I Don't Tan and Here's Why 

guys, this video is about pale vs tan skin, not white skin vs other skin colors. comments praising white skin over other skin colors will be promptly deleted and the authors blocked. please let me know if you notice someone being inappropriate. this video is not a space for any racist remarks.

I don’t want to tan, but my parents force me to tan.

As a redhead: I burn almost instantly. I'll be in direct sunlight in the summer for like 20 mins and then my arm will be red, but with a gap where my watch is, haha.

I hate being hot and in the sun, I always feel like I'm the only person who hates summer.

Tanning makes people so manly only white girls are girly

I just realized I haven't cared for it. Until my mum said I look like a cheese. 😂

All skin tones are pretty and don't need to change Edit: either way

I've always preferred my pale skin over getting a tan. I don't understand the obsession with getting tan but anyone who loves tanning, I hope you stay safe 👍

I hate my skin tone,it's so uneven and the tone is very sickly looking and I can't avoid tanning because I live in a tropical country

my mom always makes me getting tan and shaming me for not wanting it and not getting it. and I just hate being under the sun for so long and I easily get burnt and I really don't like me being tan too.... i feel weird

Also, with the rise of factories, suddenly poor people were pale, too, and it was no longer exclusive. While the rich were learning about the benefits of sunlight, the working classes were being forced into factories, so getting tan became a sign of wealth, since the rich could afford to spend their summers at the shore while the working classes were indoors, working.

In east asia it's the standard to have lighter/paler skin

Fun Fact: Tanning was also introduced by Coco Chanel when she accidentally "burnt" on the beach. She was so popular and people loved the look so much that they started tanning themselves aswell.

When you live in Asia, and it's the total opposite. 👁️👄👁️

It's opposite here. People are obsessed with whitening products.

I used to be one of the tannest kids in my friendship group, but then quarantine happened and I realised my skin texture improved so much more and I preferred my skin without tan lines

The this is that I have a rather pale skin but I get tanned veeerrryyy easily and I really want my original skin baaacckk

I get tan and I can’t recover from it.ur lucky

Australian enters the chat. Even if youre tan here, youre still “pale” I get a tan from just driving my car. ..... Skin cancer enters the chat

Do people actually care about whether your skin tans or not?

When you just are naturally tan and into vintage styles :(. I don't tan and always wear sunscreen, it's just my natural skin tone. Oh well, there WERE people that were just naturally darker or had to work outdoor and couldn't really do much about it even back in the day.

I personally prefer being tan but I don't like people pressuring someone to tan because "iT lOoKs GoOd"

If I go to the sun I get pink, and that's why it's impossible for me to tan

I don't tan, because I don't get tan, I get sunburned. 😑Ugh And I don't particularly care about being pale, but is horrible to get sunburned all the time 😢

"You're so pale, you should go out more!" is rooted deep inside me (thx mom) so nowadays when I'm not tan in summer, I fear that everybody is judging me and thinks I'm a cave troll and don't go out at all ...

Exaaaactly!!! I feel the same way! I've never understood why people wanted to tan, Im pale af and never thought about getting a tan bc "its embarrassing to be too pale". I live on a tropical island and I'm still pale af, and I remember seeing a lot of people sleeping under the sun tanning. I dont have anything against people that likes to tan, if you do it safely and you enjoy it that's all that matters, I just personally find it so uncomfortable like being orange burn under the sun. And also I noticed that the majority of youtubers when they are prepping to go on vacation they get a fake tan bc they are embarrassed for being too pale and it's easy to feel pressured bc its basically everywhere

I am very glad to hear that other people get shades of green in their tan lol, I thought I was spoiling.

When we gonna get awkward younger you with tan photos ?

I dont tan much bc I get a shrimp red instead if I spent too much time in the sun unprotected, even though I live in a tropical country lol

Lol I'm pale because I don't leave my house.

Im the palest person in my family oop-

I'm natural pale but wouldn't tan even if I could. Cos skin cancer. I always use spf 20-9000 depending on whether I'm indoors or not. Yep, Uva/Uvb rays reach you indoors. It's a personal choice but I hope "tanning" and the "tanning bed" trends go out of style soon. I've seen too many kids get in those things in their teens, 20+, etc and I hope they don't regret that decision in 20 or 30 years.

I don't tan cause I have an olive skin color, ain't need that 😂 I love having some melanin to be honest and love my skin color

I don't tan because of these reasons. I used to tan súper easily (now i just get "sun kissed") as a kid, but after turning 13 i got súper sensitive to the sun. Now i go out with my denim jacket to protect my arms from the sun and always wear sun glasses.

i dont tan bc ppl always made fun of me for my pale skin and i am full of spite

I also don’t get why being tan is so cool. I am on team pale. 😆

i wish i could tan that easy i go outside all summer and all i get is a sunburn

Tanning is bad for ur skin. It makes it look dry ,and wrinkly and ages u before ur time.

