Michelle Obama’s Make-Up Artist Charging $15,000 a Day…
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(Politico) — Two of the world’s most powerful women — Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey — share a make-up artist.
“The first lady comes first. When she doesn’t need him, I get second dibs,” Winfrey says in the Washington Post’s recent profile of Derrick Rutledge, who is described as “Obama’s main makeup artist.”
Rutledge, who traveled with singer Patti LaBelle for years, started working with the first lady “after Obama’s Chicago artist got tired of commuting to Washington” in 2009, according to the profile. When Winfrey saw the first lady’s look on the cover of Time magazine later that year, she sought out his services as well.
So Rutledge, who can make as much as $15,000 a day, juggles both big-name clients in addition to the other stars he beautifies. An East Wing aide told POLITICO that his make-up services are a “personal expense” for Obama.
“His schedule is as grueling as that of any White House official in top health,” the Post reports. “Most recently, he flew to South Africa with Winfrey in her private jet, then to Chicago, then to Los Angeles. When the White House summons, he flies back to Washington, even for a day or two, as he did to prepare the first lady recently for promotional videos and the Congressional Black Caucus dinner.”
HT: Harold C.
Posted by ZIP on Saturday, November 12, 2011, at 1:38 pm | 
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Those goofy 99%ers!
What a waste of resources! Just put a brown bag over her head with slits for eyes and nose (not mouth!) and be done with it. I think that will cost less than 10 cents and the bag is sustainable as it could be reused.
She’s certainly not getting her money’s worth.
I’m in the wrong business. I would volunteer to be Michelle’s make up artist for a week at that rate. Then I would retire.
It’s not what you think, guys. Her life insurance premium while on the job is $14,000 per day.
The last couple makeup artists were apparently eaten.
An East Wing aide told POLITICO that his make-up services are a “personal expense” for Obama.
Yeeeeaaaaahhhhhhh riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggghhhhhttttttttt…..
The two in the background are reacting like they have electrodes attached to their genitals and if they don’t laugh it’s gonna hurt.
I didn’t realize morticians made that much.
“I want you to use all your powers, and all your skills.”
$15k x 365 – That’s a frickin’ $5,475,000 a year!!! (How in h@ll does a make-up “artist” get to earn that kind of money?)
Add that to the rest of the millions of our money squandered by that America-hating, vindictive, hideous grifter.
We are getting ripped off!
So did Oprah and Mooch enjoy the black caucus for dinner?
HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! LET THEM EAT CAKE!!!!!! caption for the photo.
Only the LITTLE PEOPLE pay taxes!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
off with the bitch’s head!
You can’t fix ugly.
I don’t want to see what she looks like without makeup.
scizzorbill says:
November 12, 2011 at 1:57 pm
I don’t want to see what she looks like without makeup.
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Here ya go: http://chicagoagainstobama.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/probable-transcript-of-the-khalidi-tape/
She’s on the Obama’s 9 day vacation trip… that’s $135,000 for the Wookie to try and look human for a week or so.
I wonder what her 99% OWS Demons have to say about this.
I wonder what Jay Carney would say.
I can’t even explain how much I hate this whorebag.
Wooks wike wobbery.
Whats that comment about lipstick on a pig?
@Redwine
Good gawd…. That is one ugly broad…
How many children could we feed for $15,000 per day? And how many children are now dead because Mooch took money that could have gone for their food and used it to remove 1% of the wrinkles on her hideous face?
15 grand??
Gaaahhhhh…she’s gotta be some kinda ugly under all that make-up…
scizzorbill, Redwine, One Hog Frog
http://cdn.hellobeautiful.com/files/2009/01/michelle-obama-teenager1-1.jpg
You can see what your hard earned tax dollars are being spent on. Word has it that there is a fully equipped medical facility on Air Force One. This explains all the “enhancements” that show up after one of Mitchell’s “vacations.”
I think if they just let the fur grow out it’d be much easier on the eyes.
Sorry bastard doesn’t have a lot to work with does he. Does that $15,000 include the back wax?
15K a day? For make up?
Anyone wanna bet We The People are paying for yet another Obama extravagance?
Hmm, apparently they hit a lot of unforeseen turbulence.
Did you read the whole story from the Washington Post?
“at his heaviest his 5-foot-7-inch frame carried 565 pounds, with a 72-inch waist.
At 50, he sometimes walks with a cane, or two, the result of mangled bones and cartilage from a lifetime of excessive pounds.
