\nThe discussion was started by Left-wing pundit Arianna Huffington, who claimed in a blog that the 44-year-old governor of Alaska had had her lip-liner permanently tattooed on.
\nThe claim has prompted huge speculation on the internet and within the mainstream media about Palin\u2019s beauty habits.
\nOne detractor said: \u2018She\u2019s so vain and this is just another example of that.\u2019
\nA pro-Palin supporter shot back: \u2018She\u2019s a busy working mother and her make-up always looks impeccable. People love to attack her.\u2019
\nIn Palin\u2019s hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, population 8,700, Jessica Steele, owner of the town\u2019s Beehive Beauty Shop, said she had not noticed if Palin had tattooed lip-liner but added: \u2018She was very concerned about her sexy image.
\n‘We talked a lot about how, if she looked too pretty or too sexy, people wouldn\u2019t listen to her.\u2019
\nDr Laura Reed, who runs Artistic Cosmetic Solutions in Garden Grove, California, said: \u2018I think she may well have had it done.\u2019
\nAnd Lisa Sims, a make-up tattoo artist from Anchorage, Alaska, said: \u2018I believe it is tattooed on. One hundred per cent.\u2019
\nPermanent lip-liner saves wearers the time and trouble of having to constantly apply lipstick and liner.
\nPalin spokesman said: \u2018We\u2019re not going to comment.\u2019
\nPalin became embroiled in another furore after she was found guilty of abuse of power.
\nAn inquiry into a long-running scandal \u2013 dubbed Troopergate \u2013 in Alaska found that she had acted improperly by trying to get her former brother-in-law fired from his job as a state trooper while he was in the middle of a bitter divorce from her sister in 2006.
\nA Democratic Party spokesman said: \u2018Governor Palin has violated the trust of people in Alaska.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"