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Originally Posted by ploesj
i'm pale. my arms hve some color because they are exposed to sunlight all the time, but the rest is... white.
recently i read about the ideal of a taned skin changing to a pale skin, since a tan is now associated with too much sun and skin cancer.
soon we'll be back to the rubens ideal!
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i think its really interesting how the ideals of beauty change according to that which is hard to achieve. back in the day (like Elizabethan times and shit) it was considered attractive to be pale and chubby, because yr average joe was out in the fields all the time and half starved, so was skinny and tan. But now being chubby and pale means you've been sitting at an office desk all year like everyone else, which is hardly sexy, is it?