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being tan is gross.  I hope to be very pale.  Last thing I want is cancer.  

I’m a red head with freckles. What pisses me off is when people tell me that my NATURAL complexion looks unhealthy. Not only does that make little sense to me but tanning your skin with beds and prolonged sun exposed actually IS unhealthy.

As for the look of tanned skin, it certainly can look attractive. If it isn’t overdone. I don’t think it’s any more attractive than porcelain skin. I just think it’s best to stay close to your color. Don’t try and change it too much or it’s going to look weird.

I don’t stay out of the sun 24/7. I sit out in the morning sun for about 15 minutes to collect my vitamin D, and in the summer it can alter my skin tone a tiny, tiny amount. I mostly just freckle but I do get a smidgen more golden porcelain.

I always believe in less is more.

i’m very pale, and i like it that way, so i slather spf 45 on even when i’m just taking my dog out for a ten minute walk. i think teenage girls are the only ones who really think that pale is ugly and orange is hot. i also like not having skin cancer. 

your sister has skin cancer and you still don’t bother protecting yourself? thats just plain stupid. sorry, but its the truth. a family member having skin cancer means your risks are also heightened. if you HAVE to be tan so your boyfriend thinks you’re hot, there are lots of self tanners you can buy

I used to really enjoy tanning about 7-8ish years ago. It didn’t matter whether it was outside or in a tanning bed. To be honest, I used to enjoy the tanning bed because that was a 30 minute break from my day to just close my eyes and have no one else around. Luckily, I didn’t do it for long. Less than two years ago, my mom was actually diagnosed with melanoma. It metastasized somewhat rapidly, and we lost her within a year. In light of that being in my family, I’d rather just defend my paleness. That’s just me,though.  

You only need a couple of minutes out in the sun to get the Vitamin D your body needs. At most, like, 15 minutes.

I’m extremely pale, but i don’t tan easily and I don’t burn easily. I actually find tanning quite boring haha. But if you have a natural, slight tan then it’s fine!

I don’t think there’s anything unappealing about having your natural skin tone. I don’t see the appeal of tanning and I don’t think it’s worth it.

It’s a society thing. Every beauty related ideal is from society.

Why don’t you just fake bake, it’s better than cancer.

yepppppppp: http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ller4nH5x81qgi77to1_500.png      

Oompa Loompa, do-ba-dee-doo…

i love tanning. but i try not to tanvery often and wear loads of sun protection because i’m naturally very fair. each to their own really

I can’t stand the orange skin look. It’s really unattractive to me. And somehow I can usually tell if it’s the person’s natural skin color. So when it’s not, it is usually a turn off for me. Having a healthy glow is fine and beautiful but much more then that and I think the person looks like a tool.

I’m Asian, and I tan sooo easily, so it’s never really been a big deal to me, haha

um…you know if you wear sunscreen outside, you can still tan. >_> You don’t need the tanning oil.

I never tan and some girls look good a little darker, but I don’t care that much. I love being pale.

I don’t understand why “tan” is the new standard of beauty. I am happy with my pale skin. I love it because it’s what I was born with and I don’t feel the need to change my body to fit into what society tells me is beautiful.

Also, I think it’s damn stupid when girls use tanning beds. Really? It’s about as logical as smoking cigarettes. You know it’s bad for you, you know it could give you cancer, you know there are safer ways to get darker skin if you really must have it, yet you insist on locking yourself in a cancer bed, shelling out big bucks to up your chances for melanoma to over 50%?

Again, I love my pale skin. I love how my freckles stand out against it and how it makes red lipstick look even better (Rose McGowan anyone?). I wear sunscreen, don’t use tanning beds, and pamper my skin because when I’m 40 I would still like to have soft, elastic skin, not dried up leather skin.I just don’t understand why people can’t love themselves the way they are.

