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I suggest you adjust the Tint, Contrast and Hue knobs on your Sony Trinitron.
Writer's note: I, too, have been the victim of ugly makeup application. It happens, and this is one thing I won't fault Mitt for.
Besa, besa mi mucho ...
Take a break from time to time, ok Paul? Sometimes you sound like Glenn Beck.
That said, Romney probably shouldn't go traveling internationally after all this is over. Adelson's got a long reach. It's like Romney wants to destroy the GOP, all the while reaping vast financial benefits.
Also, as all others have said, bad make-up job, probably the Univision make up department.
I’ve got a perfect puzzle for you.
Oompa Loompa, do-ba-dee-dee,
If you are wise you’ll listen to me."
I hope you get a month off after the election. You are starting to enter tinfoil hat territory on the paranoia scale. You need time away from all media to recover from this mess.
Why not? If you can bleach your skin, surely you can dye it. I've gotten lots of stuff on my skin (ink, paint, certain types of topical medicine) that stained my skin until eventually it washed off. Haven't you heard of henna?
A decent make-up person should have a wide range of foundations in-stock, in order to match skin-tones. In this case, either they were out of "Ben Nye Pale Rose" (which looks closest to his normal skin-tone), or else the make-up person decided to play a clever little joke by deliberately applying "Rich Tan" instead.
Either way, it's a pretty rushed job. As others have noted: no coverage on the hands or ears, plus only a few obvious dabs between the jaw and neck lines (I could easily imagine Romney pointing out that "this shirt costs more than you make in a week - don't mess it up!"), and very uneven blending around the eyes and brows.
My guess is Romney probably waltzed in late, and whomever did it either didn't have enough time, or perhaps didn't really feel much incentive to do a proper job of it.
But yeah, Romney looks a lot oranger than Don Francisco on "Sabado Gigante". The makeup artist probably thought he was going to be appearing on the clown segment.
I'd like to imagine a scenario where the make-up person goes "You look a little pale today, Mr Romney. Here, let me give you some bronzer for that nice healthy sun-kissed look." And then proceeds to go to town with it, all the while chuckling inwardly.....
With his billions/millions, Mitt's gonna trust whatever low-paid makeup and hair bitch a TV show would throw at him?
Even for quarter-billionaires, shunting around your own personal grooming team from studio-to-studio sounds a little excessive. Besides, many of those "low-paid makeup and hair bitch(es)" are union members, in which case it would be a violation of their contracts with their respective stations/networks for someone outside their Bargaining Unit to come in and perform covered work.
Now, see? I mixed my metaphors. That's what your moronic commentary drives me to do.
I see your point. There does appear to be a definite line on the side of his neck in that photo, which seems to indicate the base wasn't fully applied all the way around to the back. But, the image is somewhat blurry, as for example, the botched job around the eyes isn't in evidence here.
But, I grant it does lend at least some plausibility to the theory that the spray-tan/makeup was applied, probably by Romney himself (since again any competent makeup person wouldn't have made such obvious mistakes), prior to his reaching the Univision studio.
One day, Vice President Dan Quayle shows up with a big irregular port-wine blotch tattooed onto his forehead. "What the heck is that?" asked his H.W.-appointed handler. "Well," replied Quayle, "Mikhail Gorbachev is one of my all-time heroes. He dismantled the Soviet Union and brought democracy to Russia! It was the thrill of a lifetime to actually meet him in person, and when I did, I told him how much I admired him and asked what I could do to become a great political leader like he was. He looked me right in the eye, tapped his head, and said, "First, Danny Boy, you have to have something up here."
/irony off.