Rutledge escapes pain by creating beauty.”
God, this is pathetic. These same wealthy parasites who spend thousands for makeup are the ones who endlessly lecture the middle class that we don’t do enough for the poor.
reminds me of a braying mule, Francis the talking/braying mule. my apologies to mules everywhere.
When the makeup comes off it must be Nightmare on Pennsylvania Ave.!! Yikes!!!
@williewe
Donald O’Connor is spinning in his grave.
Watched the video of Derek; millions of women around the world do exactly that, every day!! Queen Tranny is ripping you guys off!
Caption:
Off with their heads… and a bag of chips.
Who is advising her on her clothes? That suit dress is a good color, and the style’s fine, but it’s too tight on her hips and belly!
It wrecks the outfit. She looks tawdry!
The make up artist may be doing good work – I can’t tell – but whoever is working on that woman’s wardrobe should be fired! And if it’s Michelle Obama herself? Someone needs to man or woman up, and tell her she’s blowing it.
“…getting over
its a beautiful thing.”
~ you wish ~
“When the White House summons, he flies back to Washington,”–Gee, that’s a lot of carbon. Yet more proof that the Obamas–like Algore–absolutely do not believe in AGW.
Kinda like the Emperor’s New Clothes –
Empress’s New Face?
Drop this little makeup artist fact in front of any OWS member and watch them start screaming about Bush.
She isnt hiring a big time hollywood make-up artist?
Folks, sorry but she really needs a good makeup artist
Might be money well spent.
How many people does it take to cinch up the girdle she has to wear to keep that fat ass of hers in her dress?
Wow, it costs a lot to polish a….okay, I’ll stop right there.
The good part of the story is that Oprah & Moochelle are sharing the make-up artist, it isn’t something else.
$15,000? What kind of gold dust is in the make up?
You can put a lipstick on a Clingon…
That guy should be on Dirty Jobs. Mission Impossible.
If they are so proud of their African heritage why all the effort to make themselves appear “white”…… narrowed nose, straight hair, skin lightening, cheek and chin implants…and why don’t white folk try to appear negroid?…….does anybody have an answer?
Mooch is the first First Lady to use a make up artist, what a surprise!
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/michelle-obama-has-full-time-make-up-artist
With something that ugly to start with I can understand the cost!
I agree, both of their heads would look terrific on a plate……
And I agree you cannot use makeup to change the real person…….she’s still a publicity slut………..just like her husband.
Didn’t a very attractive woman once say something about lipstick on a pig?
The man is underpaid for the job he has to do.
The unvarnished truth:
http://images.sodahead.com/polls/000349443/polls_MichelleObama3_1245977c_3356_85520_answer_2_xlarge.jpeg
yes virginia there are still white people in the world
I remember the media mocking Laura Bush because she bought her make up in a drug store! Those, my friends, were the good old days…..
I recommend they double it and find someone better.
Is that dude from the Godfather who fixed up Sonny after the toll both available ?
It’s pathetic that this FLOTUS has so lowered the standard and respect for her office by being as divisive as her husband is. Counting the days….
VOTE – 2012
Wow is that an Adams Apple? It`s bigger than my hubbys.
I begrudgingly have to say that`s a beautiful outfit she`s wearing – completely ruined by that silly large button in the waist though.
Laura Bush could wear that outfit (with a smaller button) and look way more stylish.
The skirt is a size too small, look at her hips, I’m surprised the seams didn’t split.
As much as I detest that woman, I do have to admit she’s not an ugly woman. God gave her beautiful skin and she has a pleasant smile when she’s looking at something she likes – french fries maybe? anyway, I think she is a nasty, vengeful piece of inhumanity.Such a hateful, putrid attitude seeps from her pores, distorts her face and causes that repugnant look she sports so much of the time. Like a cornered pitbull, she’s not going to let anyone or anything come between her and what is hers. She is so busy looking for new ways to get all that she feels is owed to her – whirlwind vacations, fabulous but unflattering fashions, movie star status and magazine covers. She will never have the composure, the quiet supportive presence of Laura, Barbara, Nancy or even Jackie. Where they glided into a room, she stomps. Where they were gracious, almost humble in their WH digs, she is loud, a very large bull in a small china shop. She is uncool, uncouth and an embarrassment to our country. Hugging the Queen, indeed!
Stealing a line from the ‘McCarthy Hearings’…….”Where is the outrage?”
