guys, this video is about pale vs tan skin, not white skin vs other skin colors. comments praising white skin over other skin colors will be promptly deleted and the authors blocked. please let me know if you notice someone being inappropriate. this video is not a space for any racist remarks.

@salmonsays1466

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for making that clear. It's so important, especially in a time where open racism unfortunately is flourishing again.

@ashildrtheswift3028

4 жыл бұрын

Anyone who comments that obviously didn't watch your video.

@Wikant18

4 жыл бұрын

Ludzie: jesteśmy najmądrzejszym gatunkiem na ziemi Też ludzie: "ja nie rozumiem jak można być czarnym nie mogą sie po prostu umyć?"

@Omegaures

4 жыл бұрын

@@salmonsays1466 "open racism unfortunately is flourishing again" What?

@algonzalez6853

4 жыл бұрын

coward

This is just 9 and 1/2 minutes of an immortal vampire making excuses for why she can't go in the sun...

@emmanew3226

4 жыл бұрын

This really should have more likes.

@klarawinterain6101

4 жыл бұрын

@@emmanew3226 she's probably also sitting in the dark but edited it afterwards.

@PKcoach

3 жыл бұрын

👀

@artisticrunway972

3 жыл бұрын

666 likes

@lilpretzel5629

3 жыл бұрын

OwO 666 likes Imma live a 👍 here so to not disturb the number.

I don’t tan because I stay inside 24/7

@user-ck9lm6xi1o

4 жыл бұрын

Java Ditto. I’m thinking of charging people who come hang out at my place. Idk, maybe $10 an hour for un-tanning.

@luckysweetheartvintage476

4 жыл бұрын

Lol me too!!

@Wikant18

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@sarcasticdemon7669

4 жыл бұрын

At least you are less likely to get skin cancer! 😃 I stay inside 24/7 too.

@lorhoward7226

4 жыл бұрын

Relatable

I don't tan and here's why: 1. I'm a redhead. Enough said.

@RachelHowardmotionless96

4 жыл бұрын

So true

@catiatavares7757

4 жыл бұрын

Ahahah lobster effect

@whitefeather802

3 жыл бұрын

The proper term is, "I'm a Ginger".

@leslieyancey5084

3 жыл бұрын

Same! Super pale, no pigmentation at all! Unfortunately, in the 90s I learned this the hard way!

@anastasijapopovic7650

3 жыл бұрын

Me

You're the only other person I've heard say that their skin turns green when they tan. I'm of Polish heritage, and I turn green. No one believes me. I'm not going to get a tan just to prove them wrong. Thanks, I feel so much better.

@Daniela-yk8pr

4 жыл бұрын

I also get greenish, but i dont have polish heritage.

@bookmouse2719

4 жыл бұрын

It's called olive....not green. Olive green.

@Daniela-yk8pr

4 жыл бұрын

​@@bookmouse2719 Ok, replace greenish for olivish

@sydneydarice

4 жыл бұрын

I'm a monocromatic mess when it comes to spending time in the sun! I get an olive color too, but on top of that my hair lightens from the sun exposure. So my hair and skin look like the same color. People actually remark on my hair color between winter and summer (and I don't go outside a whole lot anymore)! Mostly they think I dye my hair.... I really don't. I don't even try, it just does this

@Corita93

4 жыл бұрын

Like me you have probably only eumelanin and no pheomelanin produced in skin. If you're fair or light not tanned skin is yellowish-olive, but when tanned it's brown-olive. I tan easily, but because I'm fair I also burn easily. This melanin production also affect hair, bleached to light blonde don't become orange or brassy.

"aRe YoU SiCk?" no mum, you've known me for 20 years you should know my skin tone by now

@Ryan-pg1tw

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe you should be more respectful

@gocelotspice5766

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ryan-pg1tw wait what i know this is old but wHat

@sudhanvakashyap297

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ryan-pg1tw .....

@zweij

4 жыл бұрын

This comment made me laugh. Thanks!

@rinan4058

4 жыл бұрын

samme

I don't try to tan on purpose because 1. I fear skin cancer 2. I burn more easily than tanning, and when I do tan it isn't very dramatic 3. I don't really feel any less attractive if I'm pale

@mikat_2977

3 жыл бұрын

Awwe seriously everyone should feel the same as you on the 3rd one. You're so right you're no less attractive with your own skin tone whatever it is

@yoyoyoyo-lq4jb

3 жыл бұрын

These are the same exact reasons I have lol

@zontzooit2415

3 жыл бұрын

Also peopel who tan age quicker

@artxmiss6343

3 жыл бұрын

BROO SAME HERE!! everytime i try n tan, there's a 50/50 chance of either being sunburnt or getting a slight, barely noticeable tan. sooooo i don't tan at all

@otizev

3 жыл бұрын

Thats exactly me lmao

I’m an esthetician. Most of my clients have fairly pale, Northern European type skin. Many people still believe in visiting tanning beds to get a “base” tan before going on vacation. Please don’t do that, there is no such thing as a base tan, you just damage your skin before you leave town. Instead pay attention to good sunscreen, pay attention to how your skin reacts and cover up! Go to the beach but make sure you have an umbrella and there are great spf approved shirts. Base tanning is like drinking before a night out, usually ends in a mess only you pay with damaged skin decades late.

@marcilk7534

3 жыл бұрын

When I was 17, my family was getting ready to go to the Bahamas for vacation. My parents decided we should all get a base tan to reduce the chances of burning. My first time in that tanning bed, I hated it. It was like laying in a coffin with electrical crackling around me that left me worried about getting electrocuted. I opted out of future tanning visits, although the rest of my family continued. As a result, I was more cautious about wearing sunscreen on vacation even though the weather was on the cool side. I was the only one in my family who didn’t end up with a sunburn.

@babykrul

3 жыл бұрын

Yup! Happy to wear sunscreen daily! Not because I think pale skin is better, but I want to not let the sun degrade my collagen production and I want to fade my PIE, and have clear skin. Not paler skin but clearer skin. Trust me I would love to be more tan naturally. But I was born pale and now my skin tone is white with red haha. And fading the red spots and getting one overall skin tone boosts my confidence and now I don’t feel the urge to put makeup on everyday. Thanks sunscreen (and tretinoin and azelaic acid lol)

@someblaqguy

3 жыл бұрын

Huh... weird. This was never something I had to worry about. 🤔

@lunak6561

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! There is a reason why Arabs cover themselves, to avoid damaging their skin!

@lunak6561

2 жыл бұрын

I want to add that lack of melanin makes you more vulnerable to UV radiation (which damages the skin), so that's why brown and black people are less wrinkly. Obviously you know that but there are people who don't.

I dont tan. Im so pale i reflect the sun.

@mistressmozart

4 жыл бұрын

me too! my legs are so white I was sitting the sun and it was reflecting off my legs and it actually was so bright it hurt my eyes

@TheChickenRiceBowl

4 жыл бұрын

@@mistressmozart Oh lordy.

@TheChickenRiceBowl

4 жыл бұрын

@psycho road Why?

@kristinaw3377

4 жыл бұрын

Same but together we can reflect the sun and stop global warming

@Natalia-vu3kq

4 жыл бұрын

LOL ❤️

Naturally brown-skinned gal here. Here in the Philippines, the obsession is on the opposite. Almost everyone aims to be as light-skinned as possible, it's ridiculous. Growing up, I've been made fun of for being darker than my peers, and it's considered ugly for the most part in the 90s (imagine the effect it has to young girls' self esteem). I've learned to embrace it though, and I love it now. But buying something as simple as soaps, moisturizers, and sunscreens is sooo difficult because almost EVERYTHING has whitening agents in them. It's crazy. I love skin in all colors, and I feel the messaging should change to overall skin and body health, and not labeling what skin color is better. Healthy skin is good skin, and being ivory pale or chocolate dark doesn't matter.

4 жыл бұрын

Yess! I 100% agree!

@intellectualesemv

4 жыл бұрын

Same, except being Filipino American over in the US. Try Supergoop sunscreen, if you can. It's the only one I've found that doesn't leave a chalky residue.

@RicH0864

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. As a rather pale Filipino, first thing people always comment on when they meet me is how fair or pale my skin is and asking how I got it that way. I'm always dumbfounded because it's just the way my skin is and I didn't really do anything for it. There is definitely a bias towards lighter skin which is still continually perpetuated because of all our skin whitening products from soaps to supplements promoted by celebrities and other figures.

@arakarenina

4 жыл бұрын

@@intellectualesemv thanks so much, will try to look for that!

