Burning notice: General Z and the terrifying height of extreme tanning Health and luxury

HAnnah Clarak got her first spray at her concert for her school and never looked back. “I am not proud of that, but I used the sun bed,” says 29 -year -old graphic designer. Its goal is to “this glow that you get when you return from a vacation. You know, when you wander around and say:” Oh, you look really healthy. “This feeling I am chased.”

Clark is far from alone. On Tiktok and Instagram, leaflets with the “Sunbed” hashtag more than 500,000. Last year, A survey of charitable skin cancer focus I found that 28 % of the UK adults use sunflower, but this rose to 43 % among those between the ages of 18 and 25 years. This new generation of younger tanning obsession will do their best to darken their skin. Some follow the UV index – the level of ultraviolet radiation for the sun – and deliberately sits in the sun at the most dangerous times of the day. Others use unorganized tanning and injection sprays, which depend on a chemical to darken the skin.

All people under the age of 30 have spoken to them about this article know how dangerous tanning. NHS guidance provides for the presence There is no safe or healthy way to get Tan It is advised to stay away from the sun between 11 am and 3 pm, and wearing a sunscreen from at least 30 workers, and covering up clothes, hats and sunglasses. When the skin turns into darkest after exposure to UV rays, “it indicates that you are destroying these cells in your skin,” says Dr. Zoe Venbels, a consulting dermatologist at Norfolk University Hospitals and Norwich University, with the interest of skin cancer.

Sunbeds is classified by Global Health Organization (From) as “dangerous” – with the use of their cosmetics, the accidents of skin cancer and driving increases in the era when skin cancer appears first. She says people who used a sun bed at least once at any time of their lives have a 20 % more chance to develop skin cancer – The most common three forms of skin cancer – From someone who did not. For a person who first used a tanning bed before the age of 35, there is a 59 % greater chance to develop skin cancer.

Despite this blatant reality, Tan is still presented to many young people as an ambition – whether it is Tan Fu lines appear on the platform Or bronze effects on holidays in Dubai. Send many store owners sell tanning as a form of “self -care”, while the influencers spread “Come with the sun bed with me”. Perhaps it is more than that, even some Suned Suned stores light up from the known risks associated with them. One of the MIM is on Instagram through the tanning salon of the text: “When someone tells you that the sun’s bed is bad for you” with a clip of the comic play, where Madj Harvey says: “I am spying with my little family that starts with something from AB: absolute divorced women.”

Emily Harris, 23, from Leeds, uses the sun bed. Her parents work on NHS and warn her of risks. But she says if you spent most of the teenage years in the midst of the Covid-19s, followed by many global conflicts and the increasing presence of climate collapse, the risk of sunflower bed seems small in comparison. “You can die of anything – do you know what I mean?” She says.

While Harris, who works in sales, cannot use the sun bed all the time, she uses it whenever she has a “little backup”, taking advantage of the deals offered by salons. Before the last holiday, I bought a package that gave it unlimited minutes, with a daily limit, for four weeks. “I was going every day,” says Harris.

In addition to using the tanning family, Harris is “obsessed with UV tracking”, and it has the index on the screen of its phone lock. She and her colleagues plans in their breaks around the times when the UV index is higher, so that they can increase their exposure to serious radiation. A number of her friends also use tanning sprays, which were the subject of A. Steeling criteria for trading Released earlier this year, which was mentioned: “These products can cause nausea, vomiting, high blood pressure and even changes in the form of a mall and size … Studies have shown a possible link to skin cancer, which is a type of skin cancer.” Harris tried one when her friend had a backup bottle, but “he didn’t see a result”, so no one used again. Was it worried about what might be? “To be honest, not really. I know it’s bad, but at that time, I was more annoying than getting Tan.”

The nose, as known, usually contains a laboratory -made substance called the second melanotan, which is a chemical that spares the pigmentation of the skin. Although it is illegal to sell medical products that contain the second Milanan in the United Kingdom, cosmetics It falls outside this conversion It is easily available on social media. Dr. Sorge Cocadia, a GP, is known to his 282,000 followers of Tiktok as “Doctor Sooj”, who is concerned about the popularity of nasal sprays. Milanoten II can also lead to “painful and continuous erection in men, kidney damage, acne and muscle metaphors.”

Holly Feldman, 25, lives in Sari and is the CEO of Swimwear Boutique. It has more than 10,000 followers on Instagram and is often sent free tanning products such as nasal sprays and injections. “I think this is why this was addiction to me,” she says. Although she had no idea what she was in these products, she made her in particular the injection she felt that she was feeling bouncing, saying: “I was just trying to hide it because I was obsessed with how to make me look.”

