A disturbing TikTok trend called “bone smashing” has convinced teenage boys that repeatedly hitting their faces with hammers, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration: Paddy Mills at Synergy/The Guardian (Illustration: Paddy Mills at Synergy/The Guardian) For James, it started with ...

In the age of viral trends and extreme self-improvement hacks, “bone smashing” has emerged as one of the most controversial and alarming practices online. Tied closely to underground beauty ...

"Looksmaxxing" has moved from small online forums to one of TikTok's biggest appearance trends. Young men now openly talk about changing their faces to improve what James, a forum user who joined the ...

Chiselled jaws, pouty lips, hunter eyes: everything is up for grabs in the quest to increase ‘sexual market value’. But how did this extreme cosmetic craze become mainstream? For James, it started ...