maintaining your looks working 90+ hours/week in IB to continue cracking huzz?

So I'm an AN1 at a BB (GS/MS/JPM) in a historically sweaty top group (TMT/M&A/Menlo/HC) and I want to maintain my looks and avoid the typical pitfalls of high financiers like thinning hair, receding hairline, putting on weight, dark eyebag and such.

I'm currently 6'3.5 and 220lb lean (bench 325lb) with dark brown hair, fair skin and green eyes. I'm also pretty attractive facially IMO with a sharp jawline, strong browridge, straight nose, full-ish lips and a flowy modern mullet (which I'll switch to a frat flow now that I'm a full time analyst).

My kill count to date is 35ish but I want to keep getting at least 20 a year before I get engaged at 28 and married at 30, topping off my lifetime kills to about 150-170.

Given I'll be getting crushed on live deals for the next two years, I really need to maintain my good looks to maximize Tinder/Hinge and getting approached by the huzz at bars and clubs in NYC.

I was just in Ibiza for the 4th of July weekend and I got approached like 8+ times a night and got 3 kills over the weekend. I know that my numbers will go down if I get fat, get dark eyebags, get pale and nerdy or start getting thinning hair.

I'm thinking of regularly tanning in a tanning bed, taking keratin and using rogaine for my hair, plus buy a bike or treadmill at home so I can do cardio with my camera off during meetings on WFH days.

Any other tips?

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I also wonder if I can get an Indian off Fiverr or something in a long-term contract to do grunt work for me like data scraping or note-taking for like $2/hour so I can cut down on my hours. Obviously I'll make sure my bank doesn't find out and I'll pass his work off as my own.

 

It is not the kill that matters. But rather, the thrill of the hunt. 

 

Work in a chill group. Everything else is possible to maintain besides age. 

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