I think people want the glow that’s supposed to come with being tan. Like you, I love when my freckles pop up, and I like having the sun-kissed glow, but I don’t want the skin cancer or the wrinkles that come wih it. People forget that fair-skinned folks can glow too, and just because you’re bronze doesn’t mean you look good (hello, all leather-skinned ladies!)… After many a painful sunburn, I gave up on trying to get tan, and now stick to SPF and occasionally, good ol’ tan in a can (I’ve always wanted to call it that somewhere besides to my family), and hopefully in the long-term it’ll keep me healthier and looking younger than if I did try and actually tan away! The sun exposure I do get still brings out my freckles, but otherwise I’m always going to be pale. It took me until a very, VERY painful sunburn last year to come to terms with it, but I’ve been sunburn free this summer and I look damn good in my swimsuit, even if I’m just about snow white! 

Coco Chanel started the tan trend in the 1920s.  Before that, white skin was always valued among white American and European women.  Skin that is not tanned ages much better than tan skin.

One of the biggest appeals for the people I know is that a slight tan goes a long way towards hiding flaws… veins, cellulite, freckles… all hidden by tan skin.
Fewer skin flaws = less photoshopping = more desireable model.

I think people should be their natural tone.  Besides, in Chinese culture, it’s very desirable to be pale.  Cancer is not worth it.  Often the fake bake looks very unnatural.

Well, first of all Vitamin D isn’t in sunlight. Sunlight just activates the Vitamin D in your body. Tanning is a trend, like back in the day when they would apply white powder on their faces to enhance their beauty. The trend will change sooner or later.

I love to tan, and I love being tan. Call me fake, tell me I’m going to get cancer, I don’t care. To each her own.

I only tan when I get sunburned so bad..it’s not worth it in my mind. I’ll always be pale and I’ll have to accept it. Though I’m a bit darker because I did get sunburned so bad recently. Though I’m still peeling a bit. I never understood tanning itself. 

I personally think people who tan are disgusting. Why would you damage your skin like that? And don’t you know what it will look like when you’re old? Just ew. Fake bake if you must, but honestly, your natural skin color is ALWAYS better. 

This post is funny…….pale-skinned people don’t want to be dark until the summer season. Otherwise it’s uncool and whatever. Very funny if you think about it.

You don’t need tanning oil to tan. You can tan with a higher SPF, preferably 30 and up. Even 50. You will tan faster with oil, but you need the SPF protection.

I have very sensitive skin, so my arms turns red just sitting in car in direct sunlight I prefer remaining pale, which is weird, because it is over 100+ degrees during the summer where I live, so there is plenty of sizzling heat to zap peoples’ skin

it looks good depending on the person. leighton meester is cute with pale skin. I also think stacy keibler is hot with tanned skin because it doesn’t look overly tanned.

I hate how American society is always enforcing the mentality that being dark and orange is hot, and being pale is gross! I’m Asian, and in Asian society, being pale is “in”. I hate it when everybody calls me so pale, while in Asia I would be considered dark! :O I don’t understand what’s so great about trying to be darker :/ Everybody should appreciate their natural skin tone! And, like others have said, I prefer to stay pale and not get skin cancer

http://www.tanningtruth.com/

I personally work at a tanning salon and I think tanned skin is beautiful skin, if taken care of properly.

You can still get the Vitamin D or K or whatever it is while laying outside if you just put on a higher SPF sunscreen. d;

I am an admitted tanner. In the winter months, yes I am pale. But I am also someone who just tans very easily, so it looks pretty normal on my body. I definitely want nothing to do with cancer. That is why I don’t leave the house in the summer without SPF 50. I slather that stuff on, and reapply throughout the day. The only time I use anything less, is when I’m trying to even out a farmers tan. Even then, I don’t go without something on my skin. Yes, I do sunbathe. One of the nicest feelings is to la out with a good book and feel the warm sun on your skin. I have no idea is that will give me cancer, considering I don’t sunbathe often and I use a LOT of sunscreen. But I work outdoors and end the summer with a skin tone much darker than I began.

