The transformation of Michelle Obama from angry and bitter candidate’s wife to fashionista icon of the world has been really remarkable to witness. Read more about it below, see amazing photos and watch a video.
The Glamorous Transformation of Michelle Obama
‘Glamour First’ seems to be the motto for the Obama White House and for First Lady Michelle Obama.
When looking at the above before and after pics, is there any doubt that Michelle Obama has had a heck of a lot of work done to soften and stylize her appearance since we first became aware of her two years ago? ‘The camera doesn’t lie’ as they say. We can see from the reshaping of her seriously wicked eyebrows, the adding of diva false eyelashes, and a trendy designer wardrobe that she looks completely different these days.
Now we’re told that Michelle Obama is the nation’s first First Lady to add a full-time makeup artist to her traveling entourage, according to the stylists who have worked with presidential wives over the past 16 years.
Her new makeup artist is Ingrid Grimes-Miles and she is behind the first of Michelle Obama’s make up reinventions - those scary eyebrows. It seems after the First Lady was criticized for looking angry, her high-arched eyebrows were reshaped to give her a ‘friendlier’ appearance. The overall make up goal for Michelle Obama? A more natural and polished look.
Make up, in Michelle Obama’s case, is a very good thing.
Seriously, we all want our First Family to have all they need to represent us well home and abroad. But Michelle Obama needs to prove she is more then someone who is simply a fashion icon. Many of us still view her as having a very complicated and difficult personality that includes being unpatriotic, quite angry with racist overtones, and definately bitter - all qualities that are completely unacceptable in a First Lady. Do they have reinventing stylists for this as well? Maybe.
More photos and a video from the remarkable transformation of ‘Glamorous’ Michelle Obama are below.
Glamorous Michelle Obama Photos
Glamorous Michelle Obama Video
April 12th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Well, at least she’s honest enough to admit she needs a full time make-up artist. Think of all the overtime those folks will get! And now, instead of wanting to be a nurse, little girls everywhere will be aspiring to be make-up artists.
Ah yes….change………………………..
April 12th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
I have concluded that somehow obama(s) are getting picked on by wounded, or envious narcissim, and yes this is a high narcissim quotient country. Narcissism is healthy and enhances survival up to the point it becomes dysfunctional and problematic. But pride, envy, etc seem wounded regarding him/her. why do repubs assume they are the only ones capable of running this country? They just ran it into the ground by the way. Time for a new house mayor. Just think how hard his job is with all thats going on and he’s being watched under ten thousand amplified microscopes.
April 12th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Thank you Brian!!! Ditto everything you said!
April 12th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
brian ‘Time for a new house mayor.’
fair enough. but must they have a full-time makeup artist as well?
April 12th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
well bill clinton had a part time hair cut artist. so maybe she wants to feel what its like to have a dedicated house staff and live like royalty..I have been on the forefront here saying we over indulge our Presidents like royalty on our dime. In my white house I wouldn’t have a gourmet kitchen staff, but I would hire a good loyal cook and staffer or three and put out a lot of buffetts and barbaques, even for state dinners and invite a few sensible citizens with interesting stories to show and tell to partake and keep everyone grounded. See people don’t really get the falsity of the racial divide in our type of culture, its all like trading places and nothing is really accomplished except the repetition of the winner takes all game. I think Michelle is making an solid effort to be a mom for the kids and give them some kind of family involved raising up. She choose the long arduous task of becoming a practicing lawyer so she isn’t your normal person. Maybe she feels its time for some rewards for all the hard work. On the other hand she wants the glamour that we bestowed to Jackie as well. I mean she is human. I suppose I would enjoy a nice top hat and a hat rack if it was in the cards. Since we Americans so prize appearances, and I am sure the Queen of England has one as well as do many leaders, prime minsters, royalty, we shouldn’t be so surprised. Having a cleaning lady is sure nice. So she has a personal butler now. Its another job for someone at least and I am sure they won’t be washing their own dog. We give away this royalty gift with the presidency, that Washington warned us about. But then I guess that is the perks for so rich a nation. I think they like to entertain and are pretty sociable people, and that is part of the job. At the same time barak has to work 20 hours a day, on call 24, and handle stresses and travel that would earn a corporate lawyer 20 mil a year or more. We get him for 400 grand a year, a personal jet and room and board in a nice house. I imagine a 20 dollar hair cut looks as good as a 200 dollar one, or close enough if you get a competent barber. I am not for kinging our first family, but Americans sure love the show. And he does present himself and his family well to foreign leaders which is important, better than showing up in tattered jeans, and a hoody.
April 12th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Love the pics, kate.
