Lord, someone really has it out for pale people this week! First the ginger genocide, and now Kelly Osbourne gets her pale ass handed to her just because she thinks she looks thinner when she’s got a spray tan. Of course, it’s more complicated than that. Kelly appeared in a ad campaign for spray tans, in which Kelly said “I looked healthy, I looked like 10 pounds skinnier, and it started to make me look at my body in a different way.” She also did print ads (above) where she’s basically saying pale = low self esteem. And now the pale advocacy community (really?) is ripping Kelly a new one. Kind of. Here’s more:
Kelly Osbourne would have done better to invest in a skin thickening cream.
The naturally pale-skinned reality star has come under fire after claiming a self-tanning cream makes her look 10 pounds skinner, London’s Daily Mail reports.
The Prince’s Trust charity — for whom Osbourne is an ambassador — has pulled its endorsement of the star’s St. Tropez ad campaign after parents argued the spray tan company’s message was inappropriate for the disadvantaged children the organisation seeks to help.
Titled “Self Esteem” the advertisements suggested that feeling good about oneself is tied to looking thin and pretty.
“I looked healthy, I looked like 10 pounds skinnier, and it started to make me look at my body in a different way,” Osbourne said in the video, which has since been removed from St. Tropez’s Web site.
“It made me look at what looked better rather than what I didn’t like, and I kind of got addicted.”
The company’s “colour expert” then proceeded to exclaim about the reality star’s physical transformation.
Abi Moore, who founded a group on the impact of marketing on girls in Britain, sent a letter to the company to cease its association with the ad campaign. The letter was co-signed by a psychologist and two authorities on consumer marketing’s effect on children.
Soon after, Prince’s Trust announced it was no longer backing the St. Tropez ads. But the fake tan company will still donate $15 to the charity from each bottle ($75) sold.
[From NYDN]
I could see how people would be mad that spray tans and the whole “tan is beautiful” thing are being marketed to kids, and it is wrong. Kids shouldn’t have to worry about being tan. Adults shouldn’t have to either, but I know a lot of them do. I don’t really have a dog in this hunt, because my Indian genes have ensured that I have a natural light mocha color year round. But when I was obsessed with working out and trying to be really thin, I did do the tanning beds, just because you really do look and feel thinner when you’re darker. It just the way it is with the majority of people. That being said, I love pale people. One of my favorite things in the world is a person who can’t go out in the sun for two seconds without being covered in freckles. I find it adorable. PALE LOVE.
Ad courtesy of The Daily Mail.
I’m Pakistani, and kind of on the dark side.
(If you follow my link, there’s a pic or two of me in the sidebar on my blog.)
I hated being darker for a long time because idiot Indian/pakistani aunties would always make lightly cutting remarks about it (WHO THE F–K DOES THAT TO A GODDAMN KID?), even my similarly dark skinned grandmother did it!
But now? I like it. Well…I’m *comfortable* with it. I don’t see the need to change it. I’d prefer to be a little lighter, and I won’t sit out on the sun until I’m two shades darker, but I’m cool with it for the most part.
My BFF, however, is this pale, dark-blonde, light-brown haired guy who doesn’t tan, just burns. It’s great. 😛 Hahaha. Cute.
I have super light blonde hair (naturally), blue eyes, and skin that has a supernatural power to withstand ANY kind of tanning what-so-ever. SO I use sunless tanner about once a week to keep myself from blinding people- but that is as far as my tan goes, bleach blondes with super tanned skin just looks unnatural and gross (to me anyway). I am just not a fan of seeing crazy tanned people when you know they are suppose to be white!
I’m one of the palest people I know, year round, no matter what. Everyone’s always asking me why I don’t tan or try spray tan. My answer, I like my paleness. lol. Pale is beautiful too!
I think with all the skin color issues that are in the world today it was a careless statement for her to make.
