Hazel Hoffman: Wild Curls, Perfect Ass and Bad Boy Eyes

You know that moment when you’re scrolling and you come across a guy who literally makes you stop breathing? Hazel Josiah Hoffman is exactly that. Twenty-four years old, originally from Pennsylvania, now living in Los Angeles, nearly 300,000 Instagram followers, and a body that seems to have been designed by someone who knew exactly what we like. He started on TikTok in 2020, between positive affirmations and lifestyle content, before brands, photographers and fans realized this kid had something more: an angelic face and a beautiful ass that would propel him far beyond fitness videos.

Physically, Hazel is a sculptural twink in the most beautiful sense of the term. Wild brown curls — sometimes tight and dark, sometimes more golden and copper depending on the light — that fall across his forehead like an invitation to run your fingers through them. A fine face, a soft but chiseled jawline, full lips, a small ear ring and sometimes a silver chain around his neck. His body is slim and toned, lean without being skinny: well-defined abs, firm but not pumped pecs, broad shoulders for his slender frame, a muscled back that we discover in the shots from behind. And then there’s what we all look at first — round, smooth, perky ass cheeks, obscenely perfect, the kind of ass that could have its own Instagram account. It’s simple: every photographer who shoots him ends up turning him around, and we quickly understand why.

What makes this series particularly striking is the work of Erick Monterrosa, a Salvadoran photographer based in Madrid, whose images look like Renaissance paintings lost in a colonial house. Hazel poses nude in a setting of solid wood doors, terracotta tile stairs and whitewashed walls, like a young man who crossed centuries to wait for you in a doorway. Lying on a raffia rug, bathed in golden light that draws shadows on his abs and his natural pubes, he looks like he stepped out of a dream you definitely wouldn’t want to wake up from. His soft cock rests on his thigh, his hand behind his head, eyes half-closed — it’s the kind of image you keep as wallpaper on your secret phone.

But Hazel doesn’t play just one card. He goes from a fashion shoot in a red hoodie open over his abs and baggy jeans, clear glasses on his nose, to selfies in his bedroom, in black Calvin Klein briefs cuddled against a giant teddy bear, with a DVD collection in the background that reveals the geek behind the model. This duality — the guy who could pose for a fashion house and the one who hangs out in underwear with his stuffed animals — is exactly what makes him irresistible. He’s not trying to be an unattainable fantasy. He is the fantasy of the boy next door, the one who poses nude on rocks at sunset one day and steals your hoodie the next.

And you, do you fall more for the Italian Renaissance version of Hazel posing like a nude angel in golden light, or for the bad boy in Calvin Klein staring at you from his bed? Tell us in the comments.

Find Hazel Hoffman on Instagram.

Photos: Erick Monterrosa and personal archives