TIL that the Mar-a-Lago face is a thing
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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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.
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.
That article needs more before-and-after photos
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.
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?
ted cruz goes to a tropical country to shed his skin.
/c/maralagolizards would be a pretty good community name
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Yeah, that scene exactly. 10/10 points.
They look like titans from Attack on Titan after
Spot on.
actually mostly the smiling titan, dina fritz. laura loomer most represent her.
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.
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
“This is exactly what the fuck I wanted to see”
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.
I think it means she's shallow and insecure.
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?
Yes, but why are you asking? Did she turn you into a newt?
Fuck, she looks like her jaw could unhinge like a snake.
holy snapping duckshit wtaf is that jfc
Yea, he traded a classy sophisticated woman for that
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.
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.
And Gumball comes in clutch once again. Man, that show was ahead of its time lol
Seriously, what a fucking downgrade.
Yup. It's something they're seeking out. Bonkers.
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.
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.
No, she’s trying to look like Mick Jagger.
"Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man with taste."
BRAZIL!
Snip snip! Slice slice!
My god! It works.
I always thought I know this scene from Clockwork Orange.
Remember though, taking HRT and getting gender affirming surgery is “mutilating” your body.
Trt and hgh are fine, how else are you going to look like mini Rambo?
This is gender affirming surgery. But I suppose that's your point.
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.
eyebrow lifts, botox to the face, cant show signs of aging, because its not "strong looking"
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.
Ah, so lead paint and lice infested powdered wigs all over again.
Yeah, stuff like this makes me wonder if the peasants of the that time thought the rich looked ridiculous when/if they saw them…
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.
Yeah it's conspicuous consumption.
Just like Middle class people try to show off money/status buy having luxury cars.
First example: Matt Gaetz. Thanks Mr. Wikipedia, very cool.
when I was growing up we called that trashy. But you do you I guess
I still call it trashy.
Oh i was calling it "i am rich but i have no taste" - face
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.
Gaetz .. paid to look like that?
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.
How was he to know that mask he found would turn him into a cartoonish 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?
There are true scientific breakthroughs to be made in this area, for sure.
I would love to donate to support this research
but there's totally no cult of personality /s
its A REQUIREMENT to be part of trumps circle, to look like his daughter ivanka.
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.
They Live vibes every day
That explains a lot!
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.
Long, long history of fascists cutting up their faces for vanity.
You remember how after the war they shaved the heads of collaborators? After the coming war, we should deflate the botox out of collaborators.
...or inflate it further. Double it.
Hey I've read this one
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
Strong "Biggest Fan in the Oblivion Arena" vibes.
His forehead is too big. Almost like he's cutting off his Widow's Peak.
What, that they look evil? Yup.
So they literally mar their faces to signal they're Lagos? I know what mar means, but what's a Lago?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marred
Maybe they meant egos? But they're really dumb and can't spell?
Maybe it's like Cockney slang? Mar A Face --> Egg on your face (being wrong and humiliated constantly) --> Eggos (the waffles) --> Uggos (cuz they're ugly) --> Lagos (cuz they can't spell)*.
*I'm not 100% sure how Cockney slang works, but this feels correct.
Is that like "resting fascist face" or sth?
It's like straight out of American Psycho.
Ah ritual body modifications in order to get favor from the God. Doomsday cult we deserve.
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...
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
Insert star trek insurrection meme here
Moisturize me!!
Wait, wrong reference...
Dougherty...out.
Is there anyone finding it pretty looking? Besides Trump of course.
Looks wierd
I can't wait for this to take off amongst the rank-and-file.
It makes fitting the reptilian natural face into a human mask easier.
SCP-9000 looking mfers
Is that why noem looks like that?
“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?
This is why I think trump had mild stroke followed by a quick surgery to hide the effect.
Matt Gaetz is very poorly attempting to emulate the appearance of an Eastern European woman.
I had almost forgotten about that pedophile. Almost.
Gaetz face is s classic pedophile profile.