Anyone ghostly white but not bother with fake tan?

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I am Irish and have the translucent skin tone instead of a passport to prove it. I'm going to a wedding next week and will be baring my arms. I bloody hate putting on fake tan (the dove glow stuff)...it smells and always leaves me feeling a bit gloopy. Is it acceptable to afflict the other guests with snow blindness?

Dad's parents are Spanish, mum's are Danish - I've got mousey hair (praise The Lord for blonde highlights!), dark brown eyes, ridiculously oily skin that tans well, but it's extremely sallow til I get a few rays. I'm presently light grey/pale yellow skin tone (imagine someone who'd died of jaundice 12 hours ago and you're about there).

So purely to look vaguely alive, I use a little facial tanner each night, and dove holiday skin every couple of days on my arms/neck/chest til the sun comes out.

Another very pale/light blue person here.
I lived in Australia for a few years and actually came back paler than I went! My skin burns ridiculously easily so I kept out the sun as much as possible. Slip, slap, alop and all that.

*slop...

Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, Juliane Moore, Scarlett Johansson- all beautiful and very pasty!

I have NEVER found a fake tan which doesn't look orange. I have had professional ones and looked ridiculous.
I actively avoid the sun as I have polymorphic light eruption and pustular rosacea which only occurs in summer.
And a Vit D deficiency

Fake tan is tacky. I know it's very popular in Ireland (as seen in many friends' and relatives' wedding photos!) because everyone is so extremely pale but honestly sticking with your natural skin tone is best. You will look much classier.

And I say that as a fellow pasty-skinned Celt living in a sunny climate where most people are either naturally tanned or non-European. The only people whiter than me where I live are the old Chinese ladies who use wide hats and scarves to protect their skin from the sun! I stick out a mile when we go to the pool but I've stopped caring because fake tan is just awful and I'm not biologically capable of getting a nice natural tan.

I am luminous shite. I don't think I have any melanin at all. At work we had a machine that you put on your skin and it told you what SPF to wear. Most people got 20-30. I got 50+ which is apparently the same reading as an albino.

I am irish with dark hair and green eyes.

I get a professional spray tan in the lightest shade quite regularly. It looks so good. I just wish wish wish I could look like that naturally.

Oh my god funniest typo ever.

Luminous WHITE

Another pale person. Am not white as much as translucent, and legs are regularly blue and grey and white and pink all at once. Ankle length skirts are my answer for summer and 80denier tights at other times.

Fake tan just goes all stripey and odd on me. And I look weird, as never not been mottled white/grey/pink before. Embrace the pale, it easier.

This will totally out me if anyone who knows me in rl is on here as I tweeted about it earlier, but I had criticism of my paleness today from the Clinique lady in Debenhams. I was trying to buy foundation and she said "goodness you're pale- I'm not even sure that we have a name up thaf pale....have you considered any of our self sun products?" She was super scathing like being pale was a crime. I was very indignant. I like being pale!

There's no problem being pale, but make sure any bared skin is buffed and moisturised.

*make up that

Excuse ridiculous typos.

I have been pale my whole life, despite growing up in Australia. I loathe fake tan with a passion and have never used it. Embrace your beautiful alabaster skin.

Another Irish skin person as well. I just don't ever think fake tan looks right on this kind of skin. I just wear trousers in the summer.

(and yes - Irish/Scots ancestry here too!)

I don't buff or moisturise.

Me neither. Maybe it's just because I'm blessed with good skin though.

I'm super pale too - very dark hair, green eyes, paler than pale Scottish/welsh skin.

I never use fake tan, I'd look ridiculous.

So I try to embrace it as best I can. The older I get the less I care!

Staircase my sympathies. A Chanel lady once tried to sell me a foundation two shades too dark in an attempt to warm up my skintone.
I believe she was trying to be genuinely helpful

I really like being pale, the world just doesn't get it

If you really want to freak people out, add some physical sunscreen.
I look like The Joker when I do

I'm white as white can be. I like being able to wear any colour and dark lipstick.
All my sister says when she sees me is 'oh you should get a fake tan and some fake eyelashes'
I'd rather not look like a lap dancing satsuma thanks.

Every time I try a new foundation I get asked if I would like "warmed up"? Eh no I would like to look like me with a neck to match my face. I like my pale, dramatic features. Took me years to embrace it tbh

Deathly pale here. After being outside in the cold, a medical person decided to use me as an example for cyanosed. I know I have a tinge of blue, thanks for that!

"lap dancing satsuma" love it!

Cocoa brown one hour tan just takes the edge off and I love it also pale Irish skin and red hair and without just look tired It isn't Orange though and takes a few minutes

Yes me! I think it's possible to look just as attractive or even more so with pale skin.