A woman from the UK has shared how her face burnt so badly that it swelled to twice its normal size.
Eva Jones shared a video on TikTok showing how red her face became after she sat in the sun for an hour. She got so badly sunburned that her face blistered and swelled and she suffered from heatstroke.
"Tanning for an hour won’t do much," Eva wrote in the video. But then she shared a picture of her face a significantly deeper shade of red - sparking panic.
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She said: "Guys I'm laughing but it’s not actually funny." She added in a second snap to her followers: "An update girlies, my face has swelled up."
The video, which has since gone viral with more than 1.3million views, illustrates how her face goes from a pale colour to a bright red.
She later explained that this happened last week in 20C weather, not in yesterday's extreme temperatures.
Eva said in a separate clip that it happened when she went to the beach for an hour and didn't wear enough suncream.
However, she said there was a breeze so she didn't think she would get badly burnt.
Her followers warned her that the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays can cause skin damage even on an overcast day or with a cool breeze.
One person wrote: "Same happened to me and it was cloudy... gotta watch out for uv ray scale !"
Another said: "Heat doesn’t count for UV rays! It could be cloudy but the UV levels could be higher than a really sunny/cloud free day."
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