Fair / Pale Skin

[foreverandnone]

Yeah, my own mom tells me im too pale. my sister tells me all the time to go tanning.



Oh well. She'll be wrinkly by 30

 

[jjbunny79]

^ omg you should tell them that "too bad you guys don't give me air ticket to mexico to party every weekend, thats why im still that pale"

but again, you are in canada! LOL It will be hard for you to get tan in the first place XD

 

[Virginielle]

I have friends who go tanning and smoke and don't take good care of their skin, and I can say that it already shows (we're all 23 or 24). I've got markedly fewer wrinkles and sun spots (although I am certainly paler) than my lovely girlfriends who still don't use sunscreen daily. It's that important.

 

[nita-karoliina]

when i was a little girl my grand dad said my skin is white as chicken poo. thats kinda funny
summers i get a bit tan and i look normal then

 

[kissablekae]

Anyone else get made fun of for their pale skin?

yeah my friends are a**holes
well its coo cuz we joke and tease each other a lot. that's what i get for being fair skinned and being born & raised in California where the sun is plentiful!

ooo i went snowboarding today. i was scared of getting sunburn in overcast! ive burned in an overcast before and lower altitudes. yes ive heard of people saying you should still wear sunscreen even in overcast but im one of the few i know personally who has actually gotten sunburn in that kind of weather!

people who know i burn everytime still ask me why i dont go lay out or tanning beds. um because it hurts! and it takes me a good while for my skin to fully recover. for me personally, its definitely not worth it. you have to know your own limits. sun is good(vitamin d, happy vibes etc!) but burning is not, that means you crossed the mothaf'n line!

 

[SingFrAbsolution]

People sometimes tell me that I need color. The only damn color I can get is red because I burn!

 

[XxlucyxX]

i just tan really patchy or burn.

 

[Majella]

in the winter im kind of pale , but in the summer i get more colour in like no time.

because my mother is german and has rosy/pale skin and my father is marrocan and has a caramelskin.
aaand because of my black hair, my skin looks even more pale.

 

[roisin]

i don't really get teased for being pale/fair, but my friends and family are always like...why are you so pale, etc. I don't know what part of "I can't tan" is so difficult to understand. I guess it's just weird for them because my brother is really dark. He got all my mom's genes while I got my dad's Irish ones. So many vacations have been ruined due to painful red sunburn

 

[nita-karoliina]

i like now my blonde hair, white skin..i think its kinda fierce looking and iy suits me. but a bit normal sun tan is okay

 

[hairsprayhead]

I have friends who go tanning and smoke and don't take good care of their skin, and I can say that it already shows (we're all 23 or 24). I've got markedly fewer wrinkles and sun spots (although I am certainly paler) than my lovely girlfriends who still don't use sunscreen daily. It's that important.

So true! And that's actually why I stopped tanning. I used to be a tanning bed junkie in my late teens/early 20's, but one day I noticed how pretty my twin sister's skin was (she's always rocked the paleness and never tanned). Her skin looked so much better than mine!

And then I had a sudden freak out- what would it be like when we were 40? Would I have skin resembling dried out leather, while her skin was perfect and flawless and wrinkle free? We're identical twins, and I simply couldn't let that happen. So I stopped tanning.

It's been a few years now and I still occasionally get the itch to tan, but I was recently diagnosed with Lupus (which causes me to break out in a rash when I'm exposed to the sun, not cool) so I now have to avoid the sun like the plague. I'll admit that I will always think I looked "better" tan. I'm trying to untrain myself from feeling that way, but it's hard to not look sickly pale at times. I find that using a bit of bronzer helps, along with a bit of self tanner every now and then.

I've noticed that it really isn't "in" anymore to be TAN TAN TAN, as it was when I was a teen. I think with skin cancer awareness, more people are embracing the pale.

 

[kissablekae]

i have some friends and fam that still think i should 'tan' more this spring/summer. im like youre crazy, im not gonna set myself up for bad skin(because it makes me breakout!)

and i dont want to look the oldest compared to my sisters as well. i mean ive tanned the least out of all of us obviously because im the fairest person in my family(everyone else is light medium). but i think being someone who burns so much it would be easier for me to get wrinkles if i tried to tan when my skin is rejecting it.

 

[Katie Bee]

I actually tanned every day one summer, a couple of years ago. It stayed for a while but by October it had pretty much disappeared... I've learned to like being pale. The only real issue is that my freckles, which I also love, tend to disappear after too long out of the sun. The only thing I hate about it is going to school and work in fluorescent lighting which makes me look sickly.

