Have you considered trying to play up your paleness rather than trying to hide it? Pale skin can be strikingly beautiful.
Everyone is saying just embrace your paleness, but speaking as another transparent pale person i feel your pain. I HATE the fact that you can see the veins in my chest, and i dont tan =[ im thinking of hitting the tanning booths this summer. there are VERY FEW things i do for vanity. but i wouldnt do it for anyone else but myself.
I'm saying embrace your paleness from one pale person to another. I'm VERY pale, with dark hair... so it makes me seem even paler. I used to hate it, especially in the summer around beautifully olive skin-toned friends. But I grew to love it. Admittedly, I still don't wear shorts. Ever. But skirts and longer capri shorts are so much more comfy anyway I love to wear black and jewel tone colors, which I think looks very beautiful against ivory skin and I really love Victorian-inspired clothing... that I feel also looks best with pale skin. I really couldn't care less about typical standards of beauty so I guess it makes it easier to accept that I definitely don't fit that mold. At all.
Being fair-skinned used to bother me when I was in high-school and all the other girls were tanning religiously. People would tease me and call me "ghost" because my skin is so pale. I just decided to go with it. It isn't like I could get a tan if I wanted to anyways (I've tried tanning beds and expensive lotions). I'm happy with my fair skin, I protect it from the sun, and my skin will look a lot younger in a few decades than all those women who spend too much time in tanning beds or out in the sun. Yes, I think golden skin looks very nice, but I have an aunt whose skin looks like leather now because she spent the first half of her life keeping her skin tan.