I was never tan as a kid, I've always been one pasty boi. The wonders of being half Irish. So I've stopped trying and have embraced staying inside most of the time.

I use fake tan :) I’m scared of the sun but I like being tan I used to love being pale and I probably will again in like 5 years lol I love this video

I don't tan because... I literally don't tan. Lol. Every summer the same people make the same comments about my cheesy light legs but for real, now I kinda appreciate looking like porcelain.

I don't tan ,i get skinburns if i go out in the sun

I am also a pale person who has embraced pale-life. I burn rather than tan and when the painful red-ness fades the tan I am left with makes me look like a more normal non-extremely pale person who looks pale and sickly, if that makes any sense. oh I am also allergic to most sunblocks. you can find me on a topical vacation by looking for the woman with a giant hat and sunglasses also wearing long sleeves and generally full length leggings in tropical heat.

When I stay inside and lose my natural tan the bags under my eyes and veins in my eyelids are more pronounced and I feel like I look sickly. But if I get too tan, my dark hair gets sunbleached and discoloration marks on my face show up more so long story short I wear hats now 🤠

Asians are completely opposite... we don’t like tan skin and prefer pale skin... And i am an asian I am super tan😂 But I am proud People can look good with all kinds of skin colour.

Even though I've got dark brown hair and eyes, my skin is so white and thin you can almost see through it. Beside doctors having no problems with finding a vein, I also don't tan. I always look like a gost in summer or burn, despite lathering myself with 50+ sunscreen, after a very, very short time in the sun, ending up with more freckles when the sun burn has healed up. So no thank you - I rather stay out of the sun, white and out of pain.

I prefer pale skin in general but every skin color is beautiful I just can’t imagine a world where a tan would look good on me every skin color is beautiful

The advert before this was no joke a tanning bed warehouse

I just hate tan lines. I don't mind getting darker at all I just want a consistent color. Its easier to avoid the the sun than laying naked with varies sections clothed off to somehow get it all one shade.

Definitely agree with “do it cause you want to, not cause you feel pressured to.” 👍🏻

I have a sun allergy that doesn't allow me to stay in the sun for more than 10 minutes :( that's why I look pale like a ghost

Im very very pale and I can barely tan and get sunburned easily! But funny thing is I tan ONLY if I go to the beaches here in the north, so friends can always tell if I went south for holidays or not XD I’ve been told it’s because of higher levels of iodine on northern beaches but still leaves me clueless. Anyways use sunblock year around no matter your skin tone folks!!! Sun damage is serious!

When I get tan it’s awful because I get sunburnt real easy, plus I blush really easy, so I get red a lot and also I’m blonde and I just hat the way I look with blonde hair and tan skin. Idk I’m just strange.

Very interesting film

Sun? You mean this yellow thing that appears in the sky once or twice a year?

Tanned skin became a sign of leisure, rather than a sign of toil, once the working class moved from outdoor to indoor factory work.

Uh, SPF filters don’t prevent tans. They block UV rays from burning your skin, they don’t prevent melanin production. I wear SPF everyday, I still tan if I stay outside for a period of time.

When I was about 10 years old I used to spend A LOT of time outside and therfore I had dark tan, my natural tan is much lighter. My family and neighbours made fun of me for being darker. I am software engineer so that means that I spend much more time inside. Now they are making fun of me how white I am. People are so weird.

Your level of contrast gets lower. You could instead take it as an opportunity put on new colors of clothes that suit better your skin and air at that period of the year

I'm one of those people who will get sun burnt no matter how much spf I put on. Still putting my 50+ spf tho because otherwise it would be even worse ahaha

I burn not tan.

I don't tan because I don't tan, I burn even thought I not super fair/pale naturally

When my family from Scotland visits us in Texas my uncle will sunbathe in nothing but shorts and bright white socks while drinking and eating jalapeño chips, thats his holiday every damn year.

I dont tan, I freckle.

Tan is illegal in my country😎😎😛

i look ugly when tan. my face just doesn’t look good.

Honestly the shame us light skinned people get from poc is disgusting and why you had to make this video. No poc has to justify their skin or choices. F racism and colorism. All skin is beautiful

I don't tan cause I'm quarantining

I dont tan.. i b u r n

tan back in the day was the same as a gym membership today

i dont tan, my skin just gets full of red dots and hurts, so i cant be on the sun

Here in Asia, we panic because we have natural tan 😂😂😂

You look stunning as is. No need for an explanation.

