Suzanne Lambert
Appearances
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
anyone who creates any kind of online content i feel like can relate to this it was a video that i filmed on such a whim hey i noticed that all of the republican girlies in my comments do their makeup the exact same gorgeous way so i thought that i would try to do it myself it took me all of 10 minutes to record, edit, and post where I was on vacation for my birthday.
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
And I was just pissed off and feeling hopeless after the election. Starting with the base, I'm not going to do any prep at all. We really want our makeup to cling to any dry spots and accentuate any texture that we might have. And seeing the way that people were messaging online, it was like, I'm not out here to spread, like, hate, you know, or else you're spread love.
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
All of those things are great, but I was like, this isn't what I want to say. And I feel like the people who kind of caused us to be in this predicament in the first place have learned nothing, right? They haven't learned as far as messaging and what works and what doesn't, what people really want to see from Democrats and from the left.
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
you are not doing this because you enjoy it. You're doing this because you're trying to fulfill a weird obligation to like,
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
So I posted a video essentially saying like, not all of us were meant to be Michelle Obama, Jack Schlossberg liberals. Some of us were meant to be Regina George liberals. Lucille Bluth, Principal Ava Coleman. Some of us have some bite to us that we've really been suppressing because y'all told us that we had to. Everyone's getting on here now being like, oh, liberals need to be meaner.
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
Democrats need to be meaner. Say less, babe. Do you know how many reformed mean girls have been waiting for this exact moment in time?
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
Well, from there, I finally was like, OK, I have a plan for this and I have a roadmap for what this looks like and how people can start fighting back and what that really looks like. So I just started making more videos. Rather than using a brush, we're actually just gonna apply directly to the skin and use our hands. That way it's streaky and it doesn't blend well.
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
I also applied extra tanner to my hands so that it doesn't actually match anything. Some of those videos were, you know, making fun of Republican makeup. You'll notice that it's also really matte. I wanted a really matte finish. It's giving It's getting dusty. Some of those videos were making fun of politicians in particular.
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
Everyone's asking me to do Caroline Lovett's makeup from yesterday, but the problem is I just don't have the right products because when I'm gleefully taking away school lunches from kids and defunding childhood cancer research, I try not to look so jaundiced, me personally.
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
Some of it was just talking about our frustrations, but I think in a way that if I had done it prior to the election, it just like, it would not have worked. People would have hated me for it.
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
It's characterized by like lack of, I just say matte and flat, dry, bland. We wanna make sure that it doesn't look like we've ever used moisturizer once in our life. Big block eyebrows. For brows, we want bold glamor filter, but in real life and not totally matching. They love some eyeliner over there. Just like a general lack of moisture, including the lipstick. It's crazy.
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
I mean, predictably, right? Republicans had a little hissy fit over it, right? Talking about how, oh, I thought y'all were the party of love and kindness. And I was like, no, look at my pinned video. I literally said... You don't fight fire with a little drippy water hose. You fight fire with... equal exertion of force. Some of them, to their credit, were like, okay, this is actually funny.
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
And I do have Republicans who follow me. And I think from the left, there was an overwhelming sense of like, oh my God, we're finally talking a little shit because I've been ready for this.
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Mar-a-Lago makeover
What I will say, what I find funny and interesting is... It's white conservative women and white liberal women who get mad at me. That's it almost without exception, right? I'm not going to speak for everyone.
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
They have the exact same talk track, which is we shouldn't be bullying other women and we shouldn't be bringing them down. I think that's really interesting that they share that commonality and that way of thinking. But yeah, they'll be like, this is mean. And I'm like, I don't care, right?
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
Yeah. So I grew up in a town called Kennesaw, Georgia. It's like the law to own a gun, for example. That's our slogan. It's the law in Kennesaw. The history teacher was the football coach who also sponsored, you know, the Christian club that met at the school. So everything was taught from this like white evangelical. Yeah.
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
And I was the president of Young Republicans, which didn't really mean anything. We would just like have meetings and be like, isn't Sean Hannity cool? And it's like, why does a 17 year old know who Sean Hannity is?
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
No, but like, honestly, it was a gradual unraveling, right? But it was when Trump announced his run for presidency. And it was when his tapes came out where he was talking about, you know, assaulting women. And no one was like that bothered by it. And I was like, what? hold on, hold on, hold on. I feel like people should still be saying, we're still going to vote for him, but that's bad.
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
Like, that's like bottom of the barrel, like bar of what I was looking for. And then I got pregnant unexpectedly. Didn't want to be pregnant, right? That obviously...
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
accelerates a lot of things as well because like I was super vocally anti-choice um you know because that's that's what I've been taught I'd never really heard stories of women exercising their right to choose um and I thought of them as being like lazy and irresponsible all the things that you're taught and then you get pregnant all of a sudden and it's like
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
oh yeah, no, I don't want a kid, right? Like there was not even a second where I questioned it and I've never questioned it. So then it was like, okay, so if I was wrong about that, and they were wrong about that, what else were they wrong about? And then it just, it all unravels really quickly as soon as you dig just like a little under the surface.
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
And I think that's also why, given how vocal I was in the past about my views, it's why I'm so vocal now. One, because I'm kind of like, I grew up Catholic, right? I'm like, this is my penance. I ran my mouth a lot back then. I need to run it twice as much now. But also, I think I want people to be able to see, like, oh, no, I actually did used to think what you think.
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
So I get why you think that way. Here's why that's wrong, though.
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
Yeah. And I have said exactly what you just said. Like, hey, if we want to have a mean competition of who's meaner, it's such an absurd... conversation to even have given everything that they're doing and the way that you could have listed hundreds of more things. I mean, right. I would say on the left, people have come around. I would say they are uncomfortable, which I think is okay.
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
But for the ones who haven't come around, Those aren't the people I'm trying to reach. I'm not trying to reach the people who are trying to draw a line at critiquing makeup. Not weight, not making racist comments. I've never done anything of that sort. We are talking about mutable choices that you can change. I have Republicans who follow me who will also ask me questions and advice.
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
They'll be like, I'm Republican, but this tutorial was actually the most helpful tutorial I've watched in terms of what not to do. And I'm like, I'll have you around, which surprises me. But I think it's also what we haven't done before, which is... talk about politics alongside topics that are maybe a bit more accessible and entertaining and like interesting.
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
I think you should go take a lap around the office and show off your work.
Today, Explained
Mar-a-Lago makeover
the patriarchy oh okay oh look at you oh yep that's perfect it doesn't match your undertones yeah we don't have attention to detail over here as evidenced by certain group chats am i gonna look less crazy at some point no you kind of look intense too actually okay so i just added some some muddy bronzer cool okay you know when you're when you're filming glam videos with border patrol you can't always bring all your tools with you so this is very