Can someone please explain to me what the eyeliner that JD Vance wears is all about ?

[Tumbulu]

Or is it tattoos around his eyes, so he does not need to apply it every day.

What does it symbolize? I feel like if am missing the cultural significance of this. Was there a famous movie star or an anime character, or something/ someone that he is emulating?

And since he is so attached to this look, I want to know why he is so pissy about other peoples personal choices? In particular a raging asshole about other people who sometimes wear eyeliner.

What am I missing here?

[Frasier Balzov]

1. Slate looked at this issue during the campaign.

https://slate.com/life/2024/07/jd-vance-eyeliner-lashes-trump-campaign.html

[Tumbulu]

5. Thank you for the link

Which I read and will ponder; but am not at all convinced.

I still get this feeling that he has done this to himself. And that it symbolizes something.

I just do not know what.

[AZJonnie]

2. It's not eyeliner or a tattoo, it's natural.

The NFL quarterback Derek Carr has almost identical-looking eyes to Vance (but is many times hotter than JD )

His also is not makeup or tattoo work.

[hlthe2b]

3. No. I am on Iphone & can't search my old posts but

A very well known make-up artist worked with a reporter to go through past five years of photos and found years when he had no dark lining nor eyelashes as dark. Even in past couple of years—likewise intermittent shots of him with less or far more- or “deteriorating”-- liner appearance. The trend started with the facial hair— meant to divert from his very full face. If you search for photos of JD Vance from earlier in the decade you will see...

Could he have had eyeliner tattooed now? Sure. But there is a photo record that argues strongly against this being “natural”.

[Tumbulu]

9. Thanks, this rings more true to my virw

what do you think the cultural message is? Is it an anime character?

Is he trying to channel some tech bro style known only within an inside clique?

I am not buying that it is natural.

The thing is that he does have a particularly ugly face, all fat and puffy. So, it could be his attempt to counteract that effect. But in men who are not regularly performing on stage or perhaps in studio, it is culturally not common. Hence my idea that it is a cultural signaling. Of what I do not grasp.

[hlthe2b]

18. I think your last paragraph is right on target.

I suspect he was bullied in youth and ridiculed as "effeminate" as he became older for his very round face and rather chunky neck/physique. So, anything to divert attention...

And yes, I am aware that his wife suggests otherwise and contradicts herself by discussing the meaning of eyeliner for both genders in Hinduism. Make of that what you will. He certainly seems to have sociopathic tendencies as a result and Trumpian-level resentments.

He's a dangerous POS, and those wanting to give him the benefit of the doubt on ANYTHING are missing the threat.

[AZJonnie]

11. There are also past pics of Carr where it looks more and less pronounced

Look I don't much care about people making fun of Vance about ANYthing, let me be clear, I'm not 'defending' the guy. But I do know this effect/look can be naturally occurring, and the strength of the effect can naturally vary in different photos (presumably due to angle and lighting), as you can see below. Also, the 'look' itself is just very similar between Carr and Vance. Given these facts, to *me* it seems logical to suppose it's likely natural with Vance as well, but everyone's welcome to their own guess

[JCMach1]

13. Some of us (no idea about Vance) have double eyelashes

I have that and my son inherited it.

Looks great, but double the eyelashes that get in your eye.

It's called distichiasis.

[hlthe2b]

16. Well aware. Google early pics

[mucholderthandirt]

20. The lead actor on the Canadian TV show Murdoch Mysteries has that.

He used to get asked all the time about if he used eyeliner, or mascara. His eyes are very dramatic.

William Shatner used to have eyeliner when on the show. I suspect because as a light-haired person, his lashes were light and made his eyes hard to see on film. He also wore a girdle early in the season because he let himself get a bit fat during the hiatus.

[hlthe2b]

15. Wow.. Maybe google yourself in depth to see his old pics---no way it is natural..

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Or search my prior post— although you seem pretty determined to believe otherwise. Early pics if JD are clearly NOT WHAT THIS MAN HAS AS FEATURES COMMON TO MEN OF MIDDLEASTERN AND SOME EUROPEAN ORIGIN men. Believe what you will

[AZJonnie]

19. I am not determined to believe anything and there's no need to SHOUT at me :(

Perhaps I should clarify ... it may be 'unnatural' in the sense that there are drugs (including hormones) that exist that affect hair growth patterns. All I'm saying is that of the possible explanations for the observations, I consider the one where this 'look' is caused by the growth pattern of the man's eyelashes (and perhaps the shading of the skin around the lids) to be the much more likely correct one vs. tattoos or eyeliner. As such, I should have not have made my first post sound as 'positive' as it was. This is 'my guess', you have 'your guess', all good. This is a pretty unimportant matter anyway, hopefully we can agree on that point?

[Tumbulu]

22. I am looking at these pictures- a big thank you for such an in depth reply

but I do not see them as similar.

The blackness of JD’s eyes does not look at all natural.

This fellow, yes, I have relatives with this look. Nobody ever thought they were wearing eyeliner.

[AZJonnie]

23. Alright well I don't care enough to drag this out so

So, a) maybe I haven't looked at pics of Vance's eyes quite ENOUGH (because I really don't want to), and b) for sure I don't think JD Vance is cool enough to be appearing in public wearing eyeliner all the time like he's David frickin' Bowie or Dr. Frankenfurter. He's too much of a doofus, and I don't buy it

[Tumbulu]

7. This may be the case for this guy

But I don’t know about JD.

[werdna]

4. The List - We Wanted To See JD Vance Without Facial Hair

"Clean-shaven Vance looks a lot younger (like his previous anti-Trump self)"

full article: https://www.thelist.com/1658326/we-wanted-see-jd-vance-without-facial-hair-turned-clock-back-too-far/

[Xavier Breath]

6. I just assumed it was all about the sexy.

[Tumbulu]

10. That's a good one!

[allegorical oracle]

8. His eyes appear smaller as he ages (happens to everyone) and he may think liner

helps them appear larger and more noticeable. Tend to notice the lack of soul in his eyes.

[BoRaGard]

12. Does the republicon Vancy-man identify as BrowGender?

If so he should check out the BrowGender SuperSuave Makeup Tips group chat on fick fock. Always nice to hang with your own kind, some people say.

[Aristus]

14. I've always had very thick, long eyelashes. More than one person has mistaken them for eyeliner.

When we first started dating, Mrs. Aristus kept trying to catch me applying eyeliner because she wouldn't believe that it was just due to my long eyelashes.

[GreatGazoo]

17. He is a major fan of "Clockwork Orange"

I keeed.

It's natural -- thick black eyelashes and pale eyes.

[pwb]

21. Is It is to make his head

look less like a pumpkin?