Unsolicited skin care advice, got to love it...

[Nayeli_Sabia]

I hate customers who feel they have the right to comment on our personal appearance just because we are serving them.

How would she have reacted if you told her she needed a nose job?

"I don't know why you're so offended maam. I thought we were intimate enough with each other to discuss these things."

I have long hair(waist length, trying for knee length). It drives me nuts when people try and insist that I donate it for Locks of Love. They are great, I support them, but not with MY hair. I happen to like it long. One time, after someone was very rudely telling me I needed to donate my hair, another friend of mine pipped up "Are you going to donate your boobs to women who lost theirs to breast cancer?" She got all huffy and left.

I don't get why people seem to think they have the right to say things to others about their looks.



And as to the OP, I have a health paleness about me that i go out of my way to nurture. Pale is Beauty!

[Posture Moll]

"And *you* need to learn some manners, sir/madam."

I, too, am a little porcelain-skinned chick and wouldn't change it for the world.

[protege]

Norwegian/German/Irish over here...and I usually get fried during the summer. Even with sunscreen, I still get burnt. Last summer, vacation was interesting. Not only did I get burnt, but I started peeling too. By the time we left the beach and drove home, I looked like I'd been painted multiple colors.

[yomiko]

The problem is we were born 100 years too late. If we were around in the Victorian era we would be worshipped for our pale beauty.

The issue all has to do with a life of leisure. As mentioned before, way back when, being tanned meant working in the fields and being a peasant while the idle rich could stay inside and do nothing at all. Being pale was a sign of social standing. There are still some societies which hole to that ideal today.

Later, the idle rich skied during the winter and vacationed in the islands getting a tan while the working masses stayed pale at the glow of the computer screen. So tanned became the new 'it' standard.

Now with the advent of spray-on tans and the like, I think plastic surgery is the barometer.

[ThePhoneGoddess]

Count me in with the too-pale-to-tan crowd. I'm Scottish/English/Dutch/Cherokee. On the rare occasions I wear foundation I mix it with a slight amount of white face paint to get the proper color.

My Mother sold Mary Kay for years and she made me take lessons on how to apply makeup and crap growing up. One of the most useful lessons I got was from this awesome gay guy who did makeup for Hollywood starlets. He explained to me that basically, skin is either cool toned (about 15% of the population) or various shades of warm toned (about 85% of the population).

Cool toned skin has pink undertones, while warm toned skin has yellow or orange undertones, so when cool-toned people tan, they don't turn yellow, they just turn darker pink. Cool toned people usually have very fair skin, dark hair and light colored eyes. They are also more likely to sufffer from Rosacea.

Yeah, I'm a veritable fount of useless knowledge.

[Giggle Goose]

I used to work with this girl that would get comments on her acne all the time. Old ladies would come up to her and be like "Oh, dear, my granddaugher had to try blahblahblahblahblah" and shit like that. I'm with Boozy. I just don't understand why the hell SC's think they have free reign to critique anything about whoever is waiting on them.

You could also wear bronzing powder. Not that you need it, but I just think I look weird with pale skin. It adds a nice, natural glow and I get compliments a lot.

[Becks]

Once at the drive-thru, I was handing this woman her change when, suddenly, out of the clear blue sky, she said,
"You need to get a tan! You're too pale!"

I get that on a daily basis.

HERE HERE!! I am Irish/Norweigian, I am as white as you get without going translucent. I worship sunscreen year round as well. The problem is we were born 100 years too late. If we were around in the Victorian era we would be worshipped for our pale beauty. I also don't tan at all. Even if I tried, I turn lobster red, then that fades to pink, then white again.

Irish/Danish/etc. here. I burn, but never tan. The sun and I are not friends.

I stopped wearing makeup because I couldn't find any light enough to match my skin tone

I know how that goes.

Yay for pale people! I'm of Irish/German descent (more Irish than German) and burn reeeaaaal bad.

Are you a sibling I don't know about?

I agree with Banrion. We pale chicks were born just a few centuries too late. The paler you were, the more you were venerated because the pale chicks didn't work in the fields, so they were a little on the curvy side too. Man, dudes would have LOVED me in the 1800s...lol!

Oh, man, I could've been an absolute belle back then!!!

[RecoveringKinkoid]

People who make ignorant remarks to me tend to have to hear an earful of stuff they don't really want to listen to. Too pale for what? What a stupid thing to say. Is there something wrong with pale skin? Is this woman under a rock and unaware of what habitual tanning can do to your face?

I don't tan. Oh, I WILL tan, often despite my best efforts. I'm a swarthy ethnic type. My skin tends to darken up easily. But I always wear sunscreen, especially on my face and neck. A hat. Sunglasses. Guess what? Nobody can guess my age because I have no wrinkles and I have youthful looking skin. Coincidence? I think not.

If I feel like I want a little color, a careful application of self tanner works well, and I don't have a problem with it being orange. It tends to look natural on me. (Yeah, Banana Boat is a good color, you're right.) Also, I've had some luck with the Coppertone. Just don't go nuts with it and it will look natural.

[Custard Chick]

Yay for pale people! I'm of Irish/German descent (more Irish than German) and burn reeeaaaal bad.

I agree with Banrion. We pale chicks were born just a few centuries too late. The paler you were, the more you were venerated because the pale chicks didn't work in the fields, so they were a little on the curvy side too. Man, dudes would have LOVED me in the 1800s...lol!

[Boozy]

I hate customers who feel they have the right to comment on our personal appearance just because we are serving them.

How would she have reacted if you told her she needed a nose job?

"I don't know why you're so offended maam. I thought we were intimate enough with each other to discuss these things."

[Chazzie]

Double standards are interesting, aren't they?

Anyway, at the very least I don't think most people would look upon someone saying that in a friendly manner!

Yeah, double standards when it comes to race can get hard to talk about without sounding racist yourself. I was actually looking at my post and going "... Is that racist, or just true?"

[Rubystars]

I would NOT want to be anywhere near them at that point. I think anyone, black or white, within twenty feet would want to flying tackle them.

Double standards are interesting, aren't they?

Anyway, at the very least I don't think most people would look upon someone saying that in a friendly manner!

[AnaKhouri]

My skin is very white and I wouldn't have it any other way (I stopped wearing makeup because I couldn't find any light enough to match my skin tone ). People ask all the time if I am sick. I am not sick. When my face turns reddish, then I am sick.

[Chazzie]

I bet they would never dream of going up to a black person and screaming "you're too dark!"

I would NOT want to be anywhere near them at that point. I think anyone, black or white, within twenty feet would want to flying tackle them.

[Fawn]

SO much ignorance! With all these ignorant people stories this morning I think I'm going to cut off my head (figuratively speaking).

I don't tan either, but I also don't burn. I am an odd person. lol. I think I reflect sun. It took me all summer to get this tiny itty bitty colour to my skin. I stopped caring about getting a tan when I was younger. Atleast I won't have melanoma or age faster (ie. wrinkles) or get sun spots when I get older.