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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Shannon Lawlor

If sunbeds are actually bad for us, why is everyone secretly getting them? Let's talk about it

Woman with bright UV speckles all over her face

Last month, I attended a beauty launch event as I do most days. I walked into a room full of my beauty-editor peers, beauty experts and beauty PRs who have been in the game for decades. As always, I circulated the room, making conversation with people as I went. "Have you been away?! Or are you wearing a fake tan?" I asked one long-time work friend. "You look so tanned," I added. 

"Don't tell anyone," she whispered. "I've been hitting the beds."

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