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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Remember though, taking HRT and getting gender affirming surgery is “mutilating” your body.
This thumbnail made me suddenly realize that Gaetz has Charlie Kirk Face Syndrome. Look at it, it’s waaaay too small and they clearly moved the height slider waaaay too low and maxed out the forehead height setting.
Here’s hoping there will be more similarities between the two
Gaetz looks like a Dick Tracy villain.
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?
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.
SCP-9000 looking mfers
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
Oh i was calling it “i am rich but i have no taste” - face
I always just call it “that’s fucking nasty” face.
Ah ritual body modifications in order to get favor from the God. Doomsday cult we deserve.
Oh that’s why their faces look like that. I always wondered why wealthy republicans have fucked up faces.
I wonder if they think of it as an upfront cost of permanent marking that’s clearly visible.
You know, the reason members of MS-13 get knuckle tattoos that clearly state MS-13.
What, that they look evil? Yup.
I always thought I know this scene from Clockwork Orange.
BRAZIL!
Snip snip! Slice slice!
My god! It works.
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.
In my day we’d just dye our fringe blue and have an earnest belief in human rights.
Showing everyone how ugly they are on the inside by fucking up the outside.
That article needs more before-and-after photos
Would you like to see Amber Ruffin cackling?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B5JNc3mOYM
Skip to 1:30 if you’re in a rush.
“This is exactly what the fuck I wanted to see”
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.
At least they are now easy to spot and forever identifiable.
Yeah, that scene exactly. 10/10 points.
It’s like the inverse of the lizard people conspiracy theory.
“Welp, time to get into politics. Better go lizard up.”
/c/maralagolizards would be a pretty good community name
Be the change you want to see in the world.
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?
They look like titans from Attack on Titan after
Spot on.
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.
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.