A lot of people want to look like Bronze Brazillian goddesses, because that’s what we think we should look like. If the rich can go to Brazil and get tan, then we can pretend we go to Brazil and get tan. I don’t understand the whole tan trend, because I think natural skin color (anyone’s natural skin color) is more beautiful than covering it with skin cancer or some spray. We should love what we got, and not worry about other people.

I’m not afraid of being bleach white at the beach. I like it when people tell me I look like milk or like the color of ivory. I wear SPF 100+ just so I don’t get discolored and am able to stay the same white all year round. I have a lot of freckles, and I enjoy it when they multiply. I hate tanning (mostly because I lack the genes to do it, and I look weird tan). I won’t spray tan because I hate the look (it’s a fake orange doll), and I won’t go to a tanning bed because that’s REALLY unhealthy.

I like being the peaches and cream complexion that I am, and I am not going to change the color of my skin (and risk getting skin cancer) just for society.

@theflowerstem@xanga - True. I found this post really interesting, because here in the Philippines, everyone wants to be white (and I mean pale white!). Filipinos are naturally tan, but then most young people nowadays hide from sun exposure to stay white (not even for health reasons haha)

I think it’s okay in moderation, having a base tan can prevent bad burns which are really harmful. “Moderate sun tanning without burning can also prevent subsequent sunburn, as it increases the amount of melanin, a skin photoprotectant pigment that is the skin’s natural defense against overexposure.” I’d choose being pale over being orange, but when I have a light tan I feel so much prettier, and it helps hide the little flaws on my skin. I feel like you would have to excessively tan for it to be a health issue, tans are our bodies way of naturally protecting from the sun.

I don’t tan. I rock the pale. 

I personally think tanning is disgusting, especially now that world knows about its effects. I adore being “pale”, or, as I like to call it, the color I actually am. There are other ways of getting a glow that aren’t as bad, like spray tans and bronzers but people always seem to want something that will last more than a few days, something that will cause them numerous health problems (say, skin cancers for a start) in the future and, quite frankly, ages someone by 10 years. I am almost 30 and I am constantly mistaken for being 19 or 20. Being my own, natural “pale” helps me look younger, helps me not get cancer and sets me apart from everyone else, all things that I absolutely enjoy.

@x_damaged_yet_unbroken_x@xanga - The way I see it is during winter people don’t lay outside in the snow so the ones who are tan during winter look fake. Some people do stay tan year round. I’ve never been tanning like at a salon just outside in the sun. This year I am actually considering it though because my tans are usually uneven and I don’t get as dark as id like plus i could do a no tan lines. But then poses the problem of what if i want to keep it because i love looking tan during summer maybe id like to stay like this all year but as I said before it comes off as fake. I almost become depressed during winter and i’ve read about some SAD disorder or something and if I remember it said something about light and stuff so maybe the tanning would be my ‘fix’ during winter. Sorry I made this so long. 

I’d rather be pale. And I am.

I think this idea of tan skin looking gorgeous is so freaking stupid.  Who cares if you’re pasty or tan?  My sister goes to tanning beds and always makes fun of me for my pale legs.  I just roll my eyes and tell her “at least I won’t have skin cancer like you will.” 

Ugh this whole idea of beauty in the media just makes me sick.  Why can’t people stop being stupid and learn how to accept others?

its called moderation we are supposed to have 15 minutes of sun exposure every day to help our bodies produce vitamines and basically recharge you dont have to lay out to do it tho.  Put on some sun block and go for a run you wont be ghost white and you will be gettting fit rather than just laying on the ground.  Tanning beds should be illegal and spray tans are just awful and ugly lol being yourself is much more beautiful than striving to look a certain way when your not supposed to.

i do not intentionnaly tan tho if im outside working i wear sunblock cuz being burnt like a lobster doesnt feel good.  Im pretty white accept for my arms chest and face which are exposed the most to the sun but i honestly dont care my husband couldnt care less how white or tan i am or himself for that matter.  If looks are that important to you boyfriend you should look elsewhere for a companion.

