MAGA Women Apparently Have Their Very Own Nightmare Version of a Drag Mother

If you’ve ever looked at women with “Mar-a-Lago face” and wondered who’s apparently teaching them to apply foundation with a concrete trowel, wonder no more.It seems that MAGA has their very own, somewhat cursed equivalent of a drag mother, and her name is Adrienne Gray. The former Fox News commentator turned “makeup artist” — scare quotes ours — now finds herself catering to Trump’s elite circle of blonde women, including former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Bettina Trump, Lara Trump (reportedly her most regular client) and more.Gray was recently profiled by the Wall Street Journal in an article documenting a makeup “masterclass” course she taught to 60 MAGA big wigs at the Trump National Golf Club in D.C., during which she admitted that the looks she creates for MAGA women exist in a “niche” nowhere near the clean-girl, barely there faces that currently dominate the beauty landscape. According to the Journal profile, she apparently uses blushes from Patrick Ta (an openly gay man) and bronzers from Charlotte Tilbury (a well-recognized and major LGBTQ+ ally in the beauty space that donates to the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s Rocket Fund). As a beauty editor, I can most definitely vouch for these products' exquisite abilities to perform — yet Gray’s execution with these vanity staples unfortunately leaves something to be desired. The Journal even reported that there were “various degrees of unease” in the audience as she painted conservative lifestyle brand founder Jayme Franklin. Gray also claimed that the look is “all in the blend” — or, we might add, the lack thereof. Oh, girl, we know…As we’ve seen up close and personal in Vanity Fair’s now-infamous photoshoot with Trump’s inner circle, the classic MAGA makeup beat is often cakey, unblended, and creasy, consisting of heavy matte foundation, dramatic concealer, spindly lashes, ultra-lined eyes, dark shadow, and an intense dose of rosy-cheeked blush.