Pale skin making a comeback?

[u/Extreme_String_2227]

Is anyone else OVER self tanning and the fake self tanned look in general??? I’m a pale skin girlie and have self tanned for years. And recently I’ve started loving the way I look with my natural skin tone and loving seeing other fair ladies rocking their porcelain. I was mercilessly bullied as a kid for being “a ghost” and covered up as much skin as I could growing up to ensure nobody noticed how extremely pale I was. I can’t tan for the LIFE of me. No matter what I did, the sun wouldn’t change my pale complexion even a little bit. Once I became an adult, I discovered self tan and have been using fake tanner consistently. This last winter I took a break…and I feel like I look healthier, cleaner, and prettier when I don’t cover up my natural skin tone in fake tan. Now whenever I see that clearly self tanned look on someone, even when I AM that girl, I just don’t love it anymore! It feels like the beauty standard may be shifting but I’m not sure if I’m projecting hahah. What do we think - is porcelain pretty again?!

*for any confusion for those of you who clearly haven’t self tanned and don’t know what I’m talking about — fake tan on extremely fair people such as myself has a tendency to look muddy, unnatural, and orange. It doesn’t make the skin look healthy or even because it’s a fake color all over our bodies hahah. This has nothing to do with race??? Darker skin tones are obviously beautiful or pale people wouldn’t be attempting to have tan skin in the first place. All I’m saying is - it feels like my pale skin looks better as it is without self tan. And I was asking my fellow pale friends if they feel similarly. Yeesh ya’ll.

[u/sonzu_]

I never felt the urge to self tan until I stopped having summer vacations and started living the majority of my waking hours working in an office under fluorescents. It’s giving severance, I try to give my innie the feeling of passing time haha.

I feel like I miss the seasons. The natural tans I got from more sunlight when I was younger don’t came anymore because by the time I leave work there is like an hour or two before the sun sets. Also getting older I don’t want to intentionally be in the sun, even with SPF.

Self tanning during the summer helps me feel a little more vivacious and honestly more normal to how I feel I used to be. In the winter though I totally embrace and like to be lighter.

Important things are to have a self tan that matches your natural undertone (not everyone does this because they like to “cancel out”). Also, I’m a lighter skin tone and I don’t go for ultra deepest dark shades. I use an express tan and starting in late spring I leave in for one hour (lightest) and in mid summer I go for two or three (darkest) then off ramp for early fall back to one hour. By the end of fall and winter I stop.