There is such a thing as being naturally tan, depending on what your background is (for those who say that being tan is disgusting, it isn’t always). I’m Native Canadian, and I have tanned skin all year ’round, but I’m even darker in the summer since I tan easily, without even attempting to get a tan. I do love my skin, but I don’t see the reason why everyone hates being pale. I like pale skin just as much as I like tanned skin. I’ve heard people say that with pale skin, imperfections are more noticeable, but that isn’t always the case. You can see my skin imperfections just as easily. But I don’t totally understand why everyone obsesses over tanned skin so much. People with pale skin are just as beautiful!

I like getting a tan because I look healthier. I’m naturally very pale, so the tiniest scratch will leave a mark, and if I don’t get ten hours of sleep, it shows. When I’m tan, (I tan well, & I don’t burn, I remember my SPF) my skin color looks even. I don’t know, that’s just me. Also, being tan makes me look thinner.

@krach3@xanga - Tanning in a tanning bed is much worse than tanning outside. Yes, sunlight is good for people because they need that Vitamin D and they do say sunscreen is actually not good for people–what I’ve heard lately anyway… But a tanning bed is awful. Everytime I think about a tanning bed, I think about a human oven… slowly cooking your flesh till it turns to jerky.

I make a point to stay pale. I’m paler than most red heads I know, and I burn after 10 mins of being in the sun (and then revert back to ghostly white). I like it. I’m glad to know that when I’m in my 50′s I won’t look like a wrinkled leather bag.

This reminds me of an episode of Scrubs where Elliot meets an attractive older doctor and gushes about him to Carla, saying, “He looks like Brad Pitt! …If you left him out in the sun, forever..”

Which is what I always think of when the idea of laying out creeps into my head. I’ve never gone outside with the sole purpose of laying out for a tan, and I hope I don’t ever get into that habit… It is funny, though, that the people most concerned with appearances, the ones worried about having bronzed skin, are the ones who will look much worse in their later years than those who chose not to tan.

Your ginger boyfriend states that you’re more attractive when you damage your skin? Fantastic. v_v

I’ve always wanted to stay pale, but for the past year or so I’ve been wanting to tan a bit. The main reason for me is because I’m really pale and you can see all my veins through my skin and it’s pretty disgusting. I still like being pale, but being a bit more tan would make me look a lot healthier, in my own opinion. Of course I want an even, full body tan and would rather not have the bikini tan lines.

I hate being tan and what you have to go through to GET tan (such as sunburn and peeling skin).

I LIKE BEING ALBINO, THANK YOU VERY MUCH c:

 Veins and old stretch marks don’t show as much.

Otherwise I would prefer to be my natural pale self.
And people, I know it’s supposedly ‘common knowledge’ these days that the sun causes skin cancer, but you might want to do a little research on that. For starters:
http://www.naturalnews.com/021903_sunscreen_cancer_Vitamin_D.htmlhttp://www.articlesbase.com/diseases-and-conditions-articles/the-dangers-of-sunscreen-exposed-501593.html

.Carrie Ann.

I wouldn’t mind being all white (porcelain) or all tan, but the thing I hate is my arms tan better than my legs (i.e. my arms tan well [usually after I've sunburned them], while my legs are white) so then it looks funny when I wear tshirts with shorts…Personally, I prefer white skin all year round cause I’d rather play it safe (too much sun is a bad thing), though all I really want is to have my whole body be one color).

eh, it’s just a trend. light tan isn’t bad on most people.but over tanning = no bueno, looks dirty. 

I think it’s the desire to “have what you can’t have”. White people seem to live in a culture that strives to be tan and believes tan = hot/pretty/awesome. Meanwhile in other countries, often their culture is the opposite, where the whiter/paler you are the better it is. In some countries in Africa, the people (who are black obviously) BLEACH their skin in attempt to be white.

Over time, cultures have changed their view on whether being whiter or tanner was the best way to go. For ages, pale skin meant you had money, class, and were superior. In many many many cultures, it is still this way. It seems that only a few cultures (like America) want to be the opposite and go tanner.

that’s funny.. i hate getting tan.. and i tan so easily.

