<p>Disclaimer: Alright so, this gonna be my first thread in this forum and judging from the prevalent content, it'll proly be just as ridiculous. </p>
<p>Okay so I can tell that the majority prefer people with tanned skin to pale skin. But, for some reason, I actually like girls with pale skin!!! (I'm a guy...) Is there something wrong with me? Fetish?! Any of you guys/girls prefer pale skin?</p>
<p>theres nothing wrong with you.</p>
<p>it just means you prefer girls with pale skin.</p>
<p>I do. Personally, I find skin damage (tan indicates damaged skin) that leads to cancer pretty unattractive.</p>
<p>Check out this link for some more info on the teen tanning craze.</p>
<p>I know a lot of Asians like pale skin. A friend of mine in high school was on exchange from Japan, and she always was sad if she got a hint of a tan.</p>
<p>indian/pakistani people are even worse. i'm pretty fair , but whenever i get a tan fomr playing outside or whatever, my mom moans about how dark i am, and im like...***? does it really matter?</p>
<p>just barfed a little in my mouth</p>
<p>Yea, I personally like pale skin too, but can't help myself with that. -_- I have a skin type that turns dark with even the smallest hint of a sun, and I live in California. I played tennis, usually hardcore during the summer, and did swimming when I was young, so adding two and two together, I'm pretty dark myself.</p>
<p>But to be honest, I focus more on a person's face and physique than on a person's skin tone. Some people look better (and natural) in tan skin, and some look good only in pale. Goes for both girls and guys for me.</p>
<p>So - - you are out there. I have pretty pale skin because I'm 95% Irish, and I was beginning to lose all hope of people that like pale skin. I agree, skin cancer is so not worth it.</p>
<p>Nothing is wrong with preferring pale skin. My phone number is....just kidding. Some of my friends mock my SPF 48 (hey, it can't hurt! I like my pale skin, most of the time...and sunburn hurts) but we'll see who's having skin tumors removed in 40 years.</p>
<p>¬_¬ People like sheetmusic make me sad. I don't choose to be dark; my skin just eats up the sunlight like a starved sponge. I'm not trying to tan, but I am tan. If I had the choice, I'd have paler skin; but I don't and I make myself comfortable in my own skin.</p>
<p>Well. At least I don't sunburn every time the sun decides to shine. I've been sunburned only once in life (and only mildly on the nose for being out in Palm Springs without enough sunblock for 13 hrs) and that's despite the California sun, the all-day beach outtings, etc.</p>
<p>what sort of thread is this?</p>
<p>welcome to collegeconfidential, land of the extremely bored.</p>
<p>I blame the heat wave--it's keeping us inside.</p>
<p>^ haha you said it! Yeah I have pale skin (Irish, Polish and Welsh ancestry), I've learned to be okay with it. I think some guys are turned-off by it, but then there are many guys who prefer it. Either way, it's your personality that counts in the end, not your skin color.</p>
<p>Being pale in western culture indicates wealth and being tan indicates being of a lower social class. But it seems that this has now fallen by the wayside</p>
<p>skin color is a personal preference. generally, though, extremely pale skin is a turnoff. a healthy glow on ANY skin color is a must.</p>
<p>I LOVE pale skin!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Pale skin is amazing! Even though I'm kinda tan simply because I workout outdoors...</p>
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<p>Um OK, maybe 300 years ago, now it indicates you're an introverted loser who spends all of your time inside eating cheetos and posting about what you think is hot on collegeconfidential.</p>
<p>I am naturally really, really pale. </p>
<p>I look like a lost member of the White Stripes, basically.</p>
<p>I used to work at a retirement home, and the residents would ask me if I had an iron deficiency.</p>
<p>Ultimately, it is all in how you carry yourself and conduct yourself amongst others. That is more important than your skin tone.</p>
<p>I wish I was a bit paler, but I'm one of those people that can go sit in the shade for half an hour and come back with a slight tan. I keep trying to do the constantly wear sunscreen thing but it doesn't seem to be working quite so well. I remember once I went back to grade school after the summer and on the first day, the ESL teacher mistook me for one of her kids in the bathroom and started screaming at me in Spanish. It was kind of scary.</p>