Oscars Sans Glow

As I was watching the Oscars and perusing the various celeb-blogs to look at some of the Oscar fashion, one thing really stood out: the lack of faux tan. Think about past award shows, the glamazons of the red carpet would either be sporting awful mystic tans that look so ridiculously orange as to be a close relative of the umpa loompa, or be so tan you wonder if their skin felt as dried as it looked.

For some resaon, the ladies this year deiced to take a page from the Nicole Kidman and Anne Hathaway fashion guide: to put their glorious ivory skin on full display. Such a refreshing change!

Perenial uber-tanners like Demi Moore, Charlize Theron, Cameron Diaz and Nicole Richie were au-naturel, even Miss Jenny from the Block was without her usual bronze glow. It makes me wonder if all of the bad press surrounding tanning beds and the increase of skin cancer has actually made a difference, or if some of the stylists finally said, "enough with the tans, your skin looks like 100 year old leather!"

Unfortunately not everyone got the memo about avoiding the tans this year. Sarah Jessica Parker looked ready for a stay in the local pumpkin patch with her spray on tan, which was only emphasized by the butter yellow Chanel Couture dress she was wearing, not a good combination.

As one of the alabaster skin crowd, I fully support change I saw last night. Look at pale beauties like Rachel McAdams, Sandra Bullock, Kate Winslet and Cary Mulligan, all super fair, and they looked dazzling last night. I'm not saying that tans are bad and that we should all become vampires, only to come out when the sun is gone, but I think it's a nice beauty alternative to the bronzed goddess images that have defined Hollywood for the last decade.

Here are my Oscar best dress picks for 2010, and all of them look so fresh with their fair skin:

Sandra Bullock, Cameron Diaz, Kristen Stewart, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Anna Kendrick.