The same thing happened to my sister when she wanted to get a head start on a tan. She was using Coppertone QT (quick tan) which has a protein compound which combines with some proteins in the skin to produce the "tan".
Since the process takes some time, the skin shows almost no change at first but it 'develops' over several hours. Like so many, my sister didn't realize it until too late and her color was more orange than tan. It looked so phony she stayed home and out of site for most of a week.
I definitely recognize that color on Kerry and I'm sure a lot of others do also.
So, if sKerry did this last Friday, when those college kids noticed how "tan" and tall he was ... will the devastating results last until Debate Night? (I hope, I hope, I hope!)
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