Any other pale girls out there?

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  • rherrin5
    rherrin5 Posts: 136 Member
    I was a pale girl till last year. Tanning is bad. We all know that. But I felt super confident being tan. I started slow and used an upgraded bed for the first 2 weeks. I used a Ed Hardy Lotion that was middle of the road ($35.00) lotion. I started at 6 mins, then 8, then 10. Before ya knew it I was at 20 mins. Some beds with new bulbs would get me red but if I felt like I was starting to burn id get out of bed. I loved that tan!!!! Was also a relaxing time for me. If your going to tan, a bed is safer than outside :)
  • eatlift
    eatlift Posts: 113
    I love pale girls. :)
  • KimmyEB
    KimmyEB Posts: 1,208 Member
    Tan girls look so much skinnier, and when they are skinny they look so much better. I don't want to tan a lot, just build up a base tan so I don't look like casper!!

    and I tried lotions, they don't work. Jergens in particular. Makes me pasty and just, not attractive. and not to mention ORANGE!

    I love that you have your priorities in order.
  • 6heatherb6
    6heatherb6 Posts: 469 Member
    Learn to love your paleness! :heart: Your skin will thank you for it.
    Agree agree agree
    We all need to start a movement of loving the skin you were born with...it's the perfect colour made just for you!!
    Don't use tanning beds...just another name for cancer beds...we have quite a campaign against them here in Australia as they are so dangerous.
    If you must use anything...rub in a bit of tanning lotion for fair skin and you'll get a little glow on your legs.
    "Don't worry...by happy...."
    :wink:
  • 6heatherb6
    6heatherb6 Posts: 469 Member
    I was a pale girl till last year. Tanning is bad. We all know that. But I felt super confident being tan. I started slow and used an upgraded bed for the first 2 weeks. I used a Ed Hardy Lotion that was middle of the road ($35.00) lotion. I started at 6 mins, then 8, then 10. Before ya knew it I was at 20 mins. Some beds with new bulbs would get me red but if I felt like I was starting to burn id get out of bed. I loved that tan!!!! Was also a relaxing time for me. If your going to tan, a bed is safer than outside :)
    Incorrect information - ANY tanning is harmful to you and your skin!!
  • reaolliemama
    reaolliemama Posts: 483 Member
    Pale skin is much more attractive than skin cancer .....


    This!!!!
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    Eating well - getting the right nutrients, plus lots of fruits and veggies - made a huge difference in how my skin looked. When I at crappy, I looked sickly and pale. Now, that I am healthy, I look healthy, even though I'm still pale.
  • reaolliemama
    reaolliemama Posts: 483 Member
    Tan girls look so much skinnier, and when they are skinny they look so much better. I don't want to tan a lot, just build up a base tan so I don't look like casper!!

    and I tried lotions, they don't work. Jergens in particular. Makes me pasty and just, not attractive. and not to mention ORANGE!

    I love that you have your priorities in order.


    BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
  • Jadeyre
    Jadeyre Posts: 7
    Count me as another ginger girl who decided tanning beds just aren't worth it. My family has a history of skin cancer and I rock the spf 100 even in the winter time. I do of course firmly believe it is your own choice, some people just love that tanned look. I work with geriatrics though and have no desire to be as wrinkled as they are at a young age =)

    This says it all for me:

    "The Yale School of Public Health found that young people who tanned on indoor tanning beds experienced a 69%-increased risk for developing early-onset basal cell carcinoma. “Indoor tanning was strikingly common in our study of young skin cancer patients, especially in the women, which may partially explain why 70% of early-onset BCCs (basal cell carcinomas) are in females,”......The findings appear in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology and support prior research from the University of Minnesota, in which it was found that people who used tanning beds—no matter what type of bed or for how long they tanned—were 74% likelier to develop melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, said Reuters."

    You pick your poison, eh? Some smoke, some drink, some eat...and some tan lol. =)
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    I'm reflective.

    I actually like my pale skin though.. It's a nice contrast to my dark hair.
  • toabetterlifestyle
    toabetterlifestyle Posts: 230
    Tan girls look so much skinnier, and when they are skinny they look so much better. I don't want to tan a lot, just build up a base tan so I don't look like casper!!

    and I tried lotions, they don't work. Jergens in particular. Makes me pasty and just, not attractive. and not to mention ORANGE!

    I love that you have your priorities in order.

    I actually don't appreciate your b*tchyness. I have my priorities in order, thank you. I am getting fit and doing it the right way. Obviously, a girl could use some confidence. Being tan makes me confident.
  • 6heatherb6
    6heatherb6 Posts: 469 Member
    I'm pale, and I've learned to love it. It's part of who I am. One of my close friends used to tan, not even really that often but she got skin cancer last year when she was only 19 in 2 different places. Luckily they caught it and were able to remove it but it was still scary for everyone, and left scars on her body.

    As far as tan girls looking "skinnier"...who cares? I mean seriously, I don't want to be skinny I want to be healthy & fit. Not bones clinging to me with an orange glow. & there are some GORGEOUS pale women....Norah Jones, Adele, etc

    Best advice I can give you, stop worrying so much about how you look. There are far more important things, like careers and fitness (actually fitness, not just being skinny), friends....LIFE :)

    Nicely put!!

    I've recovered from Melanoma and I can tell you it isn't fun!!
    I have a scar in the middle of my back...looks like a stab wound....fortunately it is fading with time but I live now with the everyday thought of it coming back...
    Truly...love the skin you're in...look after it...make it soft and beautiful!!!
    All the best...
  • DannyMussels
    DannyMussels Posts: 1,842 Member
    It's nice and more pleasing to the eye to see a lighter skinned girl then a fakely tanned one.

