We Need to Talk About Oscar Patel

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]What? What are these steps? Body against the wall. Like, what has that got to do with your dental palette? Like, what the [ __ ] would it not work if your if your back wasn't against the wall? So, today we will be taking a look at Oscar Patel's looks maxing advice. And I'm using the term looks maxing very loosely here. As someone that, you know, takes looks maxing pretty damn seriously. And you can see I'm recovering from a surgery right now. It kind of ticks me off when a bunch of BS is being said, but you know, we're just gonna react to some of Oscar Patel's content and critique it. You know, this guy's pretty [ __ ] uh popular, so you know, surely popularity should correlate with effectiveness.

[00:00:43]Yeah, about that.

[00:00:44]>> Suck your cheeks and repeat for one minute daily. You will fix a puffy face.

[00:00:50]>> Stop. What do you mean a puffy face?

[00:00:52]Like, what does that mean exactly? Do you mean like uh fats? Like is it going to spot reduced fat? That that can't be what he means. Is it going to reduce water retention? I don't see how that would work either. Is it displacing fat cells or water retention so it gives the illusion of being, you know, a leaner lower third? That can't work either because all you're doing is just sucking in your face. I don't I'm I'm nonsense. If you can tuck your chin to each side of your neck and repeat for one minute daily, you will fix neck posture.

[00:01:31]>> Why? First of all, like if he's making the claim that this is going to build some muscle, right? Like some muscle in your neck, right? That's nowhere near enough stimulus to actually do the trick. I built up my neck muscle uh you know, just using neck curls and going pretty damn near to failure, right? and you know just doing bodybuilding sets and rep ranges you know that's a thing like that's a thing and I I feel like you know neck curls and neck extensions you know actual hypertrophy for the neck is like the closest thing you can get to you know an actual facial exercise even that being said like this doing that that that's not that that's nothing like that's like that's such low amounts like you actually need to go to somewhere near failure uh if you want to expand you know your muscle Like if you actually want to, you know, induce hypertrophy, that's just a given. Like, you know, you actually have to be somewhere in the realm of, you know, going to failure. And there's no real, you know, there's no real uh muscular tension with that. It's nowhere near enough.

[00:02:32]>> And if you can place your thumbs inside your mouth under your cheekbone and massage for 1 minute daily, you will fix jaw tension.

[00:02:40]>> Sorry, what?

[00:02:43]First of all, what does he mean by jaw tension? Cuz like the way like uh you know in actual cosmetic surgery the way tension is used where you kind of want more horizontal and vertical tension to your face because that kind of lifts up your fat pads. It uh you know gives you more positive canful tilt. In fact, that's uh you know part of the reason why I'm recovering from surgery right now. I did a temporal lift. When he's saying tension here, I I guess he's just meaning like, oh, by doing this, you're you're kind of just uh you're kind of like lengthening the muscle fibers like temporarily. But what's that going to do? How does that change your jaw structure? Like what what's like does that give you? Like it the physics of this don't really make any sense, you know? It's not like it's not like if I massage my bicep, it's not going to like change in shape, you know? It's not really going to change in shape. It's going to look like the same old bicep, right? So, this jaw tension that he speaks of, like, I don't see how that has anything to do with anything.

[00:03:46]>> If you can take your fingers, place them on your temples, and slowly massage in small circular motions for 1 minute daily, you will recorrect tension from improper chewing and fix headaches.

[00:03:59]Again, this this concept of tension that is just totally irrelevant to the actual meat and bone and geometry of the face and also improper chewing.

[00:04:12]I'm I'm not sure what what's that got to do with the price of tea in China. If you can stick your tongue out and then take a cloth and slowly stretch it even further forward and hold for 1 minute daily, you will strengthen your jaw and fix >> uh Sorry, sorry, sorry. So, we're we're taking long tongue and like pulling it out.

[00:04:36]What What do you mean by strengthen the jaw? Again, like we're going back to this concept of hypertrophy. If I'm taking Oscar Patel's word, you know, the best possible faith, right? He's getting at if you increase the musculature, if you actually incur hypertrophy to jaw muscles, you're going to get a better looking face. And that I don't even agree with that. I don't even agree with that. Like I think that's very much uh a nuance topic. If you have a poor lower third, your musculature to your jaw has really nothing to do with it. It's your skull. It's like the tightness of your skin and you know the fat cells like it's it's that right like that's what it's about. Even putting all this aside like that that is such weak that is nowhere near the stimulus needed to incur hypertrophy. It's nowhere near it.

