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.
I found this helpful:
https://www.thelist.com/1817157/what-is-mar-a-lago-face-who-has-tried-the-trend/
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
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?