Feldman recently appeared in the former documentary series Lova Island Island Olivia Atwood Perfection priceAstwood explores the risks of various cosmetic treatments. Make in the offer, make Valddin aware of the possible amount of damage it can catch up. Tanger injections were not used for four months, and she reduced its use of nasal spray several times during the past month, when it was previously four inhalation a day. “I still use the sun bed,” she says. “But I was cut. There was a time when I was in four, five, or six times a week and now I go to them only once or twice.”

Data from the Sunber Association in the United Kingdom and Ireland indicate that tanning beds are the most popular among children between the ages of 25 and 45, and more than women who use them. But this does not mean that the men Z are running pressure on the sport Tan.

“To look like I just returned from a vacation,” says Craig Hopkins, a 29 -year -old dance teacher in Harbinden, Herfordshire. He prefers Tan’s “real” appearance over Tan fake, which is associated with current social media trends such as “expensive appearance” and “quiet luxury”.

“On Instagram in particular, everyone is always on vacation, and always Super Brown. So he may try to just keep up with,” says Harris. Like Harris, Hopkins also tried the nose spray once, through a friend who used to sell, but he made him “really feel sick.”

Despite the well -known risks and side effects, most of the young people who spoke to this article were still ready to try the nasal sprays. “I feel as if I know a million people who use them and it seems that everyone is fine. It is strange for me not telling you what is in it, but I am sure that there is worse in the world,” says Megan Urbanac, 23 -year -old nail technician.

Urbaniak is a regular user of the sun bed – and he encouraged friends to use them before going on a vacation “because it prevents you from burning immediately when going to the sun.” Venables is rushing to expose claims like this, saying that all you do is to apply your skin by “exposure to extra UV rays”. It refers to another type of common skin cancer, scouting cell cancer, which is believed to be due to the cumulative exposure to UV rays.

Although Urbaniak does not seem to have been late for any safety concerns, it is keen to emphasize the existence of a “cultural line that may not be crossed” when it comes to tanning as a white person. “I don’t think my body is able to go to this color, but if so, I would like to think someone will tell me to stop.”

However, it is not just the white people who love Tan. Melissa Jones, 19, from Chester, says, “I saw more colored people-including Southeast Asian girls like me-in tanning. For me, it is not a darker-it is related to adding this warm, bright and evening glow outside my dialect.”

Like Valddin, Jones uses the word “addiction” in terms of tanning habit, and believes that she helps her in her function as a content origin. She says the mastermind “looks amazing on the camera and the content.” However, it has recently turned from the use of the tanning family to the use of a fake tan only. “I became more aware of the dangers, such as aging, skin cancer, all of this.”

The World Health Organization urged countries to think about banning a sun bed: Australia has banned all the commercial sun beds 10 years ago and Brazil was banned in 2009. Cocadia and Venarabols say they want to ban them in the United Kingdom.

Jack Hug, the 26 -year -old, urges his followers to stop using the sun’s bed since he was diagnosed with the advanced mechanical tumor in the third stage when he was 21 years old, whose doctors were surprised by his vision in a young person, and said that he may have been because of his use of the sun family. Huil has been using Sunbeds regularly since he was 15 years old (it was illegal for less than 18 years of using the tanning family since 2010, but the one used by Howell was not employed. Customers bought the symbols from a machine and they fell into the family). When a mall appeared on his back, “He was bleeding and overwhelming the descent, but he never cured,” he sent a picture of him to his doctor and immediately referred to the hospital.

Underward therapy and surgeries were underwent lymphoma, but this failure failed to remove cancer. In the end, after a year of immunotherapy, which “knocks you completely for six”, he went to remission. Hill now wants to see Sunbeds banned. Young users tells: “Well, this hasn’t happened yet, but it may happen. And when that happens, it is much worse than anything that I can describe at all and you can imagine it.”

For many young people, the attraction of “immediate repair” in the sun bed is very cool. It is not as if this is the first time that young people themselves put themselves up. “If alcohol is discovered or invented now, it will be illegal.” But tanning feels different from other classical rebellious endeavors such as drinking alcohol, cigarettes and drugs because people do not do so for fun, but to achieve a certain aesthetic-perhaps the symptoms of our lives based on the screen.

“If I am not on social media, then I will not use Sunbeds,” Ferdman admits, but because her job requires the use of social media, she cannot see herself stop.

A few years ago, Clark noticed a “very frightening” dark lesion on her leg, and she was referred to a dermatologist. Although it was not related to skin cancer, it was forced to remove it, and the experiment stopped being “trivial” with tanning beds.

Urbaniak cannot see itself give up. “If there is something wrong, I will be reviewed,” she says. “But I feel like I am in this generation where we all live in a state of denial until something happens.”