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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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[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 208 points 6 days 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.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 71 points 6 days ago

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

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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 51 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 101 points 6 days ago (3 children)

That article needs more before-and-after photos

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 118 points 6 days ago (6 children)
[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 60 points 6 days ago (2 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 6 days 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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[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

They look like titans from Attack on Titan after

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[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 60 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 34 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.space 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ah, so lead paint and lice infested powdered wigs all over again.

[–] thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, stuff like this makes me wonder if the peasants of the that time thought the rich looked ridiculous when/if they saw them…

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[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yeah it's conspicuous consumption.

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

[–] errer@lemmy.world 55 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] Papergeist@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 44 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 56 points 6 days ago (8 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 6 days ago (1 children)

I think it means she's shallow and insecure.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 25 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Just a little more filler and she can easily hide in the duck pond without raising suspicion.

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[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fuck, she looks like her jaw could unhinge like a snake.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

Yup. It's something they're seeking out. Bonkers.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

holy snapping duckshit wtaf is that jfc

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Yea, he traded a classy sophisticated woman for that

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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 6 days ago

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.

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[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Oh i was calling it "i am rich but i have no taste" - face

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[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 19 points 5 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.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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?

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[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 31 points 6 days ago

fashion trend among American conservative and Republican women

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

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

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.

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

Here's hoping there will be more similarities between the two

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[–] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago (1 children)

when I was growing up we called that trashy. But you do you I guess

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 30 points 6 days ago

I still call it trashy.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Gaetz .. paid to look like that?

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 13 points 5 days ago

Is that like "resting fascist face" or sth?

[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

It's like straight out of American Psycho.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

What, that they look evil? Yup.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 days ago

Hey I've read this one

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You remember how after the war they shaved the heads of collaborators? After the coming war, we should deflate the botox out of collaborators.

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[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 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 5 days ago (1 children)

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

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