Porcelain Beauties: New threads just for us!

[NoAddedSugar]

I'M NW15 for Mac or Blue/Red Level 1 for PX

I've always struggled finding the right shade of foundation. I have a lot of red in my cheeks, forehead and chin well somedays its more pink then red. Its permanent though. I guess its a mild form of rosacea but I've always had a bit of it since I can remember.

I didn't wear blush for years because I was so self concious of the "high colour" in my face even when covered by foundation. The first time I bought some was for my wedding MU in 2002.

I don't mind being pale perse, sometimes I see women with translucent white skin and I think they are really lovely especially with the dark hair to contrast. I used to mind having a pale body because my friends would laugh at me, but now I don't care. At least to me its a mark of health, I know I'm not going to get skincancer from too much tanning!

I usually have dark brown or black hair but in the sun it can turn very auburn and if I haven't covered my grey in a while it will start to turn a bit blonde looking in weird streaks LOL.

I have blue eyes that are pigmented with grey so I find it hard to wear warm colours against my eyes especially rich browns or some forms of deep pinks. I can't wear yellow based greens either.

I used to avoid pale lipstick because I thought it would make my mouth dissapear but my mouth is quite small and rosebud shaped and I've discovered in recent years that mid-lighter shades are better for me. I've also discovered peach as an alternative to pink as pink just makes me feel bright and draws attention to my face pigmentation.

 

[banjobama]

Hi, I'm Archelle, and I am a woman of NO color! I don't wear MAC foundation but I'm the lighest Clinique shade of perfectly real makeup.

My mom is pale too, and she's stayed out of the sun her whole life and as a result she looks a good ten years younger than she is. I do the same thing! I wear SPF every single day.

I like being pale because I like being myself. It's just kind of embarrassing in summertime since my legs are so milky white. haha.

 

[Atomic]

Hi! My name is Katrinah from Malaysia. I'm pretty fair, and has been called "vampire" by some mean friends. Nah, NOT friends

Some people also use to ask if I'm albino

 

[seabird]

hello i'm hannah

i'm nc15 in summer and in winter i just do not bother with mac skin products at all because none of their colours suit my skin tone, i use a mineral foundation from the brand lily lolo, in porcelain which they describe to suit 'the fairest of them all' and looks white in the tub, hurray. just yesterday people at school were commenting on how i looked like a zombie (lovely people they are). however, i enjoy being "pale and interesting"

 

[redhead2000]

Hey! I'm Stacey. I have red hair, green eyes, and freckles. I wear NW15, but could probably use NW10 if MAC made it! Glad to be able to talk to other pale people. I avoid the sun like the plague!

 

[talk2mesun]

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[SparklingWaves]

Hi - I am defiantly in the fair complexion category. I am NW15. Green eyes with blue ring around them, blond hair.

Years ago, Corn Silk, use to make a great oil-free foundation and powder for the fair. Now, they don't exist. I think.

I can use all of M.A.C.'s foundations in NW15. I can literally give a hit list of companies that have discontinued their fair toned foundations. Boo on them.

Has anyone tried Nars, Sue Dewet, Tarte, Lorac, MUFE, Yves, or Vincent Longo? I haven't tried any of these.

 

[Ms.Amaranthine]

I'm Jessica. I'm 20. Red hair, blue eyes. Though, I'm naturally a blond. The only foundation that is the right shade for me is Everyday Minerals in Fair. It's the only one I've found thus far, anyway. Everything else has been about two or three shades too dark and left me looking like I had fake tanner streaked across my face. Why won't more companies market for us?! Up until I finally caved and tried mineral makeup three weeks ago, I thought I'd never find a company that went light enough for me. I hate to think of how much money I've wasted on the wrong foundation.

I love that I'm so white. I think it is beautiful. And while women can tan to look like other tan women, you cannot look like the truly pale girls unless you were born that way! In fact, if I don't wear makeup, I look like a zombie. My skin gets so white in the mornings and my eyes are such a bright blue that it's kinda creepy! I pity my boyfriend, who has to stare death in the face every day. Hah.

 

[*KT*]

Here to join the Pale Force. Auburn hair and green eyes (tiny ring of hazel in the center), 30 years old.

I mainly use Jane Iredale (foundation, blush, cream-to-powder eyeliners), MAC (eyeshadows, fluidline, and pigments); Bare Escentuals (various buys from Sephora).

I'm lucky enough to work in a doctor's office that carries Jane Iredale Mineral Makeup, so I can score the Ivory loose powder mineral foundation (spf 20) for tester prices every 6 months. They allow us to purchase product at 40% off the rest of the year, but I try to wait for the "Employee event". It's nice sheer coverage... which brings me back to wishing for a liquid foundation from that company for the days I need more coverage.

 

[Briar]

Count me in with the pale beauties. I'm 37 with finiky combination skin. I'm currently using Everyday Minerals foundation, and experimenting to find the right shade. I tried Fairly Light Neutral yesterday and it seemed just about right so that might be it (I have a lot of yellow in my skintone, my veins are green not blue). Hair is currently burgundy and my eyes are greyish-blue.

My biggest challenge is finding a foundation that will even out my skintone (age spots, ugh) without washing me out.

