At 20 years old, Braden Eric Peters — known online as Clavicular — has already had a nose job, ear surgery, scar removal, and wisdom teeth extraction within a single week, and livestreamed the rhinoplasty on Kick for thousands of viewers. That “Ascension Week” in early June 2026 is just the most recent chapter. Long before the cameras were rolling, he was injecting testosterone as a teenager, smoking crystal meth to hollow his cheeks, and hitting his face with a hammer to reshape his bones. The full list of what he has done to his body — and what it has cost him — is longer than most people realize.
What Clavicular Has Actually Done to His Face and Body
The procedure that went viral was the rhinoplasty, performed live on June 3, 2026 by celebrity surgeon Dr. Miami (Michael Salzhauer). The goal: a narrower bridge, a straighter profile, corrected nostril asymmetry. Early recovery photos sparked immediate backlash — critics called the result “pinched,” “uncanny,” or simply less masculine than the wide, flared nose he had before. Supporters pointed out that rhinoplasty swelling takes 6 to 12 months to fully resolve, and that final results are still months away. Even Clavicular has expressed distress over what might be permanent. The jury is legitimately still out.
But the rhinoplasty was part of a larger sprint he labeled “Ascension Week,” timed before Paris Fashion Week. In that same window he also had otoplasty (ear pinning to reduce prominence), wisdom teeth removed to slim his facial silhouette, and scar removal. He has openly discussed plans for more: bimaxillary osteotomy (double jaw surgery, targeting a profile he associates with actor Matt Bomer), possible limb-lengthening surgery to add height, and Invisalign. He is currently 6’2″ and approximately 180 lbs. The surgeries are the visible layer. Beneath them is something considerably stranger.
Clavicular began self-experimenting with substances around age 14, during COVID lockdowns. He ordered testosterone online, no prescription, no supervision, and started injecting it himself. By the time he was in university — where he was eventually expelled after steroids were found in his dorm — he had already used extreme methods common in male looksmaxxing communities including trenbolone, a veterinary-grade steroid not approved for human use. The long-term consequence he has admitted openly: his body no longer produces its own testosterone. At 20, he is almost certainly on lifelong TRT (testosterone replacement therapy).
The Drugs, the Bonesmashing, and the Experiments Nobody Talks About
The pharmaceutical list extends well past steroids. For fat loss and the hollow-cheeked look prized in looksmaxxing, he has used crystal meth — smoked, not injected — and retatrutide, an experimental weight-loss drug not yet approved by the FDA. For hair retention: minoxidil, dutasteride, and a course of Accutane for skin. For tanning without sun exposure: Melanotan II, a research peptide associated with serious cardiovascular risks. He has also referenced injected NAD+ for cellular repair, beta blockers for anxiety, and a nootropic stack he documents in streams. He has discussed injecting substances into his penis for girth-related experiments. The list is not curated for shock value — these are his own admissions, confirmed in interviews with GQ and the New York Times.
Then there is bonesmashing: literally striking his face — reportedly with a hammer at points — based on a fringe theory that mechanical stress stimulates bone remodeling and produces sharper cheekbones and a harder jaw. Medical experts widely reject this as both ineffective and dangerous. His mother reportedly confiscated the hammer at some point. He has also practiced mewing (tongue posture techniques), thumb-pulling, and various facial exercises derived from Looksmax.org, a forum he has moderated. Outside the physical interventions: a misdemeanor firearm charge involving an alligator, at least one hospitalization linked to a suspected overdose, and documented public meltdowns. He has called himself the “lab rat” of the community — willing to absorb risk so others can observe the results.
Why This Is a Bigger Conversation Than a Nose Job
What makes Clavicular’s trajectory genuinely difficult to look away from is not the individual procedures — it is the gap between the outcome and the goal. He started as someone the looksmaxxing community treated as close to the ideal: tall, broad-shouldered, naturally striking. And the interventions keep coming anyway. That is not a story about plastic surgery. It is a story about what happens when the identity is built entirely around optimization — when the self becomes the experiment and there is no defined endpoint for success.
The rhinoplasty backlash is probably not the last controversy in this cycle. He has planned jaw surgery serious enough to require weeks of recovery, potential limb-lengthening, and ongoing pharmaceutical regimens that have already rendered him infertile before he turns 21. The conversation happening in comments and on X — about “ruined” faces and “Greek god” befores — is largely aesthetic. The more uncomfortable version of that conversation is about what a generation of young men is watching, and whether calling it “self-improvement” still holds when the self doing the improving is visibly breaking down in real time.
