Wiki of Dark Arts - an Intro

Published 2026-04-02 • Original post

Hello!

I had been working on https://wikiofdark.art/, a directoy of methods for looksmaxxing your transition. I made a lot of progress on it last summer. However, since then, I’ve kind of had it stuck at 80% and haven’t made as much progress on things as i would like.

For this reason, i will be taking part in Inkhaven to better deep dive into things i don’t understand as much as i like, to describe:

• aspects of looks (aka brainworms)

• standard methods for improving things

• experimental methods for improving things

• surgical methods for improving things, comparing surgeons

• how to do research, best people and communities to learn things from.

• what is actually important to do VS less important?

• which things need more research, and which could be solved with some small amount of funding?

I will be writing every day for the whole month of April.

If you have any specific research threads you think are interesting, I am open to suggestions!

The current version of the wiki follows the current list of topics, with various of them followed in different levels of detail:

• Table of contents

  • Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)

    • HRT TL;DR

      • Gamete storage

    • Home-brewing

  • Fat Redistribution and Weight Cycling

    • Downcycle

    • Maintaining a caloric deficit

    • Maintaining a Caloric Deficit

      • Caloric Deficit through Diets

      • Water-soluble fibres

      • GLP-1 Agonists

      • Corset diet.

    • Down cyle - Burning the right fat

      • Aminophylline

      • Glycyrrhetinic acid

      • Topical Caffeine

      • Selective Muscle training

      • Acetyl-l-carnitine (ALCAR)

      • Radiofrequency Electric Field

      • Other things NOT worth considering:

    • The Upcycle - Growing the right fat (and muscle)

      • Excercise

    • Weight gain supplements

      • Thiazolidinediones (TZDs)

        • Pioglitazone

      • Acetyl-Hexapeptide-38 (Adifyline®)

      • Acetyl-Hexapeptide-39 (Silusyne®)

      • Volufiline

      • Leucine and Argenine

      • Growth Hormones and Various Peptides

    • Things to Avoid

      • Alcohol Consumption

  • Bone Altering

    • Waist-to-hip ratio

      • Waist-training

      • Dangerous Darth Method

      • Rib reshaping surgery

      • Rib removal surgery

      • Costal cartilage reduction

    • Shoulders

      • Delt muscle atrophe

      • Surgical Shortening

  • Face

    • Skin

      • Sunscreen

      • Retinoids

      • Matrixyl (palmitoyl peptides)

      • Callogen supplements

      • Niacinamide, Ceramides, Panthenol

      • laser resurfacing

      • microneedling

      • chemical peels

      • Red light therapy

      • Other things

    • Facial Fat Distribution

    • Facial Feminisation Surgery (FFS)

      • Surgery order

      • FFS Surgeons

    • Teeth

      • Non-cavity causing bacteria

  • Body Hair

    • Shaving

    • Waxing

    • Hair Removal Creams

    • Laser Hair Removal

    • Electrolysis

  • Breast Growth

    • Adifyline and Volufiline, Selective Fat Depositing

    • Stop and Go method

    • Progesterone

    • Breast Augmentation

  • Voice

    • Voice Training

    • Vocal Feminisation Surgery (VFS)

      • Cricothyroid Approximation (CTA)

      • Wendler Glottoplasty (Anterior Glottic Web Formation)

      • Feminization Laryngoplasty (FemLar)

  • Hair

    • General care

      • Fringe

    • Prevent loss / regain growth

      • Finasteride / Dutasteride

      • Minoxidil

      • Topical Estrogen (without feminization)

    • PP405

      • Hair Transplant

  • Other chemicals

    • IGF-1, Growth Hormone, and GHRH Agonists

    • CJC-1295

    • ipamorelin

    • tesmorelin

    • igf-1 DES

    • kisspeptin

    • GHK-Cu

    • tb 500

    • Avoiding scarring

      • Inhibiting scar formation

      • Verteporfin

Thanks for reading!