Posted on 04/18/2016 5:06:22 AM PDT by Wolfie
These moms spend thousands on cosmetic surgery to get Coachella-ready
Sarah Mirmelli is ready to face the music.
Before heading to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., this weekend, the 33-year-old divorced mother of two blew $20,000 in preparation. Her clothing alone for the weekend — a “sick” outfit featuring a vintage Guns N’ Roses T-shirt, YSL army jacket, denim cutoffs, corset, thigh-high leather boots — was $8,000. She spent thousands more on Botox, lip injections, boxing classes and a personal trainer who helped her drop 10 pounds in advance of the three-day-long concert in the California desert. In the month leading up to it, she even gave up alcohol and went vegan to get in shape for the debauchery to come.
“Everything’s about Coachella,” says Mirmelli, who started going to the desert festival after needing to cut loose following her divorce six years ago. This year is her fifth time attending.
“[Getting ready for it] doesn’t have to be a full-time job,” she says. “But I’m making it one.”
The annual festival has long been a place for teens and 20-somethings to frolic and Instagram while inebriated and scantily clad in a 78-acre polo field, while also taking in a cacophony of pop, rock, electronic and rap music.
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“You can go like a peasant, too, but it’s going to suck,” says Mirmelli, who splits her time between Miami and Midtown and works as an associate publisher for Haute Living (when she’s not prepping for “ ’Chella”). “The goal is looking blog-ready.”
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A music festival?
I thought they were saying getting thier Cloaca-ready.
Cloaca: A common cavity at the end of the digestive tract for the release of both excretory and genital products in vertebrates (except most mammals) and certain invertebrates. Specifically, the cloaca is present in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes.
... Patricia Field—the celebrity stylist and infamous costume designer of “Sex and the City”—went to the festival for the first time at age 73, says a woman is never too old
Two schools of thought on that. The questions is "WOULD LAZ HIT IT?"
Nobody finds old people appealing even other old people I know because I am one.
“Cute enough, but act your age, woman!”
Maybe she’s age-identifying!
this is like Burning Man for the recently divorced.
Imagine flying all the way from NY to Cal just to see Guns n’ Roses and Ice Cube.
America, in a nut shell. Just pathetic.
Which might explain why he is divorced.
Or some running shoes.
Sad.
What gets me is that the woman works as a hairdresser. She spent $8,000 on the festival - on a hairdresser’s salary?
I wonder how much she spends child support on her kids.
No, because the mother would have all of his money. :-)
I suspect that in this case, it's not HER money that's she's wasting.
Granted that she looks good for a mature woman of any age, but particularly one of her age, but I do have to wonder how many hours it takes to get her looking like that. What would she look like without the dedicated makeup team, the expert hair management, and (likely) the very well-designed and probably expensive foundation garments? (That was rhetorical; don’t post the Helen Thomas pics, or any other old bat for that matter).
Well, a man can’t usually hope to land a meal ticket at a music festival ;)
Crazy dreams of glamor. Assuming that the magazine itself isn’t ponying up for the beauty treatments.
Oh, I don't know. A couple of guys I know spend well over $50 a pop getting their hair cut at the same stylist. Takes less than an hour. Pretty good wages for just a hair cut, special styling costs more.
Me? I'm on my second $40 pair of clippers from Wal-Mart in 16 years. My wife cuts it for me. Simple. Cheap. Comfortable. Winter cut is 3/8", summer is 1/4". Tried the 1/8" once. A little too short for me, reminded me of Basic Training. ;-)
Um, no.
Yes Laz would hit it. DUH!
Good genes and class are major contributors.
I was momentarily face to face with her when she was in her twenties. She was stunningly beautiful.
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