he’s got one dark Dependency.
Like fresh air and clean water, tanning beds have become an everyday necessity for Megan Blaine.
And despite the high risk of getting skin cancer from ultraviolet rays, the 18-year-old schoolgirl refused to give up her fake glow.
“I’d like to stop one day but I can’t ever imagine myself not going on a sun bed,” Blaine, a UK content creator, told TikTok, according to Kennedy News.
“I’ve noticed a patch on my skin that keeps changing in size,” she said, before admitting her reluctance to go to the doctor. “I don’t have to worry about potentially getting melanoma.[…]And still abuse sunbeds, [it’s] I realized it was an addiction.”
“I never think I’m black enough.”
However, the unwavering desire to be dark can lead to near-death experiences.
Edith Eagle, a 47-year-old stepmother of four, was “minutes” away from dying after inhaling Melanotan, a $32 “Barbie Drug” nasal spray tanner.
“I could have died that day,” General Zer said“Please don’t make the same mistake as me.”
But it seems like young people like Blaine will Rather “die hot than live ugly.” Therefore, they regularly hit tanning beds to get dressed to perfection, regardless of the potentially fatal consequences.
In fact, Gen Z are Blamed for inciting tanning craze In NYC.
“We’re seeing younger and younger people,” Vin Gruber, owner of Upper East Side Tan, previously told The Post.
“Gen Z, they see posts on social media about people being dark, and they want to be dark,” said Margarita Ankonova, owner of Portofino Murray Hill Sun Center. Everyone wants to be beautiful.”
Fionnghuala Maguire’s attempt to enhance her beauty on a sun bed Millennial mom almost on her deathbedIn 2020, she was diagnosed with stage 1 melanoma, triggered by her obsession with going brown.
“My mom was diagnosed with skin cancer and she had to have some tumors removed,” said Maguire, 35, who has had several cancerous moles removed from her body since receiving the difficult diagnosis. ,[She] You used to tell me to stop using sunbeds but you don’t listen, you think you’re invincible.”
It seems that a false sense of invincibility has mesmerized Blaine.
“It doesn’t scare me that I could get melanoma and it could be life-threatening,” the blonde said. “It doesn’t scare me at all.”
She has become “addicted” to tanning after adopting the habit of being in a human oven for several hours every day over the past two years.
To take her color up a notch, Blaine initially coated herself in baby oil, hoping the goo would deepen her darkness. But eventually she gave up the scrubs for tanning injections — shots that mimic the body’s pigment-producing hormones — even though the jabs make her “feel sick and sometimes unable to eat.”
However, since admitting his “abuse” of tanning beds, Zoomer has reduced his time under the bulbs from every day to four times a week.
“Once I’ve worn a sunbed I find it difficult to get it off,” she confessed. “I don’t even like going to the sunbed, I’m scared of it, but I feel like I have to physically go to the sunbed.”
And yet, the haters on the street can do nothing but stop and stare.
“Wherever I go, I see people staring at me,” Blaine groaned.
Online, trolls have compared her heavily bronzed body to a “burnt chip” and a “dirty coin.” Virtual vultures have also left comments below her post asking: “Did [the sunbeds] Cremate you?
Blaine’s loved ones have also expressed concern about his compulsion to color.
“My family says I’m too dark,” Belle said, claiming, however, that she cannot see the effect of her intense complexion.
“I don’t care what people think,” she added. “When people say I’m black, it’s really hard for me to believe. I don’t feel darkness at all – it’s as if I’m physically blind.
Putting aside this glamor girl’s willful ignorance, she is advising her peers not to fall prey to her skin-tanning addiction.
“After two years, my views on sunbeds have changed,” Blaine insists. “If I could go back in time, I would have never started.”
“I just feel like I have to go to the sunbed – it’s not even a matter of wanting to tan anymore,” she lamented.
“It seems that the younger generation is using [sunbeds] More so than older generations,” Blaine said, “which is worrisome because if I got addicted without realizing it, the same could happen to other people.”
