A huge part of a celebrity’s job is to look good, so it's no surprise that they spare no expense on their glam squad.

Recently, a list with the breakdown of costs incurred to invite 16 stars, including Cecilia Cheung and Carina Lau, to attend a Best Beauty Buy event in China was circulated online.

Excluding their appearance fees, the stars racked up some 445,000 yuan (S$92.2K) in expenses, with a whopping 350,000 yuan (S$73K) spent on hair and make-up alone.

But not every star was equally ostentatious.

Ceci and Chinese actress Zhang Tian’ai reportedly spent the most on hair and make-up —50,000 yuan (S$10.4K) each.

Surprisingly, Carina had the lowest beauty expenditure among the 16 stars —10,000 yuan (S$2.1K).

A netizen, who claimed to work at such events, shared that an event organiser would usually have their own on-site beauty team but most stars would prefer to engage their personal glam squad, and later, charge it to the organiser.

Netizens have since questioned the rational behind splashing 350,000 yuan (S$73K) on hair and make-up just for an event, which usually last for just a couple of hours.

Are they creating works of art on the head? asked one netizen, while another wrote: The way they spend money in showbiz is really frivolous!

Some netizens also posted pics of Ceci and Tian’ai's seemingly simple hairdos that they sported at the event, saying, I can create this look with two combs of my brush, how is it different from what you did?

Photos: Cecilia Cheung/Weibo, i.ifeng.com