Oh WOe is me... Why's everybody always pickin on me??? 
Posted on 11/13/2011 8:12:15 AM PST by Second Amendment First
NEW ORLEANS — Chaka Khan is more than angry.
Instead of getting to rest before her show at the Louisiana Superdome, the R&B star has been booked for two speaking engagements. She’s holed up in her hotel suite, fuming. Outside, her assistants are waiting for her to open the door.
Her makeup artist, Derrick Rutledge, is waiting, too. He just flew in to do her after working on Michelle Obama in the East Wing. After New Orleans, he’s scheduled to fly out to do Oprah Winfrey before returning home to Washington.
But first Rutledge has to persuade Khan to open the door. Finally, after 15 minutes, she does, and Rutledge distracts her by talking about two of her favorite subjects: tennis and shopping.
Within 30 minutes, Khan emerges, reddish mane flowing, lips sensuous in burgundy, looking glorious in a lace dress and carrying a hand fan.
“It wasn’t a good day,” Khan later admits. “I was nervous about speaking, but he calms me. He knows what to say to me.”
Rutledge has worked for Khan for 15 years. He knows what his client and close friend needs: a hug and some orange juice. “I’m more than just makeup,” he says. “I’m there for support as well.”
Rutledge is the man behind the look of some of the world’s most famous names. A leading makeup artist, he gets as much as $15,000 for a day’s work and boasts a coveted client list, including two of the nation’s most photographed faces, Michelle Obama and Oprah, as well as singers such as Patti LaBelle, Shirley Caesar and CeCe Winans. Just last month, his work was on the covers of Essence and AARP, which featured Obama, and O, which featured, obviously, Oprah.
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To attempt the impossible.
Oh WOe is me... Why's everybody always pickin on me???
Make this look pretty, wise and kind...
Darn you Chode!
"After the first lady drew criticism for looking angry, her high-arched eyebrows were reshaped with a softer arc that gave her a friendlier appearance."
LMAO! That's like giving a rabid pit bull a pink lacy collar and claiming it's now a therapy dog! Nothing can change the ugliness that this woman emotes from every pore in her body.
He did his internship on the planet Kashyyyk.
ARE WE PAYING FOR THIS? He gets up to $15,000 a day.
They so desperately want Michelle to go down in history as one of the all-time great beauties. Helen of Troy? Maybe she was somewhat attractive ... but Michelle??? VA-VA-VA-VOOM, Baby!!!
I hope Rush has fun with this. That’ll make a lot of heads explode.
No amount of make-up will hide the ugly within...
Trying to make a silk purse out of a pigs ear!
There can’t be a mirror in the White House unless Obambi has them in his prayer rug room. To call the Mooch-beast beautiful is like calling Chelsea hot.
Who the hell is paying for this?
Yeah, who is paying? Sandblasting is expensive...
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