Mar-a-Lago face - Wikipedia
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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.

  • guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • drolex@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    fashion trend among American conservative and Republican women

    First example: Matt Gaetz. Thanks Mr. Wikipedia, very cool.

  • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

      • thingAmaBob@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.todayEnglish
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          2 months ago

          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.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yeah it’s conspicuous consumption.

      Just like Middle class people try to show off money/status buy having luxury cars.

  • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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?

  • daggermoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

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

  • missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Matthew J. Nykiel, a board-certified surgeon, stated the appearance is modeled after Ivanka Trump’s appearance.[9] Melinda Anna Farina, an aesthetic consultant, identified the Mar-a-Lago face as attempting to emulate the appearance of Eastern European women.[2]

    but there’s totally no cult of personality /s

    • baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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