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why is it no one seems to like pale skin anymore? everyone wants to be tanned! Is it cause it makes you look ill? About 100 years ago everyone wanted pale skin! It was a sign of wealth and beauty! Whats happened? 
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I hate it because I think its pastey though I always get compliments. Oh you have such lovely porcelin skin. Blah I just think its an eye hazzard if I wear shorts in the sun (think sun reflecting off snow) + you can see all the veins, like I'm inside out girl.
People are too into the fake bake and covering up any imperfections to have real beauty anymore. I probably would be too if I did anything other than burn. More for the reason that you just said, nobody wants to be pale anymore, therefore I feel uncomfortable being pale while everybody else is a bronze. If there were more pasteys out there I'd probably feel less compelled to be tan.
I stick out like a sore thumb in the summer. Need to be more comfortable with it. They'll all be jelous when I don't look like raw leather hyde in 10 years :cool: Plus the doctors never have a tough time when I need blood work done.
I'm going to get a light fake tan in the summer when more flesh is on show so i don't look like paper! I gotta be careful cause if i use normal tan i'll end up orange.
I think for females it's a lot to do with the fact that it makes you look slimmer, and as my_name says it detracts from imperfections that may be more obvious on paler skin. It does, I guess, but there's a world of difference between a healthy-looking light tan and looking like a tangerine that's past it's best.
Pale skin is more aesthetically pleasing to me, I get a tan when I'm out in the sun but at other times I am what I am and wouldn't spray a different colour onto my body as that's just not me. But I don't really care if other people want to tan for fashion purposes. It's only their own health/bank balance they're harming, after all.
I know, I should be a new dress but I've only worn this one once and that was to the uni xmass party so none of my family have seen it. I'm going to buy a new pair of shoes and a matching bag though.
One of the consultants at my work, by knowing her childs age and such I guessed her to be a young mother and put her at early 40's though she didn't look a day over 35. Shes got that classic pale look (not icky like me
Its people like her that make me think twice, even though I hate being pale now, I dont go tan.
Some people suit the pale look - while others look like corpses.
And btw, just because some of us advocate a bit of color it doesn't equalize the support of skin cancer and orange colored skin.
I'm naturally a bit darker than most, and get more easily tanned in the summer. I'd rather embrace it, than wishing to be something I am not. Especially as I look dead when I go pale.
I won't use 'bronzers' or self tan because it's not me. But I'll happilly go on a foreign holiday and sit by the pool. As long as I'm a natural colour, I don't care.
Ilora x
Obviously you have to be in OK shape anyway lol
I hate my fair skin and people look so much more attractive/slimmer/healthy with a light tan.
I'd only ever use sun beds a couple of times a year before i go on hols to get me started and i use high factor creams. dont want to look old and haggard before my time!
Oh I hate you
I prefer a tan because I don't think my pale skin suits me - red-heads and freckly people suit it fine.. but I have mid brown hair and a welsh ruddy complexion, so I'm always craving a healthy looking bronze. Unfortunately I don't tan very easily.
I would love a light tan, just to take the pale-ness off
A tan also covers up blemishes a bit. I've started using johnsons holiday skin for face and body and people have been complimenting me saying I look healthy.
Yeah that stuff is brilliant, I love it. I use it as a face moisturiser every other day or every day and it's so natural but does take the paleness off. So glad I found it!
Seems pale is not acceptable in the eyes of make up companies. :rolleyes:
Now it is the opposite. The poor people sit in dingy offices all day. The wealthy ones can afford to go on exotic holidays, and can afford fake tanning methods. Therefore a tan is a status symbol. But now almost everyone can afford a tan, it will probably swing back the other way at some point in the next hundred years. But who knows?