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I'm Addicted To Sunbeds & Tanning Injections | HOOKED ON THE LOOK
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Jul 4, 2025
19-YEAR-OLD Megan has been getting sunbeds since she was 16 years old, and describes herself as addicted. "I wish I didn't start now", she said. "At 14 years old I started using fake tan. I was really white. My mom got the sunbed out of the garage and I thought, you know what? I'll use the sunbed while she's at work. I would calculate the exact amount of electric I've used and go top it up at the shop." Her mom wasn’t pleased and tried to stop her, but Megan carried on regardless, whether at home or going to a tanning salon. Megan explained, "I go on the sunbed 4 times a week, 15 minutes at a time. But when I'm at home, sometimes I'll go on for 20, 25 minutes. I use a tingle cream and I take tan injections five times a week." Now she regrets ever getting on a sunbed. "If I could speak to my 14-year-old self today, I'd say, don't change for anyone. You are who you are, you don't need to fit in with a crowd, just be yourself." Follow Megan here - https://www.instagram.com/megannblainn_xx_ https://www.tiktok.com/@blainnyy
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I'm addicted to sunbed and tannin injections
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I go on the sunbed four times a week. I take tannin injections five times a week
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It's a lot darker than what most people would like. Loads of heads would turn in the street
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People would look me up and down and laugh at it. I'd like the bottom of the sunbed because the tubes are meant to be stronger for your face
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Skin cancer is calling. My toes when it's burnt. Girl, you're darker than me
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I actually have melanin. I can't remember what I look like pale. Sometimes I cry after the sunbed
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because I know the damage I'm doing to my skin, but I feel like I'm too far gone
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I've got moulds all over. I didn't know if the moulds were cancerous. I'm Megan, and I get hit because I'm this tanned
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I'm 19, and I started getting sunbeds at 16, and now I can't stop. I wish I didn't start, and now I'm addicted
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At 14 years old, I started using fake tan. I was lily white, like, really white
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and it looked nice, it did, but obviously a bit patchy. It was a faff hunt to get off in the bath
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And then me mum got the sunbed out the garage, and I thought, you know what, I'll use the sunbed
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I would calculate the right amount of electric I've used and go and put it on at the shop
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Like, I actually would as well, I'm not even lying. A year after using my mam's sunbed for a while
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I thought, you know what, I'll go to the sunbed shop and noticed a drastic change of my colour
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which I loved and I like wearing bright colours, so it made the tan, made the clothes look better
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I go on the sunbed four times a week, 15 minutes at a time, but when I'm at home, sometimes I'll go on for 20, 25 minutes
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I use a tingle cream and I take tan injections five times a week
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I like the bottom of the sunbed because the tubes are meant to be stronger for your face
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But I've also got a sunbed in my room, so sometimes I'll come up from the sunbed shop
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go on my sunbed because it's different tubes. It just gives us loads of confidence
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I just feel the top of the world when I'm tanned. In the past, I've been a lot darker than what I am now
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And I used to go on the sunbed near enough every day for a year. Yeah, I am addicted to the sunbed
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I don't actually like going on the sunbed. I feel like I have to. Do you think Megan has gone too far with it
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Personally, yes. It doesn't look very natural. It's a lot darker than what most people would like
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If I had that relationship with Megan, I would probably say maybe drop it down to less sessions a week
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We would always promote safe tanning. A year and a half after using sunbeds, I noticed that my belly was going a black curly colour
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not a tanned glowy colour, but I liked it. The heads would turn in the street, people look me up and down and laugh at us
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and I'm thinking, what they're laughing at? Because it was normal to me
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It made me question myself as well like what they looking at Is it because I really tanned Is it because of what I wearing It makes us feel uncomfortable but at the end of the day I not bothered because everyone entitled to view an opinion And I know I look great so I not bothered what they think
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Some people do actually compliment the tan, but heads turn everywhere I go
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I never use sunburns and I never use fake tan. I just like, with all the cancer risks
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Like, I'm already out in the sauna, I don't need extra UV. If you want to use sunbeds, that's fine, that's your choice
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But I just think any is too often, to be honest with you. So I think using sunbed once a week would be too much
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I wouldn't do it every day and I'm surprised they just don't let them really exist, to be honest, because especially with all the other options
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there are, such as the spray tans and the self tans. If you're going to go for it, go all out
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but then maybe just remember what your, like the health risks and stuff
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I don't really have any experience with them, but if I did, like my first perception would be I wouldn't use something like that
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because I would rather do it in a more natural way, you know, what repercussions that might have on your skin or health
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I don't actually live here, I live in Asia and we have very warm weather so we actually get naturally tanned when we step out
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I don't really feel the need to use tanning beds because we, like I said, are naturally in the sun
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Yeah, after going on the sunbeds, I seen a girl on Facebook advertising tan injections
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and I thought, I might as well get some and see what they're like. I was scared of needles. I had the tan injection sat there for a week because I was actually dreading taking it
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I took a tan injection. It made me feel sick and drowsy, but I still went to the sunbed shop
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I went on the sunbed and I come off like a complete different colour
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I couldn't believe the drastic change of colour. I was putting too much melanin and going on the sunbed
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Obviously, after the sunbed, your skin, I mean, it doesn't develop till 24 hours
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You might as well say for a year, my tan was constantly still developing
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So I was going on every day and you need to give your skin 48 hours break for your time to come out
