Was Kamala Harris hiding something under those classy pumps and Converse All Stars – her alternating footwear of choice during her failed presidential campaign?
Could it really be that Joe Biden’s veep has a little toenail fetish that only she – and presumably husband Doug Emhoff – knows about?
How else can you explain the fact that her election spending includes some $5,000 to a California nail artist who specializes in really funky designs?
Vice President Kamala Harris was always seen wearing closed toes shoes to her presidential campaign rallies
Tahvya Krok specializes in hyper-realistic, funky nail art and has a studio in South Pasadena, California
Krok’s toe art design for Selena Gomez’s boyfriend Benny Blanco and her work on Megan Thee Stallion have gone viral multiple times
Harris’s manicured hands are seen as she delivers remarks before departing the vice president’s residence on October 23
Certainly Harris’s manicured fingers – think immaculate but practical – wouldn’t seem to demand that sort of price from an artist like Tahvya Krok.
But maybe, just maybe, hidden away might just be hand-painted eyes, complete with lashes, lime wedges – or even seriously spooky spiders.
Those are just some of the designs Krok has carefully applied to the digits of clients – who have included Megan Thee Stallion, Jennifer Lopez and Lizzo.
Her most notorious design was for Selena Gomez’s boyfriend, songwriter and producer Benny Blanco. She painted on a Persian rug complete with tassels.
But what did she do for Kamala? Krok isn’t saying. She did not return a call for comment from DailyMail.com
But she did speak to Spectrum News about her work – which normally takes four hours for a complete set.
Blanco sporting his infamous lettuce slippers to show off his hyper-realistic eye toenail set
Harris’s $1 billion campaign ‘disbursed’ $5,000 to Krok on August 26, according to a filing obtained by DailyMail.com
Lashes, lime wedges, spooky spiders and fruit were all toenail sets Krok has featured on her Instagram page
Harris posing with her husband Doug Emhoff at the Broad Museum Black Tie Inaugural Dinner in 2015 with the veep’s bright red nail painted toes on display
‘You have 10 tiny little canvases, the possibilities are almost endless,’ Krok said.
‘I’ve done everything from sculpted, 3Ds, little things to realistic food and animals, patterns, bright colors, weird colors, lots of little animes, popular artists like George Condo, Monet, lots of animal prints.’
Harris ‘disbursed’ the $5,000 to Krok – who has a studio in South Pasadena – on Monday, August 26, according to her filing.
Spending on her nails was just one of the items hidden in Harris’s filings which shows she blew through $1 billion just to lose decisively to Donald Trump.
Her campaign paid those who worked on a feature in Vogue magazine a total of $69,000, they reveal.
The money was split between hairstylist Bre Jaggers, makeup artist Marquita James and stylist Leslie Fremar.
The staggering sum is among the more striking examples of questionable spending which DailyMail.com discovered, amid claims the campaign is in debt with vendors who are worried they won’t be paid.
Among the others were $15,500 to rapper Fat Joe, who appeared at a rally on the eve of last week’s election and thousands more on an all-female mariachi band.
Her campaign paid those who worked on a feature in Vogue magazine a total of $69,000 – including hairstylist Bre Jaggers, makeup artist Marquita James and stylist Leslie Fremar
Rapper Fat Joe was paid $15,500 and appeared at one of Harris’ rallies on the eve of the election
Astonishing sums were also blown on private jets and event production, with one event company being paid more than $3.3 million in just 10 months, the bulk of which came in the final months of the campaign.
Harris’s entry into the Presidential election sparked an unprecedented flurry of fundraising as Democrats bet heavily that she could beat Trump.
Donors who had stood on the sidelines while the President’s opinion polls cratered suddenly opened their wallets resulting in an unprecedented geyser of money for Harris.
Harris outraised Trump 5-1 in last-minute big donors and boasted about her ground game in all seven swing states with dozens of officers and thousands of paid staff.
Trump’s leaner operation relied heavily on the $175 million from Elon Musk’s America Pac political committee for an innovative approach that, in the end, was wildly successful.
Amid the finger-pointing among Democrats, questions have now been raised about where all Harris’s $1 billion went with Newsweek reporting it is $20 million in debt.
Some $20 million was spent on lavish concerts fearing the likes of Lady Gaga and Jon Bon Jovi.
Millions went to private jets despite Democrats claiming to be the greener of the two parties.
Harris’s campaign paid a total of $3,250 to Mariachi Rubor, an all-female Mariachi group based in Phoenix, Arizona
Even Oprah, who spoke at Harris’s final rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was reportedly paid $1 million through her production company, Harpo – although she has since denied taking any money.
For the Vogue shoot, Harris posed at her official residence in Washington on October 7 for famed photographer Annie Leibovitz.
The Vice President wore her own Gabriela Hearst suit and Tiffany earrings.
In the accompanying article, writer Nathan Heller swooned that while in the company of Harris the ‘authority of American power, the way it calmly drives on like a swimmer down a clear lane, has rarely been so palpable to me’.
The FEC filings show there were several other payments to stylists such as $500 to a hairdresser in Los Angeles, Highlight Artists, and $3,650 to a company called Opus Beauty on Aug 26 – the company is also based in Los Angeles.
Harris’s campaign paid a total of $3,250 to Mariachi Rubor, an all-female Mariachi group based in Phoenix, Arizona, in an apparent attempt to get out the Hispanic vote.
Another group called Mariachi Los Viajeros De Denver was paid $1,050 for its services.
Millions of dollars went to private jets, despite Democrats claiming to be the greener of the two parties
The campaign paid $1,534.80 to DiMeo’s Pizza in Wilmington, Delaware, on October 1 – the equivalent of 90 Margherita pizzas
And $5,000 went on hiring a restaurant in Scottsdale, Arizona, while $3,500 was spent on a barber shop in Philadelphia so Harris could film a segment there.
On October 1, the campaign spent $1,534.80 at DiMeo’s Pizza in Wilmington, Delaware, a jaw-dropping sum that would have been enough to buy around 90 Margherita pizzas.
Among the event management and marketing companies that raked in a fortune was Viva Creative which has in the past worked with Trevor Noah and Oprah – it was paid $1.8 million between September and October alone.
Wisconsin-based Majic Productions, which has worked on the NBA playoff and the Super Bowl, got $2.3 million.
But one of the biggest event producers of all was New York-based Wizard Studios North, which got a staggering 51 payments this year totaling more than $3.3 million.
The company’s boss Matthew Saravay received $45,000 from the Harris campaign, filings show.