I live in the NW of the country where it rains a lot so I only hit the tanning bed to help with seasonal depression disorder.

For all the people that says tanning causes skin cancer – EVERYTHING causes cancer.

I’m a tanner myself. I don’t want the nasty dark tan, but a honey color is always beautiful. And I do love pale skin – except it has to be pearly. Other than that, pale skin just looks sickly.

If you love tanning, then do it – but just like EVERYTHING else, do so in moderation.

I am a redhead who burns, no freckles in sight. But I personally love the way I look after the burn goes away.

People can tell if you’re in your natural skin tone. I can look at that woman and know she wasn’t born that color. It looks unnatural.

Psht, I boycotted sun bathing years ago. Originally because I was tired of being exploited by ex family members at the pool who wanted us to ‘all go and have fun’ just so I could watch their shitty children the entire time. I must admit, I look infinitely better very pale then I ever did with a tan.

It’s probably not so much being tan but having color.  I know I look healthier with a little color than being completely pale.  Some guys prefer tan, but that’s just a preference.  Everyone ooks good when he or she’s healthy, which is certainly not sun burnt to a crisp, or worse, orange.

I personally don’t understand the obsession with tanning. If you get a tan from having fun outside, that’s awesome… But I think it’s ridiculous that people now a days spend so much money going to tanning salons, when everyone knows how serious skin answer is. 

Just goes to show how shallow people are, I guess. :\

I tan really easily and I hate it.
I even slather on sunscreen with SPF 45-60 and avoid the sun as much as possible
I get tan from being in the sun for 2hrs for a beach party
My mom noticed it right when I got home

I’m Italian. I tan whether I want to or not, and you know what? It’s not a big deal. I’m gonna reiterate this: IT ISN’T A BIG DEAL. Sheesh.

@raspbxrrryjam@xanga - I have naturally tanned skin, and I end up with a tan in the summer without even trying, and you can still see my veins just as clearly, and I have a bit of cellulite that you can see, so I don’t understand why everyone thinks tanned skin will make them look good? It doesn’t change much at all.

Plus, there is a girl that lives down the road from me and is good friends with my dad, and every summer she lays outside and tans, for hours at a time, and she’s been doing it for as long as I can remember. She now has very wrinkly, tough looking skin. The easiest way I could describe it is to say her skin looks like leather! She’s seriously gorgeous, but the tan does nothing for her, and I wonder if she really would look better without it. So there are definitely a lot of cons with tanning… There are as many cons with tanning as there are pros.

I’m not totally against tanning, and if you want a bit of colour in the summer, that’s fine, even you’re laying out in the sun for a bit. But some people just take it to the extreme, and I’ve heard of people with tanning addictions, and it’s just sad that people can’t accept themselves for who they are. There’s that whole thing with society and the media, and all the people with tanned skin, and then every woman wants tanned skin because they think it looks good. But pale skin looks just as good as tanned skin!

I like just enough to give my face a little color. Which I get just by day to day outings. I am not someone who goes to the beach to get bronze. I like my fair complexion. 

My boyfriend likes to be very tan and always compliments me after we go to the beach because I look tan. But I’m not into tanning. 

Oh and have you ever noticed – and I don’t know if anyone’s said this or not yet – but have you ever noticed how in the pictures, and the one used in this post is a good one, that they always just look better in general when they’re tanned? It isn’t even the tan that makes them look good. It’s everything else about the picture that looks appealing to the eye, but right away, the main thing you notice is her tan. But look at the way she’s standing in the picture, she looks a lot more confident in the picture where she’s tanned, and she’s in a much “sexier” pose in that picture as well. Maybe that’s supposed to be some sort of hidden message. Her skin is also much shinier in the picture where she’s tanned – it makes her skin seem to “glow” which a lot of people want. I already said I have tanned skin, and trust me, it doesn’t just glisten on its own!!! A third thing is, she’s sort of pouting in the picture where she has pale skin, and she’s got a typical expression that you would see in a magazine, in the second picture. These are the little things that people seem to miss… They seem to notice the tanned skin and nothing more. It’s just like weight loss pictures: have you ever noticed how they’ve always went through some sort of make-over in the “after” picture, when in the “before” picture, it’s always some unflattering, obviously taken-at-home picture. It’s like a subliminal message, saying that when you lose weight, you just look better in general. Seriously. Go look in magazines or on the internet, and you’re bound to see an unattractive “before” picture and a very eye-appealing “after” picture. It’s the same with the picture used in this post.

