Being Ginger
So whether you readers know, or don't know, I am a red head (or at least I think I am). Technically my hair is a mix of red, blonde, and brunette. Red base, blonde highlights, and brunette low lights, and its all naturally this way. My mom always told me I was a strawberry blonde, but that definitely has more blonde in it. And I must be a red head, because my skin is always pale, I'm 1/8th Irish, and I have freckles, everywhere.
Oh. And the most important thing... I have two skin colours. Pale white, or lobster red.
Those skin colours that I have is just what I want to talk about today (and what I've meant to post earlier this week, work I tell you, it takes over and makes you so tired).
Being pale really sucks. You can't go outside for an hour in the middle of summer without sunscreen/sunblock and not get a burn. I know this first hand.
Back on Sunday my family and I went to an ice cream fest in my town, and I figured we should only be gone under an hour, its not that hot outside. I should be fine.
I was very wrong.
I was right about not being gone for more than an hour, but when we got back home my parents were going on about how red my back and shoulders were... Lovely, just what I needed, another burn.
Everyone else at this point would be saying "cheer up it'll tan after the burn goes away" No you're wrong, it'll just go white again.
The only time I've ever gotten a tan after a burn was a few years ago when I got a really bad burn (which lasted 1-2 weeks, at least) in the early bit of summer, June or July, and the back of my legs were tanned for the rest of the summer, and maybe into the fall a bit. That was the first, and only, time I was tanned, every other time I've gone white, to red, to white.
The struggle is real.
If anyone else goes through the same struggle, don't be afraid to be proud of your paleness and/or red hair, we can make it together.
Oh. And the most important thing... I have two skin colours. Pale white, or lobster red.
Those skin colours that I have is just what I want to talk about today (and what I've meant to post earlier this week, work I tell you, it takes over and makes you so tired).
Being pale really sucks. You can't go outside for an hour in the middle of summer without sunscreen/sunblock and not get a burn. I know this first hand.
Back on Sunday my family and I went to an ice cream fest in my town, and I figured we should only be gone under an hour, its not that hot outside. I should be fine.
I was very wrong.
I was right about not being gone for more than an hour, but when we got back home my parents were going on about how red my back and shoulders were... Lovely, just what I needed, another burn.
Everyone else at this point would be saying "cheer up it'll tan after the burn goes away" No you're wrong, it'll just go white again.
The only time I've ever gotten a tan after a burn was a few years ago when I got a really bad burn (which lasted 1-2 weeks, at least) in the early bit of summer, June or July, and the back of my legs were tanned for the rest of the summer, and maybe into the fall a bit. That was the first, and only, time I was tanned, every other time I've gone white, to red, to white.
The struggle is real.
If anyone else goes through the same struggle, don't be afraid to be proud of your paleness and/or red hair, we can make it together.
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