It was back in April when this editor was introduced to the concept of "Mar-a-Lago face." NPR's long-running podcast called "Code Switch," whose tagline is "Race. In Your Face," taught this editor that apparently, the MAGA movement has an "aesthetic loyalty test" that you must pass, especially if you're a woman. "The MAGA look — you know the one: dramatic eyeliner, long, wavy hair, sheath dresses — is a defining feature of President Trump's Republican Party," they explained.

Amanda Maracotte, whose employer, Salon, announced on Thursday that it was ceasing publication after 31 years, joined the discourse on Mar-a-Lago face, opining that, like Cybertrucks, "it's all gross and ugly. That's the point. The visual assault is yet another fascist display of power." If anything is gross and ugly and a fascist display of power, it's Barack Obama's presidential library, but that's another story.

On Saturday, The Washington Post reported that "many" have theorized about the sociopolitical underpinnings of the "hyper-feminine" faces of MAGA world and claims that "even the Right" is debating whether MAGA face has gone too far.

Emily Kennard writes about the "bimbofication" of conservative women and the social media pile-on of new State Department Ambassador Barbera Thornhill.

The social media pile-on reignited a debate over the hyper-feminine, hyper-stylized faces that Americans are now used to seeing from women of MAGA world, and the social forces shaping the uniform look. Is the aesthetic designed to send deliberate political signals? Or is the public scrutiny just a reality for powerful women in an image-obsessed political era, magnified by a particularly image-obsessed president?

And even within MAGA, is it possible to go too far to look the part?

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The question, following the Republicans’ midterm thwapping, is what will become of the aesthetic. Will these trends have staying power, or will Trump’s waning cultural influence as a lame duck make the look passé? Even before the election, Gary Motykie, a West Hollywood plastic surgeon, already saw indications that the pendulum will swing back. “People getting some negative press or negative publicity” for getting conspicuous work done, he said, has made his clients “very cognizant of that coming in.”

Um, did Kennard have a chance to ask the plastic surgeon about the Left's darling, Jennifer Welch?

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