I like being slightly tanned in the summer. But there is a very clear difference to having a healthy tan to being sun burnt.
You can tan with suncreen on. It takes longer but it means you’re not risking any damage to the skin. Plus your tan also last longer.

This reminded me of an episode of TLC’s My Strange Addiction that was about tanning. These girls are blond with ORANGE skin (I think orange skin is bad, but I think it looks especially bad with blond hair) and they look disgusting. If I recall correctly, this girl in the link below got so upset when she went to a dermatologist she refused to be filmed after that.

Here’s a clip of it.

http://health.discovery.com/videos/my-strange-addiction-clips-tanning.html

She said that the tanning salons have a rule about going once per 24 hours, but she goes around that, but they hitting up a few of them in a day.

She says “If the one unhealthy thing that I do is gonna kill me, oh well. Everyone is gonna die. I’m just gonna die extremely hot.”

To that, I say I don’t think so, lol. When she gets skin cancer, she’s not gonna be looking as hot as she thinks.

I’m asian, and I’m not like some who strive to be PALE. I go to the beach, I put on sunscreen and I still tan super EASILY and it looks great. 

Psh. I could get three shades darker from going out in the sun for fifteen minutes 4 times a week. My skin  just tans extremely easily. I could be in the texas sun for over 5 hours and not get burned or look overly tan. My skin is awesome in this way. Tanning helps my complexion as well. I only have a tiny bit of forehead acne but it clears it up right away. Each summer I get a little bit more freckles on my face. My father is olive skinned and my mother is on the dark side of a native american skin tone. So my skin just soaks up the sun. I always feel bad for super white people that cant even go outside in the summer time in texas for fear of getting severely burned in thirty minutes! 

tanning is lame. who cares if you don’t look healthy, as long as you ARE healthy. on the other hand, making the effort to stay/be pale is equally lame. if you can tan naturally, so what? if you can’t, so what? people ought to care more about the amount of fun they’re having in the sun and keeping themselves healthy. worrying about skin tones and tan lines seems like a waste.

Tanning is probably one of the reasons why white people age terribly. Good luck!

if i spend 15 mins in the sun, i turn brown. i don’t actively try to tan, but bc im outside so much (very much the outdoorsy type!) and can never seem to afford spf anything (that shit’s expensive, for me), it tends to happen… but im vowing to start using setting aside $$ for that stuff soon, or maybe just walking around w/an umbrella or something, bc i don’t want cancer, or wrikley leathery skin when im old for that matter. i like how i look tan, but i could take it or leave it, and i think tanning is stupid. even if you don’t get cancer, just think of how you’re gonna look at 50. i feel like i’m the only one my age who thinks ahead to that stuff in general – it’s why i don’t dye my hair anymore, don’t tan, don’t wear much makeup, etc. i’d rather keep it as natural and healthy as possible now, even if it means looking less “hot” bc then i can keep my looks as long as possible as i age.

@zoechips@xanga - i 100% agree!! im constantly thinking about aging and stuff, it’s always in the back of my mind. looking good when i’m older is pretty much more important to me than looking hot now. i always think i never wanna be one of those frumpy middle aged housewives lol.

@CaptSharkey@xanga - Thank you for clarifying the Vitamin D thing. I corrected someone on another post about that very thing and they corrected me back, and I wasn’t in the mood to argue.

I naturally have an olive skin tone, so though I am pale, I’m not white and more of a pale beige color. I hate when I tan though because I feel like its so unhealthy and also because I end up looking orange, and its not even a fake bake! But I tan so easily I end up tanning being out in the sun for 2 seconds -_- I wish I could stay pale.

