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"At Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, his inner sanctum gathered in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Among the guests were Melania Trump, Kristi Noem (the Homeland Security Secretary), and Lauren Sanchez (wife of Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos). As they stood meters from each other, it was hard not to notice the similarities. The women gleamed like the polished marble around them, their appearances unmistakably sculpted by the hands of modern cosmetic science. They’re not the only examples of a certain pinched look among the upper echelons of America’s right wing. In fact, the plastic surgery trend has become so prevalent that it has earned a nickname: Mar-a-Lago face.
Coined after Trump’s famous Palm Beach resort — where the president spends much of his time in Florida golfing — the look is defined by nose jobs, face lifts, and an unholy amount of injectables. “It’s the tiny little pixie nose and big lips,” Dr. Faryan Jalalabadi, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, tells The Independent. “The opposite of a natural face in which there’s a delicate balance of proportions.” It’s all in the narrow eyes and elongated smile. It’s Nicole Kidman, post-Stepford Wives. But as Dr. Giselle Prado-Wright, a cosmetic surgeon in Fort Myers, Florida, explains, it’s not just in the “really tight, high cheekbone” but in the fact that the face is “a little bit overfilled.”
...“Aesthetic trends evolve based on cultural, social, and even regional influences,” Melinda Anna Farina, top global aesthetics consultant and founder of Beauty Brokers, explains. “ The community that you’re in, you tend to fall into the standards and trends of that community,” Dr. Jalalabadi agrees. “So if everyone at your country club is starting to look a certain way, you may have this thing in the back of your mind saying, ‘Well, I should probably look like that too.’ This may not be the best thing, but it’s the reality. It just takes one person to change their face in a certain way, and then you have two people following a certain trend or a certain look, and then it can just spread like wildfire.”"
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"The last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it." - Rodney Dangerfield
Coined after Trump’s famous Palm Beach resort — where the president spends much of his time in Florida golfing — the look is defined by nose jobs, face lifts, and an unholy amount of injectables. “It’s the tiny little pixie nose and big lips,” Dr. Faryan Jalalabadi, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, tells The Independent. “The opposite of a natural face in which there’s a delicate balance of proportions.” It’s all in the narrow eyes and elongated smile. It’s Nicole Kidman, post-Stepford Wives. But as Dr. Giselle Prado-Wright, a cosmetic surgeon in Fort Myers, Florida, explains, it’s not just in the “really tight, high cheekbone” but in the fact that the face is “a little bit overfilled.”
...“Aesthetic trends evolve based on cultural, social, and even regional influences,” Melinda Anna Farina, top global aesthetics consultant and founder of Beauty Brokers, explains. “ The community that you’re in, you tend to fall into the standards and trends of that community,” Dr. Jalalabadi agrees. “So if everyone at your country club is starting to look a certain way, you may have this thing in the back of your mind saying, ‘Well, I should probably look like that too.’ This may not be the best thing, but it’s the reality. It just takes one person to change their face in a certain way, and then you have two people following a certain trend or a certain look, and then it can just spread like wildfire.”"
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"The last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it." - Rodney Dangerfield
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