Man warns against 'dangerous' tanning injections after turning so dark he 'looked like Madge from Benidorm' and now has the freckled skin of a 60 year old Love Island generation' skin cancer fear BBC News Glowup shortcuts are trending again, but doctors say the Barbie drug comes with real medical red flags. Unregulated, unapproved, and could have serious sideeffects is any tan worth that risk?, Hannah Tittensor and her boyfriend Ben Dunlop have been injecting themselves with an illegal tanning drug called Melanotan for three years. On top of that, they use sunbeds regularly and slather themselves View of Association of tanning injection with hypercortisolism, hyperglycaemia and ketosis in type 1 diabetes mellitus British Journal of Diabetes Melanotan What It Is and Its Relation to Skin Cancer