I think we should all be embracing our natural God-given color. Im african american and im the lightest person in my family, by quite a few shades and everybody from my family to my school mates used to pick on me about it, plus the fact that i had light acne most of highschool. I would lie on my driveway for hours trying to catch a tan. But i’m happy with my skin now. I cant change it. I spend a lot of time in the mirror getting used to my body parts and finding things to love about it and i think thats what everyone should do, just spend time loving your body. eventually you are going to pass those same genes onto a child and what will you tell them about their self-loathing if you havent gotten over your own?
I am pale and cannot tan! My sunburn turns to whiteness after its gone lol. Porcelean skin is, and has always been, beautiful!
i’m the same very very pale. in photographs i glow lol. When i was a teenager my friends used to ask why i don’t use a spray tan but all i had to do was point out their streaky arms and the tanlines around their neck and that shut them up pretty quickly.
i’m naturally very pale. however i do the tanning beds occasionally, not for the “thinner” look but rather the fact that i’m so pale and thin-skinned that my veins show through– i don’t have the lovely milky white skin but rather the road-map white skin. so for me, a little tan means someone doesn’t point at my chest and say “look at all the blue lines!” ugh. i hate it.
I’m really pale too, I’m Irish. I *can* get tan but I don’t want to damage my skin, so I slather on the sunscreen 🙂
I have very fair Irish skin and am prone to the dreaded freckling (altho’ at my age – 56 – it’s referred to as liver spots – augghhhh!!). Fake tanners make me look ridiculous, for some reason I end up looking Lohanish, like my skin is dirty. But I am obsessive about sunscreen and always get complimented on my skin so I’m “Team Pale”.
Not all pale people look bad….I’m not totally pale but me personally I think I look better tan because my veins are so bright and u can see them!!!! Makes me feel better about myself!!!! But I believe tanning isn’t for everyone and people should do what makes them feel good rather than what makes other people feel good. Go pale and go tan!
But for those who do tan…not cool to look like u sat in a tanning bed for ten hours…you’ll start looking like leather.
I’m 30 and spent a lot of time in the sun and in tanning beds when I was younger. I regret it now. I have so many moles and freckles and spots. Skin cancer runs in my family big time too. I will no longer try to get tan from the sun. I wear sunscreen. I have people tell me all summer “You need to go tan!” It drives me crazy. Being pale is no longer acceptable I guess.
I only burn and freckle, never tan so I don’t mind being pale. Gives the tanners someone to compare tone to.
I love to lay in the sun more than anything, and I get a pretty good tan too. I’ll be a leather bag by the time I’m 40, and I am fine with that because I would rather be dead than have to stay out of the sun. Maybe it’s hereditary, my father and grandmother both are super dark (but we are all naturally pale) and are sun worshippers too. Fake tanning is gross but you need real sunlight to get Vitamin D, and the whole “OMGZ if one ray of sunlight touches me I’ll get skin cancer!!1!” hysteria is tiresome and wrong. Sunlight is more healthful than harmful and I cannot imagine making myself utterly miserable by avoiding the one thing I truly love because I *might* get cancer. But to each their own, if you think you look good pale, fine have at it. I probably won’t be attracted to you but who cares? Personal preferences, there’s room for both tan and pale skins in this world.
How funny, I am always running away from the sun as much as possible. In the state I live in it gets super hot so I make sure to take my umbrella with me when I go out in the summer months.
I have olive/color skin on the fair side, and I like it that way. I see so many people with “rubbery” looking skin from all that tanning. I think you actually look older when you tan.
I’m irish and latin(venezuelan, chilean) mix. I am covered in freckles and naturally pale. But if I really make an effort, I get a great tan. But its not worth it. Cause its weeks tanning just to have a tan that required me getting burned way too many times. So I prefer to put sun screen on and stay pale. Atleast I wont look like a leather bag when I’m older.
I’m 27 and have only gone in a tanning bed 4 times in the last 3 years, and only because was standing up in a wedding or two.
I tan very easily, but I just know it’s not good for me. So I mix a little self-tanner into my daily moisturizer so that I don’t look like a ghost all year-round!
