October 2009
3 posts
Who is the fairest of them all? Pale skin makes a... →
Yes, it’s the Daily Mail, but that almost makes the article more awesome.
Aromaleigh Pure Mineral Makeup | Natural Mineral... →
Short of ordering “Dainty Doll” from the UK, this is the best place I’ve found for ordering powder foundation in the US. They’re a small company, so you need to order samples to try on shades before you order full-sized products, but the samples are cheap (and ship free). I just about cried tears of joy when I realized that their very palest shades were actually too pale...
August 2009
7 posts
“I try to wear SPF 45 sunscreen always. I like Shade and Water Babies, both by...”
– Zooey Deschanel in InStyle Magazine
“I had every fake tanning product you could imagine… I’d come home...”
– Nicola Roberts
Pale girls don't get enough love.
A wise frog once said, “It’s not easy being green.”
The point is well made. It’s also not easy to be pale. Makeup companies have names for pale skin - alabaster, ivory, and porcelain. Sometimes there are less flattering adjectives too - pasty, chalky, washed-out, or sickly. We might be called ghostly, vampiric, or gothic, but maybe we were just born this way. Maybe we...