Craniofacial Development
your face is a bone build that mostly finished growing before you knew looksmaxxing was a word
Grounded in the research on Wikipedia: Craniofacial growth / facial skeleton development; looksmaxxing subculture
what it actually is
Craniofacial development is how your skull and jaw grow from soft infant bone into the adult face you wear. Your maxilla (upper jaw), mandible (lower jaw), and cheekbones expand on a genetically set timeline driven by growth hormone and the sutures between bones. By your late teens to early twenties the growth plates fuse and the hard structure locks. That bone is the scaffold every looksmaxxing term is really arguing about.
the real science
Mainstream developmental biology and orthodontics describe this in growth-curve studies going back to the Bolton-Brush longitudinal data (1930s onward) tracking real kids' skulls over decades. That's solid science. The looksmaxxing layer on top, ranking faces and claiming you can regrow adult bone, is a forum coinage, not a field. When someone online cites 'craniofacial' to sell you a fix, separate the textbook from the cope.