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YEAR 3: THE IRONWILL PROJECT: MONEY, MUSCLES, MINDSET - FROM NOTHING TO SOMETHING, MY RELENTLESS JOURNEY

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Future shoots you need to work on your facial expressions

Rags2Bitches and MILFandCookies have written a lot about that on this thread and others. Its something thats easier if the photographer knows how to instruct you.

Some that I like: 7861, 7870, 7866, 7872, 7884, 7939, 7958, 8115, 8474, 8476, 8514, 8528, 8529, 8893, 8901.
 
pancakemouse That will be quite tricky, they're 700 shots and they're large file sizes. She sent me the files on a service called WeTransfer and the link is available for 7 days. I can send you the link and you can download the full set of contact sheets to your machine, that may be a little clearer?

Radical thanks for your help here man!!

So she is going to fully retouch 10 photos, and will lightly edit 30.

In total I will have 40 high quality images, and from there, I will update my profile.

I will review tonight and post 40 that I liked.

MAC
 
Ok this is much much better, finally a proper photographer who knows what she's doing. Facial expressions aren't great but some are workable. I'm considering this as your first real photoshoot and not the gallery of horrors posted earlier.

With light faceapp editing (I'll do it for you) , here are ones I would keep for sure

8650 has main photo potential. a few others in that set are ok too, but that's the best one.

8382, 8386, 8401, 8509, 8268 are my favorite from the content creator set, depending on the aspect ratio of the app. keep the bolded ones for sure

Haven't had time to go through the guitar set in detail, but I like Radical 's suggestions

8180 and 8895 (with light editing) are good pics to prevent hatfishing. I'd keep both

Maybe 8601 for personality. Notice that you're still holding a bit too much face fat to look good while fully smiling/laughing.

8829 is a pretty good street shot esp if we change the color on the hoodie

Post the link to the edited photos here and we'll do our best with facial expression changes. This was a good step forward.
 
THANK YOU BRO!!!!

I greatly appreciate your help on this one.

I will note down your preferences as well as Radical's, and then I will whittle it down to a selection of 40, which I will send off to her.

She should be able to turn around the edited output by Wednesday (22nd). I will then get those 40 uploaded to here, where Rags2Bitches can work his magic, and we can all update my profiles for the next few months of online dating hammering!!!

I personally really enjoyed this shoot, and I would be excited to shoot with her again in 5 months say after some hard ass work in the gym and losing more facial fat etc.

I am making progress and life is getting better and better.

I had my 2nd night in the flat last night. I take a while to settle in, definitely weird like that, takes me about a week usually. This place was totally unfurnished so Timmy and I had to do a bit of work getting it up to speed. But we have for the most part sorted it.

Because I have a diesel I have to pay the ULEZ charge to drive, lol, fuck that. I will keep my car here during my move in phase and when it's all sorted out, I shall drive it back to the Midlands and leave it there. My dad is also insured on it so he can ride it around at his leisure.

Won't even need a car here, tonnes of stores a 5- 15 minute walk away, gym is a 7 min walk, I am sorted man. Location wise we did alright.

This is the year of growth, dating, cold approach, building confidence and building a better body and physical appearance. We get it!!

MAC
 
Thanks bro!

BACK TO VLOGGING

https://youtu.be/1lAri0cuLoQ

Quite the ramble, but it was fun to be back behind the lens. Commented on the power of peer to peer support and coaching, two things I truly believe in, reflected on progress to date, and also talked a bit about Dewm 's recent interview with Andy which I loved.

I am tempted to go back to my old lens for the vlogs, this lens is so high quality it's quite unflattering! It captures insane detail.

See if I do pics with other lenses or my iPhone, I look way better, because this lens is super high resolution or something, it captures huge amounts of detail and you see all your imperfections hardcore. I have noticed my skin has gotten a bit worse over time and also my nose is looking pretty bad. I wasn't even aware of this to be honest. I will get a skincare regime going for myself and also will explore some face yoga type stuff to see if I can do to slim it down a bit. A few years ago it was far more normal. I think structural changes take place over time. For health reasons I trained myself to nasal only breathe, I think that has changed it's structure a little, but gave me better health so that's fine. Still no reason to not work on my appearance more. I'll find things I can do about it.

Hair loss wise, I changed my regime to increase dermapen frequency from once a week to twice. This may be useful and could elicit some regrowth. I have seen some people get really good results, it may turn the needle for me. Topical nizarol is still used 3 x a week and I stopped dutasteride as that gave me unpleasant sides after 10 months. I do scalp massages 4 - 5 times a week.