@taniamanik2012

4 жыл бұрын

This really is an Asian thing, especially for Asians living in Asia

When I was younger, people pressured me to get tanned all the time. I was ask if I was sick because of my skin tone regularly, and my mother persisted until very recently to believe that if I went under the sun with little protection over time my skin would become stronger and I would tan (the burns I got following her advice over and over again were traumatic). That never happened. Instead I had a skin cancer scare not too long ago because as it turns out and as my dermatologist confirmed, I cannot tan. At best I get light beige under the sun and it's barely noticeable. Thankfully, over the last five years I started dying my hair strawberry blond instead of its natural mousy brown and now everyone assumes my hair is naturally red/blond because it matches my skin tone and no one ask me if I am sick anymore. Instead they ask me if I'm Irish or Scandinavian.

@katherinetutschek4757

4 жыл бұрын

I think pale skin w brown hair looks really nice:)

@erinbathie-moore8478

4 жыл бұрын

I have the same skin situation. I have blue eyes and dark ash blonde hair to go with it though

@ev3ysia

4 жыл бұрын

It's terrible you had to dye your hair for people to leave you alone. Gl1d you're enjoying the color though.

@marvhartigan3677

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Leila, fuck what others think.You are beautiful no matter what alright.

@theteddy906

3 жыл бұрын

I am fortunate enough to get tan (although I still can get burned) but I prefer to not to get super tan because it’s not healthy.

In Asia, we still have that mentality that being pale/lighter skin means your upper class or you’re beautiful. While having darker skin is associated with being poor, dirty, unattractive. There’s a billion dollar industry there for whitening products. Beauty standards are so strange and a great scheme for capitalism.

@amazingperson6305

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I'm desi and I've seen a lot of my cousin's back home use skin whitening creams.

@Kiara-M

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah the people that FREAKED OUT when their skin whitening cream wasn't goin to be produced anymore because it was harmful and they were so upset that they weren't going to achieve that "beautiful" tone anymore

@pareehassan9877

2 жыл бұрын

And in Western sociaty there is a million dollar industry to get dark. One of my neighbours had a skin tone of someone Caribbean or India. Wen she was wearing a leather jacket it was almost like her skin tone. She had obvioisly tanned and it looked weird.

@s0f_03

2 жыл бұрын

@@pareehassan9877 It’s funny because if you look at European beauty standards in the Renaissance period, pale skin was seen as the beauty standard for women.

Here in the nordic countries, I feel like being "tan" over the summer is a kind of social status marker because it suggests you're rich enough to go on vacation somewhere warm.

@sorchx

4 жыл бұрын

You guys tan very easy though right? One thing that always annoyed me, you guys get way less sun than Ireland, yet we're so much paler.

@sofieost4014

3 жыл бұрын

@@sorchx it depends. I'm from sweden and it's hard for me to get tan. But my mother can tan for a day and she dont have to tan the rest of the summer. Maybe its genetics

@MononokeLynn

3 жыл бұрын

Some here in the northern middle part of the States.

@Yorick257

3 жыл бұрын

​@@sorchx in Estonia, many people I've met don't have tan. Instead, they just become red, the skin falls off after a week, and then it's almost the same

@Scriptadiaboly

3 жыл бұрын

I had a horrible sunburns only from 1 day in Malmö 😂

Funny how light skinned people want tanned skin and tan people want to be paper white. Sometimes i dont get humanity🤷‍♂️

@reneecrotty6910

4 жыл бұрын

We always want what we cant have. Human nature. Sad isnt it? I wish we could all be happy and content. God bless xx

@ksnndnfr6101

4 жыл бұрын

I have pretty dark skin and I'm 100% happy with it

@reneecrotty6910

4 жыл бұрын

@@ksnndnfr6101 Oh thats so awesome! I hope ill be happy like that about my self too in time ♡ praise god

@Lily-xd1tg

4 жыл бұрын

Joel Lacwasan and even worse, despite many paler people want to be tanned, more dark skinned people face discrimination, despite that skin colour being something (most) people aspire to have

@Not_a_Saint9891

4 жыл бұрын

In asian communities like mine, the media and beauty companies make people think that in order to be noticable and relevant you have be white/pale. Women get highly insecure about their tan that they go to the extremes to achieve the “acceptable” skin color , which in my opinion is stupid because if they are aiming for beauty then they are beautiful as they are.

Just a tip for everyone, you can also buy "sun block" clothing too. It's a fabric that filters out BOTH Uva and Uvb sun rays.

@sineculpa

4 жыл бұрын

Yes! ALSO, there is a laundry additive you can put in your washing machine during a cycle to make regular clothes UV protected. It's called Sun Guard.

@komfykoala6083

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this! I need to look for that.

@komfykoala6083

4 жыл бұрын

@@sineculpa Thank you for suggesting that!!!

@sineculpa

4 жыл бұрын

@@komfykoala6083 You're welcome!

@lilymcallister9751

3 жыл бұрын

Best invention ever. I love these fabrics when I go to the beach. I wear a long sleeve zipup thingy like a 2 piece scuba suit. No one even bats an eye! I use sun screen, especially on my hair and scalp and under the fabric. It has saved my skin a lot of grief as I am a redhead who loves the beach and outdoor activities.

i don't tan, i burst into flames

I can't stand people that spend 3 months a the beach and then come ask "DoN't YoU eVeR tAaAaaAAAan???" No, I don't.

@dickottel

4 жыл бұрын

yup it's so boring to just lie on the beach and sweat in the heat, also it's a horrible feeling and unhealthy. I'm always looking for some shade because - call me weird - but I don't like having sweat everywhere??? I wanna just relax, have a drink, read something, so I can't just feel comfortable in 30 degrees Celsius, I wanna enjoy my free time, I feel like it's logical...

@sophieszobonya3175

4 жыл бұрын

I found my people! At last! Gosh, I hate being on the sun, lie, do nothing, but wait for social acceptance and the sun systematically destroying my skin

@aaabbb-jm4sl

4 жыл бұрын

SkoczMiNaPukiel YES! Every time I try to tan I give up after five minutes, it’s a horrible feeling and it doesn’t even work, I just burn

@keabird8264

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, finally some people who are annoyed by hearing that as well! Also older people (my bf grandpa for example) will tell me that "yOu'Re sO PaLe, YoU NeED To SpEnD MoRe TimE In ThE SuN. A TaN is HeAlThy " all the Time. Like no thank you, I'd rather stay pale and have a healthy skin than have more wrinkles than a pug once I'm 30.

@patrickmccurry1563

4 жыл бұрын

I think they're just bragging about their wealth, free time, and need to feel better than others. Tanning is just their "weapon", not their intent.

It became a status symbol to look like you can afford to go to the Caribbean or South of France instead of working in offices/ factories year round.

@DP-jy2ge

4 жыл бұрын

TheMagdalenaBB Now a tan makes you look like trailer trash. Pale undamaged skin looks WAY more 'expensive'.

@saralimalourenco

4 жыл бұрын

That is a theory yet to be proven.

@cottage-core_

4 жыл бұрын

@@DP-jy2ge wait when did that happen

@DP-jy2ge

4 жыл бұрын

Kaila A In the civilised world ... decades ago. Tans haven't been a thing since the 80's.

@cottage-core_

4 жыл бұрын

@@DP-jy2ge but.. it's still a thing with celebrities, like the Kardashians, etc. And all the girls at my school wanted to be super tan. They'd even make sure they had spray tans at prom. But I live in america so maybe that's it

"If I can walk in the shadow instead of sunlight I will, just because I'll be a little bit cooler." Me: *Cries in Texas*

@leshurlementsdelacave9563

3 жыл бұрын

😂 This comment is underrated

@petrichorbones

3 жыл бұрын

me too :(

@samuelgonzalezsantacruz5893

Жыл бұрын

I dont hate the tan,I HATE THE FREAKING HEAT.

When she said winter is my favorite season... girl I felt that

@theaceofspace6110

3 жыл бұрын

Yesss ❤

Tanning is just so damaging. The idea that something is inherently wrong with your natural skin tone is really wild..

@yasmin4281

4 жыл бұрын

tanning is the new bleaching (minus the racism behind it lol)

@AutumnLovesMelly

4 жыл бұрын

I am blessed enough to get to a pale olive skin tone in the winter and tan easily just from being outside casually during the summer, but I really dont understand what everyone's obsession is with tan skin where they sit outside for HOURS specifically to burn their skin.

@wooltattoo

4 жыл бұрын

people who work outside or tan easily can't really help it. I for example can go on a hike for one day and come back with quite a tan.

@trekadouble757

4 жыл бұрын

Hmmm a tan is also a natural skin tone. You go out in the sun, you tan, its natural.

