The US election brought with it a new facial aesthetic – that of both the first lady and Ivanka Trump. But what is so desirable about their features?
Every time has a face or two that come to represent what we are supposed to find most beautiful (usually: white and thin). Now, with depressing inevitability, it seems as if Ivanka and Melania Trump-inspired faces are climbing the most-wanted list at plastic surgeons’ clinics. Norman Rowe, a surgeon in Manhattan, New York, has been seeing several women a month who cite Ivanka as their face inspiration, although, to be clear, we are talking dozens here rather than thousands. “I never saw [anyone who wished to copy Ivanka’s face] before the primary,” Rowe told celebrity website Page Six, “since the summer of ‘16 … [it has been] maybe four a month; one a week.”
Some women, said Rowe, were spending up to $40,000 (£30,000) on temporary fillers and Botox, and up to $50,000 (£37,000) for more invasive procedures such as rhinoplasty and cheek implants. Earlier this year, Franklin Rose, a surgeon in Houston, Texas, told USA Today: “Ivanka is sort of the new style icon for plastic surgery.” (He also reportedly offers a “Melania makeover”.)
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