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I'm so torn on whether or not to try a sunless tanning lotion so I'd like to see your wedding pictures if you didn't do any tanning at all, sunless or not. I originally wanted to do it to hide the redness on my arms but I can cover it up with makeup (I tried the other day) and I've actually never been tan by any means so I'm thinking it'd look weird. So anyone stay pale/fair skinned and have pictures to share?
I'm pretty pale and pastey. I didn't do tanning (beds or lotions) but I did wear tube tops all summer to avoid tan lines. You can see that I still have a faint bit of tan lines left over from the summer before, but I don't think it looks too obvious.
Since the wedding is in March I should be back to my winter paler-than-ever skin tone. It makes me feel better though to see how gorgeous you look. I know I always see all these brides being tan but I love being able to see someone else with paler skin. 
Aww thanks! I don't really tan easily. I'm a mix of German, Italian and Scottish, so honestly it just depends what nationality my skin feels like being. Some summers I tan like crazy (my Italian years) and other years I just stay WHITE and pastey, I guess when I'm being German/Scottish! LOL! Personally, I like being on the pale side, it makes my eyes pop more. I also dye my hair darker than my natural colour to accentuate my paleness a bit more. Plus taking good care of your skin and avoiding tanning is better for your skin, less wrinkles down the road!
Yeah I'm German, Irish, Scottish, and English. So I have NO tanning ability whatsoever and tanning lotions look really fake on me as a result (I often ask my parents why someone Italian or Native American couldn't have snuck in there at some point in the line). In high school I hated my skin but now I'm ok with it, I just worry about how it looks in pictures and considering trying out a sunless tanning lotion. I have naturally dark dark dark brown hair, light greenish brown eyes (as you said brought out by being pale) and freckles in the summer. And I totally agree about the wrinkles, since I don't tan I always slather on sunscreen, wear hats, etc.
Just as another thought, if you wanted to add a bit of colour to your skin, maybe try wearing a pink or red bolero since the colour will reflect up. I wore a red one, although not for that reason, I just liked it ;)
I'm the epitome of pale! I didn't tan before engagement photos beyond the sun I got naturally walking the dog, etc.
I totally have a cashmere pinkish cardigan! I may or may not wear it for the ceremony/some of the pictures but I love how it looks with my dress. I totally looked at red too and I love that on you!
@lilyfaith: I loved your engagement pictures! You look gorgeous too! Yay for being fair-skinned!
Yay for pale girls! We rock! LOL!
@mandb122: Perfect! You're going to look gorgeous! Don't you worry about whether or not you're any darker. Think of it this way, if you fake tanned before, you'd look at the photos later and wonder why in the world you did it because it looks nothing like you normally do. You're going to be stunning!
@bakerella: I know, I totally even picture people asking me on the wedding day why I'm darker and even my kids noticing when they see our wedding pictures. I actually do hope though that a few of my freckles hold over to the wedding day through the winter.
@mandb122: thank you! I adore bakerella's photos as well, the red looks amazing. I adore when brides embrace really vibrant color.
I think some of the most gorgeous women are fair skinned. Look at Marion Cotillard - she's old style beautiful, and has that alabaster skin.
I'm super pale too, I'm a teeny bit sad that it didn't work so well in photos, but I was true to the ghostly self I am.
@soonerpsych: I think you look beautiful! And I love your dress!
I am super pale too and decided in high school that I wasn't going to worry about it ever again, and I haven't.
I don't like lotions because to me, they always come out looking very orange, and that's probably one of the last things you want on your wedding day. I would say, go without tanning lotions or regular tanning, because you want to look like yourself at your wedding and not like an umpaloompa. Hehe. I'm sure you'll look beautiful in all your pale glory! That's what I'm hoping for, at least. :)
I'm super pale, getting married in feb, and not planning to tan at all! This is who I am and I want to look like me on my wedding day. Also, I really don't buy into the whole tan = beauty thing.
Here are two pics of me in my dress when I tried in on last week, but I think the iphone/lighting combo makes me look tanner than I am. Also attaching one of the two pics we got from our photog from our eshoot last weekend (yay!). It definitely shows off how white I (and FI) are!
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@CorgiTales: Gorgeous!
I'm glad I posted this because it reaffirms what I had always said about not tanning. I guess it just got to my head to see everyone so tan but now I'm back to being fine with being pale!
@mandb122: Thank you! I'm ok with being pale, I just wish you could tell where the skin ends and the dress begins a little better in some of the wedding day photos. I thought about tanning, but I'll admit I didn't do it because I was scared of the health risks or funky lotion colors.
Yeah I am totally afraid of being orange or weirdly colored. I would never actually tan in the tanning booth or sun because it doesn't work and I've decided to be concerned about keeping my skin free from wrinkles and honestly, skin cancer since I know I'm more prone. But I used sunless tanning a long time ago and it came out weird, I just didn't know if they had improved formulas since then.
I think a lot of sunless tanning lotions work for people who are kind of tan and want to get more tan. They don't look quite as orange. But for people who are not tan at all, sunless tanning lotions really don't work well (at least in my experience) and they turn out funky.
@mandb122: meh when i was in college i was always sunless tanning (i never did it the "real" way because my two colors are translucent and lobster, "tan" is not really a naturally occurring option for me). My big problem was that I couldn't get it even over my whole body. And you don't want to tan, erm, EVERYWHERE. But then where do you stop? And also it'd frequently be orange or streaky. Plus it always smelled bad I thought. I did one of those spray on tan booths once and it looked okay at first but then it started wearing off in weird patterns (particularly around my palms and feet) and it looked like I was a little kid who got dirty playing in the sandbox. I am now just embracing what I am--- really freakishly pale. lol.