Nothing wrong with pale, or darker…it’s a personal preference, and now we know Kelly’s…idk what the big deal is. And since light reflects, I can understand why she thinks she looks thinner when darker.
I thought this was Daniel Radcliffe in drag.
who would want her as their spokesperson? honestly.
i am a gal of irish/german heritage, with pale skin, dark hair and blue eyes. i have never had a tan in my life, because if i hang out in the sun without 45 sunblock i burn. at 40 my skin is soft and creamy, and i am often told i look 30, unlike the girls who fried themselves to a crisp and now look old and dry. i think people should embrace their uniqueness and go with it. i love that we are all different: pale skin, dark skin, afros, straight hair, big noses, small noses, freckles…how boring it would be if we were all the same. it would be like going to a gallery and seeing the same painting over and over.
i can go either way, thanks to the awesome gene mixture from mom and dad. i don’t burn and tan dark naturally (American Indian) but if i stay out of the sun i get creamy Nicole Kidman pale and i ALWAYS get the freckles in the spring/summer months (Irish).
personally i prefer the pale to the tanned because it makes me stand out in a crowd of varying shades of Oompa-loompa orange spray tans. i’d rather be called Casper than mistaken for one of those things, ha ha!
But when I was obsessed with working out and trying to be really thin, I did do the tanning beds, just because you really do look and feel thinner when you’re darker.
This made me laugh 🙂
I’m Black so I’ve got a natural “tan”. That said, I find this hilarious. I don’t get the whole tanning thing. I couldn’t tell Kelly Osbourne was tan in that ad. She still looks really pale. Whether your pale or “mocha”, you are what you are. Many folks overdue it and each up orange like the Jersey Shore kids. The artificial look is terrible. Might as well keep your natural shade.
By the way, people of color can and do tan in the sun. Several years ago I went to a baseball game in Kentucky. We were sitting in the sun and by the end my face and arms were visibly darker than the skin covered by my shirt.
All us pale people are gonna point and laugh at the tan people 20, 30 years from now. We’re all going to have youthful, smooth faces and they’ll have creased, leathery, damaged ones.
Being pale is great. You don’t have to worry about upkeep and you don’t spend money every week or every other week on a tanning treatment. Who’s got all this extra cash to spend on tans anyway? I dunno about y’all, but I got groceries to buy and bills to pay. Not much extra $$$ sitting around nowadays.
I could seriously care less about being pale or tan, yada yada yada… I want to know who that really cute blond guy with the lip piercing is!!! He’s gorgeous.
I’m confused about her message. Is she saying being tan helped her self-esteem or having self esteem allowed her to accept her pale self???
What a stupid f’ing argument anyway. Of course dark makes you look slimmer (or shows definition – ever seen a pale bodybuilder on stage?) whether it’s skin or clothing. A spray tan is simply a temporary cosmetic change, like dying your hair that may or may not make you feel better and it’s nobody else’s business really.
I’m very pale, can’t tan at ALL. (Irish). Even the lightest bronzer or self-tanner looks fake on me. However, if I am totally honest, I wouldn’t mind being just a few shades darker, because it’s hard to find foundation that’s light enough, and everyone does look a tiny bit thinner with a bit of color.
It’s tacky to comment on someone else’s skin color, unless it’s a compliment to one’s partner, know what I mean? I can’t count how many times people have made a comment on “how white” I am; I guess it’s supposed to be okay because I’m white, and they’re white? It’s offensive and rude.
I’m ginger and quite possibly the palest person ever to the point where I’ve had days where I would be sitting in the shade covered in the highest spf I could find and would still burn. But I like my paleness…I don’t think it makes me look heavier then I would if I were tanned.
I am sick to death of these “advocates” constantly worrying about people (especially kids) getting their feel bads hurt. When I was a kid, we didn’t have all these idiots running around screaming “sexual harassment!” at grade school children, advocating not giving school children actual letter grades because “it damages their fragile self-esteem,” and all this other nonsense they’re doing now. (I know, I sound 80, but I assure I’m not.) I just am so sick of all this bullsh*t.
