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….I can hear the screams of horror coming from mom’s everywhere!! 

When you went on family vacations and your mom chased you around with sunscreen… it was for a reason!!!!!! Some creative kids have been using sunscreen to draw designs on themselves, then baking in the sun until *ding* *ding* you guessed it… you get a sun burnt tattoo!!

 

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The designs, which are in fact very creative having been taking off on social media forms like Instagram!!

 

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While these designs are SUPER cool, they are also SUPER bad for you!!! The Skin Cancer foundation released a statement on the matter…

“The Skin Cancer Foundation strongly advises the public to avoid sunburns at all costs. A sunburn is not only painful – it’s dangerous, and comes with consequences. Sunburns cause DNA damage to the skin, accelerate skin aging, and increase your lifetime skin cancer risk.  In fact, sustaining five or more sunburns in youth increases lifetime melanoma risk by 80 percent. On average, a person’s risk for melanoma doubles if he or she has had more than five sunburns. “

 

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So let’s keep the risk of melanoma to a minimum and get REAL tattoos instead!!! (maybe??)

 

 

BLAKE & WYLDE

(images via Instagram. Instagram)