 

[jjbunny79]

i have some friends and fam that still think i should 'tan' more this spring/summer. im like youre crazy, im not gonna set myself up for bad skin(because it makes me breakout!)

and i dont want to look the oldest compared to my sisters as well. i mean ive tanned the least out of all of us obviously because im the fairest person in my family(everyone else is light medium). but i think being someone who burns so much it would be easier for me to get wrinkles if i tried to tan when my skin is rejecting it.

to be honest kissablekae, i am kinda shocked that your family constantly tell you to get a tan, being the fact they they are asian and i thought asians from the older generation would appreciate not being tanned a lil bit more.
(just a sidetracking, is you family korean or chinese american?!)
For me, i do have a tan, but they tend to come in a concentrated form called "mole" and since my body is like extra sensitive to everything, not having a tan makes more sense to me.... B)

 

[Briar_Rose]

For a long long time I used to really resent people with tanned skin! I've never in my life had a tan, never. I've tried fake tan which either made me look dirty or just seeped into my skin and brought me up to a "normal" colour.
I am of Irish/Scottish heritage and have the lovely rare (or so I'm told!) Skin Type I and I am blinding white (i.e. http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w45/ash_bash88/327385285a9418740353o.jpg). I have had dermatologists study my skin, been told never ever to sunbathe, I'm not allowed near a sunbed...and I love it.
I am very very proud of my skin and love how white I am, most of the time! Although there is not a make up range pale enough to cover my skin. I have to mix mac's NW15 with make up artist standard white base to make my own colour, which can be VERY irritating! But it makes me feel special! I do get made fun of by my friends - mainly getting called Casper, and Tippex (since my make up looks like tippex).

 

[kissablekae]

to be honest kissablekae, i am kinda shocked that your family constantly tell you to get a tan, being the fact they they are asian and i thought asians from the older generation would appreciate not being tanned a lil bit more.
(just a sidetracking, is you family korean or chinese american?!)
For me, i do have a tan, but they tend to come in a concentrated form called "mole" and since my body is like extra sensitive to everything, not having a tan makes more sense to me.... B)

im Chinese American. i live in California so nearly everyone prefers a little bit of color. ive had people ask me how i stay so pale out of curiosity...i dont have to do anything to 'maintain' it. i dont stay cooped up in the house by any means, i dont stay covered up and i dont use those special lightening cremes. but when i burn its pretty extreme thats why from a young age ive learned to avoid it : the pain. and ive never tanned(changed color) without a burn so laying out is a no no. for example : people get 'driving arm' tans from just driving around town, its has never happened to me. by the end of summer i still wont have any tan lines from my jewelry like rings and bracelets.

i didnt realize that people thought i was pale for an Asian or Chinese...people keep telling me that(especially recently) but im like 'you act like you never seen a pale Asian.' but now im trying to think and the only other Asian person i know that has ever been as pale as me is one of my best friends. my friends complain about being pasty then they take pix with me and they look tan next to me. i dont think im pasty though, its such a ugly word lol i like my skin thank you very much!

actually my mom loves my pale skin. she is light medium so i dont know where i get it from. she always defends me when everyone else is telling me to get a tan. they are always like 'just use some tanning oil and voila!' im like yeah and be crispy for the next few months! hale no.

by "mole" do you mean freckles?

i have however met a fair amount of Korean girls around here who wear sunscreen everyday and use lightening cremes etc to stay fair.

 

[jjbunny79]

kissablekae:
^i wasn't kiddking. I am talking about actual mole a la enrique iglesias. i have like almost twenty both of my arms, and I got like more over my legs, back, and face (and one under my armpit, i dunno why). I think the dermotologist ppl would actually love because to some extent I am a good candidate for skin cancer, eek >.<

well, i chinese too, lol; but my mom probably have some Turkic blood in her, so we are both really pale. When I come to Canada, everyone, esp Asian, love to tan. And when I told my mom that I want to get a tan to look more asian, she went pretty crazy over it

 

[Snow-White]

^I am not fair or pale. But being a few shades lighter would have been perfectt!!

 

[Belowen]

I have friends who go tanning and smoke and don't take good care of their skin, and I can say that it already shows (we're all 23 or 24). I've got markedly fewer wrinkles and sun spots (although I am certainly paler) than my lovely girlfriends who still don't use sunscreen daily. It's that important.

My friends have been noticing this lately too... Especially on the girls that smoke, it's amazing what even a couple of years of sun damage and general poor health can do to people

 

[hokuspokus]

Sunscreen does not make you so much paler(sunblock is an exception) if you're used to get a great tan, but it protects your skin from being burned and damaged. Thats why i don't understand how it can be so hard for someone to put on a layer when they really want to get TAN and not RED.

I'm a ginger myself, so I insist on keeping my skin naturally pale. I don't want to end up in that whole Lindsay Lohan trap.