Embracing our Irish skin colour

Maybe people are commenting cos they're so used to seeing you with fake tan so it seems such a change? They'd get used to it I'm sure. Bit cheeky to say, but some people are tactless.

I personally go for natural skin colour all the time, but it's extremely rare that I would wear a mini or shorts with bare legs, I usually wear tights, or with knee length skirts I go bare legged. Everyone's used to my pale colouring and no one comments.

I never wear it and love being pale The only negative comments I've gotten are when some women find out I'm not wearing tan for my wedding. Why the fcuk would I if I never, ever wear it at any other time

The comments i have had thrown at me over my lack of tan were rude and nasty, certainly my perception did not make them this way. Having people of both sex comment on your "horrible pale legs" and being told to "put away the milk bottles" is so nasty. As i said it doesn't bother me anymore but obviously it did when i was younger.

I use to put that daily self tan on which smelt rotten, just because my boyfriend at the time didnt like my very pale skin. But I got rid the of the tan plus that guy. Im happy with my skin. I was really impress with Nicola from Girls Aloud. She looks so good now. Fake tan is full of chemicals, I cant stand the smell and look of it.
It actually makes some women look worse. If Im wearig a dress or short skirt, I just put on some shimmer lotion that brightens my skin up. I honestly never had any real abuse from people about my skin. My sister does have people telling her to get a tan. I love the look.

I'm pretty sallow as far as Irish complexions go and I'd have quite a warm skin tone, so I look positively washed out if I get too pale.

It's funny though, when I lived in Ireland I got the 'are your parents Irish?' comments from time to time because of my skin tone, but since moving to Canada I seem to be considered whiter-than-white, there's so much diversity here. I dated one guy who burst out laughing once when I described myself as 'sallow', and I had a deep summer tan at the time - came back to Ireland about two weeks later and back to the 'you're not really Irish though' jokes!

I wouldn't be a fake tan fan, but because of how washed out I can look if I haven't had much sun exposure, I'll usually wear some tinted moisturiser and that Nivea sun-kissed stuff if I can get my hands on it - it's nowhere near that horribly mucky colour you get with some tans and it's a good moisturiser too. The market for fake tan is way way smaller here - girls just don't wear it. Sun beds do seem to be a prominent thing though, I see them all over the place and also notice that Canadian girls seem to maintain a year-round tan..hardly a coincidence.

I inherited skin that tans very well, and both my parents would be big fans of the sun. When I was a kid my Dad would actively encourage me to spend as much time outside in the sun playing so that I wouldn't burn when the holidays came around. So from a very early age I've associated being tanned with happy summer times and it's difficult to shake that. Even now I definitely feel 'healthier' with a bit of colour on me. The ironic thing is I'm starting to notice the sun damage on my face and in the last couple of years I've made a much bigger effort to make sure I wear SPF year-round.

I've spent quite a few summers working in the tropics too, and it got to the point that my skin was so dark it wouldn't tan any deeper. My nickname when I came home was the little ewok because of my dark skin and bleached blonde bodyhair that looked like down :pac: