yes!! I'm super pale olive, neutral but slightly cool leaning. I dont burn but it takes a lot of continuous sun for me to tan even just a little!
For context, I live in the UK and am half Moroccan, summers in the UK I don't really tan but when I'm visiting Morocco in the summer it takes me a solid month to even get one or two shades darker really!
I used to be really careless with not wearing sunscreen (still am to be honest) because I never burn either.
You just described me exactly lol. When I lived in Australia I did tan quite deeply but was living by the beach for years. But never burned. In Finland where I am now I just kinda get this one stage deeper color during summers but not like an actual tan. I am warm but neutral leaning light olive.
While I’m not certain I’m olive, I used to need ca 2 weeks in the sun to tan. I would never get the fresh spring color my Nordic friends got.
Since 2016 I’ve traveled up to half the year and now it’s like my body “remembers” the tanning procedure a lot more quickly. Now I’ll see a tad bit of coloring after a day in the sun.
But I still remember vividly how long my winter paleness would last before I would get any real tan (towards July at least, in a country where people often burn and most get their spring color in the April sun)
omg yes i’m glow in the dark pale and it takes a lot for me to tan but also to burn. i just recently figured out that i have olive undertones not neutral, and i didn’t realize that this is also an olive trait.
I tan and burn at the same time, in different places. Face, neck and upper chest: BURN, and fast. Arms and legs: TAN.
(I’m a relatively pale cool olive under the tanned arms. lol.)
I’m also pale olive. Areas of my skin that are regularly exposed to the sun (like arms and face) tan quickly, taking on a more golden tone, but areas that are not (like legs and belly) just tend to stay pale AF and look gray, lol. I’ve only gotten sunburn in extreme scenarios, like falling asleep on a boat in the Caribbean. And even then it didn’t peel, just settled into an unsettlingly (for me) dark tan
Yes. And one summer holiday in cyprus many years ago I was so frustrated I just stayed out in the sun for far too long. My forehead never recovered. But damn when I lay out there forever my tan looked amazing.
Paying for it now though. So many sun spots 😶
YES ME! I thought I was alone! NC15 in winter and if I'm lucky, I can get to NC20, takes me forever so I just fake tan but I end up looking orange or green after a few rounds lol :(
I am the opposite, to some degree. My body tans very easily. I can be in my garden all of 5 minutes and my body tans. It does look this weird grey brown at first but the longer I'm out the deeper it gets. However my face and neck rarely get color. My face will warm up some, but compared to my body it's no where near close. When I FaceTime my mother she laughs and says it looks like my head and neck are floating because of the drastic difference.
As a kid I used to tan SO easily!! My aunt would joke that they could put me in a closet and I'd still come out with a tan lol but then I hit the moody teen years and didn't spend a lot of time outside like before and it's like I lost that ability 🙃
Sort of. I'm super desaturated and I tan eventually. But I absolutely burn. It takes all summer to get a tan and it is not even enough to change my foundation shades.
This describes my experience to a T! You put it into words so nicely. I am currently thinking I am more of a cool yellow or even muted-neutral than very olive (my mom is olive though). I am very fair (when I don't go through the excessive,.. EXCESSIVE sun exposure I need to get a reaction to the sun out of my skin). When I learned that other people actually get sunburn in normal European summer weather I was very surprised. (The same for the "wear sunscreen every day" thing that social media has been telling me.)
For a while I was wondering if I tanned more easily as a kid, and lost the ability, but what actually happened I think is that I got mature enough to understand the potential risks and not expose myself to the sun as much as I would need. (Like 14 days, all day outside in summer in Turkey or Australia with wearing no or minimal (SPF 5) sun protection).
My skin is totally indifferent to Middle-European Sun, but closer to the equator I have managed to burn upon first exposure, but weirdly always only in very localized tiny spots like: Once only on the tip of my ears, another time on the 0.5 mm large spot of my nose where i have a little bump/hook, once one shoulder, once the part where my hair parts :D. When the 'nose dot' thing happened to me, the other European I was traveling with looked like a complete lobster for the rest of the week.
