Anyone can hand you a list. Nobody tells you which eleven do the work, which twenty-two waste your time, and which seven wreck your face permanently. We sorted them.
Most guides put a dermatologist-grade treatment and something invented on a forum on the same page, in the same tone. Ours doesn't.
Solid evidence, mechanism we understand, results you can count on. Where nearly all your progress comes from.
11Mechanism holds up, evidence is thin, worst case is nothing happens. Both halves have to be true.
09Does something small and real, gets sold as something huge. We say which half is which.
22Real chance of permanent harm, no established upside. We show exactly where the theory breaks.
07Tap anything you've heard of. Real verdict, straight out of the guide, with the chapter it came from.
No selection.
Pick something on the left →
One for everything you can do yourself. One for everything that needs a doctor.
Everything runs through Skool. Cancel whenever — nobody's locking you in.
Both guides plus the server. Where most people should start.
Two of us, a handful of people. It sells out and then it's shut.
Where the guides get argued with. Ask something, get an answer that isn't trying to sell you a stack. Free — you don't need the course to be in there.
discord.gg/glow-upSome of the raw information, yes. What isn't free is the sorting. Forums give you eighty techniques with equal weight and a lot of confidence. We read the papers behind the popular ones and a lot of them fall apart past the abstract.
Use the cope check above. If it doesn't tell you something new, don't buy it.
The rabbit study everyone links used appliances surgically screwed into skulls, on growing animals, with calibrated force. Real adult palatal expansion needs miniscrews driven into bone, or a surgeon. There's a reason that hardware exists.
Bonesmashing: what you see is callus, and callus resorbs. What stays is asymmetry, because you can't control where it forms.
The Softmax Guide is fine at any age — sleep, skin, training, grooming, posture. Nothing in it can hurt you.
The Hardmax Guide is 18+, and so is coaching. If you're fifteen and worried about your jaw: your face isn't finished. Do the boring parts and come back in a few years.
A list of compounds and what each does isn't information, it's a menu — and most people reading this are between fifteen and twenty-two, the exact age where these do permanent damage. Growth plates close early. Gyno doesn't reverse. Hair loss doesn't come back.
The Hardmax Guide covers the honest risk picture, because you'll run into this material anyway. What we won't do is tell you where to buy it.
We change it, you get the update free, and we say what changed rather than quietly editing it. Come argue in the Discord — a good chunk of the first-edition corrections came from people in there.