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'Toxic beauty': Rise of 'looksmaxxing' influencers

This illustration photo shows a yellow teeth test from a TikTok video playing on a smartphone in a bathroom next to a bottle of hydrogen peroxide in Los Angeles, April 11, 2025. [AFP]

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