@ChammyChummy@xanga - If you are tanning with your sunscreen on, it means your sunscreen isn’t work. You are getting less damage but ANY tanning is damage.

Clearly if you are just going about your business, or your outdoorsy and you just tan from living life, then oh well, the most you can do is try applying sunscreen before you go out (it’s not a big enough deal to become a hermit and stop enjoying the outdoors) but people who sit out and tan on purpose are ridiculous, IMO. It’s kinda like instant gratification, you enjoy the benefits when your younger of looking better (though I personally don’t think this, I’m not going to argue with people who do) and then all that tanning makes you look terrible once you get older. You’ll be 40 and look gross and wonder why oh why you tanned as a young woman. And then go get a tan. 

@allnightmarelong@xanga - As was implied by my comment. I model. Soooo. I’m not talking about what’s hidden by every day light walking around.

@raspbxrrryjam@xanga - Kay you don’t need to be rude. I don’t care that you model, I wasn’t talking about that. I was talking about in general.

@allnightmarelong@xanga - Don’t be over sensitive; I wasn’t being rude.

I don’t care that you’re talking about “in general”; I’m talking about modelling. If you weren’t talking about the same thing as me… perhaps you shouldn’t have replied to my comment. hurrr durrrr. (Now I’m being rude. <3)

@Murphy_Rants@xanga - I always get told my legs are too pale… or asked why I don’t go out in the sun… I’m always like rlyyyyyyyyyy?

@raspbxrrryjam@xanga - Okay first off all, I’m not being oversensitive, I just don’t tolerate other people’s bullshit. And second, you didn’t say a damn word about modeling so how am I supposed to know? You said nothing about modeling.

@allnightmarelong@xanga - You ARE being oversensitive. My first reply was a bland statement correcting your misunderstanding and was not rude at all.

You clearly have a reading comprehension problem, which seems to be the source of this misunderstanding.

“One of the biggest appeals for the people I know is that a slight tan goes a long way towards hiding flaws… veins, cellulite, freckles… all hidden by tan skin.
Fewer skin flaws = less photoshopping = more desireable model.”

As you can clearly see here, where I’ve directly copied and pasted my original comment… I mentioned that tanning hides flaws… which leads to models needing to be photoshopped less.
I believe to most readers, it would be quite clear that I was speaking of models… as anyone who is not a model would be unconcerned about how much photoshop is required to make them look good… nor would they care about being a desireable model.

Perhaps in the future, before you tell someone what they did or did not mention, you might take a moment to re-read the comment you replied to.
How embarassing this must be for you.

@raspbxrrryjam@xanga - Naw that’s not embarrassing. But I’m done commenting back now, because this is pointless, and this sort of drama belongs on Facebook, not Xanga.

@Digital_Angel21@xanga - You’re welcome! I was just saving the world from false Vitamin D knowledge one post at a time! 

@allnightmarelong@xanga - You must mean that you’re done commenting because you’ve been proven wrong and there’s nothing more for you to say… because there has been no drama outside of what you’ve possibly imagined due to your extreme over sensitivity.

You replying with off topic nonsense after misreading a comment and me correcting your mistake isn’t drama… just a misunderstanding.

I like my skin.  Would I prefer to have a little more color? Sure.  But I’m not going to risk skin cancer to get tan.  I work inside, so my exposure to the sun is limited to the weekends for the most part.  And sometimes on the weekend, I don’t want to be outside all day just to get some color under my 45 SPF

I’ll be going to the beach next week with my family, and I’ll be the only one using 45 SPF a million times a day.  But do you know what? That is fine by me! 

Rock on pale people!!!

@raspbxrrryjam@xanga - You’ve already been reported. No, I don’t feel I’m wrong. I’m just sick of your pathetic drama. You can stop already, seriously I’m pretty sure people are sick of seeing your posts. I said I’m done and I fucking meant it. Now stop harrassing me with comments. Thanks.