@dorottagati6883

4 жыл бұрын

being tanned is just natural as being pale, I dont get what youre saying

Naturally fair skinned gal here, it’s so nice to hear someone talk about the pressure to be tan. For years I was the butt of all the jokes in my family because my skin is so naturally fair. They’d ask me if I was sick, tell me I needed to go outside, tell me I looked like a ghost, they even made the joke that my skin was “translucent”. At one point I even deliberately went outside without sunscreen on so I would finally tan (spoiler alert, I didn’t) and ended up with blisters all over my shoulders/shoulder-blades and nearly down to my back from how badly I burned. I couldn’t raise my arms or wear more than a T-shirt for two weeks. Not to mention how red my face was too. All I’ve heard my whole life is that my pale skin is weird and bad and doesn’t look good. It’s part of why I wish I could’ve lived in a time when my skin would be considered beautiful, like in the classic Hollywood era. Thank you for talking about this and making me feel better about how I look even in a small way ❤️ EDIT: holy cannoli, this comment has 1K likes! I had no idea so many people could relate! Thanks for the love everyone. You guys rock.

@CrisSelene

4 жыл бұрын

I feel your pain. I go through the same thing, both the mocking and the burns if I stay even a bit in the sun (which is what baffles me that my family knowing that, still insist I tan)

@anikaesther5463

4 жыл бұрын

I’m in the same boat, and I got a ton of pressure from people growing up to use bottle tan or spray tans because for whatever reason others obsessed over how pale I was. It’s weird, and I like my skin the way it is, and thankfully as an adult I haven’t gotten as many rude comments about it. But yeah, my family used to really mock me too, despite the fact that none of them can tan either.

@devenblackwell5690

4 жыл бұрын

I didn't wear shorts til I was 18 because I was so self conscious about my paleness. Before I was 16 i'd wear long sleeves. I have freckles from sun damage as a kid so my skin looks speckled and pale. That's so sad to make kids feel like they can't even be comfortable wearing what makes them comfortable. The pressure is so, so real :[

@MN-pc4il

4 жыл бұрын

I think a lot of people can relate to this sadly. Hope they leave you alone now. Remember, there is a reason why that is your natural skin colour, so don't risk your health for other people's opinion x

@tijanaself897

4 жыл бұрын

Admire your skin tone! It's beautiful

My skin is really pale. I don’t like tanning because I just don’t like how it looks on me... also the heat makes me feel sick

@junkabella6324

3 жыл бұрын

Fellow person!

I dont tan either. I avoid the sun (when UV is high) and always wear SPF50. I wont have wrinkles and sunspots when I’m 35 so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ have fun tannin I guess

@komfykoala6083

4 жыл бұрын

I don't tan for that reason too (apart the fact that I don't look how I look tan). I live in an area that reaches 90+ degrees F (30 degrees C) and I walk in the sun quite often to get to work/classes/to walk my dog. I can't avoid the sun no matter what but I wear sunscreen whenever I go out. It's the only skin product I think all people should use (the rest optional).

@ksnndnfr6101

4 жыл бұрын

ALR profile photo!!!

@rebeccap7958

3 жыл бұрын

A lot of the sun damage to your skin happens as a child. So unless your mother was diligent with sunscreen, you will probably still have sunspots. It’s just a fact of life and aging.

@mikanchan322

3 жыл бұрын

I think sunspots are super cute- but yes, health first.

@kstar1489

3 жыл бұрын

You say that as if 35 is old

the sun is a deathly laser

@mimschannel6903

4 жыл бұрын

Not anymore there's a blanket!

@Stelloonie

4 жыл бұрын

0 taste the suuuuuun

@rozempire2843

4 жыл бұрын

Bill wurtz the science guy

@hipeople9856

4 жыл бұрын

I watched that video a couple days ago. What I learned: we're descended from fish. You can't convince me otherwise

@kirtu9035

3 жыл бұрын

eyyyy bill wurtz reference

On a side note, you look so cute with that hair+blouse combo

@Evija3000

4 жыл бұрын

Together with those lips and pale skin it's the full Show White combo.

@patrickmccurry1563

4 жыл бұрын

Does she ever not look cute? That's rhetorical, because the only valid answer is, "no". ;)

I think the whole tanning fashion also stems (partly) from the fact that having tanned skin nowadays is a more modern sign of wealth too. Most people now work indoors, so it’s not very easy to get tanned unless you specifically go to the beach (or the park) to sunbath. The fact that you’re tanned in a way shows that you have enough money and time to be taking holidays. It shows you’re not some poor exploited factory worker who works 12 hours a day to support her family and doesn’t have time or money to go on a holiday to the beach. Now the poor people are the ones who stay indoors all day working, and the rich are the ones who can take a trip to Bali and lay in the beach all day doing literally nothing. EDIT: I was thinking about how people with darker skin tones want to have pale skin, and it just occurred to me the whole changing your skin tone is mostly about how much effort it requires and isn’t so related to the skin tone itself. What I mean is that having a different skin tone (tanned or pale), requires time and effort, only rich people have the time and money to put in the effort to have the opposite skin tone.

@missmaryypotter

4 жыл бұрын

This argument doesn’t really make sense as field workers are often underpaid and often tanned.

@atomicexplosionchild

3 жыл бұрын

Also some people go to tan in tanning beds (which is very expensive) :/

@zcalhoun3638

3 жыл бұрын

This is like a dr Seuss book I remember reading😂😂 I think you r right in a way

@magdalenaos8215

3 жыл бұрын

​@@missmaryypotter In developed countries only a small fraction of society work in the fields, agriculture is highly mechanized.

@magdalenaos8215

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamiebenson6079 In my area sweet potatoes does not grow, but for ordinary potatoes we use a potato harvester. It is different, if farm is very small, because of course they can't afford harvester.

*Meanwhile Black and Brown people in the shade looking at white peoples getting tan are like* : Why would you do that?

@mara4351

3 жыл бұрын

As a poc I don't understand why they do that

@dangbang7763

2 жыл бұрын

I think nowadays it's considered being "wealthy" because it looks like you have the money to go on vacation and stuff, since most people work indoors and don't have the time to go out. But it's still kinda dumb Lmao

As an Australian, whenever someone mentions tanning all I can think about is "tanning is skin cells in trauma"

@reneecrotty6910

4 жыл бұрын

haha same🇦🇺

@mrsbeard5225

4 жыл бұрын

Haha omg! And that incredibly inaccurate animation on how melanoma travels through the blood stream like an alien.

@KateeAngel

4 жыл бұрын

Pale skinned people were not meant to be in Australia...

@reneecrotty6910

4 жыл бұрын

@@KateeAngel Black people werent meant to be in Europe. Asians werent meant to be in africa 😂😂 You are just stating the obvious. 👏👏👏 hahahaha

@TheEllababella

4 жыл бұрын

I remember this PSA on tv, where the catchphrase was 'there is nothing healthy about a tan!' we even have signs in Townville that say that XD

Meanwhile, from where I came from (South East Asia), people are very obsessed with having a fair skin to the point that they will use a harmful chemical to make themselves becomes fairer (most of us are naturally tan). Dark-skin is looked down upon. Wish people would just accept all shades of skin colour.

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman

4 жыл бұрын

You are ABSOLUTELY CORRECT...👍👍

@andinarizkia

4 жыл бұрын

Ikr. My father is my biggest "bully" of me being tan. He used to the stereotype of white skin looks more delicate and yadda yadda. I love the way I look though, it's not my fault I look exotic😎

@sMASHsound

4 жыл бұрын

in the caribbean, that is also done.

@adorabellenamigadde6605

4 жыл бұрын

amen

@RiceBBinka

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I’m pretty tan. Idk why it’s like that cuz it doesn’t change a person but it’s whatever

Tanning is huge here in America. As a teen, everyone wanted to be tan for Spring and Summer. As a very pale person with Auburn hair and hazel green eyes, I burn horribly. I was always made fun of for being very pale. Now in my mid 40's, people tell me I look much younger because I don't look like a leather handbag!

I’m one of the freckled ones that always here’s the comment: why don’t you get more sun. Your freckles will all merge into a tan! No, no it’s not. I will never have enough freckles to make a tan, and the ones I do have offer no protection from the sun.

@kstar1489

3 жыл бұрын

I think they mean your freckles will blend in with your tanned skin so you don’t have visible freckles anymore. Idk if that’s how that works though lol. But freckles are cute so no need to hide them in the first place

@essaly7969

3 жыл бұрын

@@kstar1489 They would probably darken, not blend into the tan.

@russellharrell2747

3 жыл бұрын

@@kstar1489 no they definitely don’t work that way. The skin that doesn’t freckle will never tan, just turn red and burn. In the ‘ginger’ or melanin deficient only some skin cells produce melanin while most do not.

@sandraduleviciute2577

3 жыл бұрын

Haha my freckles mulpily like million times during sun time. Fck no, i chose to be pale 🧝‍♀️

I don't tan because 1) my skin just won't, I either burn or get freckles and 2) both of my grandfathers died of skin cancer, and I've had many female relatives survive breast cancer, so I really don't want to risk it. I really like how pale my skin is, though, I think it fits my aesthetic and it looks good with my dark hair.

