Psychology Today | 01.02.2026 02:01
Looksmaxxing is the latest trend associated with perfectionism. Moral perfectionism is likely not as common as it was due to the decline in the number of people practicing religion, and success-oriented perfectionism is so common that there’s little left unsaid about it. So, we can use looksmaxxing to highlight a deeper problem, which finds several expressions. Perfectionism is a creature, or better yet, a virus, morphing and evolving to survive. It always latches onto the wider culture. We can become perfectionistic about almost anything. But that’s the point—it doesn’t matter.
