A Month of Trying To Do Kim Kardashian's Beauty Routine Will Cost You $50k
We all know people will go to extreme lengths to look like the Kardashian-Jenners, but no-one is more committed to the cause Kim Kardashian herself.
In between finding time to culturally-appropriate hairstyles (for the record, Kim still doesn’t care!) the reality TV-star-turned-makeup-entrepreneur is very busy maintaining her looks for herself, fans, and of course, hubby, Kanye West.
She recently laid out her $50K entire routine for Elle Magazine—and it’s fascinating to hear the hours of time she dedicates to bodily upkeep.
“Hour-long workouts at 6 a.m. (Torture.) Hair and makeup for an hour every day. (Fun.) Manicures and pedicures every 10 days. Brows with Anastasia every three weeks. Teeth whitening, spray tans, laser hair removal, various stomach- and thigh-tightening lasers (although she’s cut back on those), daily skin and hair vitamins, plus the occasional marathon hair event, like the cornrows, which took six hours and kept her up until 2 a.m."
Wait, so how much does that actually cost? We discovered the below upon crunching a few numbers:
- Personal trainer, up to $2500 a week (Jennifer Lopez, Sofia Vergara and Angelina Jolie train with Gunnar Peterson, who can cost up to $15,000 for a six-week workout program)
- Daily at-home hairstyling, up to $2,000 a day (one of Kim's hair stylists, Jen Atkin, charges $1,100 for a haircut alone, her former colorist George Papanikolas charges $1000 per session, and Chris McMillan costs around $4,000 a month for major events)
- Daily at-home makeup, up to $3,000 per day (family make-up artist Joyce Bonelli was on retainer for $750,000 per year)
- Manicure/pedi, up to $500 for house-calls (Kim used to go to Beverly Hills Nail Design where manis started at $16)
- Brows, between $125 to $1,500 for house-calls (Anastasia Soare herself does Kim’s brows—her clients also include J.Lo and Oprah)
- Teeth whitening $750+ per session (Kim visits Dr. Kevin Sands twice per year)
- Spray tans, $1,750 for package of 6 (Kim swears by sunless tanning artist Jimmy Coco)
- Laser hair removal, up to $900 per session (Kim prefers to be "hairless" and regrets having her baby hair removed)
- Skin tightening laser treatments $1,850+ per session on average (Kim and her sisters swear by Dr. Simon Ourian exclusively)
- Hair and skin vitamins roughly $30 to $155 per month (popular options include Perricone Skin & Total Body Dietary Supplements and Ritual)
That's about $52K (give or take) at the low end—and remember, this is just an estimate! Most of her team is signed to NDAs so we'll never truly know.
The one exception? Her eyelashes. “They’re natural. She’s never done extensions, doesn’t need them. The Armenian side of her family took care of that,” the magazine wrote.
We are floored, especially since Kim has been sharing lately that she could “cares less” about what she looks like now.
“At the beginning, I looked at people’s opinions. Now I’m content in my life, and I don’t care. The things that make me happy now are different. But I swear, you have to be born for this. It’s not for everyone. I know I can handle it.”
Yikes, we don’t think we can handle all these treatments even if we wanted too. Would you spend the coin to look like a Kardashian on the daily?