Wax on
Photo: Carrie Devorah
It took 140 hours to style Michelle Obama’s hair — but when the blow-out has to last for years, it’s understandable.
The first lady is the latest person to be immortalized in wax at Madame Tussauds, joining her husband Tuesday in the museum’s “Oval Office” only blocks from the real one on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Appearing as stylish as always, Obama is dressed in a custom-made red sheath, designed after the purple Maria Pinto dress she wore on the final night of the Democratic National Convention.
For accessories, Obama’s waist is clinched with a thick black patent belt — as it was in Denver — with matching black patent kitten heels.
Perhaps harkening another first lady to whom she is frequently compared, Obama wears a double strand pearl necklace not unlike the one the wax Jackie Kennedy is wearing down the hall. The rest of the jewelry is kept simple — a silver bangle, silver watch and gold wedding band and diamond solitaire, identical to her real one (not too shabby, Mr. President!).
And yes, although she was wearing a black cardigan at the unveiling, Marketing Manager Lisa McClure told us, “Yes, the dress is sleeveless … so she is able to ‘bear arms.’ ”
