With Mar-a-lago face specifically, I think it can be said to be a reaction to the dominant cultural trend being “natural” looks for the past twenty years or so, which were themselves a reaction to the plastic surgery trend of the 1980s (which definitely had a similar conservative root ar mal face does now).
It’s like mar-a-lago face where it’s at least as much about ritual submission to conformity as it is any actual aesthetic goal.
With Mar-a-lago face specifically, I think it can be said to be a reaction to the dominant cultural trend being “natural” looks for the past twenty years or so, which were themselves a reaction to the plastic surgery trend of the 1980s (which definitely had a similar conservative root ar mal face does now).