How To Do Fox Anchor Makeup

It's well acknowledged throughout the media world that female Fox News anchors are typically more, er, coiffed than their liberal counterparts. There are YouTube videos dedicated to Fob women's curt skirts, a fully operation website chosen www.FoxNewsGirls.com and Allure one time penned a feature declaring, "With its bevy of babes, the network should be called the Foxy News Channel."

Miniskirts aside, the main difference is the makeup. The female person anchors of Fox News, Liza Mundy writes for the Atlantic, wearable significantly more than makeup than any other network'due south anchors. While MSNBC's Rachel Maddow does a calorie-free, nearly-no-makeup look and C-Bridge doesn't even accept a makeup room, Fox News anchors -- as well equally female guests -- go the total bronzer, eye shadow, lip liner, gloss, etc. treatment. When Mundy herself was a Fox News invitee, she was coated with "and then much [eye]shadow that I felt I should be wearing a sash and tiara."

Mundy's not the only ane to have noticed. An online thread entitled "Flim-flam News Anchor Women" features gems such as, "Do they think they are in a Las Vegas floor show?" and "With all that lip gloss, they look like hookers on the make for a trick."

Fittingly, it'southward been said that Fox is the only network that employs a full-time "image consultant" for its on-air personalities. A female Pull a fast one on regular told Mundy that "she gets more calls from network direction about her pilus, clothes, and makeup than nigh what she says." Play a joke on News Chairman Roger Ailes, after all, in one case boasted "I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings." Fox network execs know how this game works.

But Ailes isn't the only Boob tube executive to admit that sex sells. So why don't C-Span, CNN and the rest dip their female reporters in liquid bronzer and touch upward their highlights? Mundy suggests that "the best explanation for Fox glam may be the channel'due south largely bourgeois audition." Because, she reasons...

... the Fox News audition skews onetime. (Ed. note: do sometime conservatives like pretty women more old liberals?)

... the audience skews female. (Ed. note: exercise women like looking at pretty women more than men?)

... "conservative women are typically less dainty than progressive ones about... using your looks to go ahead."

Mundy invokes Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann to support this last stance, which seems just steps away from Ann Coulter'due south exclamation that "all pretty girls are right-wingers."

Conjecture all you want (allowing your biases for or against Fox News to heavily influence your opinion, natch). To come across for yourself, check out our slideshow of female anchors across several major news networks. Do the Fox News women seem more made-up that the residual? And is that a bad thing?