9.
WHITNEY BUHA
Whitney Buha is a Chicago-based lifestyle blogger whose typical beauty routine took
an extremely disturbing turn last year when she went in for her regularly scheduled botox
injections.
The person who administered the protein injected it into the wrong places, causing Whitney’s
left eye to sag and her right eye to be wide-open!
She posted a vlog revealing the eye-popping results – no pun intended – and explained
that she felt embarrassed to go on camera, but felt compelled to open up about what had
happened.
After the appointment, the young woman noticed that her left eyebrow was lower than her right
eyebrow.
At the urging of her injector, she returned to the clinic and received four more units
to her left eyebrow in hopes of evening them out.
But the opposite happened, and Whitney’s left eye began to droop even more.
A specialist explained that her right eye was compensating for her impaired vision by
opening extra wide.
She tried numerous remedies, but the plain and simple truth is that Whitney had to wait
until the botox started to wear off.
The good news is that the damage was only temporary, and it didn’t completely ruin
the woman’s view of Botox.
In fact, she told BuzzFeed that she still stands by it – when it’s done right!
8.
RACHAEL KNAPPIER
Twenty-nine-year-old Rachel Knappier was expecting a typical girls’ night when she attended
a Botox party at a friend’s house in Leicester, England in 2018.
After injecting the young woman with Botox, the attending beautician noticed a lump on
Rachael’s lip.
It was from an injury she had suffered when she was a teenager, and it was a major source
of insecurity.
So when the beautician recommended lip filler, Rachael readily agreed.
What she didn’t realize is that the injector was an unlicensed ex-con, and they accidentally
injected the filler into a vein or artery.
When Rachael awoke later that night, she couldn’t feel her lips.
They had swollen so big that her top lip was touching her nose.
She went to the emergency room, where she was told that the country’s healthcare system
didn’t cover the treatment that she needed.
The disfigured woman had to shell out money to see a private doctor, who dissolved the
filler.
Within three days of receiving treatment, Rachael’s lips were thankfully back to their
normal size.
But the close call inspired her to campaign for strengthening laws that regulate dermal
filler in the U.K.
7.
VICTORIA LEE
Victoria Lee had been getting Botox injections for the better part of a decade when she decided
to schedule an appointment with a provider she had never seen before in 2020.
The makeup artist from Essex, England was alarmed when the procedure hurt in a way it
never had during her previous injections.
Less than a week later, Victoria noticed some lumps forming on her face.
Soon, they turned into huge, red, pus-filled boils.
Embarrassed about how she looked, she stopped leaving the house almost entirely, even shutting
out her family and friends.
Victoria told the Sun that she was also in constant pain – whenever she patted her
head dry after a shower, the boils would start to bleed.
She also found blood on her pillow in the mornings.
After her son asked her to stop taking him to school, she only left home for medical
appointments.
Last year, Victoria participated in the BBC documentary Under the Skin: The Botched Beauty
Business, which is about the largely unregulated industry for non-surgical cosmetic procedures.
The special revealed that she’s one of at least eight people who received botched injections
from the same provider, and has yet to figure out what’s causing the lesions.
6.
TAMIKA RAWSON
Australian TikToker Tamika Rawson is just one of many beauty influencers who have openly
expressed their enthusiasm for Botox, which has become one of the industry’s most sought-after
procedures.
But getting the injections comes with risks, and earlier this year, Rawson was unlucky
enough to join the minority of patients who experience a botched Botox job.
After receiving the protein in her lower face, Tamika was left looking like she had a golf
ball stuffed into each side of her jaw.
She took to social media with the undesired results, prompting one commenter to point
out that she resembled a hamster storing food in its mouth.
Rawson handled the disappointing experience surprisingly well, pointing out that Botox
thankfully only lasts three months and that she expected the effects to wear off.
She told her followers that she planned to get Botox again in the future.
Several users mentioned having similar experiences and suggested that the problem could be fixed
with even more Botox.
Expert Rupesh Shah from the London Lip Clinic told the Sun that the mishap may have been
caused by the provider injecting in the wrong place or diluting the product too much and
agreed that more Botox to relax the surrounding muscles in Tamika’s face might help.
5.
NIKITA KIMBERLY
Just days after getting Botox and lip filler injections last year to even out her smile,
a 21-year-old Dutch TikToker named Nikita Kimberly was left with a visibly crooked smile.
She told her followers that she got the injections to calm down a muscle that she said was “working
a bit too hard,” causing a dent in her chin.
With her mouth closed, Kimberly looked no different than before.
But it was a different story whenever she talked or smiled.
She claimed that the Botox had traveled to the wrong side of her face, causing her mouth
to droop and giving her a lisp.
The young woman also developed a new habit of biting her tongue while she talked.
Unlike some other influencers who continued to use Botox after the ill effects of a botched
treatment wore off, Kimberly’s ordeal left her feeling dead-set against the procedure.
In a TikTok video explaining what had happened, she said she was all for lip fillers, but
strongly cautioned her followers against Botox.
Commenters reassured Kimberly that her face would return to normal when the toxin wore
off, and they blamed the provider more than the Botox itself, suggesting that the injections
had been administered in the wrong place.
Good news came several weeks later when the young woman posted an update reporting that
her condition was improving, and that she was starting to feel happier with her appearance.
4.
CAROL BRYAN
Florida resident Carol Bryan began getting Botox injections to minimize some fine lines
in her face when she was in her 30s.
At age 47, she visited a clinic she’d never been to before.