Still have further weight loss to do, we're in the gym and we're hammering. 20 more lbs and we will look better facially! Skin will also improve I expect and that's great.

WIll come up with the final 40 photo list in a bit, gonna have dinner and assemble my bed LOL

MAC
 
Is the new lens a wider aperture than the old one? That can distort facial features and make you look artificially worse.
 
pancakemouse said:
Is the new lens a wider aperture than the old one? That can distort facial features and make you look artificially worse.

Yes! It's a SUPER wide angle lens bro. LOL. I will shoot a vlog tomorrow with the other lens and we can compare the difference
 
MakingAComeback said:
pancakemouse said:
Is the new lens a wider aperture than the old one? That can distort facial features and make you look artificially worse.

Yes! It's a SUPER wide angle lens bro. LOL. I will shoot a vlog tomorrow with the other lens and we can compare the difference

Check this out:
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http://www.danvojtech.cz/blog/2016/07/amazing-how-focal-length-affect-shape-of-the-face/
 
That is really interesting man! Thank you.

I will shoot one with the other lens tomorrow.

Totally appreciate I still have 20lbs to lose in order to shed the facial fat, which is the most important piece here really, so there is definitely a lot of looksmaxxing potential left. And with skincare and other work on the cards, it'll help put me further along. There is a lot I can work on for sure.

Still assembling my bed gentlemen! I will look forward to this being up for me. Only leaves a desk, which I will pick up from my parents place. I am going to spend time with them for X-Mas :-)

Date #8 is going to chat to me on the phone tonight, I'm looking forward to it. She was awesome.
 
Great vlog man! Cool to get a peep into your demeanor and listen to your thoughts/ramblings.
Hearing about how positive your experiences with peer-to-peer support has been leaves me wanting to get more into it my self, truth be told.

Photo-wise I think you don't need any more input than what has already been posted here by more experienced guys.
 
Thank you for the posts brothers!

Oh man, unfurnished flats....we did a lot of work to get things looking alright and habitable, and assembling my bed tonight would have been sweet if it was drama free. When putting the headboard type bit together, which is wooden frame with 6 beams running through, I fitted two wooden screws into all the holes at the side and then got to two where they were quite loose a fit. It turns out, those two holes were not supposed to house any wooden screws, and because of this, the wooden screws got stuck inside and it's not something that can be reversed. Bummer!

I was really pissed to be honest.

I've now packed the item back, and will call IKEA tomorrow. I will tell them the item was slightly damaged, and ask if it can be exchanged.

The thing is, it's an hour drive to get to the IKEA, an hour back, and that is a bit of a hassle. I also do not want to bother assembling this again, I will use the TaskRabbit service and get them to do it....

A solution would be if they could deliver a replacement, which I will happily pay for, and that way, I will get their TaskRabbit assembly service and just be done with it!

I shall see what they can do. My mattress will remain on the floor for the time being :-)

If I am really not having any joy with them replacing it, I would entertain buying another one online, getting it delivered straight here, and get the assembly service. I just don't want to be wasting more time and energy on furniture assembly to be honest, I have a self improvement project to work on and I am will pay £130 or whatever that would cost. So be it. These things happen and it's not the end of the world.

It's only the bed frame left to assemble. I have a plan for the desk which won't require too much assembly.

Silly things.......

MAC
 
Sorry to hear that man :( Not the best start to a move. But once its sorted, a new chapter will open and some major strides toward your future goals!
 
Thebastard said:
Sorry to hear that man :( Not the best start to a move. But once its sorted, a new chapter will open and some major strides toward your future goals!

Thanks bro! Oh it's totally fine, I just get a bit edgy when settling into places so I am a bit funny about little things like this right now. It'll be sorted tomorrow, even if I have to go for the nuclear option and buy another one online (they assemble it this time...) and take the packed away knackered version I've got to the tip! Not bothered about spending a few quid to get focused on the real project at hand, lord knows I spent thousands in my early 20s running around the clubs getting drunk trying to get some action. ;-)

Everything will be good, in a months time I will be settled in, will be fully in the swing of it all, and I will be making great strides :)

Please everybody bug The Bastard to shoot some vlogs for us!!!!!!!!!

I find vlogging super therapeutic, it's honestly so healing, and when I could see the odd video from The Bastard back when I first joined, I used to fricken love it. Many of us want to see the legend vlogging, so if you boys could also ask him, we may be able to have him get behind the lens once again!

MAC
 
Got off the phone with IKEA, seems like I will hve to go back into store. Fine. I will not be able to cold approach today. I will leave now, get the bed exchanged, and then I will get task rabbit to assemble it for a few quid.

