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.

    • baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 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

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    3 months ago

    fashion trend among American conservative and Republican women

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

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    3 months 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.

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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.

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    3 months ago

    “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?

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    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…

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    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.

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

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    3 months ago

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