Do you think having a tan is attractive?

[Kaleigh]

Hubby has that golfer''s tan , he wears sunscreen but man... If you look at his feet?? It''s too funny. I used to tan, played lots of tennis, but stay out of the sun these days... I wish my parents had put sunscreen on me when I was little. I had a bunch of bad burns, blisters and sun poisining....

My kids were slathered in sun screen from day one. They like to get a base tan, but don''t get too dark.

 

[AmberGretchen]

Date: 9/23/2009 9:54:42 PM
Author: junebug17

Date: 9/23/2009 9:25:24 PM

Author: AmberGretchen

I am SUPER pale (some makeup brands don''t even make foundation or concealer fair enough for my skin), and I used to hate it, but now I embrace it. I often think that people look better with a bit of color, but for me personally, it really isn''t worth the risk, especially because I got so much sun as a kid when I was on the swim team, etc...


Now I embrace my pale skin (and I almost always wear makeup to enhance my color but I''m OK with that because I actually really like makeup). Ironically, I get compliments on my skin frequently, so I guess there are plenty of people out there who like pale skin

I do agree with those who say to embrace your natural color, but I think that involves all of us being a bit less judgmental about people''s natural color - the same way I think that women with naturally olive or Southeast Asian or African-American skin can all have stunning skin and be gorgeous, I think its a bit misguided to categorize all very pale skin as being inherently less attractive.

Yikes, I didn''t mean to imply that I think people with pale skin aren''t attractive!! I apologize if I sounded like that. A good friend of mine has the most gorgeous porcelian (sp?) skin, she is very fair and her coloring is lovely...in fact, I think a touch of color doesn''t look good on her! I don''t know, my own skin color is just kind of pasty looking...but I''ve been using Cover Girl smoothers lately, it''s a tinted moisturizer, and it gives that slight sun-kissed look. I didn''t mean to diss people with fair skin!

No worries - my comments weren''t directed at you (or anyone in particular, really), just throwing my $0.02 out there