To totally BOYCOTT self tan??? I am sick of people 'comparing' their tans.

[WhateverGurrl]

I am fair skinned with a slight olive tone to it. My family are obsessed with having a tan, albeit a real one. They always go on and on about their stupid tans in the summer which annoys me greatly...what annoys me more is that for the last few years I have been using self tan regularly to get that 'perfect glow' the media and stupid others go on about all the time..so I can look acceptable and 'healthy'.
Well as of yesterday I am boycotting tanning. I am embracing my fair skin and aside from obviously getting the much important vitamin D into my system, that's where it stops. I feel like a bit of an idiot when women all around the world in India, Pakistan, China etc are desperate for white skin and are trying all means of ways to get it. I want to fully embrace it and be happy with it. Who's with me?

Anyone?

[phoenixrose314]

Go for it. I don't see the obsession either, especially as having a "good" tan every summer leads to your skin getting older quicker - yes, that means more wrinkles, more sunspots, ugly blemishes from the damage your sun did your skin but just didn't show up at the time!

I am naturally olive-skinned (half Italian) and thanks to living in UK I am hardly ever tanned, actually quite pale! Gives me a Snow White type quality I am learning to embrace ;)

[TallDwarf]

Ooh I'm pale but not interesting, I'll join your boycott!

I quite enjoy being a bit pale. I don't smell of biscuits and b.o, I don't have horrible poo streaks on my bed sheets and I don't have to bother with the rigmorale of applying fake tan regularly.

I do sometimes use that moisturiser one for fair complexions to give me a bit of a glow and I think that looks nice cos I don't take it past the natural looking point iykwim.

I do hate how orange some people look though. It just looks so silly, I don't get it.

[picnicbasketcase]

Freddos cost 20p??

Something has to be done. When they went over 15p, a line was crossed. This is just madness, I tell you.

[CrunchyFrog]

I've always liked pale skin, some women look amazing.

I get tanned in bloody winter, the sun comes out for 10 seconds and I change colour. It's weird. I'll never be a porcelain skinned beauty, the freckles on top of the tan put paid to that. Doomed to be weather-beaten forever.

(I wear factor 30 every day on my face, makes no odds!)

[MrsRobertDuvallHasRosacea]

Count me in.

I am very pale, and cannot now sit in the sun due to mild rosacea and also polymorphic light eruption, which means my chest and face come up in lovely long lasting spots after 10 minutes sun exposure.

No fake tan has ever worked, and I have tried most of them, with the barely used bottles in my bathroom as evidence.

So this year I have embraced my paleness and it has been very liberating.

Lol poo streaks

[IHeartKingThistle]

Paleface here! Couldn't give a shit

I do have to wear blusher though - if I don't I get people asking me if I feel all right all day

[MoongirlsCat]

Your skin tans to protect itself from the danger it's being put through by the suns rays. The browner your tan, the more stress/danger you've put your skin through.

Is a bit like wearing a big bandage. Like an Egyptian Mummy!

Fake tan always looks too orange anyway. Best off without!

[EasilyBored]

I'm pasty white, and have long since stopped caring. I can't be bothered with the faff of face tan. It stinks, and it's always so obviously fake. I don't generally tan either (factor 50 and covered up usually), as I just go red, then itchy, then pale again if I try, and it's so damaging to your skin. I do have a bit of a forearm 'pram tan' going on at the minute though.

Please don't flame me, but I also tend to think that tanning (be it real or fake) is really ageing. Having a tan makes most women instantly look older. And continual tanning leaves that delightfull leather-handbag-cleavage-thing going on. Not attractive at all.

Like Iheart I do have to wear blusher, otherwise I look like I'm about to need some smelling salts.

[pinkyp]

I'm with you! I've used my last fake tan and I'm embracing my very whiteness

[WoodlandHills]

I like fake tan

But only in moderation. I use the light spray one from garnier altho poss deluding self that doesnt look orange

[Trazzletoes]

Count me in! I only burn in the sun... Very moley so too scared of skin cancer to take risks anyway! And I am no good at fake tan. I don't really get the obsession with tanning, but maybe I'm just jealous!

[LadyBeagleEyes]

Fake tan always looks orange, I've never used it.
I always get tanned in the summer naturally, I never burn and it makes be feel good, but am happy to let it fade and go back to my winter white.

[lljkk]

What NurseBernard wrote quite struck me, I believe it's true.

I come from a very sunny part of the world & I also have a gut instinct of thinking fake tans look stupid: the whole thing baffles me. Pasty white is far preferable. I even had a California friend gushing at length over an English colleague's lovely pale skin; English colleague thought this was so so so strange, but where I come from, we have so much sun damage that healthy fair skin is seen as a privilege, almost a blessing. English roses and all that, should be much better appreciated.

[freddiefrog]

woodlandhills I use that one too, it's bronze rather than oopma loopma orange, and I only use it a little bit anyway - enough to take the edge off the blue hue if I want to wear shorts.

If you don't want to wear it, don't!

[NotGeoffVader]

I did the fake tan thing once. It looked orange. Stupid waste of money. I will happily be pale and interesting any day.

[TandB]

I'm olive skinned but I don't tend to change colour at all - so I'm the same, slightly-yellow-tinged hue all year round, whether I've spent the summer in the British rain or on a beach somewhere baking hot.

I tried fake tan a couple of times. It did not work out well.....

[meetupmisery]

I am an English Rose and I floof my petals at them and shake my thorns.

YANBU it would be and does get sooooo much thing nerves this time of year.

[24joy]

I had a xen tan spray last week as it was on special offer. I really liked it! Loved looking at my bronzed thighs instead of blotchy red/pale ones for a change..

[Panzee]

You look orange. You can't deny it. :)

[24joy]

Dont think i did look orange really. Its faded now. Was quite impressed - i dont really go brown in the sun so it was nice to feel 'olivey' for a change.

[EldritchCleavage]

YANBU OP. Now can you get all the white tanorexics to stop coming up to me (mixed race) and saying "Ooh! I'm darker than you!" with a smirky smug smile because (i) I don't care what colour they are, but fake tan oneupmanship is annoying; and (ii) I'm brown, and they're orange. Fake orange anything is no basis for smuggery.

[maybenow]

I don't do fake tan but due to sports I have quite 'weather beaten' lower legs and arms. I don't really mind either way - I just can't bear tan lines. My only use of moisturiser with some fake ran in it has been to try to blend horrible tshirt lines.

[ArielThePiraticalMermaid]

The only reason I want slightly-less-white legs is to fade out the little thread veins starting to appear on the backs of my legs And because of my job, my shins and knees are perpetually bruised (no rude jokes please - I'm not a prostitute ). But I'm not bothered about being orange.

[BustleInYourHedgerow]

I never got the fake tn thing. I tried it, and it looked stupid, so I stopped. If I'm going on a night out, I put some 'Bathina' by benefit on my arms and legs, it gives them a lovely glow. Squoosh, maybelline do good foundation for pale skin I find, their airbrush one is good, I use the ivory shade. Oh and Freddos are 25c here. Which is riciulous.

[battherat]

I am very, very pale. Almost translucent. I do like it and very rarely fake tan. However, if I have one problem, it's not the paleness but the blotchiness. Does anyone have any ideas on how to make the skin tone on legs more even without resorting to the orange stuff?