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Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:43 am  |
I do, I do!! It looks great with a tan, but I'm trying to be a good girl and avoid the sun! It's so hard to not want to be tan, especially when I always get compliments when I'm tan!!
I'm thinking of self-tanner, but I know it will come off quickly using a retinol product. Should I just stop using a retinol and continue with my other products? I am just so much more comfortable/confident with myself when I have a tan!
I just started using Cellex-C Vit C Serum, Hydra B and Emu Oil. I also just got a JB Green Apple Peel, but I have used it yet! |
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36 yrs old. Jewish/Italian Combo skin. Tans easily. Native Floridian. New to a skin care regime. Sad about lines under eyes, crows feet and horizontal forehead lines! |
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Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:14 am |
I don't feel yellow without a tan but I DO understand how difficult it is to get accustomed to a sunless skin! When I stopped tanning I became very self-conscious..I felt terribly ugly, actually. I'm used to my Casper-esque complexion now and make the best of it ( I love my piercing fish-white skin  )...You sound like you have a nice little pile of skin care products...maybe you could use a bronzer to deepen your skin tone a bit...there are a million and one out there you could try...I wouldn't stop the retinol treatment just to prolong the life of a self tanner...I'd go with a good-quality bronzer.
Good luck!
Pudoodles |
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Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:18 am |
Thanks Pudoodles! I have been trying to get Nars Laguna Bronzer (because everyone seems to love this best) but Neiman has been out!! I may just have to order it online  |
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36 yrs old. Jewish/Italian Combo skin. Tans easily. Native Floridian. New to a skin care regime. Sad about lines under eyes, crows feet and horizontal forehead lines! |
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Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:38 am |
I have two words for you:
VVVVIIIITTTTAAAAMMMMIIIINNN CCCCCCCCCCCCC
I, like you, have sallow, greenish-yellow skin if I don't keep up with the self-tanner. I used St. Tropez mousse on my face for years just to even out the disparity between my face and body (always more tan). While St. Tropex is an excellent product, ever since I began to use Vitamin C products every day (combined with nightly retinol, I might add), my skin is glowy and happy... no more sallowness.
I still sometimes put tanning cream on, but I find that I hardly ever need it anymore.
--avalange |
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http://newnaturalbeauty.tumblr.com/ 37, light-toned olive skin, broken caps, normal skin. My staples: Osea cleansing milk, Algae Oil, Advanced Protection Cream, Eyes & Lips, Tata Harper, Julie Hewett makeup, Amazing Cosmetics Powder, & By Terry Light Expert, Burnout, and daily inversion therapy and green smoothies! |
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Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:08 pm |
How about moving to some place in Asia ? Most Asians I know prize "whiteness". You will be the envy of everyone ! 
I speak from experience, when I moved to South East Asia when I was 13, I was the envy of all my friends, even though I was fat, short and pimply... Now, almost 40 years later, my friends still remind me of "how fair I was"...  |
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Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:41 pm |
I'm Asian but I'm from Hawai'i - it's almost a cultural thing to have a tan. I also dance hula and tahitian and long hair & a tan are just 'have to haves' for me. Growing up, we used to call fair-skinned people "shark bait".
I use vitamin C, Avene retinaldehyde's and sunless tanners, albeit more often. I like L'Oreal's Sublime Bronze - nice immediate color and sheen. |
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mid 40's, Hawaiian/Japanese, combo skin, med/dark complexion. "If life hands you lemons, throw them at your enemies" |
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Sat Jan 06, 2007 1:43 pm |
| Rjez wrote: |
I'm Asian but I'm from Hawai'i - it's almost a cultural thing to have a tan. I also dance hula and tahitian and long hair & a tan are just 'have to haves' for me. Growing up, we used to call fair-skinned people "shark bait".