@dallyh.2960

4 жыл бұрын

same here. If I am in direct sunlight for more than 15 minutes I will combust. I like my pale skin though because it goes well with pastel colors, which is basically my wardrobe. Plus I have very light blue eyes (grey basically) and light colored blond hair, which all goes really well with pastel too. So at least everything matches.

@swagmeister5323

4 жыл бұрын

My skin is the same. I get freckles or my skin turns slightly pink. I don’t like it at all but there’s nothing I can do about it :(

@sarahconnors8909

4 жыл бұрын

Same! I’ve grown to love my pale skin and freckles and how it contrasts with my dark hair and aesthetic

I hate the fact that my arms are always super tanned but the rest of my body is pale.

@ocandro

4 жыл бұрын

I used to forget sunscreen on my hands and if I held them near my face they would make it seem like my foundation is too pale 😂

@ReptilianTeaDrinker

4 жыл бұрын

@@ocandro I feel that. Oof. lol

@polinaracheeva9163

4 жыл бұрын

I have same story, and I pass from a state of lobster to olive

@Nevturiel

4 жыл бұрын

Hi, are you me?

@jasmirris

4 жыл бұрын

I have olive forearms that get tanned and the rest of my body is yellow neutral that burns, sometimes tans, but mostly stays pale after the burn. Definitely benefits from sunblock.

I am SO ecstatic to discover your KZread channel today! ESPECIALLY this video. I am wearing fake tanner about 95% of the time, putting in a lot of effort to stay super dark to feel more confident about my appearance. My lineage is very British, so I am incapable of tanning - I burn and freckle. The best way for my to feel good about myself these days, unfortunately, is to fake tan. I SO envy women who embrace their fair skin like you do. It's very inspiring and THANK YOU for making this! Living in the deep South, EVERY woman here is fake tanned or goes to tanning beds, it's ridiculous. They give me looks when I choose to flaunt my fair skin, or straight-up mention a tanning product to me. It is so saddening to go back to using the foams and lotions again, after mentally prepping myself to embrace my natural coloring after awhile. Anyway, thanks again and this is EXACTLY what I needed to watch today.

It's so important to learn about history. Skin-color should never be a symbol of anything.

I don't tan because I don't want to look 80 when I'm 40 lmao (and also... skin cancer...)

@patrickmccurry1563

4 жыл бұрын

A mild tan almost certainly won't have any of that effect. But regardless of risk, it's your skin. No one has a say on what you want it to look like.

@doremifasolaleska

4 жыл бұрын

J R i see you watch skam

@starglqm

4 жыл бұрын

Patrick McCurry it can cause wrinkles & dark spots

@LisaIsabelle

4 жыл бұрын

Smart girl. I'm 43 and I pass for 30-32. ♥

@superedmundo1239

4 жыл бұрын

I mean, you can still get suntanned with sunscreen on. I get tanned cause I think it makes me look a little more young I suppose, a bit more alive and less of a porcelain doll (personally I don't like that look), but hey, it's just your opinion

I don’t tan... I pink 😂 like I’m literally a crab or a lobster, too long in the sun/heat I go red all over.

@hipeople9856

4 жыл бұрын

My brother called me a cherry tomato last fourth of July cause my face got burnt so bad 😂

@komfykoala6083

4 жыл бұрын

@@hipeople9856 Noooo I hope your skin is better now 😭😭😭😭

@lulujimenez7636

4 жыл бұрын

Same! When I'm usually asked if I'm tanned or 'faired' skinned I just go ahead and say I'm pink. My skin is pink and no mater what I do I go either red or rosy toned hahaah

@Xx.bygracethrufaith

4 жыл бұрын

Yea, me Too!?!!! XD

@jealousharibo

4 жыл бұрын

I have the same type of skin. If you're really bent on having a nice tan, you just have to tan little by little, and suffer the pink/red burning at the beginning. If you persevere, you will most likely end with a very nice, dark beige tan, and it will not go away once summer is over. But by no means should you try to do this over a few days, or even one summer. It takes time to do it safely. I used to hate tanning and never did it, until I became a professional athlete. Then workouts in extreme heat began and I had to tan in order to avoid burning my skin all the time. After a few years (it took me around 3, I think) my skin became tanable and I don't have to suffer through sun burns anymore.

I am dark blonde so when I tan my skin gets the same colour as my hair so no to tanning

@tangent5

4 жыл бұрын

Same! My brows are blonde but just dark enough to be visible. Bald isn't really the look for me.

@elenaovcharuk8529

3 жыл бұрын

Agree. My hair is also dark blonde and my eyes are greenish brown, so everything is like one color when I tan and that's ridiculous.

@esctoroshelidze5439

3 жыл бұрын

Same. I can only tan maybe 1% of my capacity. Also if I tan more than that 1% I get sunburns and it’s awful.

@saturniiiidae

3 жыл бұрын

Same except I can’t tan I just get red. And then my skin peels and hurts, and it won’t work. I guess I don’t really want to anyways though so it’s fine!

@linajurgensen4698

3 жыл бұрын

Same plus I get a sunburn instead of tan

I don’t tan. Period. Burn, peel, pale, repeat is the cycle of my skin and I don’t like my skin really red. It’s why I hate living in the southeast in the summer. I miss being in Scotland where I could get by with 30spf and not burn...my skin had never looked so healthy. I also remember one of my teachers encouraging me to put on sunscreen in middle school when I was trying to do anything in my power to tan. She really boosted my confidence in my pale skin.

I am olive skinned but I am allergic to the sun. I am half African (Moroccan) And I am seen as a lunatic when I avoid the sun. Like... MELA-NO-MA'AM.!!!

@XxpurplezombiexX

4 жыл бұрын

YM S im indian and sorta in the Fair spectrum. I cannot stand the sun and i would get burnt and itchy.

@ReptilianTeaDrinker

4 жыл бұрын

I'm olive skinned too, but I never go out in the sun, because of my eczema and because I don't wanna increase my risk of skin cancer. All those people tanning at the beach or in a sun bed are probably gonna end up with skin cancer at some point.

@AllDogsRGood

4 жыл бұрын

I need “Mela-no-ma’am” on a SPF treated t-shirt now.

@moon-cf2vw

4 жыл бұрын

Haaaa se what I did there with Brandon Rogers🤣🤣

@ckhaola99

4 жыл бұрын

Aslan 7na lmgharba zarguin

Meanwhile in Asia, everyone is obsessed with being pale

@Patrick3183

4 жыл бұрын

Michael Laishram because when you’re pale you’re nobility. This is found in every culture

@edawhat3737

4 жыл бұрын

@Bebe Many Asian people are pale, but many are also quite tan - you don't see tan people in Asian media very often though.

@rachelm9046

4 жыл бұрын

@@edawhat3737 This is so true. It's especially disheartening when you realize how many celebrities in East Asian media actually are tan, but their makeup and the lighting is done in a way to make them look way paler than they really are. No one is just allowed to be themselves :'(

@Patrick3183

4 жыл бұрын

puppie luver they are being themselves. East Asians are naturally pale

@clivechiam

4 жыл бұрын

Not completely true. I’m from Singapore and I like a tanned look. Also know/ see people tanning quite often.

I love having fair skin, i think it’s so beautiful even though i get called pale and pasty i don’t care i love my skin

I also prefer to not be tanned. I don't like how my features or my hair look in those two or three shades darker. I'm from Portugal though and here there's a huge beach and tanning culture, so I often get comments that I look way too pale and I should go out more. Which is ironic really, because in other parts of the world it's the exact opposite and people want you to be as pale as possible. You just can't win when it comes to beauty standards really.

TBH I thought you were going to talk about skin cancer and all the bad things the sunlight causes on the skin. We are obsessed with getting a tan and we don't think about the health problems it can cause. People just should learn to see the beauty of their own features and the beauty of skin tones variaty that exists. I'm very pale and if I spend more than half an hour in the sun I burn, and then never get tanned. I'm from Spain, so go figure. Luckly I've always loved my natural skin, so I didn't make anything silly (in my circumstances) like sunbathing.

@sorchx

4 жыл бұрын

Hola :) how do other people treat you in Spain? I'm Irish and live in Spain. Honestly it's been horrible for my self esteem. Spanish women are soo beautiful and bronzed. Everyone stares at me and constantly comments on my red or white skin. I just feel very ugly here to be honest. Sadly though I love the sun and hate the Irish weather so I think I'm cursed haha.

@gaildahlas

3 жыл бұрын

@@sorchx There are definitely a lot of pale Spanish women, though there tend to be more of us in the less beachy and/or touristy areas. As a mixed Spanish/Irish/English person I don't really get negative looks or treatment for being pale while out in public (in fairness, I do only interact with family and close friends most of the time).

