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Anyone embracing pale skin for the summer?

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Re: Anyone embracing pale skin for the summer?

  • imageKimee13:
    I believe in everything in moderation, and I do think I look better with a bit of color(I'm olive-skinned).  The sun is not the devil, you can enjoy it responsibly.  Vitamin D is actually good for you and our pediatrician was just saying how a lot of kids need supplements because they don't go outside or are so shaded when they do.  While I don't intend on slathering baby oil on DS, I do intent to let him get a little sun this summer while protected with the appropriate SPF.

    This is similar to how I feel. I actually think our paranoia about the sun and therefore vitamin D deficiencies cause other diseases as well. I am olive skinned, tan very easily (burn almost never), and struggle extremely with getting enough vitamin D living in Seattle. Very occasional tanning bed use helps my vitamin D levels as well as my eczema (always supervised by a doctor). I make sure to wear a full spectrum sunscreen on my face at all times (and still tan), but I find sunlight another important component for overall health. My family also has no cases of skin cancer, and my mom has great skin and she spent her entire childhood running around in the sunshine in Texas and California. 

    DH does have much higher risk, so he sticks to vitamin D supplements and gets checked regularly for moles. 

  • TambcatTambcat member
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    I fully embrace my pale skin and slather on the SPF 70 when I'm at the beach.
  • I'm the girl who packs sunscreen for her friends when we go to the waterpark and reminds them to reapply ... I'm pale and mole-ly and get my skin checked every summer. I take sunscreen application very seriously. I went to the derm the week we came back from Key West (last July) and she was shocked that I had been to Fla for the week.
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    imagejamiedsgirl:
    I am a fair skinned Italian, and I always embrace my paleness!

    There's another one of us?! Thank goodness! 

    ?"All I want is what I have coming to me. All I want is my fair share."
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  • AGsWifeAGsWife member
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    imagejamiedsgirl:
    I am a fair skinned Italian, and I always embrace my paleness!

    There's another one of us?! Thank goodness! 

    ?"All I want is what I have coming to me. All I want is my fair share."
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    Anniversary
    GP buddy to blenderdance
    Lilypie First Birthday tickers
  • kjewellkjewell member

    imagepixy_stix:
    Natural redhead checking in. :oD I'm always ghostly pale. I don't tan. I turn red, then peel, then I'm white again. I always always always wear sunscreen outside.

    Are you my long lost twin?  This is me exactly, I have been rocking pale my entire life.  My skin tone has been referred to as translucent a time or too.  I'll pass on the cancer thanks!

    "You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
  • I really don't mind being pale.  I plan to enjoy wearing lots of the bright colors this summer which go well with pale.  I've never been one to tan anyway--to me it's boring when I could be doing so many other things, and I enjoy when people don't believe I'm 38.
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