I absolutely hate tanning. And I live in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, that's the joke.

karolina looks especially beautiful in this video oh my god I wish I looked more like her

look into videos on contrast by aly art. tanning for you lowers your contrast, same for me, and that makes us look less striking

You don't have to explain, you shouldn't have to explain why you don't want to damage your skin

0:22 green ??????? How the hell some one get green after some tan hahahaha

I don't tan almost at all too . To get light bronze it's neeedto me to get burned almost to bubbles and all the tan quickly is gone . A lack of melanin

I don't tan because ... skin cancer.

i never tan because people say that i use contact lens

My doc told me the reason I now have so many skin blemishes, keratosis, freckles, etc. is from sun damage when I was younger. I did not use ANY sunscreen products, which barely existed anyway, but put baby oil on my skin so I would tan darker! The skin on my forearms is literally like lizard skin now. Don't do it, girls. It's not worth it. Go get a spray tan and put a hat on and use LOTS of sunscreen, and you won't get brown spots and keratosis. And no lizard arms!

And here I thought it was because you were the goddess of alabaster!

ughh i want to be pale but i cant reverse my tones lol

It is safer not to be out in the sun as skin cancers are no joke,however some sun is needed for natural vitamin D production.

Bruh, I don't tan I just freckle and I already have a lot of freckles on my face. Like A couple weeks ago my family on my dads side rented a house in lake tahoe (this trip was booked summer of 2019) because my grandma just retired and what not. So that week we went on a little of hikes went around town, but when I came back to my home in Kansas I WAS LOOKING CUTE AS HELL. JUST FRECKLES everywhere. This is why I sit outside and to do my school work now.

I don't tan cause I'm afraid of skin cancer and nowdays it's stupid to go to the beach.

I think it's maybe common for slavs to get that olive skin tan... I think it's beautiful but of course it's a really personal thing.

I am yet to meet a dermathologist that would support the tanning trend. Using factor 50 sum cream is a perfectly sensible thing to do because, you know, skin cancer is no joke.

where the i just turn into a red blistery lobster gang at?

I understand not wanting a tan, but I would never sacrifice my time in the sun for a lighter complexion. I get depressed without ol sol

I’m studying dermatology right now, and just FYI sunscreen does not block out the vitamins you get from the sun. YOU WILL AGE BEAUTIFULLY the less you tan. Even for darker skin women, tanning and exposing the skin to UV rays is extremely harmful and speeds up aging tremendously. I have tan skin and yet I still wear spf 50 everyday, because my skin will thank me when i’m older. Also don’t forget about skin cancer.

I don't tan because I can't stand the heat.

I look like a zombie for others as you said too, but in my case it's even better, than having tan.. With dark brown/almost black hair and eyes that's the easiest way to avoid racist attacks..When I had natural tan (just to be outdoors doing anything, and not with the purpose to get tan) ppl called me gipsy on a very rude way... Even if I'm not, just part of my family comes from Croatia where dark hair and eyes are common features.. Yeah, fun times

I hide my face from the sun all the time!! The sun wrinkles your skin and makes you age faster. I am on my early 30’s and most people are shocked when they ask about my age ‘cause I look 10 years younger 🤓😜

You’re so relatable to me. Since I can remember every year of my life I went to the beach for about three months on vacation, I also never used sunscreen during all these years and I did not take care of my skin to the point that I had several problems with my skin, it was dry when I tanned and I didn't look good tanned it just didn't go with my features but I didn't take it into account until I was 15 years old. So I decided to take care of my skin and do a skincare routine because I realized that the tan just did not suit me, in three months I became much lighter (my original skin color). When I returned to school everyone looked at me strangely and even yelled at me saying that I was racist and my classmates made very bad jokes, it became bullying for the simple fact that my skin returned to its natural color, the white color with which I looked better from my perspective. so I told the girl that bothered me a lot to shut up and that if I liked being pale, what was her fucking problem, I didn't say anything to her when she tanned, from there people just accepted it. What I'm trying to say is do what the fuck you want to do and what makes you feel better, don't give a shit about the others

i get incredibly tan in the summer and have never been burned in my life but in the winter my tan just vanishes and i suddenly look like ghost.

wish tanning or being fair skinned was just a personal preference for everyone instead of the pressure we feel.. all skin pigments are beautiful

Watching this whole I'm at the sea tanning.

My take away is that people should be as tan or as pale as their happiness defines and we need to stop conflating skin color with personality traits. Being pale or tan isn't bad. Giving people grief over their choices is what's bad. That aside people should remember a good SPF! Skin cancer is no joke.