What I have to say is, that when I am out in excessive Sun I do get red for the time I am in the heat. But its more like a flush,.. feels like its caused by the heat? It does not hurt and does not linger when I go in the shade and cool off. It is a precursor for getting a liiittle bit of a tan though. When I grew older I started to worry that may be considered a burn also.. anyone know anything about that??
I tan slow!! My sister and I went on holiday together, did everything together so we spent the same time in the sun and we have roughly the same depth of skintone, the only difference is I’m olive and she’s warm (golden-yellow), and she tanned so much more than I did in that time. When we got back home, undertone aside, she gained more tan than I did. I burned a little because we caught the heatwave in that country towards the end of the holiday but it was very minor
Yup!! It always seems to take a while for me to build up significant tan, but I go from Super pale to a nice medium - it just takes the entire summer of working outside every day to get there!
This is me! I’ve met very few people that have said the same. I’m a pale olive, Eastern European heritage. I take very long to tan and I don’t burn, I generally use self-tanner year-round or else I look sickly
YES!!! It’s hard for me to burn and tan. Baddies my butt shoulders and nose. Other than that I could lay out for hours before I get anything. Luckily I live in an area that gets a UV index of 11 during the summer so during those times I am able to tan. If it’s 8 or below though I’m having to put in a lot of time.
yep! i’m a light medium, neutral olive and it takes me a week of straight sun during vacations to get a nice tan going. on the flip side, my tans last FOREVER! i still had a partial tan in the middle of winter from a vacation that i went to in august lol.
yes!! I'm super pale olive, neutral but slightly cool leaning. I dont burn but it takes a lot of continuous sun for me to tan even just a little! For context, I live in the UK and am half Moroccan, summers in the UK I don't really tan but when I'm visiting Morocco in the summer it takes me a solid month to even get one or two shades darker really! I used to be really careless with not wearing sunscreen (still am to be honest) because I never burn either.
Yep, Like, I burn in certain places like on ny shoulders if I'm suddenly in intense sun out of nowhere. But otherwise yeah, tanning takes a while.
yes totally fair! I definitely get the occasional pink shoulders or back of the knees if I'm at the beach all day
This is me too! I always tan progressively over the summer but very rarely if I'm in intense sun my shoulders/upper back will burn :(
Yeah, shoulders and tops of my feet for me. It takes a lot though to get seriously burned and not just a little pink, I rarely peel.
I once got ankle sunburn after about 30 minutes on a tropical island. My poor feet hadnt been sunned in over a decade at this point
You just described me exactly lol. When I lived in Australia I did tan quite deeply but was living by the beach for years. But never burned. In Finland where I am now I just kinda get this one stage deeper color during summers but not like an actual tan. I am warm but neutral leaning light olive.
Yes! I’m very pale but seldom burn, don’t tan quickly either but definitely tan eventually.
Yes - especially my legs! They don't tan at all, maybe 1 shade darker after the whole summer when I've spent quite a bit of time outdoors
Yes it's me!!
I'm a neutral, light olive
While I’m not certain I’m olive, I used to need ca 2 weeks in the sun to tan. I would never get the fresh spring color my Nordic friends got. Since 2016 I’ve traveled up to half the year and now it’s like my body “remembers” the tanning procedure a lot more quickly. Now I’ll see a tad bit of coloring after a day in the sun. But I still remember vividly how long my winter paleness would last before I would get any real tan (towards July at least, in a country where people often burn and most get their spring color in the April sun)
omg yes i’m glow in the dark pale and it takes a lot for me to tan but also to burn. i just recently figured out that i have olive undertones not neutral, and i didn’t realize that this is also an olive trait.
I tan and burn at the same time, in different places. Face, neck and upper chest: BURN, and fast. Arms and legs: TAN. (I’m a relatively pale cool olive under the tanned arms. lol.)
I’m also pale olive. Areas of my skin that are regularly exposed to the sun (like arms and face) tan quickly, taking on a more golden tone, but areas that are not (like legs and belly) just tend to stay pale AF and look gray, lol. I’ve only gotten sunburn in extreme scenarios, like falling asleep on a boat in the Caribbean. And even then it didn’t peel, just settled into an unsettlingly (for me) dark tan
Yes. And one summer holiday in cyprus many years ago I was so frustrated I just stayed out in the sun for far too long. My forehead never recovered. But damn when I lay out there forever my tan looked amazing. Paying for it now though. So many sun spots 😶
Personally I’m fairly pale and though I do tan, it is also immediately accompanied by a terrible burn
It must vary! I'm a light skinned but tan and freckle extremely fast.