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I started noticing moles on me back me hands I've got moles all over but you do get moles off sunbeds. I didn't know if the moles were cancerous
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I've got a mark on me stomach and I've tried going to the doctors But I freeze at the door and be sick. I've been going on sunbeds for three years
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I've got moles all over But that mark is I've never seen nothing like it. I think I could be scared
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When I first started sunbeds, I didn't know much about it. So I got some baby oil
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I used to go on the sunbed in an hour, front and back, every day for a year
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Later on, after I've been living baby oil all over us, I searched things on the internet and it really damaging for your skin Basically you cooking your skin making you look burnt not tanning you I tried injections and I never looked back from there And it just the addiction just getting worse I wouldn recommend going on sunbeds to anyone
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I started looking dark a year and a half after using sunbeds. I looked black
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I posted a TikTok and I got loads of hate for it. People would call us two pence coin
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I got three million views. One person even said they burnt chip at the bottom of the air fryer
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Bottom of my foot after walking around when I was socks on for a couple of hours
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At the time, I thought the video looked nice, but now looking back at it now, it looks terrible
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9,522 comments, people tagging their friends, 62.2k shares. Oh my God, I'm famous
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That's what I thought. I'm not famous, but it went viral. Even me friends were in the comment section slating us
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which at that point in my life, it did affect us a bit
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but then I started to learn to deal with the hate, and I just tossed it over me shoulder now
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I watched one TikTok video about 100 times from now before I post it
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Like that's fine, I shouldn't have to. I should be able to be like, just post it without even thinking
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But obviously because of my past, I can't just post a video
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I know I was really dark. Like it was hard to believe myself that I was that dark
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I loved it. I was in my prime when I was that dark, to be honest. I didn't really care
6:56
I've cut down, but I did cut down well and truly, but I started to go on the sunbeds again
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So I think that is pressure in society to look tanned. I think that's very much the beauty ideal in Western society
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I like looking tanned. I like getting a tan. But I wouldn't go as far as to use a sunbed to do
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I think I'd much rather use fake tans, as far as I'm aware. There's not as many health risks
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I do think they're very special to look tanned. Definitely with the rise of all the celebrities in the 2010s
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it was more like that was the beauty aesthetic and all the injections
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Anything can become an addiction these days. I think if someone uses it and they like the results
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that sure they would want to use it again and me tan causes lots of arguments between me and me mom
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she tried to chop the plug off the sunbed one time but she said you're old enough to make your own decisions you 19 now but stop going on the sunbeds you ruining your skin by the time you 30 you gonna look 50 so i saying mom doesn like walking around with this if i fresh off the sunbed because I look really tan Me mom and me nana are really concerned about us We tried to make doctor appointments
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but I just failed to attend. I don't think I would ever stop using tan injections
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or going on the sunbed, because I'm that used to it now. I can't remember what I look like, pale
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If I start getting wrinkles, I think that could possibly make me stop sunbeds
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but I've already noticed little bits of wrinkles on me skin. Dozen phases, to be honest
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I'm that used to going on sunbeds now, It's just standard procedure for me. I'm trying to overcome the addiction, but it is hard
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Sometimes I'll cry after the sunbed because I know the damage I'm doing to my skin
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but I feel like I'm too far gone. After the sunbed, I tend to use Corcoridium
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It helps moisturise the skin and makes me tan, look really dark and glowing. I also use this Aloe Soup Intensive Care Spray as well
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For all of my body, it's great for helping my skin be soft. I've tried so many products over the years
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I also use an E80 cream, and make me eyes on that. When I have tried to cut down
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I feel terrible. Sometimes, at one point, not now though, I wouldn't leave the house if I didn't look tanned enough
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It was like my life sort of started to revolve around tanning, but I didn't realise it
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And then, when I started thinking about it all, I thought, like, it wasn't normal
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Like, I used to search loads of things on the internet about tanning, ask the same questions over and over
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What foods to eat for your tan? I was obsessed. I still am in a way
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But, like I said, I don't go on the sunbed to get more tanned. I just feel like I have to
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and it's hard to explain it to put into words, but it makes me think it could happen to someone else
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and I wouldn't wish I'm your worst enemy, to be honest. Well, half the talent shops around here
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do let young'uns in to go on a sunbird, and which is concerning, I think they should spread
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more awareness about sunbirds. I think that could possibly steer people away from sunbirds
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and show the bad sides of it. I used to get bullied a lot. I got off the kids in school
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I started to change myself. I used to cry to me mom. This is why I look the way I am today, because of us being bull****
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So I'm constantly working on me looks, going to the gym, eating well, just having a fake tat all over us to fit in and just to make friends
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If I could speak to my 14-year-old self today, I'd say don't change for anyone
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You are who you are. You don't need to fit in with the crowd. Just be yourself
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If I go back in time, I'd tell myself not to go on the sunbeds the way I did and to take no more self-papers opinions
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Don't change yourself for anyone. In the future I hope to be at Air Horses, not using sunbeds, and happy
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