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Really, the risks outweigh any pros in this situation. Nothing is worth willingly giving myself cancer. Nothing, especially not vanity.
I am pale. I was a pale bride in a white dress. Rock it, girl.
I'm exactly the same as you. Blonde, blue eyed and fair skin. I tan up alright when I do get sun, but avoid it due to a lot of skin cancer in the family. And the same as you, my dress is white, which actually looked a lot better on me than ivory, which I just blended in to.
I'm staying natural. As much as I probably look a bit better with a tan, I know I look a lot WORSE with an orange tan, or with a full body rash (I am allergic to a lot of products as well).
Stay natural! You will look beautiful and look like YOU, not some tanned version of you.
:) Glad to see I'm not the only one! I was a little worried about people thinking it strange since our DW is at a location on the beach. But you're right. Skin cancer will not help my looks at all! Lol...
@Tuesdayschild: My motto is why become someone else for your wedding?? If you're pale on the daily, why change because you're getting married? Rock it out, seriously. :)
pale skin is healthy skin, hopefully this trend of being unhealthily dark will pass. Why should you be like everyone else? Pale isn't ugly no matter what beauty magazins or your friends tell you
Thanks guys! I'm loving the validation. Seriously, I think I'm the only of my friends and family who doesn't tan! Here in the south most (in my experience) girls (and guys) tan unless they are blessed with that natural bronzed look. Hubby and baby are naturally dark (I'm jealous!) and I'm a ghost. Ha ha.
I'm the same as you, paper white skin, blue eyes and natural blonde hair (I dye it red). I plan on rocking the paleness. I tried tanning for Jr. Prom and ended up with the worst sunburn! Never again.
Lol...that sounds like what would happen to me. ;) A huge pre-wedding disaster. Oh, and I dyed my hair red/pink once. Funny story. I bought this glazing kit and some nice (sarcasm) person thought it'd be funny to switch out the blonde glaze for red. OMG...it was the day before my sister's wedding and needless to say it was a disaster. Kinda turned my hair a pinky red. Oh the horror. (shudders) Thank goodness I got it fixed in time, but barely. It's funny now, but then...I was freaking! Pink is not my color?, ;)
I had someone ask me the same thing a few weeks before our wedding. I just said "No, I don't ever tan anyother time so I'm not going to now." Rock it, I love my pale skin. Honestly I do! I use to lay every now & again. As my mom owns a tanning bed, but I haven't laid in years & wont be laying anytime soon. My dress was bright white & I loved that I looked like myself in my photo's. :-)
@Tuesdayschild: Oh no! Glad you got it fixed before her wedding! As for my tanning, my friend worked at the salon and put me in a stronger bed than I should have been in to "help the tan get dark faster." Well, I didn't get dark, but I had bright red streaks on the front and back of my thighs... and the rest of me. My poor makeup artist had a hard time fixing that and man did it hurt to sit for a while!
I love being pale! My skin doesn't even tan nicely, it turns this weird peach colour instead of golden or olive. And I freckle a lot, which I don't mind, but it's not a tan.
I did everything I could NOT to tan before my wedding (which was in winter, so that was made a lot easier) so that I wouldn't have strap marks and my skin would be the porcelain shade that suits me best.
I despise all methods of artificially tanning. Someone needs to tell all the Oompa Loompa orange celebrities out there to grab a loofah and scrub that junk off. Not attractive.
I'm not tanning!! Pale is totally coming back in, not to mention the fact that not tanning is better for your skin and helps you avoid skin cancer. IMO, the prettiest women are those who know how to play up what they've naturally got (have you ever seen Nicole Kidman tanned?) and rock it with confidence.
I used to be obsessed with tanning, and would become addicted for about 2 months every spring. I started to get paranoid about skin damage and somehow managed to quit cold turkey! I love how a nice tan looks, but I'm learning to embrace the paleness now and you know what? It's pretty fabulous. I'[d stick with your natural tone for your wedding day- you'll look beautiful.
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but what about NOT tanning? I'm a VERY pale, blonde, blue eyed girl and I really try very hard to stay out of the sun because of skin cancer being very prevalent in my family. I would spray tan, but honestly, besides the fright of turning orange and looking like a munchkin, (I'm 4'11 so the mental picture horrifies me lol) I'm also very allergic to almost every type of soap, lotion, and a million other things my skin comes in contact with so I am afraid to try it. would it be so terrible to just stay pale? My dress is brilliant white, and to be honest up against it my skin doesn't seem as pale. My friends all think I should get tanned because I'm having a beach wedding but what do you guys think? I'm thinking of staying my natural self. :) FI loves me the way I am so...;)