Pale Skin - Is it really that bad?

Ivory skin here. You know, pale with that faint yellow hint? Yup. Medium-brown to dark-brown hair. Sure, I turn red as a beet when I exercise at all, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. When my face isn't all red from running around like a mad woman, or exercising, my skin is creamy and I love it. I'm mostly Swedish, but there's some Native American back a few generations. My mom had the beige skin tone, along with the hair and eyes. I ended up an odd little mix of everything, I guess.

Also, I've always LOVED red heads. I loved dying my hair red!

You can tell from my user name that I like being pale.

I have Irish colouring, Dark hair, blue eyes, pale skin. I once had a boyfriend tell me I would be hotter with a tan (he wasn't my boyfriend much longer!) but other than that most people like it, some of my friends call me the living doll but in a nice way, not a creepy one haha

I'm a ginger!! I've been hearing that BS for years! I tell them I can't. Because I really can't tan. My skin won't!

And spray on tan sounds like a disaster so no thanks. And anyway there's a fetish out there for pale girls with red head. We are a unique breed.

Nope. I love being pale and in fact I wear a very light foundation to make myself look even paler. :P

I've never been given any grief for it. I actually get lots of compliments and questions about how to get really pale. It's not difficult. Just stay out the sun, lol.

I have the opposite problem. I'm brown and I hate being told to use fairness creams and bleach my skin. I don't give flying f*** about my skin colour but it seems to bother a lot of people that I don't use fairness creams.

haha... I'm pale too, redhead, freckles! the whole 9. (both my parents and my brother are too!) I tan a little bit in the summer but usually burn (always wear sunscreen) just from being outside! But I've come to accept my pale skin. People that sunbathe a lot and tan in the beds -- ugh.not a good look. Unfortunately they think they look awesome.

I love being pale, and I love my freckles too!!! I get that a lot myself, but I just wouldn't look right tan :laugh:

Thank you for speaking up on this! My whole life I've had "Oh... you're so pale" "You look like a ghost" "Why do you put sunscreen on, you wont tan that way" etc etc

I hate it, I honestly love being pale. It's a bit unique and it's beautiful.

I''ve never understood why people feel the need to tan but each to their own I guess..

I just enjoy the looks I get when I walk into a tanning salon to ask for a top up! ..almost makes me sad how many of the fake bake attendants actually take me seriously..

I come from a long line of redheads....I just inherited black hair with the super pale, freckle laden skin.

I don't mind at all. I've been told I kind of glow in a ghostly way in pale moonlight. oooOOOOOoooo. :laugh:

I have very fair skin and I'm not a red head, but I also get a lot of comments about how "white" I am. People are stupid - I've been told that people need to wear their sun glasses around me because I'm so "bright." Someone once asked me if I were battery operated because I'm so fair.

When I tell people, "I don't tan. I burn, peel, and then turn white again," their response is, "You're not tanning right." Huh?

Now I just say, "You may think my white skin looks ridiculous. But you know what's ridiculous? Melanoma."

I'm 39 years old, and I don't look it. I protect my face and skin with sunscreen. And I never "lay out" unprotected - never have. Now, at the age I am, I am seeing that pay off. Both my daughters are fair skinned, and their step-mother told them they "needed to be tan." I told them they needed to NOT have skin cancer and that they were beautiful just the way they are (They are 9 and 7 years old).

Like I said - People are stupid.

I just tell them I'm proud to be a white girl! That usually stops them.

my niece (19) tries to get me tan and even made the comment that she thought her child was white till, she saw her next to me ..

I told her I wont risk getting cancer (to many family members died of cancer) ..so she says to get a fake tan (spray on or lotion)

I finally said Tiffany, I am proud to be white .. she finally shut up (she has darker skin tone*and is often mistaken for being spanish/mexican and her daughter is part Mexican , so she also is darker

It took me a long time to not feel extremely self-conscious every summer because of how fair I am. I honestly believed for a long time that my paleness was deterring males from being attracted to me. I'll admit, every once in a while I will still feel that way. But now that I am 32 and don't have a single wrinkle on my face and have clear, shiny, smooth skin all over my body, I am slowly falling in love with it. I don't mean to brag, but I don't even have to put on body lotion for my skin to feel soft except for a few rough spots on the backs of my upper arms. When I see light reflecting off my shoulders, I wouldn't ever trade that in for a tan. Ok, yeah.... I'm bragging a little now. :laugh:

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In fact, I even chose my username with my paleness in mind.

we gingers do NOT look good with a tan. sun can kill us if we use it long enough to "tan" - and by that i mean our freckles merge. and fake-and-bake looks TERRIBLE with our hair/eyes. we gingers are meant to be a pale ppl.

This I actually tanned this year and hate it, it makes me feel like i look older then i am. I also get white spots when i do tan which looks horrible too. I am irish and german btw. I use tons of Sunscreen too like SPF 50 or more.

I am pale and I know that some people like to point that out. I'd like to point out to them my Dad who has had several places removed from his face and arms because he was constantly out in the sun without any protection (and my coloring is exactly like his). Everyone has a different idea of beauty so I don't mind if they don't like my pale skin, lol!