How to go form tanned skin to ivory?

go michael j and get a bleach job…

you can use powder on your face

if your naturally tan it will be very hard.

buuut, try to stay out of the sun, and use sunblock.

In fact, it’s a lot easier - and safer - to change your hair color than your skin color.

Lemon juice is at least relatively safe, although it doesn’t do much, and tends to dry out your skin.

What you should really avoid are commercial products full of chemicals. A lot of them are banned in Western countries, especially those containing hyper-nasty mercury, but anything designed to change the natural pigmernt of your skin can be risky. This is a big issue in countries like India and Nepal (and some of Africa) where having pale skin is a high-status thing. (In Nepal they’ve even launched a skin lightener specially for men, and advertise it by showing how the man soars up the ladder of success as he gets lighter…)

The problem is that such products often do permanent damage. At the very least, you often end up with blotchy skin and odd pigmentation splotches. As anyone who’s tried to get an even tan from self-tanning/fake tan products knows, skin is tricky stuff.

BUT it doesn’t stop there.

Your body needs sunlight in order to produce vitmain D, and especially vitamin D3 (which is not what they put into milk, that’s D2). There is increasing medical evidence to show that far from causing massive amounts of skin cancer, regular and sensible sun exposure actually helps to prevent some 12 kinds of cancers (among them breast cancer), as well as a whole range of other things, from MS to heart problems. (The popular medical columnist Dr Mercola has written a lot on this on his webpages, with proper medical-journal references and all.)

So - chemical preparations can be dangerous. Lemon juice and other ‘natural remedies’ are slow and not very effective. And you need the sun anyway.

Maybe it would be better to try a temporary hair-color rinse, or some streaks, and see if you like the ‘new you’?