Thoughts on super-pale skin?

[Locket]

Pale skin is great! I tan personally, but my mom and uncle burn and go back. It must suck not tanning though


( I have a sunburn and am already tanning, I got it yesterday. I guess I heal fast like my dad (he tans))

 

[piichinu]

I tan easily but I love pale skin so I avoid going outside BC I wanna keep my pale skin

 

[ams]

I'm very pale with dark brown hair and blue eyes. Now I love my pale skin, but when I was in high school I used to tan like crazy to look darker. Now I really regret that because I probably damaged my skin.

 

[sizzles]

I'm really pale too, but I definitely don't want to be orange like an orange.

 

[Improv]

I have pale skin, but I make an effort to tan every summer. I just don't like pale skin, it doesn't look good on me. I have no problem if someone else's skin is super pale, because it's their skin.

 

[Megan.]

I'm super pale and I never tan, I always burn. :c
I wish I my skin tone was a tad darker and I was able to tan but oh well.

 

[Cynicmatic Matt]

For me, I like girls that are more pale than tan. I guess that it is all personal preference on what you like, but for me I'm more into pale skin. It also matters that if the girl suits being tanned. If the the tan looks natural and they sit it, then I'm fine with it, but if they look fake with a large amount of fake tan, it is kind of a turn off.

 

[jasa11]

sorry but its a no from me..

 

[xiaonu]

I too am very pale for makeup. I actually find that Korean and Japanese makeup works better for me because of the preference in skin tones there.

However it is annoying when people point it out. I didn't ask for your opinion and really there isn't anything wrong with being pale. I think everyone's natural skin tone is pretty.

Fake tans or over tanning looks unattractive to me because it really looks like the skin was damaged.

I tan easily But I burn before I tan. I can get pretty dark , but I avoid it with sunscreen protection and keep my natural skin tone healthy this way.

 

[hemming1996]

I don't care, all skin colours are beautiful. I naturally tan very easily and I can't really do anything about that.

 

[Beardo]

It really depends on if it looks good on a person. Some people look better with pale skin, some people look better with tan skin. Just depends on the person.

 

[okaimii]

I have pale skin as well. However, all throughout middle school and high school, I was made fun of how pale I was. People would often say that I look sick or even dead. Eventually I got the desire to tan because I hated the comments I would get but... I can't tan. I burn. :c

 

[infinikitten]

@OP: I'm also one of those people who's too pale for the lightest foundation shades and whatnot. I have a stick of concealer that is literally white, as in paper white, and that's it. I've never been able to tan, I just burn - horribly, which I discovered thanks to an ex who insisted that I was "too pale" and kept coercing me to just lay out in the sun all the time, even after it was established that the strongest SPF I could get my hands on wasn't enough to keep me from turning pink I am just not meant to tan, and I'm okay with that.

I used to get a lot of comments when I was younger. I remember being at work and some guy came into the store, I greeted him, and he didn't even respond with a hello or anything, just "Wow, you need to get a tan" (but then again anyone working in retail, especially female workers, are probably very familiar with unsolicited comments about their appearance as it is...)

But I also have very dark hair (naturally - I dye it as often as finances allow though) and dark circles under my eyes (hereditary apparently) so it makes the paleness look kind of vampire-y. It used to be that if you took a picture of me with the flash still on, it would kind of "blind" the camera or go all glowy like snow does. Cameras nowadays are loads better - lmao I make myself sound so old. But yeah, I can relate on the freakishly pale front. Rock what you got.

 

[TheGreatBrain]

It kind of bugs me when people hurt their skin by sunbathing or going to a tanning bed. My sister is very pale skinned, and people make comments to her about it. They always tell her she needs some sun. I think she looks beautiful with the skin god gave her.

On the other hand, I tan really easily. I use sunscreen, but my skin still tans very nicely. I get a lot of compliments every summer, but I honestly would prefer not to be so tan. This year I've been wearing capris to keep the sun off my legs.

 

[Brackets]

I have really pale skin and really dark hair, which can look nice sometimes but can also just make me look ill :')
I also have sharp canines and slightly golden eyes so people at school would call me a vampire

 

[Midoriya]

I am fine with whatever skin type I would of had.

 

[Vizionari]

I'm fine with the skin tone I have, I don't like having super pale skin personally because I have an awful swimsuit tan since I'm a swimmer and it just clashes But I'm fine with other people who have pale skin.

 

[peachy13]

I have pale skin since I am a redhead. Many people think I'm Irish, but I'm actually Swedish and German... anyways I like to have a light tan. When I don't, I feel really insecure. I love those pale skin tones that are pure and don't look veiny (mine is a bit, I think).

 

[Astro Cake]

It sure is a color of skin.

 

[earthquake]

yeah, asian cultures tend to love fair skin. honestly, i like having tan skin, but im from bangladesh, so when i go there, i see a lot of commercials for cosmetics that lighten your skin or at least claim to. shoutout to fair and lovely aka the skin lightening cream that gave my cousin a ton of zits.

once my mother (who is very light skinned for the culture) had relatives over and they literally said, to my face, "why arent you as fair as your mother??" which not only hurt my feelings but also made my dad a little sad since he's the dark skinned one and my skin is an even mixture between my moms skin tone and my dad's.


in america i feel like people like tan skin? but only to a certain extent. i dont wanna bring race into this, but i kind of have to.
in america, people like white people with tanned skin. if you have naturally tan skin, society kind of puts you into another group outsode of white people with tan skin. then they look down on you for not being white.