Roland Loomis reinvented himself as Fakir Musafar, a mysterious master of extreme bodily modification and pain tolerance. From his teenage years, he took ...

Looksmaxxing is rotting your For Your Page. Here's your decoder ring.

Appearance-based social media trends like looksmaxxing, softmaxxing, and hardmaxxing are often framed as self-improvement, but experts say they can contribute to body dysmorphia, anxiety, and even ...

Liza Minnelli, who turns 80 on Thursday, has been performing in one form or another for at least seven-eighths of her life. That’s a lot of material — and a lot of Lizas. Ther ...

From Gigachads at Gucci to Patrick Bateman cosplay at Tom Ford, fashion designers are mining the internet’s most obsessive male-beauty subcultures for inspiration—and creating an unsettling cultural ...

Many types of body modification date back hundreds or thousands of years, revealing our ancient ancestors were not that ...