If you’re tan, so what? If you’re pale, good for you. But for God’s sake, instead of teaching people more divisiveness, why not teach them how to appreciate their differences and embrace them, before the whole world turns into one huge homogenised environment like Hollyweird? How boring if we all looked the same.
10 pounds thinner because you are tanned? Well people tell me I look nearly 10 years younger than I am. Why? Because I have never been one for tanning and am quite proud of my ‘vampire pale’ (as my husband calls it). People look far better with their natural skin tone than they ever do with fake orange. I have seen women younger than I am that have wrinkles around their eyes from far too much tanning (and quite bad too!) and I am not yet 30!
I will say that I have felt pressure myself to be darker, my mother is blonde, green eyed, pale woman of irish decent. My father is native black hair,brown eyes and naturally dark skin….my cousins are the same…I am dark haired,blue eyed and very pale…so when I’m with my fathers side of the family I get alot of “pale girl” jokes….definitely makes me want to tan
Everyone has their reasons, I think tanned is beautiful as well as being pale, be happy in your own skin…thats all that’s really important
Never mind her skin color: am I the only one who’s weirded out because it looks like that phrase “SELF ESTEEM” was CUT into her chest?
Jillian, he’s Kelly’s fiance! I know! I think his name in Luke something. Well, not Luke “Something”, but you get the picture. Pretty sure the little hottie is a couple of years younger than Kelly.
Meh I feel like people only start “wars” like this when they feel they have to overcompensate for their point. I.E. If it was abundantly clear one is better than the other, then there would be no need to bash one and champion the other. So, sit down Kelly and just do you.
I think the whole obsession with tanning is as bad as black people bleaching their skin because they don’t like being dark. People are always horrified when they hear about skin bleaching, but never about tanning, when actually it’s the same damned thing.
Kelly is an absolute moron for doing this campaign… self esteem comes from being a better person and having confidence in yourself, not covering yourself in orange colouring. I know they want to sell a product, but find a better way to do it, please. Pale is just as beautiful as dark, and pretending to be something you’re not (like dying the largest organ in the human body on a weekly basis) is just sad.
Livia – It’s self tanner, but it requires more than a glance. That’s something I bet the “advocates” completely overlooked.
elaine – Yeah, he’s only 20.
I’ve got a natural olivey/beige thing going on year round (perhaps due to rumored affairs with the Sioux) – but I have to admit I like my “summer skin” look. (I feel like there has to be a biological basis for this vanity, because as a kid I purposefully tried to stay pale.)
Unfortunately, my skin has become very sensitive to intense sunlight in the past year or two (vampirism?!) so I always slather on sunscreen, regardless of the season. Which is hard, because I love playing outside, but if I forget to reapply sunscreen during a long day in the summer, my face and body become covered with sores.
Has anybody else noticed increased sensitivity to the sun as they’ve gotten older? I’m not sure if it’s aging or altitude, or both, but it’s definitely a source of stress during the summer months.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
“But when I was obsessed with working out and trying to be really thin, I did do the tanning beds, just because you really do look and feel thinner when you’re darker. It just the way it is with the majority of people.”
Really?? This is news to me. I’m black (about the shade of Gabrielle Union) and I have never heard that opinion before. Does it really ring true??? This is so weird…
I’m very pale, and make no apologies to anyone who thinks I should do anything different. I like the way I am, to each their own.
folks need to embrace themselves. period. & why on earth do we have to be subjected to kelly osbourne’s self-image problems. ugh!
i’m a black chick & i dig my complexion, but i also think that nic kidman, dita von teese & tilda swinton have gorgeous fair complexions as well.
from tilda to alec wek…flawless, healthy skin is attractive…to me anyways.
🙂
What happened to this girl? She used to be the representation of something different… now she embodies the term “sell out”… how pathetic. Does no one in Hollywood have the balls to be themselves?