Brian - the Republicans didn’t run the country in the ground. Up until the dems took Congress in 2006, we were enjoying the lowest unemployment rate and the highest stock market levels ever. Please, don’t try to re-write history.
Y’all will make excuses for Obama no matter what he does.
As far as the make-up artist in her entourage - well, all the wealthiest people have their own entourages that include stylists, make-up artists, secretaries, valets, shoppers, etc. The Obama’s are mega-rich - so why not.
She certainly looks better than before his political career put them into the mega-rich category. She looks like a totally different person, in fact.
Being a ‘public servant’ has certainly paid off for them.
April 12th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
The obama’s are not megarich, in fact they are poor compared to bush who had about 10 mil reported. The obamas have around 1-2 I think. But yes they can live high on the hog in the white house no doubt and fly in luxury like no other. The republicans did run the country into the ground by not regulating our financial industry and they had plenty of warning. They specifically threw out seven states laws that would have regulated financial companys, mortgage underwriting etc, with Federal over-rides. Bush got us enmeshed in two wars, plus, and the cost of iraq will be a trillion plus before we are through(that we know of). They cooked the budget books to hide the costs. I think thats fraud. If you take the time to study the difference between correlation and causality you will see the time line for all the damage fits the republican rule, with some help from associated democrats in the ninetys.
Bush wanted americans to buy and own their own homes and his appointees made sure. Bush by eliminating the short uptick rule with Cox made bear runs on banks a fact that crashed our markets. When did he eliminate that for the hedge funds? 2007. We were in a bear market in months. Do you guys even read bloomberg, barrons, wsj, or even the finanical sections of the london times or gaurdian or anything financial? Now as I said, its you Americans that want to make your president kings and place them in royalty. It is not in my interest as an American to agree with you guys as I think it creates a bigger class schism and totally put bush in a bubble. he was so out of touch. and he surrounded himself with enablers. I would give obama a B plus so far, and sure he will fumble a few, but if he gets the big issues right and puts competent people in charge we will do alright. but yes iran, pakistan, and north korea are morass’s and somalia seems to want some too. obama can’t possibly have magical answers for that. But as I am surmising, even a reasonably competent president will do a much better job than gw2 did. Oh the historians will have a field day. The damage he did, the problems he let fester, the cumulative finanical disaster he left unregulated on his watch makes the S in Scandal capital.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:58 am
Oh please. First, I think it’s sad that this brilliant lady has been reduced to a life size doll. And stupid, since she’s really not that pretty.
Second, that being said, she does NOT employ a full time makeup artist. She DID when she was on her overseas trip, when she was on camera all the time. Also, being overseas, anyone who is traveling with the white house staff is employed full time by definition. They can’t exactly pop home for lunch when they’re in London.
So, Cathy, what’s the point of this? Are you saying that the first lady traveling abroad should not wear makeup? Or is it just a vague sense of conservative rage mixed with jealousy that makes you focus on this non-story?
April 13th, 2009 at 9:21 am
‘So, Cathy, what’s the point of this? Are you saying that the first lady traveling abroad should not wear makeup? Or is it just a vague sense of conservative rage mixed with jealousy that makes you focus on this non-story?’
so leftrightleft if it’s such a non-story why read it and why go to the trouble of leaving a comment? believe me, it’s not jealousy that i feel toward mo!
2. and so sorry to break your heart but yes they do employ a full time makeup artist. read the post and the links. but why shouldn’t the megawealthy like the obamas spend their money the way they want?
3. and no i am not saying the first lady shouldn’t wear makeup — she definately needs it as the pictures tell.
and please, the name is cathryn or kate. thanks.
April 13th, 2009 at 10:08 am
so leftrightleft if it’s such a non-story why read it and why go to the trouble of leaving a comment?
Hah, don’t worry, this seems to be a typical response from Right Pundits authors we disagree with — “if you don’t like it, go away”. I always respond that I thought it was a good thing to have people visit the site and take part in the discussion. Haven’t really gotten an answer to that one yet. No offense intended Kate, I’m just mentioning it since the topic came up.
Regarding the makeup thing, I really couldn’t care less. I can’t disagree that it seems to have, er, “helped” her appearance though.
April 13th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Actually I think she could of pulled off the mountain momma look a lot easier with less overhead and appealed to the only base that they’re going to have at the next election.
By that time there wont be a woman in the country who can afford to change her underwear.
April 13th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Let me see if I have this right.
Sarah Palin, with a household income that has never exceeded $200,000, has some expensive dresses bought for her (which are later donated to charity) with campaign funds so she can look good running for Vice President and she gets excoriated in the media for a month.
