Nobody, but the combo of the red’n’white look of the first days on that regime and of the periodic turnabout has led to that nickname for the activity in Spain. The resulting look is sometimes referred to as “grilled”.
Pale is good. I might be biased though, given that I am myself. I can’t tan anyway, just burn.
I think the extremes that others have mentioned–like overly bronzed/orange people–are…ick. It probably doesn’t help that I work with tourists near the waterfront either.
I had a close friend in high school who is a very light-skinned black girl (high yellow, if you will) who purposely tanned because she felt her skin looked better a little browner. My ex, also a very light skinned black person, would get sun burn if he didn’t wear sunblock. I have dark brown skin, so it’s never occured to me to purposely darken, but if I am in the sun for a long time, my skin will get darker.
Re: OP. I may be personally biased, but I always think color looks better than no color. Of course, the obvious exception is those orange tans which are silly. I would prefer to look at someone who is chalk-white to someone who looks like that Jersey Shore girl.
Tan or no tan, tan-lines look goofy to me (speaking as someone who winds up with tem by summer’s end, no less).
Can’t figure out any logical reason for this but same here, tan lines look great, very sexy.
Some guys love freckles. I am one of them.
Pale white skin looks anemic and unhealthy, sometimes sickly.
For all of you that say naturally fair-skinned or pale-skinned girls look better that way, are you sure? Reason I’m slightly dubious is because it just doesn’t jibe with my experience. I am extremely pale and couldn’t tan if I lay on the surface of the Sun. The only comments I’ve ever received actually praising my eggshell skin have come from ninety-year olds. The rest are and have been downright negative. By college I was sick and tired of the negativity over my skin and it became something of a sore subject with me, as you can tell.
Yes, I do the airbrush tanning in the summer. It looks absolutely realistic (not fakey orange).
People actually give you grief about the natural color of your skin? What a world of assholes.
Thanks, Acsenray. Can only figure that people don’t think and assume everyone has the same aesthetic goals and abilities.
Anyway, that post came off more vitriolic than I meant.
Fortunately, this phenomenon is quite rare.
Heh, gotcha. The irony has crossed my mind many times.
:rolleyes:
That makes me feel a bit better - so it’s not just those of us with a skin tone like this (actually, that kiddo’s skin is probably a bit darker than mine, but my arms freckle) that peel? Of course, I turn a non-splotchy red first…
As another vampire-pale person - yes, people give me shit about my skin color (or lack of it, rather). People who would never in a million years find it appropriate to criticize the color of a Latina or Asian or African will come up to me and start in on “HOW can you walk around with your legs that white???” Um… because that’s what color they are?
Seriously, I can NOT tan. Even with what little color I can get over a summer I still glow in the dark. I can NOT get darker, sorry. I am what I am. So I stopped worrying about it. I wander about all summer with my pale skin (frequently slathered with sunblock, wearing broad-brimmed hats, etc.) and ignore the jerkwads and bigots. Pale white looks better than severely burned and/or peeling, so I do the best I can with what I have.
I don’t even notice unless someone has that weird dark orange tan with the paler lips and that’s just comical.
My brother and his wife both sit outside for hours tanning and they’re in their mid-forties looking like worn leather. It is not at all attractive to me.
Fun fact: I turn green in the sun. Really.
Another one of the naturally pale (my nickname through junior high and high school was Casper) harassed.
I, however, love my pale skin, hate sunburns, don’t like the smell of fake tanner, can’t stand sunburns, and have overcome most complaints about the whiteness of my skin by changing the color from white to every other color you can imagine.
Pale skin, especially when regularly covered in sunscreen, makes a wonderful canvass for tattoos.
Wow, that must make Star Trek cosplaying a snap for you.
Yep, me too, though it’s a lot rarer that people will comment now than say, high school.
I like a light- to medium-brown skin tone. Doesn’t much matter to me how you get it.
In my eyes, it’s more attractive and desirable than paler skin. Each to her own.
I hadn’t particularly said anything about the super-pale, but a Snow White with good skin or this other look which I’ve sometimes heard called “English rose” (blonde with translucent skin and a natural blush) both look great.
I also like freckles… I think I like any colors so long as they aren’t overwrought.
There was a guy in my RenFaire group, in Miami, who was Minesottan on his Dad’s side, German on Mom’s. One day someone ribbed him about being glow-in-the-dark and he said “this is actually what I look like tanned! Look!” Gosh. The skin outside the cover of his T-shirt was the palest pink, but the parts under the shirt were so pale they looked bluish :eek: I think he’s still the palest person I’ve known, and that’s with a ton of redheads in my family. And yeah, between the color and his size, he was always the first pick for “viking”, “barbarian bodyguard” and similar roles.