Been lurking TRP for over a year. Before that, was anti social AF. Only hung out with a few bros and smoked a bunch of weed and played a ton of soccer.

So social skills were shit. Never knew anything about grooming, talking, socializing anything.

Only positive I had was my height (6'6) and decent base of strength/athleticism. Overall I was ugly AF tho just being real.

Through TRPs advice, I was able to sort of transform my whole look. I trained my ass off, and reached a 2 plate bench press and 3 plate squat, so I don't look like a complete skinnyfat shit although I still look kinda skinny.

Upgraded the whole wardrobe and grooming tools, I'm usually always one of the best dressed people in every room. I'm big into streetwear type shit now. (20 yo).

Started talking to everyone. This was the hardest. Was so awkward at first, I cringe unfathomably hard just thinking about all the awkward silences and weird shit I would say to people. But I got a social job so it forced me to grow socially. I can pretty much speak to everyone now, guys and girls and don't get intimidated by girls looks anymore.

ANYWAYS. After all the improvement, I started to notice for the first time in life I wasn't invisible to girls. Some fat girls and 4-5's would show me some IOI. I would always be friendly but never want to settle for them.

I caught heavy oneitis like 3 times in the last year with girls in the HB7-8 range. I either got super deeply friendzoned / pussied out when the time to escalate perhaps arose.

But now I'm frustrated AF. I've put in all this fucking work, I'm tall as fuck, I'm relatively strong, I'm well dressed, I can socialize well but whenever I try to shoot my shot on a girl that's above a 6, I get shot down. It's embarrassing AF cuz I keep telling myself that I'm really on this grind to be the best I can be, but I see all these other guys that are objectively lesser in every other area, but with superior facial aesthetics they beat me out.

I know this is sounding like a rant, but I just don't know where to go from here.

Say I get to a 3 plate bench and 4 plate squat. Is that gonna change anything? If I swap out Adidas gear for Nike gear would that change anything? Probably not. If my teeth are a bit whiter, does that change anything? (I've done tons of little things like that to improve).

I want to be the best I can be, for myself. But I also don't want to settle down with some fatty, so attracting hotter girls has become a bit of an obsession for me because that idea of putting all this work in and ending up with a lesser girl is like hell.

Objectively, I'm kind of an ugly motherfucker. I'd love to brag on here and say I can slay every HB in site, but I wanna keep it real cuz I need some help.

Could use some advice from y'all. Thanks in advance.