[00:05:27]It's nowhere near it. Like the closest I come to doing a Oscar Patel face exercise is uh you know neck training, right? But that's proper like that's like I'm it it's basically like doing bodybuilding for my neck, right? like I'm going close to failure. I'm loading up plates on onto my forehead and I'm like really [ __ ] going at it. It's not pissing about 1 minute a day sticking my tongue like that. It's It's nothing to do with that.

[00:05:56]This is really bad. Like I I'm just I'm just going to say like I understand like if you're a normie and you really don't know anything, this might seem quite compelling. This might seem, oh wow, you can actually get a, you know, a model tier face just by doing a bunch of funny faces in the mirror a few minutes a day.

[00:06:14]And, you know, I think he purposefully loads up uh these videos with terms that are just kind of vague and kind of quasi scientific sounding that, you know, people watching aren't going to know what it means. So, it just kind of, you know, it's like appealing to it like authority, right? in a way that normies aren't going to understand what these terms mean. So, oh Patel kind of sounds smart, but when you actually really like think about it, none of this is really going to move the needle at all for changing how your face looks. You know what is surgery?

[00:06:50]Nobody wants to hear it.

[00:06:51]>> And if you can take your right hand, place it behind your neck and pull inwards. Then take your left hand, place it on your face and push outwards. Then repeat three times on each side. You will release the fascia in your face and fix blocked sinuses.

[00:07:09]>> He's putting these before and after pictures like this is the the secret source to getting like a you know a better lower third to your face.

[00:07:17]Meanwhile, what what is this before picture? It's like him when he's like a child um you know in outdoor lighting that looks kind of higher body fat. Like is is that you know is isn't it not Okam's razor that something else might be responsible for that before and after? Uh I I'd say so. Okay, we got a fun pulling tutorial. Jesus. H Yeah. So thumb pulling it I I think it's absolute [ __ ] nonsense. It's one of these copes where people just want to not do anything that actually costs any [ __ ] money. So, the idea of widening your pallet to de-crowd your teeth is correct I in principle, right? Like that is something that often is going to improve your looks. Like if you have less than 10 teeth uh showing when you smile, you probably have a bit of a narrow palette, a bit of a crowded uh teeth situation. But the solution to this is not doing this nonsense. This is a solved science. Like you know, you have like aligners, we have pallet expanders. And by the way, if you want to know the actual protocol for those, you know, you have to wear those for like 22 hours a day for months. Okay?

[00:08:40]And it's very precise. It's very calculated what kind of like tension is being applied to the pallet. It's not just haphazardly putting your thumbs in your mouth and doing a funny face on the mirror for a few minutes a day. Like, that's nowhere near enough force over enough time. Nowhere near. So, I mean, are we to believe that every [ __ ] anyone producing or designing aligners are just full of [ __ ] Like, they're just selling people a bunch of BS when they could just put, you know, their thumbs in their mouth for like a few minutes a day and they would get the same results. It seems unlikely. It it seems kind of like just it using your own intuition. It should be obvious that this is not going to work. So I don't need to have a [ __ ] pallet expander in my mouth for like 22 to 24 hours a day. I can just do this like a few minutes and that does the same thing.

[00:09:32]And also what's this like what are these steps? Body against the wall. Like what has that got to do with your dental palette? Like what the [ __ ] would it not work if your if your back wasn't against the wall or your shoulder you didn't roll your shoulders back? I've never heard any orthodontist ever say you should have your body against the wall and you should roll your shoulders back, otherwise this set of aligners aren't going to work. I've never heard anything [ __ ] like that. Hold for 30 seconds and repeat five times a day. So 2 minutes and 30 seconds of stimulus here.

[00:10:10]That's nothing. That's nothing. That's such a little amount of force. And also it's not calculated force like a, you know, an actual set of aligners. It it's it's just nothing. It's like a drop of water in the ocean. It's it's just it's not going to move the needle at all. So, in conclusion, I see why this type of content works because he's using a bunch of scientific terms that normies watching this aren't really going to understand what it means. They don't really have the intuition that someone that has really looked into, you know, facial aesthetics and cosmetic surgery would have. So, a lot of this kind of would just it seems credible, right?

[00:10:48]Like it seems like, oh, this this seems good and he's selling a dream, right?

[00:10:52]Like you can essentially get cosmetic surgery results from just pulling a bunch of faces in the mirror. And I'm sorry folks, that doesn't work. Like there's no such thing as 5minute abs. If you enjoyed Looksmaxer critiques this this concept for videos, I can look at other content that Looks Maxing creators or other people have made and kind of critique it. If you want to see more videos like this, please drop a like down below.