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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7 months90,000 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.
- DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish7 months
In my day we’d just dye our fringe blue and have an earnest belief in human rights.
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish7 months
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.
- 7 months
I found this helpful:
https://www.thelist.com/1817157/what-is-mar-a-lago-face-who-has-tried-the-trend/
Tnx, good link!
From ‘normal’ to " abhorrently ugly".
At least they are now easy to spot and forever identifiable.
- 7 months
It’s like the inverse of the lizard people conspiracy theory.
“Welp, time to get into politics. Better go lizard up.”
Lizards as in reptilians. It’s become a bit of self fulfilling prophesy.
Snakes and the likes have a peculiar reptilian smell, iirc…
You made me laugh, tnx. But now I’ll stop thinking of other weird things to say…
It’d explain why they’re cold-blooded. Remember the whole thing about eating bugs as a meat substitute? If I told you Trump was molting, wouldn’t it make a strange amount of sense?
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish7 months
actually mostly the smiling titan, dina fritz. laura loomer most represent her.
- spongebue@lemmy.worldEnglish7 months
Ok, but… Is there really much of a difference between this and “normal candid photo/awkwardly-timed candid photo” pairs here? I’m sure if people were taking photos of me everywhere I went I’d have some faces like that and I don’t want to have anything to do with those people.
- 7 months
That’s a fair point, these might be exaggerated to garner attention. Having said that, my lips don’t randomly swell like they’ve been stung by a bee, so there’s definitely a strong element of cosmetic surgery going on here.
- FosterMolasses@leminal.spaceEnglish7 months
At first glance in the top picture I thought they were wearing “The Purge” masks, lmao jfc
- 7 months
Perhaps if one wears the mask long enough, the features transfer to their face:
- Ghyste@sh.itjust.worksEnglish7 months
Showing everyone how ugly they are on the inside by fucking up the outside.
Doesn’t Bezos’ wife have that look? Does that mean she’s signaling she’s a trumper or she really doesn’t know.
- 7 months
Just a little more filler and she can easily hide in the duck pond without raising suspicion.
So…logically…if she weighs the same as a duck…she’s made of wood?
- 7 months
Yes, but why are you asking? Did she turn you into a newt?
- Bonesince1997@lemmy.worldEnglish7 months
I imagine one of those women dared to have her own opinions. Vs, yes money daddy, I’ll further look like a clown for you.
She still tells Jeff how she loves running her fingers through his hair.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish7 months
It’s abuse. I see this in women who were trophy wives. They are terrified of getting dumped for a younger model because they typically have no way to support themselves aside from their youthful look. Their biggest fear is someone exactly like them replacing them.
- FosterMolasses@leminal.spaceEnglish7 months
And Gumball comes in clutch once again. Man, that show was ahead of its time lol
- 7 months
It’s just bad plastic surgery for people with no taste; nothing really conservative about that but it sure seems to happen a lot in the red cap circles.
Lips, buccal fat removal, some jaw restructuring perhaps and hella facelift/botox.
- 7 months
Yes, they just check all the boxes for stereotypical “beautiful” features and somehow miss the point of a human beauty.
It’s like someone with face blindness deciding if your face is beautiful.
It’s like having an overweight, pants-shitting draft-dodger as “strongman commander-in-chief.” Or discussing the Nobel Peace Prize for Shitler 2.0. Or rain on your wedding day.
“Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man with taste.”
- andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish7 months
Remember though, taking HRT and getting gender affirming surgery is “mutilating” your body.
- LittleBorat3@lemmy.worldEnglish7 months
Trt and hgh are fine, how else are you going to look like mini Rambo?
- sugarfoot00@lemmy.caEnglish7 months
This is gender affirming surgery. But I suppose that’s your point.
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish7 months
Also botox eventually leads to atrophies of the botoxed muscles so you have to keep doing it, since it will be a permanent sag.
Oh that’s why their faces look like that. I always wondered why wealthy republicans have fucked up faces.
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish7 months
eyebrow lifts, botox to the face, cant show signs of aging, because its not “strong looking”
- BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish7 months
I’ve been saying this for a while. It’s not that these wealthy women think their carved up faces look good, it’s that they look expensive. They know all the procedures, and the costs, so when a friend shows back up to brunch after 6 weeks, with a new face, they know exactly how much she spent on her new mug.
Regular people can’t participate in this game, so whenever anyone sees their weird face, they’ll know how rich they are.
- FosterMolasses@leminal.spaceEnglish7 months
Ah, so lead paint and lice infested powdered wigs all over again.
- thingAmaBob@lemmy.worldEnglish7 months
Yeah, stuff like this makes me wonder if the peasants of the that time thought the rich looked ridiculous when/if they saw them…
- BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish7 months
Oh, count on it. I have a degree in history, and I have always tried to look at history through the eyes of real people.
We tend to put historical people on pedestals, but the thing to always remember is that people have been people, for as long as there have been people. You can go back to a community of literal early human cave dwellers, and you would find all of the same personality characteristics that we see today - love, hate, anger, greed, ambition, duplicity, ignorance, intolerance, kindness, jealousy, empathy, disingenuousness, criminality, avarice, perversion, corruption, courage, cowardice, etc.
So if we see those powdered wig wearing dorks as ridiculous clowns, you can absolutely count on the fact that the people of the time thought the same thing.
- TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish7 months
Yeah it’s conspicuous consumption.
Just like Middle class people try to show off money/status buy having luxury cars.
when I was growing up we called that trashy. But you do you I guess
- drolex@sopuli.xyzEnglish7 months
fashion trend among American conservative and Republican women
First example: Matt Gaetz. Thanks Mr. Wikipedia, very cool.
I see it as “I pretend to be rich and have poor taste. I’m in a shit ton of debt so this better work out”. Too many people have that “fake it till you make it” attitude.
- shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish7 months
Gaetz just got a bad botox job. Wonder if he’ll keep it as it wears off. Look, I hate the fucker, he was my Congressman, but his look isn’t anything compared to what these women are doing.
Nah man Gaetz is unrecognizable compared to the before pics. That picture of his fresh Botox job in 2024 was nightmarish and still clowned on to this day.
- athairmor@lemmy.worldEnglish7 months
How was he to know that mask he found would turn him into a cartoonish villain?
- Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish7 months
I’m genuinely curious, when someone has a face and lips full of filler and implants and whatnot, when they get a really good solid punch in the face, like proper wind-up and full shoulder and torso twist slug in the chops, does it pop them like an overripe zit, or does it dent them like a ball of playdough?
- andz@lemmy.worldEnglish7 months
There are true scientific breakthroughs to be made in this area, for sure.
