I'm a pale person myself, and I actually have started noticing a slight shift in models in magazines and ads... more pale people! I think that having healthy skin is beautiful and overly tanned skin is not healthy at all. I do spray tan occasionally, but I'm a dancer and have to do it for competitions, other than that, I enjoy my luminous like the moon skin.
I need your opinions about pale skin!
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I say embrace yourself just as you are. I'm fair, freckled, and very curly, and I wish I had found the self acceptance and appreciation I have now at 40 as a teenager.
I always tell my kids that a rainbow is beautiful b/c it's made up of so many colors, not just one b/c that would be boring.
I decided to be PALE AND PROUD!!!
I always tell my kids that a rainbow is beautiful b/c it's made up of so many colors, not just one b/c that would be boring.
I decided to be PALE AND PROUD!!!
Embrace what you are. Pale is lovely. Pale with freckles is even more lovely, imo. Keep wearing your sunblock. 
i am pale myself too and proud of it. i went through a phase like you, obsessed with being tanned and i went through an entire month of unlimited sunbed timing and i went on the sunbed every single day for 15-20 mins. and then it hit me i'm only paying money to destroy my skin so i'm now a proud pale person! LOL!
P.S. you have no idea how many thousands of dollars asian girls spent on whitening skin products to make themselves look fairer.
P.S. you have no idea how many thousands of dollars asian girls spent on whitening skin products to make themselves look fairer.
I'm extremely pale. I'm in my mid forties now and what I've learned is that more important than skin coloring is the condition of your skin. If you take good care of it ANY skin coloring can be fabulous. All you need is a little blush and lipstick or lip gloss to bring some color to your face. If you enjoy using makeup then adding some eyeshadow, liner, and mascara will further enhance your features.
When I was younger and sillier I thought having my long blonde hair and a fabulous tan were super important. Now I strive for pale skin and I must say I look a lot prettier. I got several photo-facial treatments from my dermatologist to get rid of the pigmentation marks left over from my excessive sunning days.
Pale skin is healthy skin! Look at the skin of babies--beautiful, creamy, no freckling, not brown spots, no wrinkles. The sun and sunbeds do so much damage to the collagen in our skin. Within the past year, I finally accepted these facts and now use spf30 everyday. I see how my mother looks at age 54--beautiful, luminous, unwrinkled skin--because she always stayed out of the sun. I only hope I will be able to look half as good!
I'm pale & proud! 20 years ago, men used to say to me I'd be perfect if I would just get a tan. Its can be hard to stay pale when your young, single, going to the lake for parties, etc. You just got to say no to the sun. Will this style of baking our skin pass already! We have all the evidence its not good for us.
Now I'm older, I get compliments about my skin alot. Even my facialist was shocked I was 18 years older than she thought. And she's the one who sees
my skin up close.
Now I'm older, I get compliments about my skin alot. Even my facialist was shocked I was 18 years older than she thought. And she's the one who sees
my skin up close.
This is true of ALL skin colors, from alabaster to ink. Melanin is does not protect you from the sun.
Another thing to consider, the sun's rays today are different, and more harmful than they were back in the day, so just because your mother nor her mother before her never used sunblock and both of them are just beautiful, and everybody in your family has very dark skin, if you want people to think you are absurdly younger than you really are long past your Golden Jubilee, you will have to do the same as the milkiest redhead, and stay out of the sun, and if you have to go out in it, even if it is just to walk to your car, use.sunblock.always.
please stop tanning, being fair and constantly tanning is just asking for skin cancer. Its not worth the damage you are doing to your skin. The more fair you complexion the more succeptable to sun related skin problems, that in some cases are not reversable, besides cancer, you are quickening the aging process. Embrace your light complexion, its sooo much better than looking like a whisky colored chloe paddington bag
Whatever color you are, appreciate yourself! Unlike most posters in this thread I have VERY dark skin, but I love my skin, and I wouldn't wish to be any other complexion! I wouldn't go out of my way to change my color, but I do admit that when I get a shade or two darker during the summer, I like the way I look then, too. I'd like to think that if I'd been born with light (Caucasian) skin I'd be equally pleased with myself, although if I were really pale I'd probably go for a bottle-based tan instead of the sun, if I decided to tan at all...
^This is enough to convince me you shouldn't be tanning!
Your coloring sounds beautiful and I think you should embrace your paleness. It's cool right now to be pale, so take advantage of it!!!
I have skin that's naturally a little sallow, but my hair and eyes are dark. I don't have that pretty pink skin that you described. When I have no color, I look sick
I used to tan a little bit, but I decided it's not worth the risk. I now wear sunscreen EVERYDAY regardless of what I'm doing. I tan super easily, so I still get some color here and there. I also do my own spray tan a couple times a month. People who haven't seen me in a long time always tell me I look healthy and that my skin looks much better now.
Well, if I could pick, I would want either moonlight pale or that beautiful darker than ink, almost blue skin that they make only in some parts of Africa and even smaller parts of South Asia.
Now, my ideal fantasy that I have always wished for is to be able to change my skin according to mood, whim, and what I thought would look good with what I was wearing, and just have things like skin and eyes and hair as just a few more changeable accessories.
But my second ideal fantasy would be to have one of the extremes...
I used to be that way. I used to want to be Alek Wek's color, as I was always drawn to dark tones. But being able to switch your skin tone on a whim might be a fun thing, too. Imagine my BF's surprise when he comes home from work and finds me 3 shades darker than I was when I left the house this morning! Or imagine being another color altogether, one not found in humans by nature. You know, blue or something. Or green. Like a Twi'lek.