@meoww_surveys@xanga - i really think it is! Don’t tan and I believe you will age so much better than the people who do. And moisturize your skin and you will be fine! You will age gracefully and beautifully! lol 

I don’t see the appeal of tanning… I wish I was paler myself. I wear sunscreen all year long.

I use to tan when I was a young teen because it would dry up my pimples. 

@allnightmarelong@xanga - I’m not harassing you with comments… you’re continuing to reply and leave comments @me. If you don’t want me to reply to comments you’re leaving AT ME… stop leaving them. Problem solved. If you’re “done” then don’t end things with ridiculous accusations. Admit you were wrong and move on.

I’m sorry that you feel harassed… and that you feel that being told you’re wrong is dramatic and it upsetting you. That’s really not my fault.

In the future… please refrain from replying to my comments incorrectly or on unrealted matters in the future, and I will not have to correct you and upset you.
Please refrain from telling me I did not say things I did… and I will not have to correct and upset you.
Please stop screaming DRAMA when there is not… and I will not have to correct you and make you fell harassed.

Also… I really don’t understand how you can NOT think you’re wrong. You told me I didn’t ever mention modelling… I quoted where I did. How could POSSIBLY not be wrong?

It’s the hair.

   i think beauty comes in all shades… I am tan and have freckles but I think plenty of pale people are gorgeous. fake tans are just foul looking

I’m a natural red head and I don’t tan.  I’m very porcelain white like a porcelain doll, probably those dolls are darker.  lol  I do like the look of a tan or Hispanic colored skin.  I’d love to have it!  But that’s probably more due to me thinking my life would be easier if I didn’t sunburn in the shade.  I’ve had skin cancer already so it would be nice to have some natural protection against sunburns and skin cancer.

But I don’t know why or how tanning became better than white, untouched skin (if you have white skin). 

i don’t like that i think this way, but i tend to automatically assume that naturally tan people spend more time outdoors, so i’m typically more attracted to them. i hate the tan posers though. it just looks ugly when it’s overdone.

Yeah if my sister had skin cancer I would feel so so so so guilty going to tan. I don’t know how you do it!

I am Norwegian and English so I don’t tan at all. AND I even work outside ugh. I wish I got just less papery in the summer but I know that’s just my genes and ethnicity and there’s nothing I can really do about my skin tone, so there’s no point in trying to change it or worry about it when it’s just not possible. I try to be happy with what I have…haha I’m like, “Well, at least the same genes gave me blue eyes…”

I’m very pale, and I like it. Never liked tanned skin.

Actually Being Tan to an Extent is Healthy especially if you have Native American in you,it helps with Acne 

My mom, both of my aunts and my granddad all have had skin cancers (melanomas).  I avoid the sun in the height of the day.  My boys will avoid the sun in the middle of the day.  We go to the pool and leave by 10 AM.  We go to the beach after 6 PM.  I think the people who go to the beach with tanning oil and lay out all day are playing Russianroulette with their lives.  Skin cancer is like any other cancer in the fact that it can kill you.

Well, both tan and pale can easily look good. But, in my opinion, pale skin is soooooo much cuter. ^.^

I am one of those few that cant tan.I BURN! And then after in pain..then the tan will come about.My skin is to fair. >< I will get a little sun but I dont tan.

From the comparison picture, the tan skinned is more attractive to me compared to her pale skin.Pale makes her face look boring.

When I was at my natural colour, I was considered really pretty.
When I was super tanned, I can’t even tell you how often I heard “you’re stunning” “are you brazilian?” dailyy.
I think in some complexions, tans bring out certain tones in your natural colouring (my eyes look greener/grayer, hair is lighter brown, lips are darker pink when I’m tanned–and I know it suits my features more).

Pale skin with dramatic contrast in hair or eyes though is SO beautiful.

The girl in the picture is obviously gonna look hotter on the right, because she’s pushing her body out to show her curves and her hair is being wind-blown so that she looks good. I think she would look equally as hot on the left, if it were an actual fair comparison.