Hillary’s $3,000 hair
[yeah, I know this is kinda sexist, but she’s such a product - didn’t
Bill once close LAX for a fancy haircut? speaking of haircuts, a web
designer I used to know back in the bubble days did Phish’s site -
they were late for a meeting because they were all getting $1,000 h/c’s]
New York Post - July 24, 2006
HILLARY GATHERS AN ARMY INCLUDES 3G FOR STYLIST
By IAN BISHOP Post Correspondent
WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign army has
increased its ranks to 50 staffers and more than 20 consultants,
specialists in everything from fund-raising to speech-writing to
hairstyling and makeup.
Clinton, the likely 2008 Democratic White House front-runner, ponied
up nearly $3,000 in campaign cash for her blond tresses to get some
presidential pampering from acclaimed D.C. stylist Isabelle Goetz.
Recently released federal fund-raising records show Clinton shelled
out $1,500 in April for Goetz to carefully craft her coiffure and
another $1,000 for a camera-ready clip in May.
She passed off both styling sessions as “media production” expenses.
Clinton was so desperate for Goetz to style her gilded mane, she
picked up the scissor siren’s $405 travel tab in April and a $38
expenses tab in May.
Goetz, a fixture at the swank Cristophe salon and the favored stylist
of John Kerry, has been clipping the former first lady’s locks for
years - she’s credited for updating Clinton’s coif from country to
chic. To complement the touch-up of her tresses, Clinton invested
another $3,000 for makeup maestro Barbara Lacy to brush on some blush.
Lacy is a Tinseltown pro who applied the makeup to actors’ mugs in
movies including “Minority Report,” “Runaway Bride,” “National
Treasure” and “In the Line of Fire.”
She can also take credit for working the West Wing - the NBC version.
Clinton paid Lacy an eye-popping $1,600 for some eye-lining in mid-
May and another mind-boggling $1,300 for some makeup two weeks later.
Again, Clinton justified the makeovers as a media production expense.
Campaign spokesman Ann Lewis said the “costs represent several days’
film production for campaign use” - including film that was shown at
state conventions and at house parties, and can still be seen on
Clinton’s re-election Web site.
The sly salon sessions were just a sliver of the $3.4 million tab to
keep her political machine running, including bills of $285,000 for
political polling, more than $650,000 for direct mail and $200,000
for postage.