Michelle Obama To Be Immortalized As Wax Demon!
In the English-speaking world, the greatest honor that a well-known human can earn is to be made into a waxen gargoyle by Madame Tussauds. Michelle Obama, our new First Lady, will enjoy this wonderful privilege in a few short months.
We got this announcement, in the emails, courtesy of Madame Toussauds' PR agency. Let's see, we've got some blah blah blah about "Mrs. Obama will be the third First Lady to be immortalized in wax by Madame Tussauds Washington D.C., joining Jacqueline Kennedy and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton," blah boring... Ah here we go:
Studio artists at Merlin Studios in London have been busy studying hundreds of photos and watching hours of video footage to create Mrs. Obama’s figure. The clay head mold represents a crucial step in the up to six month-long figure creation process, which is incredibly intricate.
Artists insert each strand of hair individually; creating just the head of the wax figure can take up to five weeks alone. Materials such as red silk are used to create the veins on the eyeballs and it can take technicians almost four days to make a set of teeth.
This veiny-eyeballed monster will be unveiled in March. How long before the life-sized wax fetish doll is available on the open market?
Photo courtesy of Merlin Studios.