Michelle Obama, whose family income has been enhanced by earmarks obtained by her husband and has been in excess of $1 million dollars, hires a full time makeup artist at taxpayer expense so she can change/refine her image as First Lady and that makes her glamorous in the reports in the media.
Okay. I get it.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:56 am
Brian. Only you cares what you think.
I am sure that most first families have make up people. But I am with Kate, they get a lot of overtime. How much make-up does it take to make her butt look smaller?
April 14th, 2009 at 9:30 am
Actually Ralph in all fairness I heard that the artist was paid for out of her own pocket.
I really have no problem with the pres or his wife charging a clothing or appearances allowance to the country they represent, we dont want them lookin any worse than they do.
Its at what extreme do we draw the line ?
From what I understand Michelle went under a makeover at the request of the party to soften up her Natasha Fatale appearance.
Personaly I think her taste in clothes is money flushed down the crapper. But hey, we all know its about appearances and intention and not really what anyone or thing is about.
I guess its just me but I see these two getting all hot and jumping each other everytime he passes a law where we come that much closer to full blown socialism.
The night after he ousted GMs CEO they probably had an all nighter. Like Bonnie and Clyde who used to get all aroused everytime they knocked off a bank or killed someone.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Micky,
Are you saying they go at it like drunk monkeys? Because the pictures you suggested have made me sick and may have turned me off from sex forever.
I have to go and throw up.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:50 am
@George: Hah, well at least he wasn’t talking about GW and Laura.
April 14th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
gEORGE, you know nothing from what you keep saying. so why even? a resonant chime sitting elsewhere in the room to knowledge?
April 16th, 2009 at 8:18 am
To Kate and Beth,
One word: jealous. If not, why else would you be so upset over Mechelle who happens to be gorgeous with or without makeup. With her beautiful coloring and features, she is a hit so get over it. Besides, nothing you do or say will make a difference for her. It is affecting you much more than it will ever touch her as she enjoys herself in the White House. Ha! Get used to it, baby. 4 years and I pray you don’t blow a casket by then. LOL!
April 16th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Yeah Ralph,
Stop being ignorant.
Obama and his family are financially enjoying the fruits of their labor. They are living from the proceeds of his books sales and probably from savings from Mechelle’s past lucrative job. Obama can not personally use earmarks so what are you talking about? Please work on becoming informed because you sound lik one of these dumb people in this country. You know the ones blindly believing anything Fox sayd.
April 16th, 2009 at 11:11 am
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kate Says:
April 13th, 2009 at 9:21 am
‘So, Cathy, what’s the point of this? Are you saying that the first lady traveling abroad should not wear makeup? Or is it just a vague sense of conservative rage mixed with jealousy that makes you focus on this non-story?’
so leftrightleft if it’s such a non-story why read it and why go to the trouble of leaving a comment? believe me, it’s not jealousy that i feel toward mo!
2. and so sorry to break your heart but yes they do employ a full time makeup artist. read the post and the links. but why shouldn’t the megawealthy like the obamas spend their money the way they want?
3. and no i am not saying the first lady shouldn’t wear makeup — she definately needs it as the pictures tell.
and please, the name is cathryn or kate. thanks.
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George Says:
April 14th, 2009 at 8:56 am
Brian. Only you cares what you think.
I am sure that most first families have make up people. But I am with Kate, they get a lot of overtime. How much make-up does it take to make her butt look smaller?
Your intelligence (let’s try not mispel words and then type in bold for dramatic effect) and maturity are lacking and your logic is flawed. Seriously take a deep breath, thank God you have a job, pray for your neighbor, more importantly pray for yourselves so that you may let go of this hatred you have for a woman you dont even know. It is make-up not the crash of the stock market or the safety of american sailors or any number of pressing issues in American politics. IT IS MAKE-UP!!!
And although your links are entertaining, they do not constitute hard eveidence or resemble the truth.
Honestly, your rhetoric has been reduced to make-up envy and butt jokes. Grow up and get over it.
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November 3rd, 2009 at 7:02 pm
I love Michelle Obama. And believe me there is nothing wrong with reinvention. And I do not see anything wrong with a full time makeup artist. I am so very proud to have an African American first lady. She is someone I look up to and my girls can look up to as well. Her style and sense of fashion are impeccable. Michelle looks great in all of her clothes because she is “built”. She is definitely representing all of us curvy sistas. Michelle is smart and intelligent she is someone you can connect with. Her beginnings are humble, she was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth. And she knows about hard work and perseverence. In my eyes she is not a racist, nor angry. Michelle Obama told the truth about America. And most white people cannot stand that.