Depends on your natural skin colour
Up these parts, our skin is white, verging on blue. Fake tans are obvious by their orangeness. Somewhere around Pantone 10145 C.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 19:37, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

ah, no, mines definitely not that white, I've a shit ton of freckles so I never look too white

( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 19:48, Reply)

I find it interesting when freckly (usually redheaded) people catch the sun
They look tanned until close observation reveals that the freckles have just grown a bit and so the average skin colour is darker!

You may of course be different.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 19:50, Reply)

yesh, you just get more and more freckles
it's ridic
I hate it
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 19:54, Reply)

My skin is very pale and fine
and hardly changes in the sun, unless I burn it, in which case it peels and goes back to pasty white.

I've been away for three week holidays in sunny locations and friends tell me once I come home that I look like I need a week in the sun.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 20:12, Reply)