@EfeFlet

3 жыл бұрын

@@sorchx Hi! I don't k ow where in Spain you live but in my place nobody bats an eye because I'm super pale. I don't live in the South nor in a beach area so maybe it ha to do with that?

@sorchx

3 жыл бұрын

@@EfeFlet Hi :) Yeah I live in Valencia so everyone is really tan here and it's more of a beach vibe. Where in Spain do you live? :)

@BeatrizHSN

3 жыл бұрын

I'm spanish, superpale and live in the Canary Islands. I get the same question all year around "Dont you like going to the beach?" "Why are you so pale?". I can tan if I make the effort but I refuse to spend that much time in the sun just to get a tan. It took me years to embrace my skin colour, so it really irritates me when people comment on it. I feel like a need a Mean Girls moment and be like "Omg Karen, you cannot ask people why they are white" 😂😂😂

I used to feel pressured to be tan as I am a very, very light-skinned Latina. My nickname is Jincha (a Puerto Rican who is very light-skinned). But my health is far more important to me and I want to take care of my skin. I wear sunscreen all the time and I haven't been burned in years.

@jasmirris

4 жыл бұрын

I'm super glad your culture loves you for who you are. My family is Hispanic but I am pale and my dad comments many times about why I don't get a tan. I like being pale and am fine being me, I tell him so. Being in a darker skinned family is difficult when pointed out but other than this I dllnt let it bother me. :)

@justinspencer983

4 жыл бұрын

I have several friends who fall into this problem as well and are made fun of because there not that tan and are Mexican in heritage. Ugh it annoying to me I not even the one who is being made fun of.

@Cecilia-wg4xf

4 жыл бұрын

I understand you. I'm very pale too and I suffer from rosacea 😐

@YouLostTheGame333

4 жыл бұрын

Also Puerto Rican (Argentine-Puerto Rican) and it's funny too that you can call a loved one "negrito/a" and they can be the palest person LOL. My mom calls my dad negrito and he's paler than my mom.

@mallorywuornos6446

4 жыл бұрын

Being "latina" =/= being "tanned". Argentinians/brazilians/uruguayans/chileans are (supposedly) latinos and most of them are not "tanned". Not relevant.

Tan also has been a status indicator: if you're rich, you can afford going on holidays, playing sports, and therefore get tanned

@alexander_yoko

2 жыл бұрын

I'm poor and I'm outside a lot... And I don't tan...

Totally get you. Winter is my favorite season as well. Summers so hot and too much sun is just too much. Give me some gloom and a nice fluffy snow any day!

My skin tone is Casper the Friendly Ghost when he is *TRANSLUCENT*

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman

4 жыл бұрын

You sound kind of _spooky...😊_

@BIOL6895

4 жыл бұрын

Me too! I don't mind my pale skin, I just wish I wasn't so translucent.

@tabithacrouse8858

4 жыл бұрын

You made me chuckle

@CorvidDarkness5852

3 жыл бұрын

I wish I had your skintone

@davidkasquare

3 жыл бұрын

Lovely ❤️❤️

I'm a Latina, so I was born "tanned" I can get darker but I don't tan intentionally cause I care about my skin.

@jeannedamonte4463

4 жыл бұрын

Somos 2! 😂 si voy a la playa literalmente regreso con dientes blancos y relucientes😂😂😂

@LilithZephirus

4 жыл бұрын

@@jeannedamonte4463 ir a la playa es volver hecha carbón.

@jeannedamonte4463

4 жыл бұрын

@@LilithZephirus ajaja si y para nosotras las latinas somos punto fáciles de quemarnos con el solazo!

@birdyies8784

4 жыл бұрын

Same!!!

@mfstarr1

4 жыл бұрын

Same

I'm Black American and people are always so surprised that people of African ancestry and Africans can tan (which literally just means getting darker than you are because you have melanin to do so). I hate getting darker in the summer with a passion. I'm not light or dark skinned by Afro standards, but I hate that I end up tanning UNEVENLY! Ugh! I once had 5 different top tans at once as a teenager. I was 5 different shades on my back and chest, and you'd better believe my face didn't match 😭 I absolutely hate tan lines and it's a miracle if I am in the sun and tan evenly.

My mom had crazy skin cancer issues since her 20's due to excessive tanning. It continued through her 60's long after she stopped. I don't tan and wear spf... I get asked why I don't tan ALL the time and I'm so tired of it lol

Thanks for the information! But I think that the shift also had a socioeconomical-status side: during the Industrial Revolution women began to work in factories, or stay at home (factory salaries were way higher than in the farms so they could afford it). Over time, every woman in a city had an indoor occupation, so pale skin lost its ability to "tag" status. Throughout time there had been outdoor leisure activities that proper ladies could enjoy (like hunting or horse riding) but due to the previous change, now the darker skin tone began to be associated to leisure, hence status. So outdoor fads got into speed as they had a side effect (tanning) which could more easily tell the status of the person. As you have perfectly explained, going to the beach or being sporty was seen as being healthy and independent. But it also meant you could afford it (double win!). Other cultures which are more focused on work-values (e.g. China/Japan) couldn't make that shift as leisure wasn't seen as positive (even if it meant having money), so they mostly keep with the pale-is-better approach.

I wish people would just accept and love people for the way they look without the weird beauty obsessions. My own mom constantly asks me if i'm sick and she has known me for over 20 years, get over it mom it ain't happening! Let people be as pale or tan as they like without being annoying about it!

When you said “I can’t tan” I got so excited. Finally, another person who physically can not tan! There are dozens of us! Then you go on to say you tanned as a kid... womp womp. Can’t tan, was made fun of all through school. Now I just hide from the sun and hope I don’t get skin cancer when I turn older like all my family has. :(

@nisayildiz4983

3 жыл бұрын

Can it get over? Or is it gonna stay ur whole life?

@giannamccord

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t try to tan, it just happens

@timetravelingpenguin

3 жыл бұрын

I also cannot tan, on the rare occasions that I do it's by accident and very light and usually disappears within like 2-5 days. Guess it's a blessing though since I also cannot burn

When I was younger my friends used to use whitening soaps to become lighter, and even though I was only half white and lighter than them, I wanted to be like them and whiten my skin too so i struggled from middle school to college to accept the skin that I naturally have. Since I'm half Filipino I naturally get very dark with constant exposure to the sun. Somewhere in college i started to accept my skin and let it do whatever it wants to do and did research about the complex nature of artificial whitening culture in Asia and the social expectations of having lighter skin in Asia and southeast asia. I think its interesting how people in Europe and America glorify artificial tanning compared to asia that uses artificial whitening. Both are bad for your skin if you do it excessively. Now I don't care so it's been a healthy thing for me to realize over the past few years since I made the switch to stop caring. As long as the tan is even at least. Lmao. Pretty cool to hear about other people's experiences with skin preferences.

@rebeccap7958

3 жыл бұрын

Same! Half Filipino, half white, and a terrible farmers tan to prove it.

@riggs20

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately tanning is never healthy for skin.

@ng3057

2 жыл бұрын

I live in the uk , every single girl over here uses fake tans or sun beds , I am an abnormality being so pale , the world is messed up , don’t give in to it . The companies make us feel worthless so they can sell products , that is all !

@junomcgaff3479

2 жыл бұрын

Its not natural to not get sunlight either. You wont make any vit D

The sun: hi! My skin: 🦐🦀

@heleng3995

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, within 10 minutes for me here in South Australia in summer...annoying!

I don’t tan because I personally like having really pale skin. I get insulted a lot about it and actually get told to tan on occasion but whatever. I like it :D

@hi-pv3ib

4 жыл бұрын

I like your username

@LisaCalegari

4 жыл бұрын

I think pale skin is pretty! I am very pale in the winter and tan in the summer (them part Italian genes), and I honestly like looking like a vampire in the winter. Pale skin is gorgeous, it accentuates your other features and it has that vampiric/romanticism Snow White vibe.

@hdimyb9856

3 жыл бұрын

saaaaaaaammeeeeeee

@QueenRedRosemary

3 жыл бұрын

STAN LOOΠΔ I’m the same. I love being pale and even when people comment on it negatively I take it as a compliment. The only thing I don’t like about it is that my freckles fade.

@KhaarlM

3 жыл бұрын

@STAN LOOΠΔ same

As a natural redhead, my pale skin is tan-resistant. I gave up caving into social pressure to tan after I got past my teens. My mother on the other hand, tanned so very easily. During WWII she was in her 20's and I have some photos of her with halter tops and deeply tanned skin. in fact she looked a lot like you Karolina, except she had blue eyes. Same hair in the 1940's too!

