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Theory ‼️🚨Topical Minox on Eye lashes is fear mongered🚨‼️ (6 Viewers)

Theory ‼️🚨Topical Minox on Eye lashes is fear mongered🚨‼️

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Topical Minoxidil on eyelashes is overly fear mongered !!


I was going through this post on reddit and saw this transformation via topical Minoxidil applied to the eyelashes:


Common fear monger copes you will hear about using topical minox on eye lashes:
"if I gets in your eye, you will go blind bro"
-This is not possible as Minoxidil mechanism's cant even damage the retina or optic nerve, at best you might mild irritation.

They get this myth from the fact is contains Propylene glycol, and Ethanol Alcohol. But here is the thing:

Guess what else contains Propylene glycol ? your fucking shampoo and moisturize:dicapriolaugh:


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Mind you, shampoo is notorious for getting in the eye, and I don't see anyone going blind from shampoo JFL.

Or how about a moisturizer everyone likes to use:

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A quick google search will even tell you ethanol alcohol cant even make you go blind, nor is there ever a recorded case of it.

After seeing this I have tried and have been doing it for 2 weeks so far, using a q tip with liquid minox from Kirkland every night 1 hour before bed.

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Some things I noticed while doing it:


- I wake up with a bit of minor ocular edema (fluid retention) but this subsides throughout the day anyway's especially after a cold face rinse, n doesnt even look bad, plus it makes my UUE exposure less severe anyways so ig its kinda a plus for me.

- I had super minor irration when going to bed, but the feeling kind of went away after a while, I think my skin is getting use to it, no eye pain or eye redness either here.

- I have not touched the bottom eyelashes yet tho I might experiment with that later on tonight jus to test, n no I wont go blind JFL.


Expected result times:

Now we know that is usually takes around 3-6 months for topical minox to work the scalp follicles to actually cause any meaningful visual cosmetic difference. But the beauty of eyelashes is the fact it works faster and has a shorter anagen phase so it will most likely take around 2 months to see most of the results.:feelsyay:




Reasons I am not using latise and oral Minox:

- Oral Minox Bloats the fuck out of you, so im going to pass

-Latise can cause dark circles and shrink orbital fat overtime, and most of the time this is not revirsable and hardly mitigable.

- Minox is cheaper and more convenient, and mogs every every lash serum in Sephora from a mechanism POV




Let me know your thoughts, and if anyone has tried this !!!
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Cause most user's dont notice fluid retention when it happens, it accumulates very slowly like over weeks, and you see yourself everyday in the mirror without noticing.
The paper i sent was not purely self reported and was also assessed by clinicians and was done over the course of months
Sacrificing angularity for lashes is that good of a ROI to begin with IMO. n the study isnt even checking "does this guys jawline still look sharp" like no, so relying on the study is silly.
What kind of point is that
Most people are boneless and will not look angular regardless of being on oral minoxidil not to mention they are literally looking for water retention like what?Should we rely on your anecdote of gaining facial angularity after stopping for a month rather than a data set of over 1400 patients.
When i came off minox for some time i had 0 difference in ang
Being on GH and Androgens dramatically increases your sensitivity to bloating you know that right ? now yes this could apply to natty's but for enhanced people its even worse.
Was not relevant , point is you claiming oral minoxidil causes this insane bloating as if its some angularity nuke
In the case of enhanced users and naturals , you can run it with telmi as an ARB and is good general healthmax and longevity drug to help reduce bloat too
Telmi , inda , amiloride , E2 control and you will be fine and HGH is just shit for muscle building and shouldnt be ran as opposed to other compounds that mog it to another dimension bar maybe the tendon/ligament benefits
It does, it bloats you in multiple different mechanisms with the worst being Carpillary permeability. HGH bloats but it safely mitigable, Same with Test, n so on but when it comes to minox, you can hardly mitiagate it. Since your taking oral minox everyday are you also going to be taking Lasik everyday ??? like what
Blowing the amount of bloating (if any symptomatic bloating at all) way out of proportion when the actual reports of it even in clinical follow ups and general user reports is not high at all especially at doses as low as 2.5mg
 

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The paper i sent was not purely self reported and was also assessed by clinicians and was done over the course of months
Again you keep referencing this study, but you should know that the paper is asking "how often are patients developing clinically noticeable edema" not "is everyone storing some water retention to any amount" N ill argue most of the method they used was to see if they had any pre orbital edema, or ankle swelling, and if patient even noticed they bloated from said medication which would be recorded and mentioned, if they dont mention its not recorded there for not being part of the statistic's you love pointing out. Now you're lucky that the majority of the study is hidden behind a paywall so that I can clearly point this out to you.


What kind of point is that
Most people are boneless and will not look angular regardless of being on oral minoxidil not to mention they are literally looking for water retention like what?Should we rely on your anecdote of gaining facial angularity after stopping for a month rather than a data set of over 1400 patients.
When i came off minox for some time i had 0 difference in ang
again you keep referencing the study, but ignore how they recorded water retention and ignore the fact that one of the pathway's responsible for oral minox working is also a pathway responsible for it bloating. N yea you right lets jus bloat more cause we already boneless as it is, good logic
Was not relevant , point is you claiming oral minoxidil causes this insane bloating as if its some angularity nuke
In the case of enhanced users and naturals , you can run it with telmi as an ARB and is good general healthmax and longevity drug to help reduce bloat too
Telmi , inda , amiloride , E2 control and you will be fine and HGH is just shit for muscle building and shouldnt be ran as opposed to other compounds that mog it to another dimension bar maybe the tendon/ligament benefits
It was fucking relevant, you brought up "shit genetics" as an excuse for bloating like that is the only factor when other things combined with it can bloat you. Stop shifting the goal post to sound right. The point went over your head, I mentioned those compounds cause the bloat from those compounds can be 100% mitigated via pharmaceutical drugs in a safe manner, infact it was already fucking implied when I said:
You can use a ARB, ENaC inhibitor, Thiazide, and also aldosterone blocker, and even with all of these stacked, the minox bloat will not be 100% mitigated thats the issue without having to reach for a loop
n than you go on to mention Telmi being the ARB, Amiloride being the ENaC inhibitor, and DNR the HGH response cause I dont even run above 3IU nor is the convo about "is HGH anabolic" which is obviously not.
But when you use all of those but when combined androgens with minox even with those drugs bloat still increases regardless.


