Banning addicted, 18, who uses sunbeds four times a week, reveals worrying signs of UV damage to her body – but admits that she still can’t kick the habit
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A teenager who is addicted to SunBeds has revealed that she has seen worrying signs of UV damage to her body – but still cannot stop browning.
Megan Blain, 18, who has been using sunbeds almost every day for three years, has previously revealed how she was abused online about her habit, which she uses to achieve a deep bronzed look.
Some of the dirtiest remarks have compared her to a ‘dirty 2P -Munt’ – but she still visits the salon every day.
Now Megan, from Seaham, County Durham, has revealed that she found new birthmarks on her body that she did not seem to have before she started to brown regularly – and other people have warned about trying sunbeds.
Her tanning addiction started when she was only 16 years old, hoping to maintain a color that lasted all year round.
She exchanged fake brown products for tanning beds and even started to inject herself with tanning agents to reach a deeper glow.
Although in the beginning she ‘didn’t know much about tanning beds’, she spent more than a year on the beds under the UV lights for half an hour, often covered with baby oil to improve the results.
In a real video, she said: ‘I started noting mother stains on my back, my hands – I have moles everywhere, but you do get mole off the sunbed. I didn’t know if the birthmarks were cancer.
Teen Megan Blain, 18, has admitted that it was addicted to tanning beds, even though they are confronted online with harsh criticism and noticing about changes in her skin
Megan is compared to a ‘dirty 2p coin’ through trolls – but she insists that she is trapped in a cycle of browns and cannot imagine they stop
“I have a stamp on my stomach. I tried to go to the doctor, but I freeze at the door. ‘
In a grim warning to others who have considered using tanning beds, she said: ‘The addiction just gets worse. I would recommend going to someone for someone. ‘
Earlier Megan explained that she started using tanning beds because she liked what she looked like with a tan.
“I am a person who wears bright colors and liked how it made the colors pop,” she said. “I started to see results and how well it did me and started to continue more often.”
However, its intense sunscreen regime has increased the health alarms, so that Megan recognizes its ‘addition’ and reduces its sunberm use.
The student admits that tanning beds feel her nauseous and she even noted that a suspicious patch was recently appearing on her skin – but fear of it cancer Did not let her stop browning.
Megan said: ‘I have noticed a patch on my skin that continues to change size. I tried to go to the doctors five times, but keep freezing at the door.
‘I am one of those people who will be worried about something, so not to worry about it possible that I noticed a few months ago and still abused the tanning beds that this is an addiction. I just never think I’m dark enough. ‘
The student, from Seamham, County Durham, initially started to use at the age of 16, hoping to preserve color all year round
She exchanged fake brown products for tanning beds and even started to inject themselves with tanning agents to reach a deeper glow
The student indicates that tanning injections feel her nauseous and she has even noticed that a suspicious patch was recently appearing on her skin
Despite the fact that in the beginning she ‘didn’t know much about sunscreen’, Megan spent more than an hour on the beds under the UV lights, often coated in baby oil to improve the results
She explained: ‘I am stuck in a cycle of abusing tanning and taking sunbeds that makes me feel sick and sometimes unable to eat. I went on every day and now it’s four times a week. ‘
Megan says that her extreme brown has attracted the attention of strangers, with some comparing her to a ‘burned chip’ or say she looks like a ‘cremated’ version of herself.
But despite the online play, she insists that she never feels ‘dark enough’ and struggles to imagine a life without the sunbeds.
She said: ‘Everywhere I go, I see people staring at me. When people say I’m dark, I think it’s hard to believe. I don’t feel dark at all – it’s like I’m physically blind.
‘I want to stop one day, but I can never imagine that I will not go on the sunbires. I would not recommend anyone to do this. You could be addicted without even realizing it like me. ‘
In an attempt to regain control, Megan has reduced her use of sunbounds to four times a week and now uses her platform on Tiktok to warn ‘the younger generation’ about the dangers of sun bed addiction.
She said: ‘The younger generation seems to use [sunbeds] More than the older generation that takes care of, because if I became addicted without even realizing it, the same could happen to other people. ‘
On Tiktok, Megan has become a target for trolls, who have bundled their strengths to have fun with the appearance of the teenager.
Megan says that her extreme brown has attracted the attention of strangers, with some comparing her to a ‘burned chip’ or say she looks like a ‘cremated’ version of herself
Despite the online recoil, she insists that she never feels ‘dark enough’ and struggles to imagine a life without the sunbeds
Megan has reduced its sunberm use to four times a week and now uses her platform on Tiktok to warn ‘the younger generation’ about the dangers of sunglasses addicted
With regard to the tanned skin color of Megan, one person wrote: “The chips that fell out of the oven.”
Another said, “You know when you get those really dirty 2p coins,” while a third comment gave, “did [the sunbeds] Cremate you? ‘
Although her views on browns have shifted, Megan admits that she still finds it difficult to get rid of the coercion to jump under the UV lights.
She said: ‘After two years my views on tanning beds have changed. If I could go back in time, I would never have started. I just feel that I have to go on the sunbires – it’s not even a matter of wanting to be browned. ‘
‘I find it difficult to switch off the sunbed as soon as I am on. I don’t even like to go on loungers, I fear it, but I feel that I have to continue physically. ‘
Meanwhile A Banning -addict who used almost daily in the sunberms for 15 years, has said that she is ‘lucky to live’ After things have become the worst.
Fionnguala Maguire, 35, from Belfast, began to use at the young age of 14 years and never to apply SPF during her years of browns – now she warns others not to make the same mistake.
She admits that she uses the machines routinely for more than 15 years – so often visit salons as seven days a week at the height of her addiction.
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