Pale Or Tan...

[jomiller90]

TAN ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

only people like nicole kidman look bad with a tan, everyone else looks good. As long as it is a natural tan! Fake tans look icky

 

[Browneyes]

Pale skin can be beautiful, but only if it is also a healthy paleness, with a glow. Greyish, deppressing winter paleness is awful Exfoliation is the key i suppose...
I don't tan very well myself, and always wish i had inhereted my mum's natural tan when the summer time comes around..

 

[Jane Loves Marc]

I think any color of skin looks good as long as its healthy and clear.

 

[Mrs. Will Estes]

I have really long dark hair and olive skin, but if I'm too dark I don't photograph well in pics, like I get these weird looking shadows on my face and it looks like I have uneven skin tone or something

I try to stay away from the sun and I def. look better with very light skin, but it's so hard for me to avoid tanning even when I walk outside for just 5 min

 

[Mrs. Will Estes]

I'm rather pale.

But on the topic of overtanning, yes agreed! And I couldn't resist thinking of those ganguro girls in Japan. Apparently their aim is to do the tanned blonde Californian beach girl look.


Credit: http://www.livemusicstudio.com/mac/pages/ganguro.html

WTF?! That is absolutely heinous

 

[stersita]

^i know...

 

[sasscam]

I have really long dark hair and olive skin, but if I'm too dark I don't photograph well in pics, like I get these weird looking shadows on my face and it looks like I have uneven skin tone or something

I try to stay away from the sun and I def. look better with very light skin, but it's so hard for me to avoid tanning even when I walk outside for just 5 min

I have the same problem I'm naturally very pale but tan very easily (half arabic half scottish) I hate getting a tan but I don't drive so I have to walk everywhere. It's sooo hot here in summer that even when I'm outside for 15 minutes I start to tan!

 

[Marcella]

i've never got a tan and never plan to. so i guess i like natural.

it's just funny when people make fun of overly tanned peole, then they see a pale, natural person and change completly"omg she's/he's so pasty and white, etc..." i just want to slap them.

people who tan a lot in general tend to be full of themselves and look tacky, i'm from california and it is rampant here :x i want to move to norway or sweden, lol.

 

[lara_banana]

I like the look of either as long as its even all the way through. i have the problem all the time, that because of my school shirt my arms are really brown but the rest of me is semi-brown and i cant bring myself to use fake tan even though it really bugs me!!
ive had too many disappointments with fake tan!

 

[stersita]

^ i also have the school clothes problem but i just go to the beach and problem solved

 

[PrincessImp.]

I think both tan and pale can be attractive, it reallys depends from person to person.

What's important is to have a healthy complexion I think.

Personally, I wish I had just a little bit of colour..I am very fair and I don't tan easily. I just burn, turn reddish-brown for a few days and then go back to my fair shade within a month.

 

[Erin]

it's just funny when people make fun of overly tanned peole, then they see a pale, natural person and change completly"omg she's/he's so pasty and white, etc..." i just want to slap them.

I AGREE.

I find it foolish that we live in a society these days where people can look at a person who does not tan, and simply dawns their natural skin color, and find it to be visually unattractive. If you're white, you're white... for heaven's sake...

I used to be very concerned with having color. Now I don't care. I'd probably look better with color, and bottles of tanner sit in my cabinets, but it's simply one less thing I have to worry about. And that's a good thing.

 

[marqueemoon]

Personally, I prefer pale skin because it makes the features stand out more. It's more feminine and delicate. But it all really depends on the hue. Pale skin can be ugly if its too pasty or sallow. For example, Karen Elson's skin looks vampiric.

I never like deep tans. They invariably look low-class, especially on women with light hair. Why would somebody age their skin like that?

 

[marqueemoon]

pale. I have the palest porcelein skin and it think it makes me look so fresh,mysterious, beautiful in an doll-like,angelic way it makes my eyes seem brighter and my features stand out. And all those sheer whisper soft pinks and silvers look great against pale skin,especially with black mascara

Are you serious?

 

[lumy_]

i want to move to norway or sweden, lol.

oh I promise you we have some serious sunbed abusers over here as well

as for me id like to have a natural tanned/olive skin but beeing scandinavian and pale well, tanning is the only option and I just cant get myself to do that, i feel im being barbequed

 

[marqueemoon]

Mexoryl XL. La Roche Posay and Vichy products contain it. Tinosorb M is another photostable UVA filter.

You can find it pretty easily online if you do a search.

In fair-skinned people, 80% of wrinkles are due to UVA sun damage. Not just from tanning, either, although that obviously makes things worse. Incidental exposure is the principal source of UVA exposure: just walking around outside for a few minutes, light through windows, etc. And the sun's UVA output remains pretty constant throughout the day (UVB, by contrast, peaks at midday).

PPD is a measure of UVA blocking strength. The die-hards recommend a PPD of 30+, and re-apply every two hours, day in day out, rain or shine. And a broad-brimmed hat with wrap-around sunglasses, to be worn every time you step outside.

I have the European high-PPD sunscreen and the hat and sunglasses. I'm not quite at the reapply every two hours stage, however.

Wow, you're really hardcore! I think I too might start wearing sunblock outside on a regular basis to protect my fair skin. One question: how do you know the PPD of a product? I was browsing through La Roche's products online and couldn't find the listed PPD... Is PPD the same as SPF? Thanks!

 

[Dulcisima]

oh I promise you we have some serious sunbed abusers over here as well

as for me id like to have a natural tanned/olive skin but beeing scandinavian and pale well, tanning is the only option and I just cant get myself to do that, i feel im being barbequed

what is sunbed?

 

[sasscam]

You know a solarium where you go to get a uv tan

 

[Dulcisima]

You know a solarium where you go to get a uv tan

like tanning saloons?

 

[lumy_]

^ yes
they're at tanning salons, solariums
but its not a spray tan or anything, but a bed-like machine that you lay on and it barbeques you...