She has one dark addiction.
Like clean air and clean water, tanning beds have become a daily necessity for Megan Blain.
And despite her high risk of developing skin cancer from UV rays, the 18-year-old student refuses to forget her fake glow.
“I want to stop one day, but I can never imagine myself not going to the sunbeds,” Blain, a content creator from the UK, explained on TikTok, according to Kennedy News.
“I’ve noticed a patch on my skin that keeps changing size,” she said before admitting her reluctance to go to the doctor. “So that I don’t have to worry that I might have melanoma[â¦]and still abuse the sunbeds, [itâs] made me realize that this is an addiction.â€
“I never think I am dark enough.â€
However, an unquenchable desire to black out can cause a near-death experience.
Edith Eagle, a 47-year-old stepmother of four, was “minutes” from death after snorting the $32 Barbie Drug nasal spray, Melanotan.
“I could have died that day,” said Gen Xer. “Please don’t make the same mistake I did.”
But it seems that younger people, like Blain, would rather “die hot than live ugly.” Thus, they regularly dive into tanning beds to emerge tanned to perfection, regardless of the potentially fatal consequences.
In fact, Gen Zs have been blamed for fueling the tanning craze in NYC
“We’re seeing younger and younger people,” Win Gruber, owner of Upper East Side Tan, previously told The Post.
Margarita Anconova, owner of Portofino Murray Hill Sun Center, added: “Gen Z, they see their social media posts of people getting tan and they want to get tan. Everyone wants to be beautiful.â€
Fionnghuala Maguire’s attempt to enhance her beauty on a sunbed almost put the millennial mother on her deathbed. In 2020, she was diagnosed with Stage 1 melanoma, caused by her coffee obsession.
“My mom was diagnosed with skin cancer and had to have several tumors removed,” said Maguire, 35, who has had several cancerous moles removed from her body since receiving the scary diagnosis. “[She] he used to tell me to stop using the sunbeds, but you don’t listen, you think you’re invincible.
A false sense of invincibility seems to have mesmerized Blaine.
“It doesn’t even bother me that I could have melanoma and it could turn into something life-threatening,” said the blonde. “It doesn’t scare me at all.”
She has become “addicted” to tanning since she adopted a habit of jumping into people’s ovens for several hours every day for the past two years.
To enhance her shade, Blaine first sprayed herself with baby oil, hoping the mouth would deepen her darkness. But in the end she gave up the rub for tanning injections – poses that mimic the body’s hormones that produce pigment – even though the shots make her, “feel sick and sometimes unable to eat”.
However, since admitting her “abuse” of tanning beds, Zoomer has reduced her time under the lamp from every day to four times a week.
“I have a hard time turning off the lounger once I’m on,” she confessed. “I don’t even like to go to the sunbed, I’m afraid, but I feel like physically I have to go on.”
And yet, the haters on the street can’t help but stop and dig.
“Everywhere I go, I see people staring at me,” Blain groans.
Online, trolls have compared her incredibly bronzed body to a “burnt chip” and a “dirty coin”. Virtual sabbaths have even left comments below her posts, asking: “A [the sunbeds] burn you?.â€
Blaine’s loved ones have also weighed in on their concerns about her having to color.
“My family says I’m too dark,” said the beauty, claiming, however, that she can’t see the effects of her intense coloring.
“I care what people think,” she continued. “When people say I’m dark, I actually have a hard time believing it. I don’t feel dark at all – it’s like I’m physically blind.â€
Willful glamor ignorance aside, she is advising her peers not to fall victim to her skin addiction.
“After two years, my views on sunbeds have changed,” insisted Blain. “If I could go back in time, I would never have started.”
“I just feel like I have to go to the sunbeds” it’s not like I want to tan anymore,” she lamented.
“The younger generation seems to be using it [sunbeds] more so than the older generation,” Blain added, “which is worrying because if I were to become addicted without realizing it, the same thing could happen to other people.”
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