Mar-a-Lago makeover
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Who is Suzanne Lambert and how did her TikTok journey begin?
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For Suzanne Lambert, it all started with TikTok. 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. 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.
So please be respectful and be kind to each other because the person who sits in the Oval Office, they come and go every four or eight years.
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. 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.
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? And where did you go from there? 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.
What is the broader significance of Suzanne Lambert's makeup critique in politics?
you are not doing this because you enjoy it. You're doing this because you're trying to fulfill a weird obligation to like, 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 authentic to how they might do it in the car, for example. I accidentally just colored in my entire eyelid. That's fine. They love eyeliner over there.
I hit my eyeball. Oh, no. It's okay. I'll make it. I look like I'm ready to go vote to take away my own rights. Hi, we're doing Mar-a-Lago makeovers on Today Explained. Join us.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Suzanne Lambert and how did her TikTok journey begin?
1:47–5:35
2
What is 'Republican makeup' and why does Suzanne Lambert critique it?
5:35–6:25
3
How did people react to Suzanne Lambert's satire of Republican makeup?
6:25–8:20
4
What was Suzanne Lambert's political background and how did her views change?
8:20–12:23
5
Why did Suzanne Lambert start 'being mean' in her political commentary?
12:23–13:29
6
How has the political climate influenced people's acceptance of more direct criticism?
13:29–13:52
7
How does Suzanne Lambert engage both Republican and Democratic audiences?
13:52
8
What is the broader significance of Suzanne Lambert's makeup critique in politics?
0:02–26:15