 

[purrtykitty]

hello everyone. i'm Karin and i've got pale skin with freckles (mostly on my face) thanks to my english/scotch-irish descent. i'm an NW20, but i rarely ever wear foundation or powder because i like to let my freckles shine through...i like to think they make me look younger. i currently have dark blackish-brown hair and light hazel eyes...which makes me look even more pale, and i love it. i think that i can pull off more colors this way.

 

[newagetomatoz]

Hi! I'm Tay and only after two months of summer do I make it to NC15! Though, I feel like i'm cheating here a little bit because I religiously use sunscreen with at least SPF 45 everyday and I use Shiseido's White Lucient face wash. Otherwise I would be in the Women of Color forum if I didn't care so much about sun exposure! As it is now, rarely do I not 'glow' in a photograph! But I love it!!! I embrace my paleness! Plus, colors turn out WAY more vibrant!!

 

[Ariankara]

Hi girl! I've got a pale skin too.. with freakles... I have blue-green eyes and brown hair with red glare to natural... But now, my hair is blue-dark... My friends say that I look like to a LivingDeadDoll, you know this strange goth doll

I'm Nw20 in the summer but I use the porcelain ivory in my maybelline foundation... I love my skin, but it's not always easy to find a foundation...

 

[SquirrelQueen]

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Originally Posted by BloodMittens But now I've come to love my pale skin, I don't care what anyone says, I used to have a girl at my work call me "whitey cakes!" Until I reminded her of her orange fake tan... gross. I'm glad I'm not the only one here who likes their natural skin color.

I love this attitude! When I was in my teens and twenties, I felt incredibly self-conscious because I was so pale. In high school, other girls made fun of me for not tanning. I really can't tan. In college, my friends used to slather themselves with baby oil and sit in the sun---they got brown but the few times I did it, I got red or turned yellowish---I looked like I had hepatitis!

Once I tried a tanning booth. I got really dark---for me, anyway. I bought some new lipstick at a Clinique counter and the SA said that the shade would be really pretty when I got a tan. Oh-kay! I never bothered with tanning after that! Then I met a woman in her sixties who looked like she was in her forties. She had stayed out of the sun all her life, never tanned, and always wore a hat when she was outdoors---she was young in the days before sunscreen. She inspired me to go back to the Clinique counter and get my first tube of CityBlock---and I've been using sunscreen every day since.

I'm in my mid-forties now and most people are shocked to learn my real age. Many assume I'm ten to fifteen years younger. One of my friends in my twenties---she used to tan so deeply that people mistook her for a Latina and, at the time, she looked great. (BTW, I think dark skin is gorgeous but only on those who were blessed with it by God and nature, not on those who fry themselves in the sun or a booth.) Anyway, I always felt a bit inferior to this friend because she was so pretty and tan and I was pale---not realizing that I was pretty, too. Recently, I saw her picture and was shocked. Although she was in her mid-forties, she looked like she was sixty! Not that it's a bad thing to look sixty, that is, if you happen to be sixty or even older...

For years, I wore the second to the palest foundations from Clinique and then I got into MAC. I'm NW20 and prefer Studio Tech. I'm new to Spektra and just recently discovered this forum. Although we're more pale than the Women of Color, we're alike in that we embrace who we are and don't try to be something else. And that's beautiful.

Hope this thread keeps going!

 

[shadowaddict]

I have a question. Right now I am using Studio Fix Fluid in NC15, wish they made it a shade lighter and NC15 in Studio Select is too dark. I was wondering if anyone can tell me the difference in Studio Fix compact in NC15 and C2? On the website they look pretty much the same but I know not to trust their swatches. I have oily skin and have found thanks to Bunnybunnybunny on here that if I use SF over SFF it really helps cover my large pores. I use the sponge around my nose to cover there good and then 187 brush for all over my face, but was wondering if C2 is a bit lighter. Thanks

 

[girloflowers]

Hello! I'm Lily and i don't us a mac foundation so i can't compare

i have a feeling im lighter than nc15 though.

and i have evil freckles. i would be so sexy without them x.x

I'm half german half english and the most hilarious part? my grandfather is/was african american.

so i get the wide hips and boobs, but i also have extraordinarily pale skin. not cool.

at the moment im looking into the white oundation/primer at inglot, and the white (aka translucent) powder.

stupid skin.

i always look orange no matter how hard i try to get the right foundation.

 

[gummybug]

Ladies... let's not talk about how fug our pale complexions must be. I came here because I assumed it would be a positive thread with recommendations for shades and looks that suit us, as the beauty of color section is.

 

[fashionette]

Veronica here. Brown hair, blue eyes, NC15.

I really like this idea!

 

[Paramnesia]

Hey I'm Chloe, I'm pale and proud. I love my pale skin though finding a foundation that doesn't make me look orange is a massive challenge, especially in Australia. I'm NW15 which still seems quite dark on me.

 

[anjelik_dreamin]

Hello, my name's Jessica and I'm another pale Aussie. Don't know what I am in MAC, but most foundations look fake and orange on me. I looooove being pale, recently I got really badly burnt and I was shattered, I look horrible with a tan. It's gone now though, so it's all good

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I'm looking into a natural MSF, as well as MSF in light flush.