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Masseter Hypertrophy is a condition in which the masseter muscles become enlarged. This enlargement can make the jaw appear broader, or more pronounced. It's usually a harmless condition except if it's associated with TMJ. However, masseter hypertrophy will affect your facial aesthetics (Making the jaw more bulky, or squarey.) Although I've seen many users debate on whether you'll look bloated or have a wider jaw, it depends on multiple factors.
The primary causes are the training and bulking of the muscle:
Genetics
Some people naturally have larger masseter muscles.
Bruxism
Bruxism is a condition in which one grinds their teeth chronically, usually during sleep or when stressed, overworking the masseter muscle will enlarge it over time.
Jaw Training (Gum chewing, clenching...)
Excessive chewing of particularly hard gums or food and or clenching of the jaw will also train and contribute to the overgrowth of the muscle.
Now that we know the reasons of how the muscle can be hypertrophied, let's see the usual results. I'm gonna use Pre botox and the botox aftermath of the muscle.
The jaw muscle has been overworked in each of these examples. One looks extremely squarey, one looks too masculine and broad for a female jaw, and the other is a jaw that's way too disproportional compared to the zygos, which looks bad.
However, we can all tell that each of these wouldn't look so bad if the muscle weren't THIS overworked. This also mainly comes down to muscle insertions.
In this first image, we showcase Brad Pitt.
To test your muscle insertions, you should effectively clench your jaw, and see if the 2 points pinned are the ones that get flexed and bulge out the most primarily.
However, if the muscle bulges out more on the lower end of the masseter, this would mean that your insertions aren't complete shit. (I'd suggest that you should train your masseters if this comes out as the result of your test if your zygos are too wide for your jaw.)
Let's take Brad Pitt once more
His masseters are extremely hypertrophied, yet, he's still an unmoggable terachad. I wouldn't contribute the entirety of his success only due to his jaw, as he'd still look good with them not being this big.
Of course, the masseter is just a muscle, it's fleshy, if you want a sharper look with your jaw then you'd need to have the actual mandible poking thru your skin (If your masseters are nonexistent), you can only achieve this with botox (If your masseters aren't nonexistent), or jaw implants/fillers.
NOW, if your gonial angle is high, then DO NOT achieve the hypertrophied state of your masseters, as this will make you look like a chipmunk.
Literally looks subhuman.
If you're lean, your muscle insertions aren't subhuman, your gonial angle isn't too high (or too low), then you could achieve a more squarey/larger jaw width.
Let's take a few celebs as examples:
Tupac Shakur notably had a strong jaw, which was accompagnied by his strong voice, charisma, and overall looks.
He is loved and cherished by women of all sort. And IMO with his appeal he reaches low chadlite.
In some pics, I agree that it looks bulky and chipmunk-like, but it doesn't look terrible because Tupac isn't bloated, as he's lean and low bf%.
Proportions
Proportions also play a huge role in whether you should hypertrophy your masseters or not.
If your eyes are too close-set, then you would widen your face by training your masseters, which would worsen your subhuman eye area because you're enlarging your face.
(Ian doesn't have a subhuman eye area, but I'm just using him to prove my point.)
It looks retarded here cuz of his bird-eye close-set eyes and his bloat, but he wouldn't look bad at all if he had proportionate features.
TLDR: Masseter Hypertrophy could look good or subhuman based on multiple factors.
gonions literally don't matter except if your masseters are nonexistent
The primary causes are the training and bulking of the muscle:
Genetics
Some people naturally have larger masseter muscles.
Bruxism
Bruxism is a condition in which one grinds their teeth chronically, usually during sleep or when stressed, overworking the masseter muscle will enlarge it over time.
Jaw Training (Gum chewing, clenching...)
Excessive chewing of particularly hard gums or food and or clenching of the jaw will also train and contribute to the overgrowth of the muscle.
Now that we know the reasons of how the muscle can be hypertrophied, let's see the usual results. I'm gonna use Pre botox and the botox aftermath of the muscle.
The jaw muscle has been overworked in each of these examples. One looks extremely squarey, one looks too masculine and broad for a female jaw, and the other is a jaw that's way too disproportional compared to the zygos, which looks bad.
However, we can all tell that each of these wouldn't look so bad if the muscle weren't THIS overworked. This also mainly comes down to muscle insertions.
In this first image, we showcase Brad Pitt.
To test your muscle insertions, you should effectively clench your jaw, and see if the 2 points pinned are the ones that get flexed and bulge out the most primarily.
However, if the muscle bulges out more on the lower end of the masseter, this would mean that your insertions aren't complete shit. (I'd suggest that you should train your masseters if this comes out as the result of your test if your zygos are too wide for your jaw.)
Let's take Brad Pitt once more
His masseters are extremely hypertrophied, yet, he's still an unmoggable terachad. I wouldn't contribute the entirety of his success only due to his jaw, as he'd still look good with them not being this big.
Of course, the masseter is just a muscle, it's fleshy, if you want a sharper look with your jaw then you'd need to have the actual mandible poking thru your skin (If your masseters are nonexistent), you can only achieve this with botox (If your masseters aren't nonexistent), or jaw implants/fillers.
NOW, if your gonial angle is high, then DO NOT achieve the hypertrophied state of your masseters, as this will make you look like a chipmunk.
Literally looks subhuman.
If you're lean, your muscle insertions aren't subhuman, your gonial angle isn't too high (or too low), then you could achieve a more squarey/larger jaw width.
Let's take a few celebs as examples:
Tupac Shakur notably had a strong jaw, which was accompagnied by his strong voice, charisma, and overall looks.
He is loved and cherished by women of all sort. And IMO with his appeal he reaches low chadlite.
In some pics, I agree that it looks bulky and chipmunk-like, but it doesn't look terrible because Tupac isn't bloated, as he's lean and low bf%.
Proportions
Proportions also play a huge role in whether you should hypertrophy your masseters or not.
If your eyes are too close-set, then you would widen your face by training your masseters, which would worsen your subhuman eye area because you're enlarging your face.
(Ian doesn't have a subhuman eye area, but I'm just using him to prove my point.)
It looks retarded here cuz of his bird-eye close-set eyes and his bloat, but he wouldn't look bad at all if he had proportionate features.
TLDR: Masseter Hypertrophy could look good or subhuman based on multiple factors.
gonions literally don't matter except if your masseters are nonexistent
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so the position of my masseters are kinda shit for jaw training. Aiming for masseter hyperthrophy would likely detract from my facial harmony.
