I’m scarred for life after overdosing on 100 tan injections

MUM Chantelle Tolson’s skin is dying and turning black around the edges of abscesses gouged across her stomach.

It looks like she has leprosy or gangrene but, in fact, her wretched condition was caused by tanning injections.

The call-centre worker, 26, was so desperate to get a tan that she turned to an illegal skin-darkening substance dubbed the Barbie drug — Melanotan 2.

She injected herself in the stomach and side more than 100 times in four months.

It caused lumps which burst, leaving dying flesh and wounds which will scar her for life. But, shockingly, though she has now given up the injections she is still using sunbeds.

Chantelle, from Castleford, West Yorks, says: “I used to think I was ugly without a tan. I was so desperate I tried everything without thinking about any possible health risks.