Kerry Tan -- Is it a Chemical Peel?

9/29/04 | Self

[Harpo Speaks]

Just heard a theory about Kerry's "tan" that has the ring of truth to it. Laura Ingraham has suggested that Kerry had a chemical peel on his face -- possibly suggested by TerEZa who it is assumed also suggested his botox. Apparentely, you need to stay out of the sun after a chemical peel, otherwise it will turn the hue currently seen on Kerry's pan.

This theory seems to make sense to me, and it also explains why Kerry's staff is saying he got the color by "playing in the sun all day." There's just enough truth in that statment to make it not a lie, and yet sufficient to mislead the public as to what the truth is, not unlike Kerry's whole campaign.

So how about it? Has anybody gotten a chemical peel around here? Did they warn you to stay out of the sun? Has this ever happened to someone you know? Let's get pumpkingate into the MSM!

[hispanarepublicana]

I thought being in the sun after a chemical peel would simply give you a bad burn reaction. But, I've never had a high-powered peel.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

pumpkingate

ROTFLMAO!!!

[sarasotarepublican]

My question is, how orange will he be for the first debate? I suspect it will have toned down by then.

[alisasny]

Whatever it is it is saddening that he is not confident in his real appearance.

[goldstategop]

He'll flip-flop on whether's its a tan or a Swiss peel treatment.

[FarmerW]

I've had one and I don't think that is what it is. Yes, you definately need to stay out of the sun postop. But, his worst peeling would kick in about 7 days post and that would be badly timed for the debate. Even if he had it weeks ago, we would have seen him peeling. Dead skin just falls off for days and days.

(I am not that vain really, bad adult acne and it really helped)

[CholeraJoe]

After a chemical peel, the skin is typically lighter in color, not tan.

[goldstategop]

John F*ckin' lacks a sense of self-confidence and that comes across to voters, especially women. He is simply a northeastern effete metrosexual.

[goldstategop]

I wonder if he will beg to call off the debate? (laughing)

[sarasota]

Orange tans are the next new thing, according to In Style magazine. He's simply following the metrosexual playbook but got a bit carried away. Nice pumpkin head.

[Petronski]

I heard the 'chemical peel' story yesterday at another source. Exposure to sun after a chemical peel will cause discoloration, the story goes.

[Socratic]

"My question is, how orange will he be for the first debate?"

I suggest the lighting director use nice, "warm," lighting to bring out the sincerity and humanity of the candidates.

[Petronski]

John Kerry want's to be the first Pumpko-American President.

[goldstategop]

The Great Pumpkin Kerry - ack! - 32 Days too early!

[Leo Carpathian]

If they peeled the skin, I wonder which sKerry will now emerge.
The one who... before he....

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I think this is a pack of lies. First of all the color looks funny right at his hair line, like a makeup line, which indicates the spray-on tan.

[gov_bean_ counter]

I'd be careful about calling him pumpkin head. I saw movie about that one time.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

With a chemical peel and sun reaction, it would be more like a red flush, almost like a RASH, not "orange" like the fake makeup thing.

[Socratic]

Actually, I think this is just Kerry's crass way of getting more people to buy Kerry masks for Hallowe'en, thus "winning" the mask-buying poll which the MSM always does to judge candidate popularity.

[hushpad]

After a chemical peel, the skin is typically lighter in color, not tan.<<<

I don't know. The gal next door to us got one, her face was red for more than two weeks, looked like a bad sunburn.

She looks good now though.

[Beckwith]

One of those "earth tone" suits that Naomi Wolfe dressed Al Gore up in would go real good with the new orange look.

[Harpo Speaks]

BUSTED!!!

Just Googled "chemical peel" and "stay out of the sun" which took me to a cosmetic surgery site (http://www.cosmetic-surgeon.com/chemical.htm) and these words of warning:

"Following your peel it is very important to stay out of the sun or use a sun blocking cream at all times, until the redness has settled. Sun exposure during this time may cause changes in skin color."

Like I said: BUSTED!! Any other confirmation out there?

[Beckwith]

One of those "earth tone" suits that Naomi Wolfe dressed Al Gore up in would go real good with the new orange look.

[igoramus987]

from link

You know, wake up the next morning and see your magnificent tan. It turned everybody orange! So I wonder if he's got a stash of QT. I wonder if Heinz bought up the franchise and he's got tubes and tubes of this. He obviously got to go to one of these booths where they spray this stuff all over you. He's not even telling the truth about how he got it. He said, "I got it playing touch foooooootball up there in Harvard and Massachusetts." The problem is the Harvard Crimson, unaware of typical Kerry chicanery, did a big story about how excited some of the student body was to be able to handle his luggage when he arrived in Massachusetts, and that's what the Kerry campaign did. They employed Harvard students to carry his luggage of the traveling party around, and a little Harvard Crimson story happens to note, "Boy, he was tan when he got off the airplane!"