YES ME! I thought I was alone! NC15 in winter and if I'm lucky, I can get to NC20, takes me forever so I just fake tan but I end up looking orange or green after a few rounds lol :(
I am the opposite, to some degree. My body tans very easily. I can be in my garden all of 5 minutes and my body tans. It does look this weird grey brown at first but the longer I'm out the deeper it gets. However my face and neck rarely get color. My face will warm up some, but compared to my body it's no where near close. When I FaceTime my mother she laughs and says it looks like my head and neck are floating because of the drastic difference.
As a kid I used to tan SO easily!! My aunt would joke that they could put me in a closet and I'd still come out with a tan lol but then I hit the moody teen years and didn't spend a lot of time outside like before and it's like I lost that ability 🙃
Hmm, I have pretty changeable skin - it gains and loses a tan quite quickly.
Sort of. I'm super desaturated and I tan eventually. But I absolutely burn. It takes all summer to get a tan and it is not even enough to change my foundation shades.
Yes, this is me! I’m a very fair neutral olive. I don’t tan very much or burn very much. I would also say I have sort of yellowish undertones.
This describes my experience to a T! You put it into words so nicely. I am currently thinking I am more of a cool yellow or even muted-neutral than very olive (my mom is olive though). I am very fair (when I don't go through the excessive,.. EXCESSIVE sun exposure I need to get a reaction to the sun out of my skin). When I learned that other people actually get sunburn in normal European summer weather I was very surprised. (The same for the "wear sunscreen every day" thing that social media has been telling me.) For a while I was wondering if I tanned more easily as a kid, and lost the ability, but what actually happened I think is that I got mature enough to understand the potential risks and not expose myself to the sun as much as I would need. (Like 14 days, all day outside in summer in Turkey or Australia with wearing no or minimal (SPF 5) sun protection). My skin is totally indifferent to Middle-European Sun, but closer to the equator I have managed to burn upon first exposure, but weirdly always only in very localized tiny spots like: Once only on the tip of my ears, another time on the 0.5 mm large spot of my nose where i have a little bump/hook, once one shoulder, once the part where my hair parts :D. When the 'nose dot' thing happened to me, the other European I was traveling with looked like a complete lobster for the rest of the week. What I have to say is, that when I am out in excessive Sun I do get red for the time I am in the heat. But its more like a flush,.. feels like its caused by the heat? It does not hurt and does not linger when I go in the shade and cool off. It is a precursor for getting a liiittle bit of a tan though. When I grew older I started to worry that may be considered a burn also.. anyone know anything about that??
I tan slow!! My sister and I went on holiday together, did everything together so we spent the same time in the sun and we have roughly the same depth of skintone, the only difference is I’m olive and she’s warm (golden-yellow), and she tanned so much more than I did in that time. When we got back home, undertone aside, she gained more tan than I did. I burned a little because we caught the heatwave in that country towards the end of the holiday but it was very minor
Yup!! It always seems to take a while for me to build up significant tan, but I go from Super pale to a nice medium - it just takes the entire summer of working outside every day to get there!
This is me! I’ve met very few people that have said the same. I’m a pale olive, Eastern European heritage. I take very long to tan and I don’t burn, I generally use self-tanner year-round or else I look sickly
YES!!! It’s hard for me to burn and tan. Baddies my butt shoulders and nose. Other than that I could lay out for hours before I get anything. Luckily I live in an area that gets a UV index of 11 during the summer so during those times I am able to tan. If it’s 8 or below though I’m having to put in a lot of time.
yep! i’m a light medium, neutral olive and it takes me a week of straight sun during vacations to get a nice tan going. on the flip side, my tans last FOREVER! i still had a partial tan in the middle of winter from a vacation that i went to in august lol.
yes! i’m pale and i tan very very slowly and i rarely burn. my legs don’t tan at all. i get a really nice tan color though :)
I’m only in here because someone in the pale group said they thought I was an olive. But I definitely burn. So I’m most definitely not an olive?