When I was younger I was a really active kid, I had dark brown hair with highlights from the sun, freckles, and my skin was a bit tanned. Once I started shutting myself inside all day, blocking out the sun with curtains and basically becoming nocturnal, I lost all color to my skin, freckles are barely visible unless you look r e a l l y closely, and my hair is basically black. Honestly I like it the way it is now, but it’s odd to me how much I’ve changed.

I was teased so much when I was a teen for my ghostly white skin. I eventually stopped caring what other people think. I wear high spf sunblock every day. I don't want to get skin cancer 😕

@AlbinoAxolotl

4 жыл бұрын

I was teased a lot about my pale skin as a kid too. I used to try and tan (just turned pink, then lobster red, and got super freckly, never tan!) and even used sunless tanner (looked like an orange disaster). Finally accepted it when I got older and now I embrace the heck out of my paleness! My skin is healthier because of it and I at 34 I get more complements of my complexion than I’ve ever had before! Protect your pale (and all other colored) skin ladies and everyone else!

For 18 months, I lived and interacted with a lot of Chinese people. It was fascinating how much they wanted to be pale and fair skinned. One time a Chinese guy stuck out his arm next to mine and said, "Ha! I'm paler than you!" Since being pale vs being tan is all arbitrary, might as well pick the option that means less cancer.

@M00s3r

4 жыл бұрын

There are still expectations for women to have lighter skin than men. For beauty and other reasons.

@alisa9040

4 жыл бұрын

@@M00s3r In Asia, yes. In America, I see no sign of this expectation.

@alisa9040

4 жыл бұрын

@nafisah نفيسة Okay, I'll give you that one. For white Americans, no. For other people living in America, that could totally be a thing. I don't know much other than Chinese culture and my own culture.

@AshHeaven

4 жыл бұрын

nafisah نفيسة How do you make your text italic? :o

@30cannedpineapples35

4 жыл бұрын

Living in the uk for 3 years, I have also found it fascinating how both cultures have an idea of the “best shade skin”. Here ( UK) the majority of people strives for tanned skin and would rub on tanning oil and go to beaches whenever there is sun, whilst in China it is more common for people to stay indoors to hide away from the sun(to have paler skin).In both cultures exists a minority of people that decides to use extreme methods to get their desired skin tone ( tanning beds, cosmetic chemicals that makes you paler etc). I think that in both cases it shows the great amount of effect that marketing of the cosmetic industry has on both groups.

"You look like Eidam cheese" thanks mum for "respecting" my decision. Otherwise I'd look like a lobster. I never got a "healthy" brown colour, I always looks like a lobster no matter what. I now accept my life as a ghost Casper lookalike.

People to me: omg you're soo pale, you look like a goth 😣 Me: *finishing my Robert Smith hair* aw thanks

@lilymcallister9751

3 жыл бұрын

Lol. I would say thanks too! Gimmie black nails and pale skin and dudes in guy liner ANY day.

I don’t tan cuz I don’t want sun damage on my skin lol even though I don’t mind the tanner look.

@anna-michellethivierge6004

4 жыл бұрын

Yolandalyc When my Dad was a kid, on the first hot day of the summer they would purposefully get a sunburn so that it’s be easier to get a tan later on in the year. Every bad sun burn you get increases your rate of skin cancer, so know he’s careful about covering up in the sun.

@keabird8264

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. If I am in the mood for a tanner look will just get a fake tan. People really underestimate the damage sun exposure does to your skin

I mean I’m a Scottish teenager so yall know I don’t tan. 😂

@britishpigeon838

4 жыл бұрын

Lol British squad

@ami2403

4 жыл бұрын

Me too hehe

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman

4 жыл бұрын

@nerdy bitch >>> You folks are like non sparkly daytime vampires. But that red hair...WOW. 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

@oliviastremlau5222

4 жыл бұрын

I would love to live in Scotland 😭

@nerdybitch1526

4 жыл бұрын

RocKiteman _ 2001 I don’t have red hair.... I’m not a Disney princess.

Australian enters the chat. Even if youre tan here, youre still “pale” I get a tan from just driving my car. ..... Skin cancer enters the chat

Oooh, Karolina, I agree with you absolutely on the topic of seasons! Though I do like spring as well (until May's heatwave starts 😖).

I work in a jewelry shop and all the staff are obsessed with tanning, false nails and love island. I told them I prefer myself without a tan and they were so confused. They said a tan gave them confidence and why would I not want one. I'm glad I'm not the only one, thank you meme mom for highlighting this as a choice ❤️

@DP-jy2ge

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe your colleagues think it's still 1985 :D

@lauren8627

4 жыл бұрын

I freak out about the UV light they use for curing the nails... Surely that would make your fingers look older..

@AlbinoAxolotl

4 жыл бұрын

Angharad Keltik Yes! I’ve become programmed to hate the feeling of the sun beating down on my skin as well! I burn SO easily (been burned walking from a car in the parking lot to the store and then back to the car. No joke.) that my brain immediately starts sending signals of “protect yourself! Get out of the sun!” as soon as I start feeling those rays on my skin. I’m amazed at people who can just sit in the sun with no protection because even being in it for a few seconds makes me so anxious! I’m pretty good y at protecting myself from direct sun, but it’s the times when I’m out in dappled shade or slightly overcast weather that that sun burns me, because it’s easy to underestimate how much sun is still getting to your skin in many situations like that. Protect your skin, everyone!

@jillianwickham31

4 жыл бұрын

Lauren Yes, I’ve wondered about that. I will treat myself once in a while to a shellac mani-pedi and those UV setting lights actually make my hands start to tingle! I can feel something funny happening inside my hands and I don’t like it.

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman

4 жыл бұрын

@Alice Mary-Anne >>> _"They said a _*_tan_*_ gave them confidence..."??_ Uh, PLEASE EXCUSE ME well I respond to their opinion by saying, *"BULLS**T".* 'Nuff said....

I just don’t get tan. I was in Brazil for summer break and was spending about 6 hours in the sun NOTHING happend I didn’t even have tan lines My skin propably just reflected the light 😂

@evab.6240

4 жыл бұрын

Oh wow :D I went swimming for 1 hour yesterday and now I have my swimming suit painted on my body xD I think not tanning is a good thing tho because you won't get as much skin damage and wrinkles! :D

@nouveaucourteduree9836

4 жыл бұрын

I tan, it just takes a looot of time for me to tan, and I don't burn easily, but once I tan, it stays long time. Last summer I had tanned a bit and I still have the tan lines even though I haven't really exposed myself to the sun yet. I still have faint tan lines on my stomach that are from two years ago when I used to wear bikinis (I don't wear bikinis anymore)

@escaramujo

4 жыл бұрын

Tanning takes time. But once you start to tan and maintain through winter, you'll get tanner more easily.

@escaramujo

4 жыл бұрын

@@evab.6240 Tanning doesn't make you wrinkle. Drying out the skin makes it wrinkle, it doesn't matter you don't get exposed to the sun if you don't moisturize it. A person who exposes to the sun and uses moisturizer and oils will be less wrinkled that a closure nun that doesn't take care of her skin.

@KateeAngel

4 жыл бұрын

@@evab.6240 tanning is not skin damage. It is synthesis of protective melanin which can prevent skin damage in the future. So if someone spends a lot of time in the sun, and tan is not visible, damage still happens

You are an independent thinker. The more you let your uniqueness shine through the more enjoyable your videos. Thanks for being you!

Fun Fact: Tanning was also introduced by Coco Chanel when she accidentally "burnt" on the beach. She was so popular and people loved the look so much that they started tanning themselves aswell.

I’ve wondered about the obsession with tanning, too. Thanks for talking about it. ❤️

@carlamartinezmangas4112

4 жыл бұрын

Me neither, I hate tanned skin

@juliawilson9089

4 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised she didn't mention Coco Chanel's influence on the tan. She went on a vacation once and got a dark tan then came back to the US and all the ladies wanted to look like her. Cultural and social pressure.

UV damage from the sun also counts for 90% of (extrinsic) skin aging. And that's why darker skinned people don't have as many wrinkles as pale people. So avoiding the sun and wearing SPF daily is the way to go! :-)

@hareema4442

4 жыл бұрын

Yes! It's criminal how so many people don't know about this! I used to do sports in high school without wearing sunscreen and my skin looked so damaged afterwards. I wear broad spectrum sunscreen every time I go outside, and reapply during the day, and my skin looks much healthier.

@Lily-xd1tg

4 жыл бұрын

Beth Dahl ahhh so there’s actual scientific reason for ‘black don’t crack’

@mrsbeard5225

4 жыл бұрын

Me: My skin is transparent and I won’t get wrinkles, I’ll just wear sunscreen on the hottest days Me 1 day after my 26th birthday: WTF WHERE DID ALL THESE WRINKLES ON MY FOREHEAD COME FROM?!