When I got married in May, I was pale since there hadn’t been much warm weather yet. I loved the look – natural and kind of delicate.
My maid of honor fake-baked for the wedding and looked . . . bright orange! After seeing the photos, even she laughed. NO MORE TANNING!!!!
@MissyA
I’ve definitely noticed that I tan much quicker now. I used to be a total sun goddess when I was a teen, totally addicted to the sun. I never did the tanning bed thing b/c I didnt like the color and I didnt see the point since I tan so fast. Now I tan even faster, my arms will have various tan lines depending on my shirt that day and my left one is always much darker than the right just from my 20 minute drive home from work.
As far as Kelly, not sure why all the sudden shes the spokesperson for everything. I know she has a book she’s promoting but Im getting annoyed by her now and I used to not mind her so much.
kelly looks great. and i prefer to not go in the sun since i just get burned, never even tried spray tan and problebly never will either..
i’m really pale, but i love spray on tans. i feel so much better. my bf laughs really hard cuz we go away on vacation and i burn and peel. we’re going to mexico for a week next month and i know i will become a lobster when there.
I really like tanning. I’m lucky and spray tans don’t look orange on me but I like the real thing. I put on lots of sunscreen but still like the glow I get when I’ve been out playing beach vball all day. I think pale is beautiful too, I just prefer myself with a tan. I think it comes down to a case of to each his own, just take care of your skin.
I am half arabic and can get super tan,but not orange….there is a difference. Last year I was in a wedding and i was so dark i stood out like a sore thumb, but it was only bc i had gone to the beach a few times. I do look better with a tan and I dont think there is anything wrong with me thinking that. she should just keep some things to herself
MissyA-
I just had that conversation with my mom the other day! She cannot stand the sun or the heat any more even though she used to lay out all the time when she was young. She thinks it’s because she has high blood pressure, I don’t know if there’s a correlation or anything but it’s what she says. I think it makes sense though because I am the opposite. I’ve always liked the sun but I NEED to be in it now, and my blood pressure is a lot lower than it used to be (I’m constantly on the verge of passing out), so maybe that could be why you seem more sensitive to it? Or if you’re on any meds that make you sensitive to sunlight?
to those of you commenting that you are black and have never heard about looking thinner by being darker, im sure its because you start off, at your palest, than those of european descent. when you are pasty white, a tan CAN make you look thinner and even a tad healthier…to a certain extent. thats why bodybuilders tan themselves to an inch within their life and then slather bronzer on top of it. the darker colors make them appear thinner and more “cut.”
that being said….i cant believe NO ONE commented on how much she looks like her mother in that last picture with the burgundy hair. i had to double take!
I am a caramel color. In the summer my brown skin gets darker and my dark brown hair turns red. I hated it. I always wanted to be light like my friends. And they always wanted to be tan like me. Everyone wants what they don’t have. It took me along time to like myself. I don’t care if your pale or tan. Own it! Being confident in who you are makes you 10x more beautiful.
in my opinion, Kelly is old enough to know that it’s not a tan cream that makes you look thiner, but work out and eating less.
The skin-bleaching thing among us darker members of the human race is interesting to mention. In India and Pakistan, there’s a product called “Fair and Lovely” that effectively bleaches the skin to make us gals paler. (I’ve never used it, never would. I commented above in teh first reply that for the most part, I’m cool with my dark mocha coloring.) The Times did a huge article about it in 2009 and everyone was like QUA OMG HOW HORRIBLE THAT’S RACIST GET IT BANNED and it’s like, dude, um, that’s been around for like 50 years. Y’all are a little late.
What makes it even more interesting is that English(WHITE) women in the 1800s used to regularly slather arsenic, yes, arsenic on their faces to become even paler.
So…yeah.
We’re all messed up when it comes to our skin tones, huh? 😛 Hahaha. We fail.
I’m all for pale people and brown people loving their skin because they are both beautiful, but if Kelly wants to say she looks/feels better then let her. She has paid her dues and she looks lovely these days.