I use vitamin C, Avene retinaldehyde's and sunless tanners, albeit more often. I like L'Oreal's Sublime Bronze - nice immediate color and sheen. |
I can totally relate Rjez I also danced hula/tahitian. I'm naturally tan, even in the winter. But, whenever we had competition Kumu would still want us as dark as possible. I always waited until the last minute though, as I can tan literally in 5 minutes. I'd just head out into the sunshine & in about 10 minutes would have a deeper tan - hula sistahs didn't believe me, but you could totally see the line of demarcation when I took my coconut bra off. Once when I was walking around in Hawaii I had a tourist ask me what suntan lotion I use b/c I had a nice tone to my tan . . . I replied sunblock spf 50+++++ & I avoid the sun like the plague! |
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Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:08 pm |
| leidon wrote: |
I can totally relate Rjez I also danced hula/tahitian. I'm naturally tan, even in the winter. But, whenever we had competition Kumu would still want us as dark as possible. I always waited until the last minute though, as I can tan literally in 5 minutes. I'd just head out into the sunshine & in about 10 minutes would have a deeper tan - hula sistahs didn't believe me, but you could totally see the line of demarcation when I took my coconut bra off. Once when I was walking around in Hawaii I had a tourist ask me what suntan lotion I use b/c I had a nice tone to my tan . . . I replied sunblock spf 50+++++ & I avoid the sun like the plague! |
!!! OMG .. yes! My issue with Kumu is my super fine scraggly hair. I had to beat, braid, shellac it to death to get any sort of thick hair. I can tan in 10 minutes too. I helped work our outrigger canoe paddling club booth at a tahitian festival last year. I thought I'd be IN the booth and didn't apply SPF to my legs .. ended up with killer slippah tan. Where you stay now? |
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mid 40's, Hawaiian/Japanese, combo skin, med/dark complexion. "If life hands you lemons, throw them at your enemies" |
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Sun Jan 07, 2007 2:46 pm |
| Rjez wrote: |
| leidon wrote: |
I can totally relate Rjez I also danced hula/tahitian. I'm naturally tan, even in the winter. But, whenever we had competition Kumu would still want us as dark as possible. I always waited until the last minute though, as I can tan literally in 5 minutes. I'd just head out into the sunshine & in about 10 minutes would have a deeper tan - hula sistahs didn't believe me, but you could totally see the line of demarcation when I took my coconut bra off. Once when I was walking around in Hawaii I had a tourist ask me what suntan lotion I use b/c I had a nice tone to my tan . . . I replied sunblock spf 50+++++ & I avoid the sun like the plague! |
!!! OMG .. yes! My issue with Kumu is my super fine scraggly hair. I had to beat, braid, shellac it to death to get any sort of thick hair. I can tan in 10 minutes too. I helped work our outrigger canoe paddling club booth at a tahitian festival last year. I thought I'd be IN the booth and didn't apply SPF to my legs .. ended up with killer slippah tan. Where you stay now? |
Ha ha. Yeah, one year I overdid the braiding & although my hair was "thicker", I had some MAJOR shrinkage that kumu was NOT happy about! Oh no. . . I have a policy not to be working out in the sun... even when we did our car wash fundraisers, I'd be the one collecting the money in the shade! I say in Cali., the bay area. What about you? |
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Sun Jan 07, 2007 8:25 pm |
| leidon wrote: |
| I say in Cali., the bay area. What about you? |
OMG ... me TOO! okay, what school you went? |
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mid 40's, Hawaiian/Japanese, combo skin, med/dark complexion. "If life hands you lemons, throw them at your enemies" |
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Mon Jan 08, 2007 4:21 am |
| tan is not good for me.i perfer a light colortone |
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Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:45 pm |
| I love the way I look with a tan but I hate the way my skin feels when I'm tan. I was picking out a base color at CVS last night and my husband came up behind me and said....they dont make "white as a ghost"...! UGH! I am a freak about the sun...I never go in it and he is a sun worshiper...i chase him around with sunscreen. I have olive skin and when I'm not tan I look sick. Mom mom always asks me if I'm feeling ok...then she pinches my cheeks and says "you need some color"! |
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Mon Jan 08, 2007 3:11 pm |
| Olivia wrote: |
| I love the way I look with a tan but I hate the way my skin feels when I'm tan. I was picking out a base color at CVS last night and my husband came up behind me and said....they dont make "white as a ghost"...! UGH! I am a freak about the sun...I never go in it and he is a sun worshiper...i chase him around with sunscreen. I have olive skin and when I'm not tan I look sick. Mom mom always asks me if I'm feeling ok...then she pinches my cheeks and says "you need some color"! |
I know what you mean! I look so much better with a tan that even one of my bosses, who is a pathologist, usually says "nice tan." It's his job to look under the microscope and determine if you have cancer! It's hard not to want to be tan, when you get the most compliments when you are!! |
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36 yrs old. Jewish/Italian Combo skin. Tans easily. Native Floridian. New to a skin care regime. Sad about lines under eyes, crows feet and horizontal forehead lines! |
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Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:42 pm |
| Olivia wrote: |
| when I'm not tan I look sick. Mom mom always asks me if I'm feeling ok...then she pinches my cheeks and says "you need some color"! |
OMG ... I go through the same thing too! When I first came to the Mainland for college - on my return I was fair and my grandmother kept insisting that I was sick.
Then, ALL my friends wanted to lay next to me at the beach. No, they didn't miss me .... we always try to lay out next to a pale person to make our tans look darker.
Hubby though is fair and I'm always ranting at him to use sunscreen. He's good about it but I feel bad that he can't sit on the beach the way I can. |
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mid 40's, Hawaiian/Japanese, combo skin, med/dark complexion. "If life hands you lemons, throw them at your enemies" |
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