A tanning-addicted student who sometimes gets mistaken for being a different race has argued that she's 'not racist' - she just really likes 'having a tan.'
Hannah Tittensor, 22, from Belfast, discovered her love for being bronzed after she developed an amazing bronzed tan while on holiday in Turkey in 2015.
Since then the beauty therapy student has regularly taken to the sunbeds but her colour isn't all down to the sun or UV.
Hannah uses under-the-counter tanning injections of a substance called Melanotan, which helps users go darker more quickly under sunlight or sunbeds.
'Some people have accused me of trying to look like a black woman,' explained Hannah. 'I'm not trying to do that at all, I just like the way my skin looks healthy and glowing with a tan. Some girls can't live without getting their nails or hair done and for me its tanning.'
Hannah Tittensor (above), 22, from Belfast, is obsessed with tanning and uses sunbeds three times a week for around 15 minutes a time
The beauty therapy student, pictured right with a friend, said she uses tanning injections of a substance called Melanotan to make her go darker quicker on the sun bed
And while Hannah admitted she is at the extreme end, she has insisted she is a part of a growing trend in tanning in Belfast, with many using the illegal drug.
Despite side effects which include leaving her feeling sick, her boyfriend Ben Dunlop, 23, also uses the injections.
'Everyone is doing it. It's become a trend in the city. I use the sunbed for about fifteen minutes, three times a week,' said Hannah.
'Ben and I do the injections for about one week each month, where you have an injection before you go on the sunbed each time.
Hannah, pictured before she started tanning regularly, said she's received abuse online for her very tanned look with some people accusing her of 'trying to look like a black woman'
Hannah, pictured with a friend, explained that she uses Melanotan for about one week each month and injects the substance before she gets on the sunbed
She added: 'I just use the injections to top me up for that week, and then I stay really tanned all month.
'I absolutely love the colour I go and much prefer this than spray or fake tan that's smelly and makes you feel dirty. And it gets all over your clothes and bed.'
Hannah regularly posts photos of herself on social media and has been using Instagram since 2013, before she became hooked on tanning.
But after uploading the snap of herself on the 2015 holiday in Turkey - when she revealed her new ultra-dark skin for the first time - she started to get hate messages and online abuse.
'I had an amazing tan but I felt like dying,' Hannah. 'People told me I looked like an alien and that I looked ugly.'
In January 2017, when Hannah combined her new skin colour with box braids - a type of hair braiding more commonly worn by African and African-American people - she received a fresh waves of attacks.
Boyfriend Ben Dunlop, 23, pictured together, revealed that he also uses the injections and sunbeds each week
Hannah revealed that people called her 'ugly' after revealing her look and compared her to an 'alien'
