beauty

The one bizarre thing Hillary Clinton and Julia Louis-Dreyfus have in common.

Left: Julia Louis-Dreyfus. (Image: Getty) Right: Hillary Clinton. (Image: Twitter)

Well, this has to be an epic case of art imitating life. It turns out that the US presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, and the TV show about a female president, Veep (starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as President Selina Meyer), share one common thing.

Their makeup artist Barbara Lacy. Yes, let that sink in; Lacey, who makes the cast of Veep look president-worthy, is the very same person who makes Hillary Clinton look, well, president-worthy too.

Related: North West’s new obsession has people very, very angry. But we’re on Kim Kardashian’s side this time.

Veep is a political satire, in which Louis-Dreyfus hilariously portrays an ambitious and foul-mouthed vice-president, who (sorry for the spoiler) becomes president at the end of season 3.

Hillary Clinton, the former US Secretary of State, attorney, former First Lady and current absolute legend, has just announced her bid for the 2016 presidency. She’s used Veep’s makeup artist, Barbara Lacy, for over 10 years.

Hillary Clinton with her husband, Bill, and daughter, Chelsea, on with late night TV host, Jimmy Kimmel. (Image: Twitter)

 

At the Veep season 4 premiere party last week, Allure reported that Louis-Dreyfus said, “Can you believe that we have Hillary Clinton's makeup artist? And now Hillary is apparently announcing soon. So, yeah, I'm confident that we will lose her."

ADVERTISEMENT

While Lacy does makeup for Veep as a whole, and does not actually work on Louis-Dreyfus, we still love this connection between Fake President and Soon-To-Be (Hopefully) President.

Related: Don’t share your makeup. Seriously.  

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Anna Chlumsky in a scene from Veep.

 

Louis-Dreyfus also said that Lacy arranged for Clinton to write a personal note to the fictional President Selina Meyer, which is now proudly framed in Louis-Dreyfus’ office.

Related: "But what if I dance like Elaine Benes?" We try ecstatic dancing.  

So, I am imagining right now that Hillary and Julia – two powerful and intelligent women - are actually having a sleepover and doing each other’s makeup and braiding their hair, while they both make the best political wisecracks and figure out how to rule the world. That’s utopia, guys.

Hillary Clinton is the future, but all this talk about Seinfeld and Clintons in general has us hankering for the 90's. Check out our gallery of '90s crushes..