Fake Tan + Pale Skin + Sunbeds

aylithuk

Need some advice without the normal 'dangers of sunbeds' patter. Yes I am fully aware of the dangers and I even wear cityblock 40spf daily!

Last time I went on holiday I stupidly managed to burn my back but about 2 weeks later I had a tan on my back only which my OH couldn't stop laughing about. So I know I can tan but dont wish to burn myself to do it!

I've recently tried a fake tan in a shop. The 1st day it looked lovely but only lasted 3 days and when fading look like I stood in a duststorm! OH hated it as well because it looked unnatural.

So I am thinking about sun beds but only for a month before going on holiday. I rather, vainly, tried on a cossy when I had a fake tan and I looked a hell of a lot better with a bit of colour!

I was wondering if any other pale skin lovelies have managed to get a decent colour on their skin via sunbed within a month?

Or is this gonna be a waste of time and money

pinksk8

Im medium skin tone and could easily get a sunbed tan in a month, but if your pale I think you will burn, but you could do it, but I would say don't go on for more than 3 mins to begin with, then build up to six, definitely dont go on for longer than that.

Tan accelerators are great but I wouldnt recommend them for pale skin, but its up to you.

What I usually do for a holiday, is get a spray tan before my flight then use carrot oil to sunbathe (I know, I know!) which by the time my spray tan washes off Im browner anyways...

Be careful & enjoy your hols! x

mynameistallulah

I am very fair, sunbeds do nothing for me. I find a light St Tropez gives a really nice, very natural finish and lasts a good week or two, enough time to get some colour yourself. However I would only have it done somewhere that has been recommended, some salons seem to think that everyone wants to be tangoed!

aylithuk

Thanks ladies. The reason I haven't gone down the spraytan route for the holiday is because I spend most of my time in the sea. Spray tans go very very patchy from the salt in the sea and it's not a good look.

LilMissEmmylou

Why not try daily tan moisturisers? I am so typically Irish it hurts with my skin colour! Whiter than paper and all that. Currently using the no7 moisturiser with a touch of tan and its for sure making me look a lovely colour on a daily basis just from putting it on after my showers

no1gymbunny

I'm very fair and never tan. I just burn (if I'm not careful) and go back to white. I tried a sunbed leading up to my wedding last year and only because I was worried about hideous fake tan stains all around the top of my wedding dress! I was convinced by a "mate" and the tangerine guy in the salon that I'd be fine. I went on for about 4 minutes, 3 times a week for nearly a month. I was so scared of what I was potentially doing to my skin that I don't think I used it enough. I did begin to lose the milk bottle effect, but to the untrained eye, there was no change. I will never use sun beds again - we all know the dangers.

I'm not really a big fan of fake tans either - I just hate the patchy effect you get around your hands/wrists/ankles, etc. I just use the tinted moisturisers like L'Oreal. My favourite is St Tropez Everyday and I've nearly got enough Boots Advantage points now to get my next tube! ;-)

Pennylane

I am half Irish and fair skinned and I have also had skin cancer, so this topic interests me.

I just don't get why fair-skinned people want to look brown. I was in Ireland not long ago and a relative was getting married. She was a stunningly beautiful girl with very fair skin and gorgeous long dark hair. When I saw her wedding photos some time later I was horrified to see her and the bridesmaids all "tangoed". It was so obviously fake and all the men were pale faced.

It is such a shame that they feel the need to hide their natural colouring.

CupOfChai

I'm fair skinned and don't naturally tan at all, nor do I use sunbeds or fake tan. I think if I use a fake tan it never looks right, always a really awful unnatural colour. I don't know if that's because I'm just not used to seeing myself like that, or if it's because my skin doesn't have the right base tones or something for the colour to look right since it doesn't naturally tan.

I like being pale! Recently I saw a photo in the paper of a woman who is obsessed with having sunbeds and I kid you not, she looked like an Egyptian mummy! :eek:

vixarooni

More to life than a tan! I'm pale and yea i like to get a bit of colour on me, and id put some gradual tanner on before i went but thats it.

Person_one

I'm very pale.

I like it though, it suits my eye and hair colour and it beats skin cancer

(Sorry, you can't expect cancer not to be mentioned. It'd be like asking 'should I take up smoking to help me lose weight? Please don't mention lung cancer.' )

Gloomendoom

CupOfChai wrote: »

I like being pale! Recently I saw a photo in the paper of a woman who is obsessed with having sunbeds and I kid you not, she looked like an Egyptian mummy! :eek:

Was that the woman from the U.S. who got into trouble for burning her daughter in a sunbed?