I paid £50 for botched lip filler that made me look like a duck, I should’ve known when she made me put on numbing cream
A YOUNG mum was hospitalised after a botched beauty appointment left her with a 'horrendous DUCK LIP'.
Grace Palmer, from Earby, Lancashire, claimed her top lip swelled up to triple its usual size after the filler was inserted just twice.
Suffering from too much pain, the 23-year-old decided to end the appointment, with the aesthetics practitioner promising she could have the remaining 1ml at a later date.
However, the following day Grace's lip has ballooned so much, her colleagues urged her to go to hospital to get it checked out, as they feared she'd lose it.
At the hospital, the care assistant was given tablets to tackle the extreme swelling.
While waiting to be seen by the medical staff, Grace contacted the injector for her insurance details - but this didn't go too well, as she claimed she was met with a barrage of abuse instead.
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Now three months after the ordeal on December 9th, the mum-of-one has vowed never to get her lips done by anyone who isn't a registered nurse and operates from their home.
"My top lip was massive, it was triple the size it normally is,'' she told Kennedy News.
"My skin was so tight on my lip I thought it was going to burst, it was awful.
"I looked horrendous, I looked like a completely different person, it was just huge. I looked like I'd been punched.
"It was embarrassing too, I felt like hiding away from people. I was essentially left with a 'duck' lip."
Grace revealed she had decided to get the £50 treatment after having her lips done by the same ''expert'' previously with no issues.
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But, according to her, the appointment got off to a rather odd start when she was asked to apply her own numbing cream and wait in her car for 10 minutes before being let into the practitioner's home.
But after the injector inserted the filler just two times into both sides of her cupid's bow, Grace couldn't cope with the wasp-like stinging sensation and demanded her to stop.
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"She also wasn't willing to give me any refund - bearing in mind I've not used that filler there was a full ml still in that syringe.
"All I kept asking her was 'can you give me your insurance details please?'.
"She was just saying 'if you want insurance details then come to my door and get them' like in a threatening way.
"Obviously she didn't want to do that, she refused to give me my money back and said if I put it anywhere that she was going to get me done for slander.
"I was concerned with her saying what hospital are you at, I was worried she was going to come.
"I was more worried about my lip and what was going to happen to my face.
"The doctors pressed on it and it went from white to pink straight away so the circulation was still there, so they were happy about that.
"They weren't really sure what had gone on because it was so swollen but they gave me some tablets to take and they said it would take the swelling down.
"I took them and within one or two days the swelling went down."
Two days after Grace was able to return to work, and has since vowed to never get treatment with the injector again.
"I've not had any contact from her since and she's not given me any refund, I've just got on with my life.
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"I've not even thought about getting them done again but if I did I'd go to someone who's professional, who's got a shop, and is a proper qualified nurse.
"I would never go to someone's house ever again that's put me off that."