    Girls obsess over it way more then guys.

    Guys don't actually care.
  • DixiedoesMFP
    DixiedoesMFP Posts: 935 Member
    EEK! Tons of scary, bad, false information in these replies. Indoor tanning is NOT safer than outdoor tanning. A tan is actually a response to an injury, just like swelling or a bruise. If you were working out and your joints swelled, you probably wouldn't continue to do it. When you get a bruise, you don't continue to hit yourself in the same spot.
    Risk factors for skin cancer: pale skin, easy burning, blue/green eyes, history of sunburn.....
    Tanning is no joke and it is absolutely not worth it! If you notice, very few famous people are tan.....they don't want to look 50 when they are 30 and for them, image is everything.
  • Nos150
    Nos150 Posts: 150
    Dear 16 year old me.

    http://www.thatvideosite.com/v/3386
  • kandyjo
    kandyjo Posts: 4,493 Member
    YEAH!!! Represent!!! :drinker: I'm pale.... yep... that's me.
  • KimmyEB
    KimmyEB Posts: 1,208 Member
    Tan girls look so much skinnier, and when they are skinny they look so much better. I don't want to tan a lot, just build up a base tan so I don't look like casper!!

    and I tried lotions, they don't work. Jergens in particular. Makes me pasty and just, not attractive. and not to mention ORANGE!

    I love that you have your priorities in order.

    I actually don't appreciate your b*tchyness. I have my priorities in order, thank you. I am getting fit and doing it the right way. Obviously, a girl could use some confidence. Being tan makes me confident.

    That's nice.

    ***EDIT** WTF YOU LIVE IN FLORIDA?! *facepalm*
  • kandyjo
    kandyjo Posts: 4,493 Member
    EXACTLY!!!!! I embrace my paleness!! I love it!
    EEK! Tons of scary, bad, false information in these replies. Indoor tanning is NOT safer than outdoor tanning. A tan is actually a response to an injury, just like swelling or a bruise. If you were working out and your joints swelled, you probably wouldn't continue to do it. When you get a bruise, you don't continue to hit yourself in the same spot.
    Risk factors for skin cancer: pale skin, easy burning, blue/green eyes, history of sunburn.....
    Tanning is no joke and it is absolutely not worth it! If you notice, very few famous people are tan.....they don't want to look 50 when they are 30 and for them, image is everything.
  • RavenSoul
    RavenSoul Posts: 11
    I'm pale and used to tan religiously. It looks natural but I gave it up because to me the risks are not worth it.
  • jermyZ
    jermyZ Posts: 27
    Honestly, I love my pale women.
    I am pretty dark caramel myself, and I just love my plain vanilla. We compliment each-other nicely

    +100000 to this. I'm not dark at all, but I much prefer pale over tan.
  • Jessie544
    Jessie544 Posts: 127 Member
    I agree with a lot of the previous posts... don't use the tanning bed.

    The tanning salon even has signs posted that if you don't tan in the sun you won't tan in the bed. I don't think there's any safe way to get a real suntan. I am also pale, and have learned to deal with it! I tanned a lot for a few years, and it did terrors to my skin! It will age you, give you more freckles, and it's an expensive habit!

    As said before the "tanning" lotion does work very well... I am really pale, and worked my way up, and my legs and arms looked like they had a nice sun kissed glow! If you find the right place to do a spray tan, not all of them are horrible... i've done that several times for parties or special events. We are going on a beach vacation in May and I will probably use the spray tan a few times before we leave so I don't look like a ghost on the beach, lol
  • CakeFit21
    CakeFit21 Posts: 2,521 Member
    I am pale, sometimes it bugs me. Then I look at everyone I went to school with that baked in the sun and notice how much older they look. I have fabulous skin, it's pale and glow-y.

    When I want color I've done the spray thing and showered some of it off so it doesn't look orange. Just more glow-y.

    Love your skin, it's all you've got.
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    Dear 16 year old me.

    http://www.thatvideosite.com/v/3386

    Wonderful video.
  • RavenSoul
    RavenSoul Posts: 11
    Agreed :)
  • BrendaLee
    BrendaLee Posts: 4,463 Member
    Embrace your porcelain skin, and protect it with your life! Pale skin really is beautiful, and as you age (which will happen), you will appreciate that you took good care of it. Pale skin freckles really badly with sun exposure/damage -- and not the cute, natural freckles that some girls have -- the kind of freckling where you can tell the person has spent one too many days in the sun.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    I'm reflective.

    I actually like my pale skin though.. It's a nice contrast to my dark hair.

    I think that might be why I don't tan or burn, even if I try. All light is either absorbed by my hair or reflected off my skin, burning those around me.

    If by some freak chance I do get a burn, I'm completely pale by the next morning.
  • toabetterlifestyle
    toabetterlifestyle Posts: 230
    Yup. I'd much rather not lay out for a long period of time and get fried. If you have nothing nice or even usable to say, bye.
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    I'm reflective.

    I actually like my pale skin though.. It's a nice contrast to my dark hair.

    I think that might be why I don't tan or burn, even if I try. All light is either absorbed by my hair or reflected off my skin, burning those around me.

    If by some freak chance I do get a burn, I'm completely pale by the next morning.

    Strangely enough, I do not burn easily despite being so pale. I'm weird. I can get a nice glow, but it takes a lot of work, and I don't like the idea of skin cancer enough to do it. Even without burning, just being out in the sun unprotected for extended periods of time increases your risk of cancer.
  • ilovemyhorse
    ilovemyhorse Posts: 87
    Pale > Tan.
  • Jessie544
    Jessie544 Posts: 127 Member
    Oh, and one other thing... I have a husband and a toddler running around giving me enough wrinkles, I dont need any help in that department!!
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