Allowing a woman to shove two fingers inside my mouth while I laid down limp as a rag doll was not the way I expected my year to end. At the very least, you’d think a scenario like that would be in a context that is decidedly more sexy. But jaw pain is no sexy thing, and the words “buccal facial” elicited a shiver of excitement in me, being a hyper-online Gen Z. What is a buccal facial? Will it make me look like Anya Taylor Joy? Or Handsome Squidward/Liam Payne? Or, forgetting vanity, will it finally heal that awful crack my jaw feels every time I yawn?
