael Moynihan on an unfortunately high def screen last night and he is absolutely suffering from this problem. High def screens really are cruel to everyone over 25.
Except Henry Cavill. I watched him in the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare over the weekend and he looks beautiful - lines and all!
Guy got cut but not buff. There's a name for it: skinny ripped. People at the gym make fun of them. Its not attractive because its not attractive. Only group who likes this type are gay men. It's the body of sickly looking ultramarathoners. Even swimmers have better builds
Yea, he looked like he’d be more intimidating in person in the first picture.
Thanks for explaining. If everyone knows this I have no idea why men think women are lying for saying they don’t like it!
Men have always overestimated how attractive women find gay men, that was a large part of the whole metrosexual/Queer Eye thing, probably going all the way back to the dandies and fops, if not into pre-history. I think it has to do with gay men tailoring themselves to the male gaze, and on some level men being enticed, even if they suppress it. They simply assume that women share their own views.