Hey everyone =)
I recently saw a tutorial on youtube on how to make your skin white. Well, I don't mean to be rude or tell bad stuff on other youtubers but I wasn't impressed at all with what the girl (a Goth girl) showed us. She applied MAC's foundation and some kind of a white pressed powder all over her face. Okay, yes, that's how you make your skin look as white as you like but I personally would never use this method on a daily basis, if ever. And the other thing is that even she stated that the products were expensive. The foundation was around 30 dollars and the powder 15. Why use an expensive method when there is much better one and much cheaper one?
Well, I thought I could share with you some of my tips how to stale pale all year long, for cheap and more effectively.
I know there are girls out there, not only Goth girls, that don't necessarily like that "sun-kissed" look, love their pale skin, or get sunburn easily and so can't get a brownish skin...
Well, I think the biggest issue to stay pale all year long is summer. You CAN definitely stay looking like you never left your "cave" :D The key is sunscreen. Not SPF 8, not SPF 20... Use the highest you can find. I use SPF 50 and I don't get tan. Why don't I want to get tan? Well, first of all, I don't like how it looks on me, I think it's dangerous to expose your skin to the dangerous rays without proper protection and I love that I don't have to deal with the stupid white stripes from the different tops, T shirts I wear. The important thing about sunscreen is that you reapply it during the day. If you're going to stay out in the sun, you have to reapply it every 2 hours or so. That way you're not only reassuring you're going to stay tan-less but you protect your skin from the dangerous rays. And everybody should do that. I've heard that you should use at least SPF 30 during the summer. I even heard, that you should apply sunscreen during the whole year, even in winter because of the rays interacting with your skin and that causes the skin to age sooner. Of course you don't need SPF 50 in winter but maybe try looking for a day cream with SPF 15 so you get at least some kind of a protecting layer on your skin.
And the important thing is that before you apply your makeup, sunscreen has to be the first thing you apply. Even if you apply day cream too, sunscreen has to be first, so your skin can react with it. Then apply whatever you want over it =)
The problem with pale skin is that finding the right shade of foundation or powder can be hard. But you can still find a way. If you're like me and do not really need any extra super coverage to your skin, skip foundation. Apply concealer to the "problem" areas, like under the eyes, around the nose, the mouth, wherever you need it. Then I use my Kryolan Translucent powder in white. It is a powdery powder, not a pressed powder. I used to use Stargazer white pressed powder for parties, but white pressed powders are going to make you look blotchy after a while. With the translucent powder, you can do more than just set your face. If you apply a thicker layer you can definitely make your skin just a little paler. If you want a little extra whiteness, mix your pressed powder with the translucent one and you get very nice pale result. The Kryolan translucent powder cost me like 6 euros and I got 60 g of products which is a HUUUGE amount. i think I bought it over a year ago and I still have something left. They also have smaller packaging, but it costs 5 euros, so it's definitely a bargain to buy the bigger one. But there is also another, even cheaper alternative to setting your face with something that makes your skin paler of doesn't make you look orange (every flesh toned powder I tried made my skin look darker even the lightest shades..) is baby powder. It works the same as the Kryolan powder =) And you don't have to be worried about the ingredients because it's meant for babies so it should be good for you, right? =)
To conclude this article, let me just tell you that pale skin IS beautiful =) You don't have to look like a ghost or dead when your skin is pale. I personally think that red lipsticks look the BEST if you have pale skin =) So embrace your paleness and if you want a bit of that sun kissed glow in the summer, use a good quality self tanner, don't expose your bare skin to the dangerous rays. You don't want to look 50 when you're 40 ;))
Hope this helped some of you.
Lena
