Ainsley Earhardt, cohost of Fox & Friends, loves a tan glow — maybe a little too much. On more than one occasion, the television personality has been known to appear looking more orange than bronzed. In May 2025, she shared a photo on Instagram in which her fake tan seemed to clash with her bright blonde hair.

While a judiciously applied sunless tan can make a person look naturally youthful and refreshed, too much or badly mixed color can have the opposite effect. Her too-orange color could never be mistaken for a genuine holiday glow; It clashes with Earhardt’s natural spring color palette, looking harsh and seemingly aging her.

She also appeared to miss the mark in an earlier Instagram photo shared in October 2024, where the hue of her skin tone pulled disturbingly orange. She should review Self Tanner 101 and build her color more gradually. She also needs to find a spray tan tech who can properly judge the right product for her skin tone.

Ainsley Earhardt is one of many Republicans overdoing the self tanner

Ainsley Earhardt is a prominent figure on the conservative Fox News channel. So while her approach to spray tans might be overboard, she’s hardly the only high-profile Republican woman to embrace the look. After all, Lauren Boebert can’t seem to nail her fake tan either, and plenty of men from President Donald Trump’s inner circle, from Matt Gaetz to Robert Kennedy Jr., have embraced an orange glow. An overly bronzed skin tone is among the biggest makeup mistakes of the women in the Trump family.

In fact, there’s reason to suspect that this beauty faux pas might actually be intentional. After all, Trump loves a deep orange tan. In a sense, he’s set his own beauty trend. “I think all this embracing of self-tan and makeup is squarely for an audience of one: Donald Trump,” Andrea Purse, a communications consultant and media trainer, told HuffPost. “It seems like more and more members of the Trump team have embraced Trump’s ‘look’ in order to please their leader. And it seems to be working for them when it comes to being close to the center of power.” While Earhardt might not be an official member of the White House team, she could be intentionally choosing to get on board with an aesthetic look that’s become a de facto status indicator among Republicans.