Several dermatologists are concerned after the multiplication of videos on social networks in which young women exhibit their sunburns. This trend, called Sun Tatoo or Burn Lines, represents a great danger to health.
A new trend on social networks scares healthcare professionals. The videos published on Tiktok and Instagram with the hashtags Burn Lines or Sun Tatoo make millions of views. The goal: to have the tanning marks, even very often sunburn, the clearest and markedly marked of the swimsuit. But also kinds of ephemeral tattoos, made by covering certain parts of the skin with sunscreen.
“These are real burns because the goal is to have a maximum contrast with the protected area with a large quantity of cream”, alert, on RMC, dermatologist Catherine Oliveres-Ghouti, member of the National Union of Dermatologists and Venereologists. A trend that most often puts young women, often teenagers on stage.
Second degree burns
To achieve this result, these women are ready for anything, even to burn their skin by exposing the sun without protection. Each distills their advice to get there. For one, it is “carrot oil to apply now”. Another opts for “monoi oil” and is delighted to have “burned” and to have “so badly”.
These oils that make “fry” allow “to have a maximum contrast”, laments Catherine Oliveres-Ghouti at the microphone ofApolline morning. By looking on Tiktok, the specialist fell on “second degree burns with blisters”.
“It is completely unconscious. The people who propagate on Tiktok this kind of idea are criminals,” insists the specialist.
This trend prompted the Minister of Health Yannick Neuder to make a video on social networks to alert young women. “Your skin is your life, you only have one, don’t sacrifice it for 30 seconds of buzz,” he said.
Dermatologist Catherine Oliveres-Ghouti talks about an “absolutely deleterious” trend which represents “an immediate danger because you will take a monstrous sunshine”, and “in the long term you have a risk increased by at least 50% to have skin cancer in the next 10 or 12 years”. According to Public Health France, more than 85% of skin cancers are linked to excessive sun exposure.
“Melanoma killed 2,800 people last year, that is to say as many people on the road,” said the dermatologist.
Member of the French Society of Dermatology, Eve Maubec also warns the youngest on the dangers of sun exposure: “The accumulation of these repeated exhibitions is very dangerous. If you have caught five sunburns before the age of 20, you increase your melanoma risks by 80%.”
To avoid increasing her risk of skin cancer, Catherine Oliveres-Ghouti advises to “put herself in the shade of a roof” when possible. “The cream between 11 am and 4 pm is useless, you never put it enough,” she adds. The latter also adds that parasols are mostly “absolutely not protective”.