@nadjak3410

4 жыл бұрын

Also white skin tends to be thinner and drier (especially for women) and that's why it loses its elasticity earlier. UV rays additionally contribute to signs of early skin aging.

@FlexiAlexiLove

4 жыл бұрын

But also vitamin d and stuff from the sun is good for you so wearing factor 50 at all times isn't exactly ideal either. Also for those who tan easily, they have more melanin which is a natural spf therefore they don't need as much sun screen

I am with you in the “I hate tan” club. But I live in Florida so my skin gets more sun than I would like.

@crhu319

3 жыл бұрын

In Florida your brain also gets basked in far more stupid than you like.

@kirtu9035

3 жыл бұрын

@@crhu319 AHAHHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

@kirtu9035

3 жыл бұрын

pls change it to i hate tanning without context it seems like u hate the colour

Everything you said about loving winter like fall deal with spring and hate summer is ALL ME! So cool!

I have *very* pale skin, almost white pink skin, i love it now because it's so cute and suits me but when i was a kid i was bullied by adults all the time. There were no day when some teacher didn't commented my skin with "oh you're so pale" or asking if i'm sick knowing that i'm fine, my family also always reminded me they dislike how pale i am and were telling me to get tan because "it's healthy and will make you look prettier". The worst thing was that i *literally couldn't get tanned* whenever i tried to get tan so people will frick off my skin was turning red just to get to normal color after a week. It turned out i can't really get this nice brown tan everyone wants because my skin is unable to do so, i can only get red for a week or sunburn for longer effect. I learned to love myself and not care for what other people are saying, my skin is cute and totally fine as it is and i even i started to use makeup to highlight it's color and i'm not ashamed of it anymore. I have no idea why people in Poland are so obsessed with being tanned, we're white as snow deal with it people.

@britishpigeon838

4 жыл бұрын

I really like being pale . I'm in high school (British) and there are SO many pale people . I'm from the north so everyone is naturally pale but JESUS WHERE DID THE ORANGE COME FROM ! everyone is obsessed with being orange I guess [•~•]

@beatrizfischer3636

3 жыл бұрын

@@britishpigeon838 Donald Trump

@leshurlementsdelacave9563

3 жыл бұрын

@@britishpigeon838 Donald Trump

I never understood why people love getting tans so much

@TheViciousCreation

4 жыл бұрын

Same. Been wondering since the early 2000s where everyone looked like an orange lmao

@littleblackpistol

4 жыл бұрын

Because they are sheep.

@andjelajakic5316

4 жыл бұрын

Because some people prefer darker skin. To me darker skin is more beautiful than pale skin. But it's just personal preference and what God gave you.

@angiemitic4520

4 жыл бұрын

It's the new status symbol to show you can afford to bake yourself in the sun or something like that. And for others it's just a preference. Like I would like to get a tan but my pale "so you vampire now" skin won't allow it (I even have a mild allergy to the sun)... mostly because I want to see how I would look with skin that isn't so very pale.

@benedictus8996

4 жыл бұрын

The same reason why people plant palm trees everywhere in western countries. Exotism. This obsession with being surrounded with as much as possible of many things that comes from the other side of the world. Exotism.

I blame Coco Channel. She took a vacation on the French Riviera and came back with a tan. Then she persuaded everyone in her social and work circle that she looked better with a tan than she did pre--vacation. The fashionable Coco Channel is the one who started this tanning obsession in my opinion.

Have you ever done a hair routine video? Cause man do I love how shiny, healthy and curly your hair looks.

I think pale skin can be beautiful, and I wish I could happily pull off my non-tanned skintone, but I have very yellow-green olive undertones and so when I'm pale I literally do look sickly and my skin looks so much healthier and golden when I'm tanned

@GiveMehTheCookies

4 жыл бұрын

Bella Capozzi I feel that! I’m fair with yellow undertones and skin just looks ill a lot of the time. Trying to accept my natural colour though, maybe we’ll all get to a point where we’re happy with our natural tone :)

@ladyzbs

4 жыл бұрын

Same. Currently trying to stop giving a damn about "omg do you have jaundice" type of comments. Also rocking yellow and green colors helps a lot.

@LoReal021

4 жыл бұрын

I also have some yellow and green undertones... My body is always more tan and more olive than my face (which is a lot paler with pink undertones) and when I tan my skin looks a lot more even and healthier... So I feel you :)

@babs6244

4 жыл бұрын

Im really pale with pink undertones plus I'm fat so I get a lot of tomato jokes

@katarzynapuchaa128

4 жыл бұрын

Oh boi That's so relatable 😆 I try to use concealer for my purplish eye bags and gold tone jewellery, it looks far better then!

I'm naturally pale but when I was a kid all the vampire films/shows were popular so being pale was kind of in.

My friends: Guys look how tanned I got on vacation! Me: *laughs in biracial*

Omg, everything you’re saying is so relatable. I’ve never before heard another person saying they prefer autumn and winter and that they don’t like summer because of the heat! Finally, I’m not alone. I hate getting warm and sweaty. I also don’t like being tan. I’m naturally blonde and my skin gets burnt easily in the summer if I don’t use UV protection, but even when I get a light tan, it clashes with my red hair (I’ve dyed it red since 1997, and I’m never going back, hate being blonde).

“I so pale” “Your on!.” “...” “Today’s weather is-“

@nadjak3410

4 жыл бұрын

I'm addicted to that clip 😅

@oj3738

4 жыл бұрын

YES!!!!

Preach! My sister always comments on my porcelain skin and it makes me sad. Thank you for making this video, Meme Mom.

@kristinaw3377

4 жыл бұрын

So does my family but i just reply by calling them peasants

@NatureSmarter

4 жыл бұрын

@@kristinaw3377 Haha! The irony is that everyone except my grandfather from mom's side, my mom, my sister and one cousin is blonde (or just has really light hair) with blue eyes and I was actually born with red hair, before it turned blonde and then brunette with highly visible copper undertones. I have dark brown eyes. I do have freckles, though. I get burned badly, because I have my dad's fair complexion, if that makes sense, which also means it's super sensitive and prone to all things. Just like Karolina, I hate being in the sun and actually find it dangerous these days. I don't see the appeal at all. I guess when it comes to this, I just need to embrace what I have and what makes me feel best. I'm so glad that I've found more people here dealing with this and feeling this way. Thanks, Meme family!❤️

@morgan9637

4 жыл бұрын

Same! My sister and my mom get quite dark naturally, but I can't keep up because I don't have nearly the amount of time to spend laying by the pool. I always use self tanner because I feel so out of place being lighter than the rest of my family 😅

@SunflowerSpotlight

4 жыл бұрын

I’m chronically ill and have been since age 11. I’m light sensitive and get migraines even on cloudy days if I’m not careful, so of course my tan slowly went away, and now there are some foundation lines I can’t use because I’m soo pale. Some people make comments, but, whatever, it doesn’t effect them. My brother was sticking up for me and said, "Well, in 40 years, Ama’s still going to look gorgeous, and you’ll be a wrinkled prune. I wonder if you’ll think it was worth it then, when the damage has been done?" I’m not that... well, mean about it; some people can tan moderately and it not destroy their skin. But, there are some benefits and drawbacks to both being in the sun a lot and not; we just have to try to quite literally be comfortable with the skin we’re in and be aware of the risks we have. I have to be careful about my sleep cycle moderation due to less blue light and I need vitamin D3 supplements. Just remind your sister that if everyone was the same, the world would be a much more boring place and let her enjoy her little supposed victory with her comments. Time will tell the true victor.

@jeannedamonte4463

4 жыл бұрын

Porcelain skin is beautiful! If you come to south america people love that skin!😄

You're so beautiful here! These colors are stunning on you ❤️

sometimes being pale is hard, like when people look at you and say how pale you look and are you okay, honey

@chenmae9747

3 жыл бұрын

Please, not to compare or anything, but as a dark skinned Chinese person, I think most of us dark skinned folk, would wish for lighter skin, and get looks

@genevievemonk1108

3 жыл бұрын

@@chenmae9747 sorry, i didn't mean to sound racist or anything

@chenmae9747

3 жыл бұрын

@@genevievemonk1108 Oh, no. You weren't being racist, so don't worry, I'm just saying be more considerate, but I think your a good person.

@kirtu9035

3 жыл бұрын

oh boohoo its so hard to get interviews in the uk just bc ur not brown and dont have to struggle, CRY ME A RIVER

@genevievemonk1108

3 жыл бұрын

@@kirtu9035 um what

It always surprises me how often we take beauty trends to the extreme throughout history. First being pale meant you were rich enough not to work out in the fields all day. Then with the rise of factory, indoor and office jobs, it meant you were not wealthy enough to travel or spend days lying in the sun or on the tennis/golf ranges. The weirdest one I always remember when being pale is mentioned, is the French (and possibly British) practise of drawing fake blue veins over your décolletage to make your skin look so pale it was translucent. Humans are very weird lmao!

