Beautification

Men using facial exercises to enhance their features

Q: Is it permissible for a man to: 

1. Use facial exercises to either make his lips slimmer or bigger, or to improve their eye shape? This only trains or untrains the muscles of the face and doesn't necessarily permanently change the structure of the face. 

2. Use chin tucks to increase his jawline visibility? Chin tuck is an exercise by help of which fixes their neck posture. Effectively leading to jawline visibility. 

3. Reduce fat using lifestyle changes to get slimmer nose, or increase fat using lifestyle changes to get bigger nose, and similarly to get sharper or softer facial features?

Males using skin care products

Q: For beautification purposes, for a man,

1. Is it permissible for him to try to make his eyebrows thicker by stimulating the hair using oils or serums, or by massaging the area to improve circulation? 

2. Is it permissible for him to try to remove skin tags, warts, acne, or abnormal looking moles from the skin by the means of skincare? 

3. Is it permissible for him to try to remove his under eye bags using vitamin serums or other types of serums, and their diet? 

4. Is it permissible for him to try to remove his tan using skincare and diet, or try to get tanned using sun bath?

Wearing a "tikka"

Q: Is it permissible to wear a tikka in Islam? It’s a piece of head/hair jewellery. 

Can we wear it as it isn’t the actual bindi which is the dot on the forehead and is used in Asian cultures for adornment among Muslims as well as non Muslims?