Is Kate Bosworth showing off her bones and her sunburn?

First things first: how friggin’ often does Kate Bosworth go to the salon? Every photo op of The Bos lately is of her entering or exiting a beauty salon, sometimes with a fancy book to let us know that SHE READS. Anyway, even though The Bos is so immensely private and important and in demand that she would never, ever need to famewhore herself, she somehow got pap’d yesterday going into and coming out of a salon yesterday. These are the photos – she looks like a carrot. Like, I would think she was overdoing the fake-bake if I didn’t know better.

But I do know better – she’s not fake-tanning, at least not right now. That is just how she looks when she’s tan/sunburned. The Bos was recently vacationing (without Alexander Skarsgard) in Mexico, and she made sure the paparazzi got photos of her swimming and sunbathing topless – see the photos here. The photos are so posed I’m surprised The Bos didn’t bust something.

OOooh… I have a new theory, now that I’ve studied the photos. The photos without the sunglasses are of The Bos entering the salon, and she looks like she’s a normal color. Then, in the sunglasses photos, she looks orange. It’s before-and-after the fake-bake. She wants to keep her vacation “tan” – too bad she looks orange.

Anyway… it’s interesting that she had a little paparazzi-friendly getaway without Alex, right? Maybe there really is trouble in bony famewhore paradise.

Photos courtesy of Fame and WENN.