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It is a trend that worries health professionals: Sun-Tatoo, a practice which consists in performing an ephemeral tattoo on its skin with the sun. It is very popular on social networks but it is not without consequences.
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Draw on your skin a pattern with sunscreen and take a sunburn to make the drawing appear on reddish skin, stencil -style way. THE sun tattoo“”Sun tattoo, “is all the rage on Tiktok, just like the burn lines, burn lines. Young girls exhibit their sunburn: the clearer the tanning brand, no longer it makes the buzz, at the risk of burning the skin.
Not enough to scare some teenage girls. On a beach on the Côte d’Azur, a young girl would be tempted. “I find it really cute. I find it pretty, nice. Afterwards, I have never tested it yet, but it can be nice to do. (…) It is true that it can be a little dangerous. I have not thought so much on the dangerous side for the skin“She explained.
Others follow the brand trend of jerseys. “We are white all year round, having a small brand of tanning is stylish is cute,” said a young girl. It is therefore a question of encouraging young people to prolonged exhibitions without applying protection. A dermatologist denounces dangerous practices, with irreversible consequences. “The skin, it keeps in mind all its life all the UVs that it has accumulated. So it is true that intensive tan, sunburns, that is really what explains the explosion of skin cancers in time,” said Dr. Marie Jourdan.
85 % of skin cancers would be linked to overexposure to the sun. To sunbathe safe, it is recommended not to expose yourself to the hottest hours and apply a sunscreen every two hours.