The staff talked her into trying dermal fillers, which add volume to a person’s face in areas
that are thinning due to age.
After the procedure, Carol’s forehead began swelling every few days before shrinking back
down to its normal size.
A few months later, her forehead swelled and this time, it didn’t stop growing.
She returned to the clinic, where dissolving agents were injected to bring the swelling
down.
During the visit, Carol learned that silicone had somehow mistakenly ended up in the syringe
that was used to administer her botched filler.
Silicone is never used for facial procedures due to its dangerous and disfiguring effects.
The clinic promised to fix Carol’s face free of charge with regular appointments.
Not knowing what else to do, she obliged.
But her face only became more disfigured as the dissolving agent ate away at her muscle
and tissue.
The woman’s skin began to sag and her forehead filled with pus.
Unable to cope with the reflection in the mirror, she quit her job, became a shut-in,
stopped letting friends and family come over to visit, and even thought about taking her
life.
Carol spent years living as a recluse until her daughter, Sofia, couldn’t take seeing
her mom in such a miserable state and reached out to teaching hospitals in a desperate plea
for help.
Renowned plastic surgeon Bryan Boyd took her case and managed to repair a lot of the damage.
It would be an understatement to say that Carol’s road to recovery has been long and
both physically and emotionally challenging.
She’s now blind in one eye and will probably never look like she did before the botched
procedure.
But she’s using her story to help others and works as the director of a nonprofit called
Face2Face healing, which is dedicated to raising awareness about disfigurements.
3.
MONTANNA MORRIS
Several years ago, Florida-based TikToker Montanna Morris noticed that she was experiencing
symptoms of an uncomfortable jaw condition called TMJ.
Her jaw began locking regularly and for days or even weeks at a time.
After suffering for two years, the 24-year-old decided to get some Botox injections in her
jaw, which is a common procedure for alleviating TMJ symptoms.
The clinic Morris went to was running a special on Dysport, which is a similar neurotoxin
to Botox.
But it’s not exactly the same, and the dosage is measured in different units.
Within four days of receiving the injections, the young woman’s lower facial muscles more-or-less
began to freeze.
Her smile shrank and her dimples disappeared.
Morris told her followers that the treatment did succeed in unlocking her jaw, but that
her pain had worsened.
During a follow-up appointment, a staff member told her that the provider she saw had miscalculated
the dose and injected the Dysport in the wrong place.
At first, the business reportedly tried to shrug off the situation, telling Morris that
this kind of thing happens sometimes and that most people don’t mind it.
But with some persistence, she managed to get a full refund.
And while it was less than pleasant to wait for the treatment to wear off, the undesired
effects were thankfully temporary.
2.
MARCELLE KING
Marcelle King of Dorset, England found herself hospitalized and close to death in 2013 after
receiving Botox injections from a conman posing as a licensed medical provider.
She found the bogus doctor, Ozan Melin, on Facebook, and made an appointment without
looking too deeply into his credentials.
In a later interview on the BBC series Fake Britain, King said that Melin’s ad looked
legitimate.
She also explained that she had never gotten Botox before and admittedly knew very little
about it, but expected it to be a straightforward procedure that would “knock a few years
off.”
When King arrived at the London address Melin had given her, she realized it was a private
home.
She described entering his kitchen and seeing an array of large needles on the table, where
she sat down and received the injections.
Melin reportedly reassured King that he would do the injections quickly and that she wouldn’t
feel anything.
But the shots were excruciating, and he responded by saying “no pain, no gain.”
King said that she felt as if she had been burned with cigarettes.
Even after experiencing such horrific pain, she went against her husband’s advice and
booked a second appointment with Melin.
This time, her forehead burned so badly that she was rushed to the emergency room just
minutes after the procedure.
It took a large amount of steroids and antihistamines for her to narrowly avoid death.
As it turned out, King had been injected with an “unknown and extremely dangerous substance,”
and Melin was not qualified to perform cosmetic procedures.
Her horrifying ordeal is one of two cases that led to Melin’s conviction on charges
of inflicting grievous bodily harm.
There was a third victim, but the court was unable to prove that Melin had falsely claimed
to be medically trained before giving her a round of harmful injections.
1.
SHIVA ASHKANI
Back in 2015, the owners of a Toronto tanning salon decided to start offering Botox and
filler injections.
During their search for a qualified provider, they interviewed a woman named Shiva Ashkani,
who presented them with a diploma qualifying her as a Registered Nurse.
She claimed that she had 13 years of experience working as a nurse in Toronto and Beverly
Hills.
It seemed like Ashkani was a perfect fit for the job, but it wasn’t long before things
began to go wrong.
After receiving $700 worth of Botox and fillers, one patient was left with bleeding, pea-sized
bumps on her face.
She felt sick after getting the injections, experienced blackening around her eyes for
several weeks, and developed a hole on her forehead.
Another patient noticed discolored and raised skin around her eyes after paying $800 for
injections from Ashkani.
There was also a third victim, who found Ashkani through the Canadian advertising website Kijiji.
She spent $850 on Botox, fillers, and a chemical peel.
The peel left the patient in excruciating pain and feeling like her skin was burning.
Her eyes were nearly swollen shut by the time she reentered the waiting room.
As it turned out, Ashkani was not a registered nurse, and she certainly wasn’t qualified
to perform cosmetic treatments.
She was charged with fraud and assault after her victims spent thousands of dollars fixing
the facial disfigurements she had caused.
Ashkani was found guilty in 2019 and was sentenced to two years in prison and three years of
probation.
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