The dislikes are from Ariana Grande 😄

@sparkydoodle96

4 жыл бұрын

AND I OOP-

@erickpeculiar823

4 жыл бұрын

Tea

@reneecrotty6910

4 жыл бұрын

ewww ariana

@nukesakuji

4 жыл бұрын

OOOOOOOFFFF

@ElisaDay_

4 жыл бұрын

LMAOOOO

"Get a tan. Or don't. I don't care" *chef's kiss*

Oh freaking finally, I have been waiting for this. I am extremely pale and I naturally don't really tan. I rather get sunburnt. I am actually pale to the extent that everyone assumes I'm sick all the time. When I was younger, it made me feel embarrassed. Everyone came back after summer holidays like "Wow, look how tan I am" and some even started comparing their levels of tan or made it an actual annual competition. But by now, I have grown to like being pale, because it suits me ✨

Personally,I don’t really see the point of tanning,but maybe my opinion is influenced because a) I already have dark skin and b) I live somewhere where summer is literal hell and I’d currently be dead if not for air conditioning.

@beepboopily6285

4 жыл бұрын

I have light skin too. Not as light as Karolina's but still light and I fortunately don't get pressured to tan or anything because a lot of people where I live still have that "light skin is beautiful, dark skin is not" (yikes). Temperature easily reaches 45-50 c where I live so I understand the summer suffering.

Paisty people unite! Actually let’s all just unite! All humans unite! Wooo

@britishpigeon838

4 жыл бұрын

Wooh

@beecat9038

4 жыл бұрын

Whooo

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman

4 жыл бұрын

Dyslexics of the world: UNTIE! 😝😝😝😝😝😝😝

@auroramacula

4 жыл бұрын

yee haw!

@ella-rn9td

3 жыл бұрын

wooohooooo

i only like summer because i get a break from school. weather-wise, i absolutely adore winter.

Super interesting to get a brief breakdown about the history of tanning! I tan rather dark when I get a lot of sun (recently learned there's a chance of some ~salacious interactions~ with an ancestor and a FNMI individual that may be the cause of this), and my weird farmer's tan plus glove tan was praised a lot by the people I grew up with because to them it was a signifier of hard work. I won't say I didn't work hard in the summers where I got super dark from being outside all the time, because I did work hard, but it always struck me as a little weird. Having the context of tans being historically the marker of a working person gives me some more concrete context for that attitude. Thanks Karolina!

I still feel so weird when people talk about the pressure of being tan because where I live (Mexico) it's the opposite, and people actually don't like getting tan, usually because of racism and classism, even though they don't realize that's the reason, but somehow a lot of folks still have the idea that having a darker skin (not necessarily black, but browner) makes you seem like less than pale people or makes you seem "tacky", which I don't get. It's strange because, while some countries have switched the other way around, we still have this really old point of view about skin tones. I really agree with you, as long as you take care of yourself you should be able to have a tan or not without others judging you.

@chavezdiazsusanamaria9564

4 жыл бұрын

Yo también siento raro cuando hablan de sentirse presionados acerca de estar bronceados, y si, tienes razón, acá quieren ser blancos por temas como el racismo y clase aunque no se den cuenta, lo que es triste, por que la piel morena es bellisima. Yo tengo una amiga que directamente a los hombres morenos los descarta, todavía no sé si pensar si es por gustos personales o si es racismo. Incluso descarta a los hombres que se nota que solamente están bronceados. No sé, me shockea lo obsesionada que la gente puede estár con el tono de la piel a veces .

@CinnamonCari

4 жыл бұрын

In Venezuela we're all shades of brown too, but most people is kind of light to medium brown, olive or yellowish. Lightening agents in cosmetics isn't really a thing here (don't know about Mexico) BUT most people don't like looking brown (internalized racism is my guess too) and most brown skin women I know use a foundation shade too light or with a grayish cast... which is a shame because it looks sickly and ashy compared to how they'd look if they got a bit more sunlight. They'd have some more warmth and depth in their skin tone... my partner has kind of a copper-brown darkish skin when he works in the sun and I love that. I, on the other hand have a similar problem to Karolina, my skin is light (not as light as hers, but around that tone) but it tends to tan yellow and have freckles. If I get too much sun exposure I look sick and my freckles form bigger stains over my face. BUT, on the other hand, whenever I show my untanned legs people tell me they look like mandioca roots and that I should go to the beach and tan them up a little bit, so I just can't win.

@emmaeriksson7155

3 жыл бұрын

If you don’t get tanned in Sweden they use you as a ruler for how tanned they are. I can’t count the times I’ve been called a birch and Laughed at bc I can’t get a tan. My sister tho she gets like reeeeally dark and she gets a lot of compliments for her skin. It’s strange how norms works.

@cesarmonroy-olivares4125

3 жыл бұрын

Es simple: en general la moda es hacerte de lo que no tienes. Lo demás son simplemente preferencias personales... No se trata de racismo, sino de lo que te gusta o no. Algunas personas prefieren a quienes tienen tez oscura, mientras que otros prefieren a quienes tienen tez clara. Ahora, una cosa es lo que te gusta, y otra muy diferente lo que está disponible. Si tienes gustos exóticos, es evidente que habrá menos candidatos que cubran tus expectativas, pero al final de cuentas, todo se reduce a buscar aquello que más se aproxima a lo que te gusta.

@katitadeb

3 жыл бұрын

I live in Latin America as well, and while what you say is the truth I must add that it applies most to brownish people, pale Latin people also want to get tan but not being actual "brown". I've met only a few pale people who thought tanning is awful (and for colorist/racist reasons tbh), but most of them wanted to get tan. But is true that brown people do want to look lighter and avoid sun, also they're the ones who make most of these racist and colorist comments towards their own people using words like "negro, prieto" and so on. I know the story of a medium dark girl who was bullied by her boyfriend's mother because of her complexion, and turns out that that woman was even darker than this girl.

In Asia, tanning is very unpopular

@GiveMehTheCookies

4 жыл бұрын

Kellie Cook It’s true! In general, Asian women try to be more pale and European women try to be more tanned! It’s quite sad if you think about it, everyone should be comfortable with their natural skin tone :)

@pengyou2000

4 жыл бұрын

@Amanda Punzal Is that as of recently??

@J_Kwan

4 жыл бұрын

@@pengyou2000 Nope, Asians have been obsessed with white skin for centuries xD It's one of those fashion trends that lasts forever, like painting the lips red. As a pretty tanned asian, I've gotten some pretty nasty remarks from other Asians about how dark my skin is. Conversely, one year I didn't go out during summer and my skin got lighter, and all my female relatives were like "Oh your skin looks so bright and healthy this year" lmao. "You must tell me what skin products you use." (spoilers, it was the skin product called depression)

@wayneessar7489

4 жыл бұрын

Many carry fine looking umbrellas in the sun here...

@komal146

4 жыл бұрын

@@J_Kwan that's so true. Im in that fair white novelty shade of brown and I don't need makeup or features to be reminded by the aunties constantly how beautiful and blessed I'm. And it freaks me out instead of being proud. Once I was super tanned due to my sports training under the sun in summers. I experienced the backlashes. The fairness obsession is literal here. Tanning whiners are at least polite about it.

I just discovered your channel and I love it. My hair and eye color are the same as yours but I have very pale skin that always burns (badly) and never tans. I also get blondish reddish highlights in my hair from the sun. I’m in the US and my mother’s family was from Poland and my father’s from Ukraine. I’m older (65 ) and when I was young in the 70s and 80s tanned skin was in fashion and people made fun of my pale skin. I was relieved in the 90s when pale skin became more acceptable. I was trying on a short dress in a boutique back then and I asked the salesperson what color pantyhose I should wear with the dress and she said white like you’re wearing. I wasn’t wearing anything on my legs, they were just very white. I stopped wearing pantyhose in the 90s. I remember it was scandalous in the office to not wear hose, but I’m glad that that was started by younger women and I quickly adopted it and accepted my pale legs.

Ohmy, thank you for this video !! I relate SO much about my natural olive-greenish-yellowish complexion, which I didn't care about when I was a kid but which at times annoys me greatly nowadays. I still don't care much of the time, also I don't want to use sunscreen, so I tend to just use thin and breathable but covering clothes and hats, but I really don't like my tanning colour, I feel I loose my face's features kinda (especially my naturally pale lips). It's incredible how people talk about many things about beauty but soooo rarely about skintone, like, really, I have yellow-greenish skin - good luck finding a foundation for me ! Also relating to not liking summer, I basically like all seasons except the two hottest months of the year, which I always hope will go by soon and I'm the happiest person when the first cool temperatures of september arrive =)