The French president’s personal makeup artist placed two claims for payment, one for £9,219 (€10,000) and one for £14,751 (€16,000) having claimed an attractive public image is essential.
The bill was issued for makeup applied during his travel, ahead of press conferences and for foundation applied during the presidential campaign.
The Elysee Palace defended the high fee saying: “We called in a contractor as a matter of urgency”.
Aides added that spending on makeup would be “significantly reduced” in the future.
A member of the opposition conservative Republicans party said it all added up to a “hyper-vain president”.
The source told The Mirror: “He thinks nothing of spending thousands on himself, at a time when he is just about to start cutting jobs. It seems that he just wants to hide his real face.
“It would be interesting to see what the first lady Brigitte is spending on makeup too.”
Ironically, Macron has called for France’s government to make “intelligent” spending cuts that would require “deep reflection”.
This cut plan would entail slashing £12 billion (€13 billion) in spending by 2022.
It follows disappointing opinion polls which claim the public believe Macron has failed to live up to expectations and have a negative view of his actions as president.
Only 14 per cent of those surveyed by Elabe pollsters approve of the job the 39-year-old centrist is doing as president, while 36 per cent strongly disapprove, the poll showed.
Macron, whose rapid ascent to power and landslide victory against right-wing leader Marine Le Pen in the May presidential election was heralded as reshaping France’s political landscape, has seen his popularity drop faster than any other French president in modern history, and he is now more unpopular than his Socialist predecessor, François Hollande, was three months into his notoriously tumultuous five-year term.
In addition, more than two-thirds of voters, some 68 per cent, said that they still felt “misunderstood” by the government, while more than half, 57 per cent, said that Macron’s leadership style and actions to date “worried” them.
But the poll also showed that 42 per cent of those interviewed still believe in Macron’s ability to “unite” the country, while 60 per cent think that he genuinely wants to “transform” France, a figure down eight percentage points from last month.
Only 54 per cent of those polled, however, think the young centrist will be able to “reform” the country, down five percentage points from last month.
However, his mix of youthful energy and promise to clean up French politics have also worked in his favour as 73 per cent of voters described him as “energetic” and 57 per cent said he was “likeable,” down 11 percentage points from last month.