Maybe it’s just a matter of finding what makes her feel better and helping someone else find that something as little as a spray tan can keep a woman from sticking her finger down her throat.
@Huma – yeah, they also used to swallow glass and tapeworms as well, to make themselves thinner. Can you imagine? Sounds awful!
@MissyA – Yep, I’ve always been super pale, but was able to go in the sun a lot more as a kid. Now I burn in 30 minutes. Even though I applied SPF 50 to my face on a trip to Bermuda three years ago, I still developed freckles ALL over my face, and still have them now.
After spending several years in Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, where pale skin is prized, especialy on women, I finally became comfortable in my own skin and deliberately preserve its natural lightness. I work with women 5-15 years younger who have visible skin damage from sun exposure. Even the most skilled doctors can’t inject, laser, and pull every line out of the face and neck, and even with the best cosmetic treatments, there are still places on the body that give away one’s age, like the upper chest, hands, and knees.
Natural, healthy skin of any color is most attractive.
I don’t know about anybody else here, but I long ago noted that if I want to get a really savage tan, but not burn, all I have to do is where 15 sunscreen. I did that once for an entire camping weekend at the beach, and even thought the sun never came out, I was incredibly dark. I do tan very easily, but I can also burn at first before I develop my color.
It’s ironic. In Europe, the US and Canada they try to sell you skin tanner to persuade you there’s something wrong with you if you are pale. You go to Mexico, South America, Africa or Asia and they try to sell you skin lightener to persuade you there’s something wrong with you if you are dark.
One big circle-jerk with insecure people in the middle shelling out hard-earned cash to fit in.
Lovely world we live in.
When I looked at that first picture I thought she was trying to say, “Pale is beautiful.”
I’m half Mexican so I tan like crazy. My left arm is so dark from the sun shining in through my car window. Everyone thinks I hang my arm out but I don’t!
My husband is Irish and burns very badly. I figured my daughter would get my black hair, brown eyes, and tan skin but those Irish genes are strong! She has red hair, blue eyes, and some of the palest, beautiful skin you could imagine. I put SPF 50 on her every morning before we leave the house. She has spent a little time out w/o sunscreen and hasn’t burned yet. But I still take good care of her skin.
Natural skin is beautiful. But I hate seeing women that lay in tanning beds constanty. We have some around here that tan EVERYDAY. It’s horrible. They don’t realize their skin looks like leather.
Is it rude to tell someone they’re orange? I’ve been debating on whether or not to tell a girl in my class that she is orange. I should probably keep it to myself huh?
I’m one of those people who are so pale they glow in the dark. When I was younger, I used to try to get a tan all the time, but when I was about 19-20, I decided that the damage the sun was doing to me wasn’t worth it. Now, I occasionally use fake tan, but whenever I go in the sun I slather on SPF30+ every hour or so. I haven’t been badly burned since I went to Fiji a few years ago, and I want to keep it that way.
My brother, on the other hand, has gotten all of the Greek genes from our mum, and has olive skin year round. He gets a tan from being in the sun for half an hour in freaking spring.
Gotta love yourself, warts and all.
Pale is beautiful too. 🙂
Silly girl, adding credence to this fake tan idiocy. It looks awful and most people who use it seem to lose all perspective of what looks natural and what looks absurd. Colour of skin should have nothing to do with perception of beauty. Pale, tanned or dark; it should have no impact on a persons self worth since it has absolutely nothing to do with their actual worth.
yikes, i’m super pale, always have been. when i was younger it used to bother me. now i live in korea and everyone is trying to be white as can be. seriously, SPF 50 with whitening cream is everywhere. every time i try to buy make up they give me the lightest shade, but i have to try to explain, in my broken korean, that if i wear that i look like a corpse,
it’s all relative, yo. beauty is as beauty does
Pale Force Activate!
Seriously though, tanning just wastes money in the present and costs you money for skin repair in the future. Worthless vanity.
AVOID SUN SCREEN, USE SUN BLOCK!
