WTF is an Eskimo Tan?

[moobu2]

ANyway, some makeup artist got $900 to spray a fake tan on Sarah to get rid of it.


RNC paid $900 for a spray-on tan for Sarah Palin, too.

[Tansy_Gold]

1. Probably like a "farmer tan."

Only routinely exposed areas -- face, hands -- get tanned. Other areas stay white.

[vaberella]

3. Yup, that's the only thing I can think of it being, other than racism. n/t

[Bicoastal]

2. These are not the droids you're looking for...

...that source has determined to be unreliable at best, bogus at worst.

[moobu2]

Well I've seen this story all over the place. (got 1,400 hits on google)

[Kali]

4. only face (and maybe hands) often with goggle eyes.

farmer tan is often face, v-neck and back of neck, forearms and hands (sometimes with horizontal pale band from hairline to mid forehead from hat.)

[panader0]

5. A fake tan?

Just another thing that the Obama campaign will not have to spend money on.

[last1standing]

6. An "Eskimo tan" is the same as any other Native American "tan".

Or the same as an African-American "tan" for that matter. It's the natural pigmentation of the skin that people are born with based on heredity.

[jmowreader]

10. She was born an Idahoan...

and she doesn't look either Nez Perce or Coeur d'Alene to me.

[arthritisR_US]

7. neck up. n/t

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

8. Coating yourself in chocolate... like an Eskimo Pie

[frogcycle]

9. Una

Una
American Eskimo, tan and white

http://www.pupforum.com/rescue_pic.cfm?rescue_pic_id=10329

[jmowreader]

11. There is NO reason for Sarah Palin to have an "Eskimo Tan"

She installed a tanning bed, at taxpayer expense, in the governor's mansion. Why doesn't she use it?

[123abawd]

12. that guy Eisenstadt that you link to is in these funny videos

I've been finding these on YouTube - really funny BBC series about that guy Martin Eisenstadt who posted the story about the tan. You can see all the videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/users/youkaysam