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TIL about the "Mar-a-Lago face" a bold plastic surgery and fashion trend popular among American conservative and Republican circles. It’s characterized by "detectable" facial modifications, including exaggerated Botox, visible fillers, extreme tanning, fake eyelashes, dark smokey eyes, and full lips. The look is often seen as a status symbol and a way to signal political allegiance, inspired by figures in Donald Trump’s inner circle. The trend is so distinctive that it’s been described as a “visual shorthand” for wealth, power, and identity within these groups.

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[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm all for it. I get it. They don't want to put a giant Nazi sign on their face.

Then that plastic face look is the next best thing so we know what you are.

[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I for one support their right to gender-affirming surgery.

there already is very little distinction between gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia, and now to add onto that there is also politica fascistica and body stultitia

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 13 points 6 days ago

Is that like "resting fascist face" or sth?

[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

It's like straight out of American Psycho.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago

Huh. And here, as a Canadian, I just always wondered why the most obnoxious Americans I've ever met had such gigantic heads.

I guess I just thought it was all the bovine growth hormones or something...

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is there anyone finding it pretty looking? Besides Trump of course.

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Looks wierd

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

It makes fitting the reptilian natural face into a human mask easier.

[–] Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 3 points 6 days ago

“Mar-a-Lago face describes a plastic surgery and fashion trend among American conservative and Republican women”

First fucking picture is Matt Gaetz, does that mean he’s (she’s?) transgender?

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Is that why noem looks like that?

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

This is why I think trump had mild stroke followed by a quick surgery to hide the effect.

Melinda Anna Farina, an aesthetic consultant, identified the Mar-a-Lago face as attempting to emulate the appearance of Eastern European women.[2]

Matt Gaetz is very poorly attempting to emulate the appearance of an Eastern European woman.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Gaetz face is s classic pedophile profile.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I had almost forgotten about that pedophile. Almost.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 208 points 1 week ago (2 children)

90,000 dollars to butcher your own face so that Trumpists will know that you're a Trumpist.

It's like every single day I encounter something and I'm like, "Well, it can't really get any stupider than that." And like every single day I am astonished at how stupid things can get.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Noem, karolina leavitt, (KIMBERLY gullifoyle, is the final stage of mar-a-lago face of republican women). loomer is like 32, and leavitt is like 28 only.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago

In my day we'd just dye our fringe blue and have an earnest belief in human rights.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 101 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That article needs more before-and-after photos

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 117 points 1 week ago (8 children)
[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

At first glance in the top picture I thought they were wearing "The Purge" masks, lmao jfc

Perhaps if one wears the mask long enough, the features transfer to their face:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masks

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Tnx, good link!

From 'normal' to " abhorrently ugly".

At least they are now easy to spot and forever identifiable.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It's like the inverse of the lizard people conspiracy theory.

"Welp, time to get into politics. Better go lizard up."

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[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 60 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Showing everyone how ugly they are on the inside by fucking up the outside.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Doesn't Bezos' wife have that look? Does that mean she's signaling she's a trumper or she really doesn't know.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think it means she's shallow and insecure.

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[–] errer@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Between how fast hate ages you, and those absolutely atrocious plastic surgeries, a lot of these people look near double their age. I fucking died inside, when i saw that Loomer is just a year older than me. She looks mid-50s at least, with a face that looks like she's stretched it over her normal one

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago

Also botox eventually leads to atrophies of the botoxed muscles so you have to keep doing it, since it will be a permanent sag.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Remember though, taking HRT and getting gender affirming surgery is “mutilating” your body.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Trt and hgh are fine, how else are you going to look like mini Rambo?

[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

This is gender affirming surgery. But I suppose that's your point.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh that's why their faces look like that. I always wondered why wealthy republicans have fucked up faces.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago

eyebrow lifts, botox to the face, cant show signs of aging, because its not "strong looking"

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