Skin tone

Today natural isn't natural - it's the photoshoped models you see on tv... nothing's right there. They do so much to change those modells looks, but everyone see them as natural... there's nothing natural about it! Being ugly and lots of wrinkles is the natural shit! Being 'beautiful' has never been natural...

Well I know that my friend who goes for a modern \"al naturelle\" look, spends way more time putting on her makeup than I and in the end just looks burnt :blush: ...I sweared to take her blusher away And what corpse queen said she could be on a cover of a magazine but looks....well anything but natural.
Anyway I wear my eyeshadow (almost always some darker color) and lip-gloss, am very pale and like it (when I am on the sun little specks come on my cheeks) :side:

I've never had any experience with stage or TV makeup, and I try to avoid cameras whenever possible. I can imagine that those types of cameras and lighting would require special makeup, but that was a strange way for the makeup artist to word it!

My skin is very pale, and I burn very badly, and quickly, if I'm in the sun for any length of time. I do use sunblock if I know I'll have to be in the sun for more than 10 minutes or so. But I really hate the greasy feel of it, so I just try to stay in the shade whenever possible.

Morgana wrote:

I've never had any experience with stage or TV makeup, and I try to avoid cameras whenever possible. I can imagine that those types of cameras and lighting would require special makeup, but that was a strange way for the makeup artist to word it!

I avoid cameras as well. I haven't ever seen myself whilst on stage performing (often hidden behind sheets of music anyway) so this make-up and skin tone topic is quite new to me!

I'm strangely pale for a Chinese person. Our skin tones can range from quite dark to paler than 'white' people, although I suspect it's my mother's part-Japanese heretage playing a role here, as well as living in a colder country and not going 'out in the sun' enough.

Parents think my hair loss is due to not being in the light enough. :dry:

Having a paler complexion can be irritating at times. When I go to China to visit people, all of the locals take one look at me and *know* I'm not from around there. It feels awkward. I have Indian and African friends who say the same - People in India and Africa just know that they're foreign from the paler complexion they have. It's not so noticible to us, but apparently there is a difference..

Leaves me feeling as if I don't belong anywhere, as in England, people take one look at me and automatically think \"Chinese\"..Not \"British\" or \"English\", and in China, I'm the \"foreigner\"!

I burn before even considering a tan, and just put sunscreen on and really just try to avoid exposure to it so I am a pale person as well.

Envy, your hair loss might have something to do with lack of sun exposure. Just make sure you get enough vitamin D. Apparently since people have started wearing a lot of sunblock in the last few years, vitamin D deficiency has become more common. Something I have had to consider recently.

I just turn pink in the sun, and then look like a radish. Not a good look for anyone. And then I get freckles, which doesn't add to the charm at all. Plus, half my family has had skin cancer, so I am not going there. SPF 85+ for me. Plus parasol.