Posted on 11/13/2011 2:11:54 PM PST by drewh
He just flew in r 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.
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.
A makeup artist does intimate work. More intimate than a hairdresser or personal assistant. Like an artist caressing a canvas, Rutledge touches and transforms faces, erasing flaws and reshaping contours. He brings out beauty, confidence, the sheen of stardom.
Had life dealt him a different set of cards, he’d be up there maybe, or on some stage, delivering arias as an opera star. They said he had the voice, he just didn’t have the beauty. He has battled obesity all his life — 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. That weight has defined his destiny.
Rutledge escapes pain by creating beauty. Life in his makeup chair is flawless. There’s no ugly here. No teasing.
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Whats the name of his business?
“Lipstick on a Pig”? RuPaul looks better than Mooch.
If he can pull it off, $15K would be cheap. Moochelle is a lost cause, but when has that ever stopped these idiots from flushing money down a toilet?
15K a day on makeup and she still looks like a bag lady.
I’d like to know what kind of a paint brush he used on Mooshelle. Was it hog bristle?
wasn’t the world flipping out over a $200 haircut?
$15,000 ??
that’s a lot of spakle
The man(?) is obviously over-paid.
... but considering what he has to work with ...
Maybe he’s only $7,500.00 for half a day.....saracasm button on
“The labourer is worthy of his reward “ 1 Timothy v. 18.
And after all that money this is what we got yesterday!
When she smiles and her weight is down,not unpleasant appearing.
She can never smile because she is forever hungry.
I think that Michaelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel for about 500 Ducats. But he had a blank ceiling to work with not a, well you know.
at his heaviest, his 5-foot-7-inch frame carried 565 pounds, with a 72-inch waist. At 50
Maybe he needs to try Moochelle’s healthy food initiatives.
“565 pounds, with a 72-inch waist”... That photo of him was carefully posed to disguise his blubber. I wonder how he can get close enough to her to work on her? He may be fat, but at $15,000 per day, he’s a first class con artist.
He brings out beauty,he better give the money back because he ain’t doing his job.
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