Subject: It Really IS “A Thing”
The “Mara Lago” Look
Or “Plastic Surgeons Gone Wild”

UNDER THE KNIFE: Blowing up the Kennedy Center isn’t the only change Donald Trump is bringing to D.C. cultural life. Area plastic surgeons report that MAGA’s re-ascendance is changing city norms around getting work done. No, not office work. Cosmetic work. People in Trump’s orbit are actively chasing the uncanny-valley effect of “Mar-a-Lago face.” Axios reports1:

President Trump is all in on aesthetics, and bolder is always better. . . . And some of the people in his circle are embracing that maximalist ethos when it comes to their visage, surgeons tell Axios.

Washington is typically an understated town regarding plastic surgery; people want to look good, but don’t want it to be obvious they’ve had work done, says area plastic surgeon Troy Pittman, who works with a lot of Trump insiders. But that’s no longer the case since Team Trump 2.0 rolled into town: “[Now] we’re seeing people who want to look like they had something done,” he says.

Some area plastic surgeons even report turning MAGA potential clients away, worrying that the amount of treatment they’re requesting can be dangerous. Surgeon Anita Kulkarni warns of “filler blindness,” in which people who get more and more extensive plastic surgery while surrounded by people who are doing the same “lose sight of anatomic normalcy.”

( Which definitely doesn’t sound like a metaphor for anything else happening in Washington these days at all.)
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