....to be annoyed at playground talk of my white legs?

[Hiyoulot]

I've been thinking about a comment a Mum made in the playground a while back. She came over to me and said, "Thank goodness you're here, now I'm not the one with the whitest legs in the playground".
I've typical skin for an auburn haired lady and the only way my legs would ever go brown would be if all my freckles joined up! I have no desire to go orange with fake tan (now noticed the playground is indeed becoming more orange) and was always not bothered about having pale skin but it unsettles me a bit that others are judging my legs! I mentioned it to some other Mums (thinking they would find it a funny story) but they then started on which tanning products would be good for me and how 'they don't all make skin look orange you know?!'

Id want to tell the commenter where to go.

I've got pale legs of the reflective kind, and lovely 'dirty knees from Eczema/ Psoriasis..

I had a friend who constantly used to bug me about being pale. She had her own full sunbed and when wasnt using that used to dye her legs unsuccesfully. I would get lectured that fake tan looks normal thesedays

Then I would snigger as she walked around with visible drips down the back of her ankles

What a strange thing to comment on. My legs are the colour they are, same as the rest of my body, I suppose they're quite pale as that's my natural skin colour. Not something I ever really think about though, never mind comparing my skin tone to other people's .

I always just say it's M Y S K I N C O L O U R !

I'm very pale, so pale I've had several comments regarding my 'look' being similar to those Pre-Raphaelite women

Although, my face, arms and chest go an alright colour, my legs remain as white as Simon Cowells Teetch.

Funnily enough neither I nor any of my black friends would ever comment on someone being really pale or say it is not attractive. I remember talking about this at uni once: we just accepted that is the skin colour some people have. I personally like it (have very pale-skinned auburn-haired mother and very pale DH). It was other white people who went on about it. I think it is nothing to do with aesthetics really, it is a status thing about being able to afford foreign holidays/sunbeds/spray tans etc.

It is a weird obsession. I can afford fake tan etc, but have no interest in using it, I think my skin is fine the colour it is. On foreign holidays (or spending time outdoors generally) I make sure I'm covered up or using sunscreen, because I thought that was the sensible thing to do!

It's all Coco Chanel's fault. Bloody St Tropez tans - real or sprayed...bring back the parasol!

I too have auburn hair and typically bluey white Scottish skin tone.

OP be grateful that you are not as shallow as they are. I speak as a blue-legged ginge :)

This really annoys me.

I'm naturally dark although not obviously 'foreign'. Of Spanish descent. Trust me, people going on about white legs is far nicer than being called 'wop' in the playground. Makes me laugh, mine is so obviously natural (think aging hippy, no make up and slightly wild hair), and then they all go around looking like mahogany table legs!

I can't tan. Tried but the sun just goes round me. A fake tan is very common though if not done extremely well (and most of them are not).

Ascot banned hideous, orange, streaky fake tans this year. They did not ban white legs.

Really catgirl? How did they do it? Did they turn people away? Enlighten me. It's hilarious :)

I believe they did turn people away. They made it part of the offical dress code. (This is only for the Royal Enclosure which has a very strict code anyway - thickness of straps on dresses, no bare legs etc) . But yes - anyone who did not comply with the dress code and had orangey, streaky tan was banished :)

Oh lordy. My legs haven't seen the light of day since the great burning incident of 1977. They're a shipping hazard, they shine like a lighthouse beacon when I'm walking...

Just say, 'oh thanks for the tips, but I do think dying your skin is so terribly common, don't you?'.

Careful, this is what happens when there are lots of orange people in the playground,you should just have said

There's a tanning salon near where my friend lives called Fanta Sun. They even have an orange sign .