I wanted to look tanned on hols so spent £400 on a sunbed – people warn me about skin cancer but I don’t want to be pale
A WOMAN determined not to be the “most pale person you’d ever meet” on her holiday decided to hire a sunbed to ensure she’s nice and tanned before going away.
Keek made the decision to splash out £400 to hire the standing sunbed for three months before her sunshine break.
In a video on TikTok, she showed the sunbed ready to use, plugged in a room in her house.
“POV: you hired a sunbed to your house for three months before going on holiday,” she wrote over the top.
She then showed the accelerator cream she’s using to try and speed up the tanning process, before showing herself inside the machine.
It’s saving me fuel, time and paying for parking!
Keek
“Starting as the most pale person you’d ever meet, let’s see what 3 months of sunbed does for me,” she captioned the video.
The questions came thick and fast in the comments section, with one asking: “How much was that?”
“£400 for three months,” Keek replied.
“£400 for 3 months, that’s so good!!” another said.
“How do you hire one? I’ve been looking everywhere!”
“I just hired mine from my most local hire company,” Keek responded.
“I just Googled it and got some quotes from ones around me that hire them out!”
“I hired one for a month, best thing I done!!” a third commented.
“Unlimited is £85 a month, why would you do that?” someone else questioned.
To which Keek replied: “Unlimited is £100 a month at my local ones, and would require me to pay for parking to go- saves fuel, time and paying for parking!
“Plus I have a little girl so unable to take her in a tanning shop.”
“How much electric has it used?” another asked.
“Barely any change to what I normally use,” she replied.
Not everyone was impressed by the ‘hack’, however, with one commenting “melanoma” alongside sarcastically-used heart eye emojis.
According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), there is significant evidence to show that using tanning beds can lead to melanoma.
The importance of sun cream in your skincare routine
Dermatologist and skincare enthusiast Andrea Suarez - known as Dr Dray - revealed why you should wear suncream.
The one thing you can do that will make the biggest difference – and this matters for all ages – is protecting your skin from the sun, Andrea stressed.
“The vast majority of external aging is due to exposure to ultraviolet radiation,” she continued, not because you’re “not using some jazzy serum or layering 90 different things on your face everyday”.
“If you’re not doing in your 20s, get on that now.”
But she said the use of sun cream alone doesn’t go far enough. Andrea urged that you also wear sun-protective clothing like broad-brimmed hats and long sleeves, on top of not staying out too long in the sun.
Doing this over your lifetime – and all year, not just during the summer or on sunny days – “will reduce the visible signs of photoageing”, Andrea said.
Those are wrinkles, muddled pigmentation and sagging skin.
And sharing her expertise, Carol Cooper, Sun Doctor, said: ‘Anyone who’s ever used a sunbed is at least 20 per cent more likely to develop malignant melanoma – the deadliest skin cancer.
”UV rays damage the DNA in skin cells, so they’re more likely to mutate into cancer.
“You don’t even have to burn for it to happen.”