minox opens KAPT Channels, vascular resistance increases , when that happens the body tries to compensate for resistance, which than continues to increase capillary hydrostatic pressure. which leads to water retention, all those drugs you mentioned act downstream on the system, but they dont address the cause at all.
none of them address arteriolar vasodilation AKA vascular resistance which leads to bloat. The drugs mentioned cant do fuck if stimulus is still there.

Infact there is a study for this process source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5341696/?utm_

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It's known that vasodilators can trigger multiple compensatory pathways which can lead to fluid retention which is where fucking loop diuretics used in cases like these which I am against. yes we can use the drugs mentioned to attack other downstream effects, but it will never be 100%. so again why the fuck even bother.



TD;LR androgen/hormone bloat pathways can be mitigated while oral minox safely cant.
 

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Topical Minoxidil on eyelashes is overly fear mongered !!


I was going through this post on reddit and saw this transformation via topical Minoxidil applied to the eyelashes:


Common fear monger copes you will hear about using topical minox on eye lashes:
"if I gets in your eye, you will go blind bro"
-This is not possible as Minoxidil mechanism's cant even damage the retina or optic nerve, at best you might mild irritation.

They get this myth from the fact is contains Propylene glycol, and Ethanol Alcohol. But here is the thing:

Guess what else contains Propylene glycol ? your fucking shampoo and moisturize:dicapriolaugh:


View attachment 34295View attachment 34297
Mind you, shampoo is notorious for getting in the eye, and I don't see anyone going blind from shampoo JFL.

Or how about a moisturizer everyone likes to use:

View attachment 34302View attachment 34303

A quick google search will even tell you ethanol alcohol cant even make you go blind, nor is there ever a recorded case of it.

After seeing this I have tried and have been doing it for 2 weeks so far, using a q tip with liquid minox from Kirkland every night 1 hour before bed.

View attachment 34305View attachment 34307


Some things I noticed while doing it:


- I wake up with a bit of minor ocular edema (fluid retention) but this subsides throughout the day anyway's especially after a cold face rinse, n doesnt even look bad, plus it makes my UUE exposure less severe anyways so ig its kinda a plus for me.

- I had super minor irration when going to bed, but the feeling kind of went away after a while, I think my skin is getting use to it, no eye pain or eye redness either here.

- I have not touched the bottom eyelashes yet tho I might experiment with that later on tonight jus to test, n no I wont go blind JFL.


Expected result times:

Now we know that is usually takes around 3-6 months for topical minox to work the scalp follicles to actually cause any meaningful visual cosmetic difference. But the beauty of eyelashes is the fact it works faster and has a shorter anagen phase so it will most likely take around 2 months to see most of the results.:feelsyay:




Reasons I am not using latise and oral Minox:

- Oral Minox Bloats the fuck out of you, so im going to pass

-Latise can cause dark circles and shrink orbital fat overtime, and most of the time this is not revirsable and hardly mitigable.

- Minox is cheaper and more convenient, and mogs every every lash serum in Sephora from a mechanism POV




Let me know your thoughts, and if anyone has tried this !!!
I mean it’s alcohol based it fucking hurts
 

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again you keep referencing the study, but ignore how they recorded water retention and ignore the fact that one of the pathway's responsible for oral minox working is also a pathway responsible for it bloating. N yea you right lets jus bloat more cause we already boneless as it is, good logic
I never denied that oral minox DOES cause bloating , i said you are blowing it way out of proportion especially at dosages most of us are using. With the protocol of running the correct shit IMO the roi becomes worth it without a doubt

Also when tf did i make the statement you should just bloat more if you’re boneless anyway jfl?
It was fucking relevant, you brought up "shit genetics" as an excuse for bloating like that is the only factor when other things combined with it can bloat you. Stop shifting the goal post to sound right. The point went over your head, I mentioned those compounds cause the bloat from those compounds can be 100% mitigated via pharmaceutical drugs in a safe manner, infact it was already fucking implied when I said:
You started mentioning AAS and HGH when the debate was about bloating caused by oral minoxidil?
Oral minox alone will not be the deciding factor of whether someone looks angular or not for ANYONE and any water retention can be significantly lowered with ARB , aldosterone antagonist , inda can be safely ran for the most part with more selective aldosterone antagonists like finerenone (adding patiromer if needed) to the point where i believe oral minox becomes very high ROI for almost anyone
n than you go on to mention Telmi being the ARB, Amiloride being the ENaC inhibitor, and DNR the HGH response cause I dont even run above 3IU nor is the convo about "is HGH anabolic" which is obviously not.
But when you use all of those but when combined androgens with minox even with those drugs bloat still increases regardless.
You dont to nuke absolutely 100% of the bloating for it to be a high ROI looksmax

Also the mechanism you showed is literally RAAS related
 
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