(Inspired by the Tanning Salon thread) Power to the Palefaces!

[madalynns mom]

Hi, my name is Elaine, and I'm pale!
I'm so pale I don't tan or burn!! The only color I get on my skin takes all summer long to develop so I just gave up. My daughter is the same way. Light skin, blonde hair and blue eyes. People always used to pick on me for being so fair-skinned as a teenager. I actually would cry it was so bad.

 

[LiteBrite]

(Everybody say) Hi Elaine!

 

[madalynns mom]

 

[jennyl772003]

I am super pale also.

Before my wedding, I went to the tanning beds. I just wanted a little color for in my wedding pictures.

I tanned 3-4 times a week for about a month and a half. I was as tan as I had ever been. I was NOT tan by any stretch of the imagination. All that month and a haf had done was make it so I didn't glow in the dark.

Now I just embrace my whiteness, and curse my son under my breath. HE manages to tan even with spf 30! HE'S never had a sunburn!

 

[pongoperdigirl]

I thought I was the only one that is almost see through, but you know most people don't understand it. I never wear shorts, I don't like people making fun of me because of my white skin.

 

[LiteBrite]

I thought I was the only one that is almost see through, but you know most people don't understand it. I never wear shorts, I don't like people making fun of me because of my white skin.

Ok, ppg, this is where you get to stop being embarrassed and start wearing shorts if you want to. Fair skin is beautiful, baby, and don't forget it. If anybody's stupid enough to make fun of your alabaster gams, you'll definitely have the last laugh when they're dry and wrinkled when they're 40, and you're looking like teenager. (I'm using this smiley because he's a little paler yellow than the others )

 

[Dan Murphy]

As an old guy here, in that skin cancer age (well, moreso than earlier years), I always take it as a source of pride how little (almost non-existant) difference there is on my uncovered arms face and legs as compared to the covered from shorts and shirts areas when I return from 10 or so days in FL, as a result of prudently using sun screen. I will say I had some early year burns, young kid, teen years, which I hope do not come back to haunt me in future years. One bad one can do you in.

 

[Kimmumum]

I am Irish/Swedish. I have been called "white as a ghost", told I have "milk legs" and told I'm "whiter than a piece of paper".

My oldest son is part Italian and I always tell him he is darker in the winter than I ever am in the summer. ETA--My youngest son is also part Italian however he is whiter than me (luck him ).

All hail the pale faces!!!

 

[Freyja]

I´m pale and I´m proud.

 

[malibuconlee]

I call myself the "Whiter than white" girl.

My mom's side of the family get really dark, but not me. I just burn. The first thing I do if I know I'm going to be outside for long is to slather on the SPF 30.

Plus my brother had some pre-cancerous stuff removed from his face. I try to be careful.

 

[Martha7]

If you want to see how good someone can look after a lifetime of protecting herself from the sun, Google Olivia DeHaviland!

 

[Jennifer48]

Another paleface checking in!

I'm a redhead who can't tan. I started using the neutrogena tanning cream on my legs last summer. Came out with mixed results

Heading on my Disney cruise in 13 days and I'll be packing the SPF 45!

 

[CheshireVal]

I'm so pale that sometimes I have a hard time finding a foundation that doesn't look like an orange mask on my face! (The Clinique counter actually turned me away last time I went looking for foundation! )

I burn really easily and never tan. I get sunburned just driving around in the car when it's sunny out, so I wear sunscreen on my arms and legs all summer long, no matter what I'm doing. In the winter, I use both moisturizer and foundation with an SPF.

I actually think tans look pretty bad on most people. But I'm probably alone in that thought!

 

[DisneyGirl4188]

I used to tan as a child. Then as a teenager I stopped. Now I am pale. I burn very quickly, so I try to stay out of the sun.

Everyone else in my family tans, I look so funny next to all them.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

I am blond, blue eyed and PALE. DH is strawberry blond (well, what hair he has left), blue eyed and freckled. DS is blond, blue eyed and pale with some freckles in the summer even though we DOUSE him in sunscreen. DH and DS have blond eyelashes.

I think if DS marries someone as fair as he is their children will be transparent.

I lived in Florida from the time I was 10 until I was 19 and I tried and tried and TRIED to get a tan. I burned and burned and burned. Some things are just not worth it!

 

[madalynns mom]

my blonde eyelashes make me crazy I always have to wear mascara or I feel funny.

and these are the palest smileys I could find


here's some sun so they can try to get a tan

 

[Blondie]

I will say I had some early year burns, young kid, teen years, which I hope do not come back to haunt me in future years. One bad one can do you in.

I've read that, about one bad sunburn possibly having a hand in skin cancer later on. I sure hope not though, I had a severe sunbun in the Bahamas when I was 22 y.o. I blistered up pretty badly. I had used Ban de Soleil gel SPF 2 or 3! What was I thinking?

 

[LiteBrite]

I've read that, about one bad sunburn possibly having a hand in skin cancer later on. I sure hope not though, I had a severe sunbun in the Bahamas when I was 22 y.o. I blistered up pretty badly. I had used Ban de Soleil gel SPF 2 or 3! What was I thinking?

I know I had numerous bad burns in my teen years, but there really weren't good sunscreens available back then like there are now. (Plus, I was a teenager, so I was just stupid.)

 

[cepmom]

I had some pretty bad burns in my teen years too...blisters all over my face from a fun trip to Cancun stick out in my mind


DD16 is even more pale than I am. Went over to my mother's today to wish my stepfather a happy birthday. He and my mother worship the sun...he even goes to a tanning bed all winter long to stay looking "healthy". He procedes to tell DD16 how nice and "tan" she looks (note the sarcasm) She just rolled her eyes and said "well, at least I won't have skin cancer when I'm old"

 

[Blueeyes101817]

i am sooo pale!