what a waste!

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this is my general policy too, but since I spent the summer on an island I couldn't really avoid the sunshine, nor did I really want to. I wanted to play in the sea! and of course, I used sunscreen.

My sister is three years younger than I am. She tans obsessively and I wear sunscreen every day. People always assume she is the older one. Nothing ages your skin faster than too much sun exposure. I'm worried for her, she's only 20 and she's already had cancerous moles removed. :(

This. As a woman with a darker complexion, I have always loved porcelain pale skin tones, especially when the girl has clear skin. I never understood why caucasian women go ape shit over being unnaturally tan. Glad to see there are girls that are proud to be pale, and wrinkle free!

some of us tan no matter what

I have two shades of skin: Casper-white and Lobster-red. I've since learned to accept that I can't tan and lather myself up with sunscreen whenever I have to be in warm climates. I live in the pacific northwest where it rains 9 months out of the year, thus my skin is always pasty pale. On top of this, tanning beds are out of the question...I have to stay out of the sun because I have freckles and moles like no other. Benefit: delayed wrinkles and I don't aggravate my already accelerated risk of getting skin cancer :)

I might do that, or I might just buy a shade that matches my skin now and use the darker shade for contouring.