Melanotan & Tanning Injections: Safe or Risky? Rise in use of 'dangerous' tanning injection Channel 4 News They're the self confessed tanning addicts, who have gone to extreme lengths to maintain their dark glow. Hannah says she often gets mistaken for a black person, has used illegal tanning injections for Over the last 5 years, 29 year old Martina has transformed her body with countless cosmetic procedures and tanning injections. She now says she's the 'proud owner of black skin', and identifies herself as Illegal tanning injections cost man known as 'human solar panel' ten thousand pounds Express.co.uk