Beauty trends among American conservatives - Wikipedia
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  • thesohoriots@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    17 days ago

    Plastic surgeons and consultants describe Mar-a-Lago face as a deliberately conspicuous and homogenized aesthetic, with one estimate placing the 2025 cost of a full set of procedures at around $90,000 plus ongoing maintenance

    That’s a lot of money to fuck up your face when the sidewalk is literally right there

    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
      10·
      17 days ago

      At least they all have the same ugly face now, so we don’t need the special sunglasses to see that they’re aliens bent on terra forming earth into a paradise for them.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18·
    16 days ago

    Man, I do love when Wikipedia is Just Stating Facts™ and yet reads like the sassiest gossip, because reality is just so dumb[1].

    Ivanka Trump [Trump’s daughter with his first wife] has been described as the inspiration of Mar-a-Lago face.

    Kristi Noem, Melania Trump [Trump’s third wife], and Kimberly Guilfoyle have been described as having Mar-a-Lago face.

    He does like to talk about wanting sex with Ivanka, so I guess, that tracks.

    Melissa Rein Lively, a MAGA political worker, was reported […] to reject “any idea of submission or constraint” associated with Mar-a-Lago face, and that “no one forces me to do two hours of sport a day, to go to the hairdresser every three and a half weeks, to get my nails and eyebrows done, to get Botox.”

    Blink twice, if you’re being forced to say this…? Seriously, why would you list a bunch of unpleasant aspects, if you’re trying to make the point that you don’t mind it?

    1. By the way, we do have a great word for this in German: Realsatire – when reality is so ridiculous that merely recounting it sounds like satire. ↩︎

    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      16 days ago

      By the way, we do have a great word for this in German: Realsatire – when reality is so ridiculous that merely recounting it sounds like satire.

      Translates pretty solidly into English.

  • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    16 days ago

    Another response was to suggest that this was more of an issue of younger women criticizing the makeup styles of middle-aged women than politics.

    Not all the criticism came from the right. Colette Carbonara, a Columbia undergraduate writing in the Columbia Political Review, feared that it might alienate some voters who might otherwise support Democratic policies and candidates while lacking “real substance”. Many of the critiques on TikTok, she noted, admitted that the style was more common and less political in 2016. “By engaging in this caricature, liberals reinforce the stereotype of themselves as urbane cultural elites who relish the opportunity to mock people from the South or rural areas whose makeup is, perhaps, slightly dated compared to the newest trends in wealthy, progressive cities.”

    Essentially, this.

    To the extent that the makeup trend is a political strategy at all, I expect it will be a fairly successful one, as it (1) supports traditional gender roles by highlighting the fact that women use makeup. (2) Appeals to older americans who are more likely to vote because “she looks like me” or “she looks like my wife”. (3) Appeals to poorer (trashier) Americans who are more likely to over-apply makeup.