Looksmaxxing Terms: Chad, Stacy, Canthal Tilt, and More
Looksmaxxing communities use a lot of shorthand. Here is what the common terms refer to, how they relate to a face scan, and where a label stops being a measurement.
Chad and Chadlite
Chad is community slang for a highly attractive masculine appearance. Chadlite describes a nearby tier in the same informal vocabulary. Different communities draw those boundaries differently; neither word has a standardized anatomical definition.
Look Maximize uses these words as labels in its male-preset score ladder. They are tied to the app’s displayed experimental score and published tier boundaries. They do not mean a person belongs to a measured population percentile.
Stacy and Stacylite
Stacy and Stacylite are the corresponding feminine labels commonly used in this vocabulary. In the app, they belong to the female-preset ladder.
You choose the preset yourself. The app does not infer gender from a face. Preset-specific comparison bands explain why a score or tier can differ when the underlying measurements stay the same.
Hunter eyes and canthal tilt
Hunter eyes is a broad visual label used for an eye-area appearance. It often involves several features rather than one measurement. Canthal tilt is more specific: the angle between an eye’s inner and outer corners.
The current single-photo scanner reports separate eye descriptors where they can be measured. It does not turn one photo into a hunter-eye classification. Read the canthal tilt guide for a closer explanation of the angle.
Facial harmony and proportions
Facial harmony usually refers to how features look together. It is a broad impression, not one universal formula. Eye spacing, nose and mouth ratios, and vertical feature positions describe more specific relationships.
Look Maximize makes those relationships visible through measurement values, reference bars, and focus points. The app’s reference is defined by its rubric rather than a claim that everyone should have the same face.
Jawline, maxilla, and mewing
Jawline refers to the visible lower-face outline. Maxilla names an upper-jaw structure; “recessed maxilla” is an anatomical claim that an appearance app cannot establish from a selfie.
Mewing is commonly used to mean tongue-posture practices in this space. A photo score does not establish a need for a treatment, and Look Maximize does not promise that a practice will change facial bones. Side-view descriptors describe apparent contours, not a skeletal diagnosis.
Mogging, tiers, and Battle
Mogging is slang for outshining someone in an appearance comparison. The app’s in-person Battle turns the comparison into two consenting people taking turns on one phone with the same preset.
The result compares their saved scores under the same product rules, including a draw when displayed scores match. It is a game-like comparison of captured measurements. Battle scans do not update someone’s personal leaderboard entry.