Its appalling on two counts. First, Mrs. Obama should not be spending so
much money, its a slap at all the Americans going through difficult times.
Second, the media should report this, and opening question the judgement
of doing this.
The American people would be wise to let this be a lesson, the arrogance
of the White House, and Mrs. Obama in particular; and the partisan
nature in which the media reports.
Both of them need all the help they can get. Can they do something about their fat azzes?
This is sickening!!!
Granted, it says that she does’nt use the makeup artist every day… only for major events. Which by the way… there are a whole lot of those.
Anyways… even if she only used this guy three times per month (which we know it has to be more than that)… that is $45K x 12 months = $540,000.00/year. HALF OF A MILLION DOLLARS!!!
I’ve seen the Obama’s tax returns online… there is NO WAY that they could afford that amount for makeup, then hair stylist, then all of her extravagant clothes, etc………….
“We the People” are footing the bill!!!
He must be in the dry wallers union.
That spackle doesn’t come cheap, you know.
It takes a lot to cover up the beard and mustache, and shadow the adam’s apple.
Did no one see Tootsie?
The makeup artist EARNS that money… He/she works like 20 hours a day..
It ain’t easy making a Wookie look almost human…
With what he has to work with, he must be one of the OWS underpaid.
All the makeup in the world will never hide Moochelle’s horrid personality that is lurking underneath!
MArk ,
They use alot of hair from India as weaves to get the straight hair effect or wear wigs.Most have mink eyelashes glued on idividually to create their long,full eyelashes.Then they use multiple shades of base makeup to sculpt and contour bone structure.Michael Jackson had his eyebrows,eyeliner and lipcolor tattooed on. They are like some sort of hollywood freak.
I bet the starving kids in Africa and people in the ghetto are salivating over their natural beauty.
If you took all those dozens of layers of makeup off she’d look like Sasquatch’s ass and balls
Yes when one thinks of Laura Bush – now there is a LADY! Queen Elizabeth herself would be proud to stand with Laura.
This Chicago Whore is the biggest disgrace to illegally “Occupy” the White House.
The Islamo-vermin-filth want the White House as their Mosque of Supremacy…
I suggest it will need to be demolished after these “Occupiers” are evicted – better still if they exit following their public execution!
Assuming he’s one of the best at what he does, it must be painful for him to collide so painfully with the limitations of his art.
Ask George Lucas….good special effects ain’t cheap.
Stop spending our money on this, jerk. It doesn’t help.
Well, at least my question about my automobile repair is now answered…
Yes, Bondo is that expensive.
Redwine:
Oww!! My eyes!! Why would you do this to us?!?!?!
But I must say, the salmon suit is actually figure-flattering and a good color on her. Glad to see her stylist finally showed up to work sober.
Noelegy says:
November 12, 2011 at 3:17 pm
Good one!
$15,000 a day for make up? Heck, it only took lipstick to make a pig pretty, so I hear. Lol. Am guessing Mooch is wasting her money, cause it’s not helping..
Though, I’d really like to know who’s paying for it. Was it from that bill that Pelosi rushed through, 24 million worth? Or us taxpayers?..
When you click the link below, you will see what she would look like without money…Scary stuff
http://js-kit.com/blob/S44mDIqd_KBBrd6K8n0XfN.jpg
$15,000 a day for a make-up man. Does the president himself make that much?
He/she’s underpaid. Probably has a side job putting troweling mud to lay tile. I can see the overlap.
Does Michelle pay that $15,000 per day out of her personal bank account or is that yet another insanely unreasonable expense put on the taxpayer’s bill?
you all stupid americans. Read the article again. The gay make-up guy earns 15k per day. She doesn’t pay him 15k per day. Anyway, i don’t particularly like the first lady anyway. She’s just as arrogant as the rest of you americans.
I have no cosmetology training or skills, but if I were to have to be in such close proximity to Mrs. Obama as a make-up artist would have to be then I would charge even more than $15,000 per day. It makes me sick to think that someone would have to touch her repeatedly, look at her so closely, smell her, & listen to her. Ugh.
Wow, she actually had on a decent outfit. What happened… they run out of drapes?
iSmile – November 13, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Hey! iPile, crawl up our collective bunghole, eat what you find there, and crawl off and die.
no amount of money can hide the “ugly”
she looks great, and I have no problem with people being rich, but given her husband’s position, such expenses while so many are suffering, just seems insensitive, at best