15. Your Veins Show Through Your Skin
All3MediaEveryone's got veins. Everyone. However, the majority of the population's veins don't show through their skin like blue lines playing connect-the-dots all over their extremities; no, only pale people get that special experience. And, for some reason, every single non-pale person seems to feel the need to point out that, "Whoa, I can see your veins! That's so weird, oh my god!," creating a general hubbub and generating all sorts of embarrassment in the mind of their victi... er, subject. It might not be every day that you can see the exact map of someone's cardiovascular system, but that is not an open invitation to comment on it! On the other hand, isn't it fun being translucent?
14. You Can't Wear Black Without Looking Like A Vampire
Prodigy Pictures, Inc.Oh, you want to wear black? Might as well fill out an application for Dracula's army or the Addams family at the same time. Somewhere along the line, the idea that pale + black = vampire/goth/otherwise influenced by dark forces came into being and, boy, has that stereotype stuck. The colour is meant to be remarkably versatile, but apparently that only applies if your skin is of a certain tan-ness. For pale-skinned folk, these combinations brings nothing but assumptions. Pale people are stuck with the choice to either forgo their fashion or deal with the fact that people are going to judge them differently based solely on the colour combination of their shirt and skin.
13. And You Can't Wear White Without Looking Like A Ghost
NickelodeonPale people just cannot catch a break: on the other end of the scale from looking like a vampire in black is looking like you came straight from the spirit world, a result of wearing white. While white is often worn by people wishing to enhance or emphasise their tan, the colour has an opposite affect on those of a pale persuasion. Not only do white clothes blend into one's limbs, but they also completely wash out lighter skin and somehow make it appear even more pasty, leaving the wearer positively phantom-esque. White garments + fair-skin = bloody hell, has a poltergeist just come into the room?