At my boys’ 9 month check-up yesterday their doctor informed me that at least w/ young boys, sun SCREEN should be avoided as it contains an estrogen like chemical responsible for causing young males to become sterile.
Not sure if she’s supposed to tan or not in the 1st shot but she looks fab.
In Malaysia, we’re expected to be “fair”, so “fair” that we have lotion ads that claim to make the “yellow colour of the skin” disappear, and we can become “white”.
I’m happy being “yellow” skinned, which borders a tan and being fair.
She looks like Ozzy in drag when she smiles.
MissyA: I don’t know how old you are or if you have a family history of it, but Lupus can make people become extremely sensitive to the sun. My sister (who has Lupus) once blistered so badly that they had to cut her shirt off in the ER because it had adhered to her blistered/bleeding skin. She was just out fishing and got too much sun, even with sunblock. Sad.
I’m super pale and cannot tan, but I would love to be Beyonce’s color. I’ve got the color all picked out for when they finally come up with a way to dye people whatever color they want to be (genetically or otherwise).
Wait-Kaiser is Indian???? I thought she was a Scottish Fold kitten? Wow, that avatar is really misleading…I feel like my mom just told me Santa Claus doesn’t exist.
I’m Latina and I live in Miami where going to the beach and getting tanned on the weekends when I was younger it’s a must. Now that I’m older, I avoid the sun because of the spots in my face that no matter how much bleaching I do won’t go away. Unfortunately, I have to use bronzers and spray tans because I look yellow and sick without any color. Not everyone does it to look thin
Self reflection and hatred is underrated. You have a vast majority of Africans,Blacks East Asians/Indian/Pakistanis and others trying to bleach their skin, because they think that “white or light” is right. On the other hand, you have white/ligther skinned people trying to get color or more melanin in their skin. People need to learn to love themselves for who they are.
Skin color is the curse of mankind. It’s the one thing that we cannot cure in regards to social ills of every culture, sub culture and ethnicity.
I am a beautiful mocha red/dark brown complexion (my heritage is Black, Native American and Carrib Indian by decent). I would not change my color for nothing in this world. Would I like to even out my dark spots, acne and aging spots….maybe, but bottom line-I love me!
Kelly should realize that if it’s for a campaign, she might temper her words more than if it were an interview just asking her personal opinion.
I love everything from the lightest pale white, to the darkest ebony skin. Being part Native American, I used to get dark (for me) the first sign of spring and stay that way until mid-fall. But then pernicious anemia hit me and I became this pale vampire. I covet my brother’s gorgeous, dark red-brown each summer when he gets dark. Sigh… but I don’t tan anymore because of the risks of cancer, age spots, and wrinkles. My joke used to be that “I’m so white that if I lay out in the sun, planes overhead have to divert their courses or I’ll blind the pilots.” 😉
@ ThatBKChick: I so wish I had your coloring. 🙂
For those that use a self-tanner at home, which brand(s) do you recommend? I have yet to find one that doesn’t turn orange. Suggestions, please. 😀
I’m pale and feel like a tan settles in all the shadows on my face. I look older and more tired when I’m tan. As for spray tan- bleh. What the hell is in it?
Mmmm… kinda like Ruby Gloom …. She needs the red hair and black dress.
She is just as cute…(sigh)
I don’t know how i’ll ever marry her….( sigh) Especially since She can have nice looking young men, what she’d want with an overweight mid thirty’s pot smoker i don’t know !! ……
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Now i’m depressed….
I’m pale and perfectly happy with it. My mom got diagnosed with skin cancer when I was 13, and ever since I’ve worn sunscreen Every Day even if it’s raining. I look much younger than my age (I’m 30 and people regularly think I’m in colloege) and my skin is healthier for it.
What proposterous ad considering the organization and the fact that Kelly has been and is eternally pale!
But I will say, girlfriend has NEVER lood sexier than she does in that last picture! Go girl : )
I don’t think having a tan makes you look thinner but it definitely hides the celulite on my thighs!
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