Ask Angie: how to cover my white legs

MsMary

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You don't need to cover them! Just wear your pretty dresses and enjoy!

11 years ago

Parsley

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I'm all for pasty leg pride!
(Hoping that pale skin will become the latest style some day...)

11 years ago

Adelfa

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You can use a gentle self tanner like Jergens which is what I've done for a few years. However this year I think I might go natural!

11 years ago

rabbit

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I think the color of the dress is key. Get a dress that goes really well with your skin color and your white legs will glow becomingly.

That's what I do.

11 years ago

rachylou

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What Mary K said

11 years ago

Angie

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Fashion Stylist

Nude hose is another solution, which I wear all the time to combat the cold, but appear bare-legged.

11 years ago

Thistle

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Unless you are truly cold, I say pale is pretty!

11 years ago

Greyscale

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I like my pale white legs, but I know people who use the tinted moisturizer style of self-tanner.

I do Irish step dance and the kids who compete always do spray tan on their legs. It startled me, since after all, what's more Irish than pale legs?? But since it's all about leg movements, and long bare legs, I guess I understand.

11 years ago

Joyce B

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I go with nude hose, too.

11 years ago

always trying

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Since my legs look splotchy, and I have a bit of vein problem, I use the self tanning, but only in summer when I wear bear legs every day. Other times I use the sally Hansen leg makeup. available in most druig stores, comes in different shades, and looks like hose. It is not really easy to use, but I have found diluting it with a bit of water, applying it with a makeup sponge works best. it washes off with soap and water, does not rub off on clothes and covers the problems.

11 years ago

always trying

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Since my legs look splotchy, and I have a bit of vein problem, I use the self tanning, but only in summer when I wear bear legs every day. Other times I use the sally Hansen leg makeup. available in most druig stores, comes in different shades, and looks like hose. It is not really easy to use, but I have found diluting it with a bit of water, applying it with a makeup sponge works best. it washes off with soap and water, does not rub off on clothes and covers the problems.

11 years ago

Desmo April

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Pale is fine.

I've also taken a bronzer stick and run a stripe down the center of my legs and then blended it to the edges. I like the look and it is quicker and more goof proof than self tanner.

11 years ago

Style Fan

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I also vote for celebrating your natural colour. I stopped tanning decades ago and now have pale legs. For special events I will use the Sally Hansen spray and it works well. I have also used the gradual tan by Jergens. I like that as well but you have to keep it up or you look blotchy.

11 years ago

Golden

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I can relate and I hate being pasty pale so I use Sally Hansen leg makeup. You spray it into your hands and rub it on and it gives me the confidence I need while baring my legs with a dress or skirt.

11 years ago

Catnip

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There's nothing wrong with showing pale legs. You can try wearing a dress or skirt that goes really well with your skin tone. Nude shoes may help as well.

11 years ago

Jjsloane

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I have pale legs and lots of spider veins. I have made peace with showing this. I use Jergen's natural glow moisturizer to add a slight color and then mix a cheap BB cream (Garnier has a huge tube) with moisturizer for a little leg makeup. The Sally Hansen spray is nice too, but rubs off sometimes.

11 years ago

Echo

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There is a Jergen's BB Body cream now. It doesn't self-tan, though it blurs things much like a tinted moisturizer does. For minor imperfections, that may work, otherwise I would go with the Jergen's gradual self-tanner. Overall, though, for anything except running around outdoors or to, say, a fair in the summer, I have no issue with nude-for-you hose. Hosiery of some sort is always my preference, just because my legs look so much better in something rather than nothing.

11 years ago

Gigi

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I would vote for showing off your pale legs also. Maybe I'm out of touch with reality, but I think that pale legs are more "in" than they used to be.

My legs are very pale also, and I don't care. :^) I don't wear anything on them, and I don't tan very easily either.

11 years ago

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