Bad Practice
The Times: Unregulated facial ‘thread lifts’ put women in A&E
As Samantha Neyland approached her 50th birthday last May, she decided that a “thread face lift” would help to “freshen” her look. “I had seen it all over Instagram and it just looked very s...
The TIMES: ‘Black market’ Botox investigation: ‘If you know where you need to put it, nothing goes wrong’
A practitioner offered our reporter Botulax, a product not licensed for use in Britain — and he was far from alone Vilnis Karklins offers treatments at a clinic in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, desp...
The Sunday Times - Medics sign off Botox to patients they never see
An undercover reporter posing as a beautician found doctors and nurses willing to bend rules on prescribing Victoria Lee had a bad Botox reaction Doctors and nurses are running a lucrative sideline pr...
CLOSER MAGAZINE: The Hidden Danger Behind Your ‘Harmless’ Fillers
‘I almost lost my nose – I will be scarred for life’ Leah Morton, 26, is single and lives in Liverpool. She says, “I started getting lip fillers when I was 20. Most of my peers had already had...
BBC You and Yours - Underage Fillers and Botox
It’s nearly two years since a law was introduced in England which made it illegal for under-18s to be given certain cosmetic treatments such as lip filler and s botox. Despite this, we have compiled...
The Times: Women regret botched lip fillers at home
Britt Ekland has said that dermal fillers “ruined” her face Experts have warned of a rise in botched cosmetic procedures carried out at home or by lay people as teenagers increasingly book treatme...
The Times: Influencers ‘lure teenage fans’ to gambling and surgery sites
Instagram influencers are encouraging their millions of fans to follow accounts that encourage gambling, unlicensed lip filler treatments and plastic surgery....
The Telegraph – ‘I was turning into Frankenstein’s monster’: Inside the backstreet Botox boom
Preoccupation with ‘Zoom face’ has led to a surge in requests for injectables. But experts are seeing huge increases in cases going wrong The ‘Zoom face’ has heralded a surge in surgery reques...