Does Palin need an overpaid hair stylist and make-up person?

Apparently. How else can she look like the rural, bible toting, pro-American, white, right-wing supporters she draws?

Anything to make that woman more attractive superficially seems to be all they’ve got.

Personally, no, I don’t think so.

And this: How to spend $150,000 on clothes.

it’s not as easy as it sounds.

I didn’t really think she looked that bad on the Newsweek cover

But I remember the campaign got all huffy because she was photographed without her makeup. I also don’t know why they would need to spend $150,000 on clothes, but that is at least more reasonable to me than the makeup stylist.

BTW, Palins hair stylist received more $ during her 2 weeks of “consulting” than any other person on McCain’s campaign for the same 2 weeks.

Obviously the campaign thinks she does. Personally I think dressing her up in all these fancy clothes and doing up her hair is making Obama’s Lipstick on a Pig statement ring true for the first time.

However, I am glad to see a girl from hometown making it big – I’ve had my hair styled at the Hair Grove Salon in Westlake Village. They were a ripoff then too.

I think Palin needs more experience as a politician before she takes on the responsibilities of being a vice-president (if she and McCain pull it off on election day but that is a really big IF at this point)

Too bad they didn’t spend that much on her debate briefers…

I think she’s beautiful in those duds and that makeup and that hair. But it amuses me
(in a scared way) to see what the specific style is that they’ve laid on her. The hair is
1969 anti-hippie. The nice suits are like suits your mommy
would have worn in 1980 if she’d been a power mommy who’d broken into the small-city all-male advertising firm by being an especially canny secretary (her brains are indicated by the glasses). The makeup is all TV game show. All of this points BACKWARD to a “simpler, more coherent time” which is over now, and will never be back.
Comforting.

Sarah is a pretty lady but has never been about fashion, tho’ like most of us, she likes pretty clothes. Most of the time when you see her out and about here, tho’, unless it’s for an official function, she’s as likely to be in jeans and sweats as designer duds. Heck, designer wear isn’t easy to find in Alaska, tho’ it’s out there if you have the bucks. I guess I understand the logic of “playing dress up” but it would have seemed like it would have been smarter to have played dress up with some more off the rack type stuff. I think I read somewhere that one of Michelle Obama’s outfits that got noticed for its fashionable look was actually from Gap. As for the make-up and stylist, I don’t begrudge anyone in the public eye that luxury. I’m a photographer myself and know how the lens can distort any little failing and how, in this day and age, people are looking for that sorta thing to latch onto. She’s appearing under lights in front of large crowds, too, and I’m sure the look is designed to play to the audience, not folks she actually comes face to face with. That’s just the way it is, tho’ the cost isn’t doing her “hockey Mom” image any good.