@Miss Tattoo: I can't speak for anyone else, but my number one pale dislike is that my skin tends to get ruddy more easily. It's really embarrassing to have red splotches in pictures! Since I've been eating vegan it rarely happens anymore, but it did for most of my life.
@lilyfaith: I agree. I have red splotches on my arms and sometimes on my face and I'm not a fan of when it happens because I get hot and people ask me what's wrong with me and why I'm sunburned.
@PitBulLover: Beautiful!
I'm mixed and I avoid the sun like the plague. ^_^ I put sunscreen on everyday and wear hats out on cloudy days.
Have you looked into airbrushing? I couldn't imagine damaging my skin on purpose.
@mandb122: Thank you!! I think I actually look less pale here because I am against a white wall - so I couldnt be as white as the wall! The only thing I used sunless tanning lotion for was to get rid of my tan lines from the bikini I wore one time in May and 3 months later I could still see the lines - but they were a lot less noticeable than in the beginning!
Also - I have skin discoloration where some parts of my skin have no pigment - its on my chest and back and I was SO worried about it for my wedding pictures - I had airbrush make up put on my chest and back and that helped a lot. ANything I can notice in pictures I have been able to photoshop out so its not that big of a deal!
I'll have to talk to my makeup artist about what she can do besides Bare Minerals on my arms to get rid of the redness. I'm not sure if she uses airbrushing but she should be able to think of something. And I do know that my photographer said she can edit out anything I don't like so she could probably fix my arm discoloration since she already said she'd work on my scars. I won't have been to the beach in almost two years though so if I have any tan lines it'll be interesting.
@MissTattoo: I would never be able to damage my skin on purpose either. I burn so easily anyway that I know tanning in the sun or a tanning bed on purpose would probably have some pretty bad results since putting on SPF 70 at the beach still somehow resulted in me getting a little bit of sun poisoning on my arm for a few days.
No wedding pictures yet, but I'm going to rock the pale look so hard! Here are some pictures of my pasty self (e-pics). FH is pretty pale, too. 
@Statutory Grape: I always love seeing your engagement pictures. They're so fun and you look so beautiful! And I love your red shoes.
@blondeeebuckeye: Our kids will be pretty pale too and have some crazy curly hair. I tend to stay out of the sun too and I always make sure my fiance has on enough sunscreen. And I love that picture! You look gorgeous and I love the colors!
I know it will sound odd...I think women look better when they don't tan, but I know there are a lot of women who do like the look of tanned skin.
There was a billboard in town this past summer that was advertising a tanning salon. It had one woman in a bikini who wasn't tan between two women in bikinis who were tan. The billboard was trying to get people who were white to come in and get tan like the two women, but I actually thought the woman who wasn't tan looked better.
I am rather pale. I can't tan because of my lupus. I haven't even tried to tan since I was in my early 20s, and I always wear 45+ sunscreen when I go out in the sun. I think that's part of the reason why people have such a hard time guessing my age, because my skin hasn't been sun damaged.
I won't be tanning for my wedding. Jim probably wouldn't recognize me if I did!
@mandb122: Aww, thanks! Everyone told me that the combo of red and green would look bad, but I proved them wrong! ;)
@blondeeebuckeye: Loving that picture--so fun!
I just thought about something with the tanning lotions... I would be afraid the colored lotion would rub off on my gown and stain it.
@Loribeth: Knowing my luck that probably would happen. I'm a little worried about makeup on my arms but it should only be on the outside and that's why I figured I'd ask the girl that's doing my makeup what she suggests. And I totally agree that some people look better without tanning. I kind of get the feeling that I'm probably one of those people.
@mandb122: Good idea about asking your makeup artist. I know on My Fair Wedding that David Tutera almost always has the brides' tattoos covered with makeup, so I'm sure there is something that can be used. I would trust makeup more than a tanning lotion.
I think if you don't tan naturally, that any artificial tanning options will look just that--artificial.
Pale skin is beautiful! I dont have pale skin so I dont have a choice. My doctors always say, "do you go tanning? bad" ummm, no that is just my skin color. I had a teacher make fun of me for spending too much time in a tanning bed, umm rude much. So pale skin is the way to go. Nicole Kidman is so beautiful, the movie marie antoinette, gorgeous. You get the idea.
@Loribeth: I agree! I think nature tends to know best and puts the right skin color with hair and eye color. And I honestly am so sick of the orange-bronze look on everyone. I've always embraced my paleness. I did fake tan once at about 13, when the spray tanning booths had just come out, and I had to stay home from school for two days because it started to rub off and my skin was all splotchy like I had some kind of awful disease! It was so terrible. I never wanted to damage my skin in the sun, so from then on I just said screw tanning, and I've been my pale self ever since, haha. I don't plan to tan for my wedding, for sure! I love seeing all the ladies who avoided the tanning for the wedding, you all look great.
@veganglam: Every time I think of those spray on tanning booths, I can't help but think about that "Friends" episode when Ross went to one. "one mississippi, two mississippi..." hahaha!
I used those tanning lotions on my legs a couple years ago when I decided I'd try to go without pantihose, and it was awful! It rubbed off onto everything!! Then the next thing I knew, my knees looked white and splotchy because they rubbed against things the most. The worst think I can think of is having a tan rub off onto the wedding dress.
Yeay for pale skinned brides who aren't afraid to show their beautiful light skin!!
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