Plastic Surgeons Don’t Want to Give You ‘Mar-a-Lago Face’
Are you an aspiring trophy wife and/or fascist? Is your greatest ambition in life to marry someone whose adult children don’t speak to him anymore? Do you dream of having a job where the primary requirement is a congenital inability to tell the truth? If so, you may be interested in Mar-a-Lago face, a Florida-meets-D.C. plastic-surgery trend that is apparently inspired by Jigsaw from the Saw franchise.
According to recent reporting from Axios and the Guardian, men and women alike have increasingly been requesting excessive filler during consultations with plastic surgeons in Washington, D.C., particularly in their cheeks and lips. Apparently influenced by the frozen, puffed-up visages of such MAGA celebrities as Matt Gaetz, Kristi Noem, Lara Loomer, and Kimberly Guilfoyle, the phenomenon is known among insiders as “Mar-a-Lago face” and, well, they hate it. A D.C.-based plastic surgeon, Troy Pittman, told Axios that Beltway insiders have traditionally sought out more natural-looking procedures. But since the start of the second Trump administration, “We’re seeing people who want to look like they had something done,” he said. Inspired by Gaetz and Donald Trump Jr., men are also increasingly requesting Botox and eyelid rejuvenation in an apparent bid to look like the Jack Nicholson–era Joker.
Anita Kulkarni, another prominent plastic surgeon in D.C., is also not a fan. She told the Guardian clients are increasingly requesting cosmetic alterations that “go outside the range of what a normal human face should look like” — to the point that she’s had to turn some of them away. “To my eye, if I put any more in there, you’re going to cross over from looking like the best version of yourself to looking like Maleficent,” Kulkarni (hilariously) said. “I have to say no in a way that I have never seen before.” Speaking with Axios, Kulkarni likened Mar-a-Lago face to “filler blindness,” observing that people “lose sight of anatomic normalcy” when they’re socializing with so many tautly injected lips, cheeks, and jaws.
Other practitioners, though, are leaning in. One who’s based in Boca describes his Mar-a-Lago face service as a “subtly lifted, harmonious, and well-balanced facial aesthetic,” perfect for “a long lunch at the Breakers or a gala evening near Mar-a-Lago or the Boca Raton.” While this personally sounds, shall we say, less than compelling, there is a positive side effect to all of this: It’ll be much easier to clock your average MAGA-head relative or lifestyle influencer, because they will be monstrous both inside and out.
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