They noticed him being so tan, but Kerry is out there saying he got the tan after he got off the airplane when he went out there playing touch football with these people. (interruption) No, it doesn't. No, that's the thing. It does not run if you let it dry long enough. If you let it dry four hours then you're cool for, like, four or five days. The thing is going to be to watch now is four or five days when it fades. See, if he doesn't do this every four or five days it's going to become obvious. He'll just say his suntan faded since he left the Wisconsin sun -- in early October. What's the sunset in October now, about three in the afternoon in Wisconsin? So I know this: I've been to Packers games up there. The sun goes down at three o'clock in November, or may as well. The shadows are as long as they can be.

[COBOL2Java]

Senator John F. Kerry (right) arrives at Miami Internation Airport in preparation for the upcoming Presidential Debate in Coral Gables. Seen here with Kerry are campaign advisors Joe Lockhardt (left) and James Carville.

[mystery-ak]

Exactly, a friend of mine had this done years ago...she looked scalded for over a week....not orange.

[CholeraJoe]

My point, though, is that a glycolic acid peel doesn't turn you into Pumpkinhead.

[Alberta's Child]

Kudos to AM radio personality Don Imus, who suggested this morning that Kerry "looks like a traffic cone."

[GOBUSHCHENEYGO]

At my spa, they tell you that after a chemical peel, expect your face to look as if you've had too much sun until the 4th day - when all the dead skin starts to peel away. And stay out of the sun! On the 5th day - your skin is back to a normal color and as smooth as a baby's butt. Looks like Lurch forgot about the staying out of the sun part.

[The G Man]

Wouldn't it be great if Bush mentioned it Thursday? You know, as some sort of left handed compliment ...

"Thank you for your question. Before I respond, I'd just like to compliment my opponent this evening. The Senator look's like he's been working out, which I'm glad to see. He almost appears to be glowing."

LOL!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

As Sean Hannity joked yesterday.........

Kerry's new Secret Service name is:

AGENT ORANGE

[MassExodus]

PUMPKINGATE ??? !!!!

SFOMNOWWWWML
(Snots Flying Out My Nose Office Wondering Whats Wrong With Me Laughter)

[BiscuitEater]

HEADLINE: Kerry Flops into 57 vat.

While touring a Heinz 57 bottling plant in South America, Presidential candidate, John Kerry, tripped when his flip flops got hung up in a drainage grate and fell into a 1000 gallon container of Heinz 57 Steak Sauce. He sustained no physical injuries but doctors say he will have a stained orange hue for at least 2 weeks.

Developing story.

[greasepaint]

This is a trick.
The producers of the debates are going to adjust the color so that Kerry
looks normal, everyone else will look sickly.

[battlegearboat]

Queer tan for the Boston man.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Don't believe that. He'd be more RED than ORANGE, if this excuse by Te-RAY-za were true.

[Red Badger]

No, it's an ORANGE PEEL.....

[DietCoke]

My first thought was that it was one of those "spray on" tans - that he had gone somewhere and a machine just sprayed away and away and away....

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Exposure to sun after a chemical peel is likely to cause RED irritation not fakey orange.

[MadelineZapeezda]

JF'nKerry is NOT even comfortable in his own skin that he wants to change it. Sheesh!

[clyde260]

First Trafficant, now TRAFFICONE-KERRY!

[xp38]

I use skin tones to know if the color level and hue are set properly on television and this Kerrytone is going to throw everything off.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

DING DING DING - WE HAVE A WINNER! KERRY APPLIED IT ON THE PLANE!!!!!!!!

This would explain the poor "paint job", if anyone has used this fake tan stuff (i.e. Coppertone, etc.) this is EXACTLY what it does. I'm sending this to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity!

[ken5050]

aren't there Weather websites which would tell you the intensity of the sun where he says he was that time..and whether it's possible to get that type of tan in a certain time frame?

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[clyde260]

What's amazing to me was that it's on the front page of the NY Slimes! Complete with 2 faced picture!

(No, no, I didn't buy it, I saw it next to the NY Post.)

[crazyhorse691]

OK, call me an unsophisticate. What is a chemical peel and why would I even want one? I take it its worse than putting on aftershave after dryshaving. And don't get me started on Botox(I refuse to even consider Drain-O to clear the sinus).

[crushelits]

THE ORANGE HUE IS EVEN MORE VISIBLE ON TV.

First his advisers make him lose his voice. Then they one-up Al Gore’s makeup people two days before the debate. Maybe there really is a Vast Clintonista Conspiracy.

We know from the convention that Johnnie-boy is a sweater. We also know that in the debate negotiations, Kerry lost the fight to set the room temperature to 68 degrees. Heavy layers of make-up cause sweaters to sweat even more profusely. Therefore, in an effort to reduce his propensity to sweat, Kerry advisers may have urged him to get a spray-on tan so that he will not need sooooo much make-up for the debates.

From PoliPundit.

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

SUNlamps, SUNlamps, SUNlamps.

Seriously, if Kerry gets anymore effeminate, we can start calling him EMMA Peel.