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?

I do fake my legs in the summer but only because they don't tan at all whilst the rest of my body does, ever so slightly.

I was so happy when DD inherited my blonde hair and blue eyes and her Dad's easy tan skin. She has the colouring I craved my entire life youth!

Can I join the moon tan club please . I'm pale but not deathly pale, I sometimes wear a mineral compact powder that is soo much easier to put on than a foundation cream. ( You can just put a tiny bit on your nose, and forehead\chin to take off the bucket look and cover the flaws! It's by Sante Naturcosmetic) and they do good pale to light tan shades.

Did anyone see Lauren Laverne on Room 101? She HATES spray tans and got them in room 101 !!!

I am not ghostly white, I'm just white. That's what colour my skin is. I rather like it. I have almost black hair, very dark eyes. My parents were both Scottish. I hate the sun, I burn if I am outside for 15 minutes. I am happy to be pale and interesting. Don't change what you've been given - I've never used fake tan, it would look ridiculous on me. But red lipstick looks fab!

For foundations, I've found the Boots colour match one pretty accurate. Took two gos though - I got Beige first time . Now I'm a Pale Ivory,I think, and it seems right. I was definitely got lots of negative comments when I was younger about being white ; the tan obsession has been round for decades.

I'm another white Celtic person (Welsh). I never bother with fake tan. The only bit of me I don't like being white is my legs, but partly as they would look much better thinner and the whiteness seems to emphasise the podge! But fake tanned legs and a white everything else would look rather bizarre, so I put up with the legs. I don't have it, but I think the white skin, dark hair, blue eyes colouring is so beautiful. Like Snow White. Creamy skinned redheads too, they look amazing. The downside of white skin is that everyone always asks me if I'm ok, when I don't put on blusher or lipstick, all the veins on my legs show up like a bloomin' road map now I've hit 50, and white skin needs a lot of care to avoid turning to tissue paper, or red and blotchy.

The big plus of sun avoidance is less wrinkles. I am overjoyed to say I was asked for ID while buying booze in Morrisons last night. Challenge 25! Im 46
Can't wait to tell my sunbed addict work colleague who loves to comment on how peaky I look.

Another pale and interesting Celt here. I hate the feeling of fake tan on my skin and it always has 'that' smell. I hate the summer, I can see people double taking at me wondering if they have just seen a ghost!!

"But aren't any of you that kind of pale that makes people think you're ill? I know I am!"

Hahaha - that just reminded me of an episode from some years ago when I fainted at a public event - the St John's Ambulance people retrieved me and had me laying down at the side of the road but wouldn't let me go until I "got some colour back into my face". Luckily my sister was there too, so I called her over and said "Do I look normal yet?" And she said "Yes, you're the normal level of deathly white now" so they let me go.
I go slightly pale greeny-grey when I'm ill, so it's a bit different from the usual.

The fewer wrinkles thing is a big plus! I'm 53 and don't claim to be wrinkle free entirely but last weekend I met up with someone I haven't seen in 20 years. This person was genuinely astonished "you haven't aged....you have NO wrinkles!" Then, she seemed flummoxed when I told her I HAVE to stay out of the sun as I puff up and need antihistamines (have had to have them intravenous,y, on several occasions) if I get sunburnt. It's not just a fad. It makes me ill. Spf50 and under an umbrella with a hat, for me. Clothed.

Which is why I do like a bit of gradual tan from time to time.

Me!

An Asian friend once said to me (looking at my legs): "for someone who always wears skirts and dresses you are awfully pale".

That comment made me laugh and laugh.

Another pale and interesting one here.

So pale in fact the lady doing my back massage on a beach in Bali wouldn't stop after the time was up because my skin was so 'beautiful and pale'.

i.imgur.com/fPUUf.jpg this could be me

this is me

How funny....cross post!

Another pale & interesting Irish woman here. Embrace it. I think pale skin is beautiful.

I'm with Twinkle I'm a lily and proud.

I find it disgraceful that in an age where to comment on anybody else's skin colour is racist and disgusting yet people seem to think it's ok for naturally pale people to sort it out and change their skin colour.

Oh,and there is NO SUCH THING as a 'healthy tan'. Rant over

I am so pale that once a male friend caught sight of my bare legs under a long skirt and thought I was wearing blue tights. I'd still rather be pale than orange and streaky. I have dark brown hair (dyed darker than its natural colour) and dark brown eyes which are quite unusual with pale skin. I quite like it now. However I never get my bare legs out any more (traumatised by taunts of 'corned beef legs' at secondary school) and since having my son I have a massive varicose vein so I think they're best hidden.

I'm as white as a sheet save for an overly rosy face due to rosacea so I actually try to even that out a bit now. My skin tone is cool and fake tan just made me look yellowish, besides having to deal with streakiness. Can't be arsed with all that.

I wonder if fake tan suits cool-toned skin. It probably doesn't. Orange on top of white-blue just doesn't work!

Fake tan dries my skin out to a crisp, no matter which brand it is. I used to be a fake tan addict and the skin on my face really suffered.

Yes I found it quite drying too.

One of my DDs fondly told me, many years ago "you look like a moomin".

Now I actually adore the moomins, but she basically told me I was short, fat, and white.

It was true

Now I'm just a thinner moomin. A moomin with a moontan.

I am so glad I found this thread - I'm a classical celtic ginger with the paper white skin and blue veins to prove it. My mum keeps telling me to fake tan - I've always refused but have been tempted as everyone else looks so brown compared to me.