Sarah Palin's Post-Election Look: The Governor Returns To Alaska... And Her Casual Clothes (PHOTOS)

With all the attention paid to Sarah Palin's $150,000 wardrobe, hair, and makeup we had to wonder what would happen to the governor-turned-glamour girl when she returned to her native Alaska after John McCain's defeat. The photos below mark her return to a more casual life in Alaska as Governor and the mother of five. Please note the outfit changes, as well as hair and makeup transformations.


Well-coiffed at McCain's concession speech in Arizona:

Taking a more natural approach to her hair and makeup while being interviewed the next:

A far cry from her look during campaigning:

Arriving back in Alaska:

A final smile and wave at the end of the campaign trail:

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Comments

[PatA]

bygollymissmolly, I've been bothered by that since I saw the first photograph of her with the baby slung over her arm. Facing outward and just hanging there? Shades of Michael Jackson.

[Over50WhiteWoman]

I believe she actually has FIVE children--one is in Iraq.

Let's just let her go be herself.

Um, excuse me, I also am a mother of FIVE, and that is not the reason she seemed to be such a dunce on the campaign trail. Lots of very smart women--those who never trusted social security to take care of us in our old age, for example--have large families. And are glad we do.

I actually think John McCain TRIED to throw the election. That's why he seemed so indecisive and confused, said the dumbest things, and picked her. She also acted kind of confused most of the time, when she wasn't arrogant. He really was a maverick concerning the Republicans and when they wouldn't okay his choice of Lieberman, he thumbed his nose at them all. She helped him with that.

I no longer can't stand her. She lost. Now she can appoint herself Ted Stevens' replacement which is what she wanted all along. She was never a serious candidate.

[bygollymissmolly]

God, is she ever going to stop holding that poor Trig like he is a Raggedy Andy doll.

She carries him around like he's a piece of luggage and shows him about as much affection.

[Ocean girl]

Dunno... I think a lot of the comments are a bit rude on this story. I don't like her either, but let's be civil about it.

I do like however that the story quotes her as being " a mother of 4" which... hate to admit... I agree with. Call it intuition. But I hate to be petty.

[bygollymissmolly]

Why, was she civil towards Obama?

[anglohistorian]

Why be civil?
She encouraged the wing nuts to assassinate Obama.
Civil? my ass! Conspirator in murder!
Civil? Civil?
If I had said some of what Palin had said, I'd be in jail now.
She was more than rude.

[riafern]

GaDove ...thanks I thought I was being crazy posting about Ga ,it is very imp ...every senate vote will help obama ,I am one if the volunteers who worked so hard in south ga ....pls anyone reading this spread the word around ,local campaign office states that obama will come but we have no def date .
hoping guys in huffington post etc make this an issue pls ...

[goodthingzhappen]

Why does this child never seem to have on shoes? They have on sweatshirts but the child has no shoes or socks? Someone please explain...

[DinSea]

He looks like an accessory - like a spare sweater or something

[ngannon]

Please- she has gone back to Alaska where hopefully she will stay- do we have to talk about her? I also think that she shows poor mothering behavior and skills- but there are agencies that deal with that-unless she has cut off their funding.

[aretha48]

She always carries her baby like a sack of potatoes!

[Pettit]

You stole my line!!!!

[bygollymissmolly]

I learned in a parenting class that for the first 6 months it was imperative that you support your baby's head when carrying him. I have never seen her do that.

[angiemomma]

I know that I'm nit-picking, but I've felt the same way for weeks. I've never seen a woman carry her baby like that. We moms instinctually hold our babies with their faces toward ours, and near ours. I've rarely seen her carry him that way. It's as if she's avoiding looking at him. Yikes!

[janmarbol]

I said it once and I'll say it again, she has some nice teeth

[selfemployed]

I feel like Palin is using this poor baby as a wardrobe accessory. Sort of like say.. a Louis Viutton bag?

[GardenGnomes]

Totally. All the recent pics of SP holding her baby look like she's holding a bag of groceries.

[Eidolas]

And the Palin obsession continues. She gets more press here than President-elect Obama.

[Abo]

She always carries that baby like a sack of potatoes--always faced away from her, like she is disconnected with it.

[GardenGnomes]

I feel bad for this kid.

[Firenze]

Not that I ever want to be known for defending Sarah Palin, but I read somewhere that you are supposed to hold a Down's Syndrome baby face out the way she does. . .

[bygollymissmolly]

Why would you do that?

Your are also not supposed to take Down's syndrome children into crowds because they startle easily and they are very prone to respiratory infections. Neither of these seemed to bother Ms. Sarah. She did use that poor kid as a prop.

[DeanThoreau]

Well she is still wearing the 300 dollar pair of glasses!

Now she can toss the kid at the sitters; her teenage daughter and boyfriend can go back to making babies, and hubbie can go back to wasting gas in a snowmobile just for fun.
Yeeehah

[tosagayle]

Remember, they're snow MACHINES up in Alaska, it's just down here in the lower 48 that they're snowmobiles.....

[starrianna]

She is clearly not into lugging that baby around.

Nutjob.

[damselfly1600]

I am constantly stunned by how she treats her baby. Can't she at least pretend that she cares for the baby. I think only once I saw her carrying him against her shoulder. She carries him like a sack of potatoes. What's wrong with her??? I feel very sorry for the baby -- the first "dude" doesn't appear to care much for him either. Nice family values!

[i approve this message]

Did you notice that she holds that bouquet of flowers closer to her than she does the baby?

[Pettit]

Yes indeed

[BeMyVoice]

Come on guys, I can't stand her as much as the next girl, but that's the same way I often carried my babies- they like to face out! This seems pretty petty because all across the country moms use this hold....

[i approve this message]

point taken... but would you let a 7-year-old carry the baby up and down the stairs? seems irresponsible to me.

[Just4theHalibut]

There was a post from an expert a few days ago on another thread, about how Down's babies often have a sort of "floppy" syndrome and it is difficult to hold them like other babies. There's a lot wrong with Sarah Palin and her politics but I think it is over the top to accuse her of not liking her baby....

[bygollymissmolly]

If the baby is "floppy" it would be all the more important to support his head and back. She's certainly not doing that.