I will have to do my day's work after that.

Hit the gym this morning and made a quick bit of content

https://youtu.be/BhT05tJFBG4

Developing a looksmaxxing morning routine...

MAC
 
Any science behind nose reshaping? Or promising anecdotes? My bullshit-meter always goes off on these things, but yet penis enlargement works, so...
 
Hey bro - so the science of tissue remodelling is based on Wolff's law, and it applies to all tissue in the body. I have changed different tissues myself through daily application of techniques, from self massage to postural changes. The human body is very adaptable and the muscle and fascia that knit us together can be modified using pressure and resistance, with sufficient frequency of force to trigger Wolff's law.

I'm not totally convinced it can work in the case of the nose, but I have seen some interesting before and afters on YouTube, and I am familiar with the underlying process of how to remodel tissue.

I understand you dermapen/dermaroll yourself? Its very similar in theory - the dermapen causes microwounding, which elicits a remodelling response from the body, which releases a range of proteins and enzymes to regenerate tissue.

In the case of facial and nose exercises, they are working on the tissues to tone them and strengthen them, to tighten them and create subtle changes.

I will experiment for 3-6 months and if it doesn't work, at the very least they will have improved the tone of my facial tissues a bit.

We are on another level of self improvement here boys we are surely willing to experiment and get into some shit lol

IKEA

LOng ass day, because I work flexibly and remotely, I took the day off today to sort out my bed. I called IKEA and they couldn't resolve the issue. I had to drive an hour and 15 mins to the store, made up some BS about it being defective, at which point they checked the item in detail, and I was able to convince them the slot for the dowel rod was too long and hence the dowel gpt stuck. They gave me a replacement there and then. I picked it up, and then went to TaskRabit there and then and purchased an assemble service. It was £30, which is nothing and it will save me stress and 3hrs of bullshit.

Drove back for an hour and 15. Paid the congestion charge and the ULEZ charge, Driving in London sucks ass and I am looking forward to getting the whole move sorted and leaving my car at my parents house in the Midlands.

The sooner we furnish the place boys, the sooner we can have women in and explore sex.

Otherwise, day was solid, the gym is a 7 min walk from my place (YES!) so I hit that the first thing in the morning.

Diet was on point. Now going to stretch, send off my picture selections to the photographer, and then I will study a little copywriting and upload a vlog. I am just doing the side stuff to keep busy and for fun. I hate laziness and I can't have idle time. I must grind or I get so stressed that I am wasting my life.

Because I couldn't get my work done today, I will have to grind it out tomorrow, which means no cold approach. Also the broadband folks are coming to install our stuff so I will probably need to be in for that unless my flatmate comes back.

I feel pretty good that the issue was resolved. :)

Will grind until the end of the year and set myself up for success in 2022. I have this flat for a whole year man, I really like the location its great. I will have to redefine fucking grinding to get myself 10 lays boys. We will get this dating profile updated, hammer cold approach 5 x a week, go out to the clubs and bars once a week, and just kill it with content, side hustles, gym and looksmaxxing.

Beyond motivated,
MAC
 
Sent the photo selections to the photographer.

The chick clearly indicates on her price guide it's 10 retouched images and 30 lightly edited. She emailed me some pleasantries and then said something about me selecting my top 10 images, which she will do 2 sets of editing for. Erm, no thank you. You can give me the 40 I paid you for. She was a super nice lady so I will give her the benefit of the doubt, maybe she got my shoot mixed up with someone else's and forgot which package I got with her.

I will update you all with the date she can get the edited outputs over to me, and then we rebuild my profiles and try again!!!

MAC
 
Hmm, she messaged me back and we were on the same page, She was confused why I thought otherwise. Not sure what she was smoking on her last email, but she will send me 40 images by the end of the week lol :)

TODAYS VLOG

https://youtu.be/6VDdvUTg5No

Now gonna voice message one of my girls. Last night I talked to girl from date 8 for an hour and a half on the phone. I think we're kinga just becoming friends, I can't see anything physical happening, and that's great - I like her a lot as a person and friends is great. It makes me happy to talk to her, she's awesome.

TaskRabbit guy is coming tomorrow and will assemble my bed while I work, broadband guy will also come around the same time, and then I've gotta sort out gas and electric.

I will try my best to cold approach tomorrow. I will smash gym in the morning.

Bare with me guys, the old format will resume, there's so much going on right now I just need things to settle down and then we go on the fucking attack.

MAC
 
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