Bad Practice
Exclusive: It's Scarily Easy to Buy Lip Fillers on Facebook Marketplace
Sellers on the platform were even willing to offer four times the recommended dose of fillers – an amount that could lead to medical complications. I’ve been on Facebook Marketplace for less than ...
The Unstoppable Rise of the ‘Instagram Face’
Kylie Jenner and other influencers have inspired a new beauty aesthetic and a wave of cheap non-surgical interventions – some riskier than others. People all over the UK undergo non-surgical treatme...
Revealed: Lip Fillers Are Being Offered to Children in the UK
Ninety percent of practitioners in London and Essex aren’t asking children their age before booking them in for lip fillers – and none required a child’s ID for a consultation. People all over t...
Fill Me In: We Team Up With VICE to Investigate the Dark Side of Cosmetic Injectables
People all over the UK undergo non-surgical treatments like fillers every year, but the industry operates almost completely unchecked. Non-surgical cosmetic treatments are everywhere. You might have s...
Evening Standard: Teens ‘need shielding from Botox ads on social media’
SOCIAL media bosses are facing calls to clamp down on unofficial adverts targeting young women with multi-buy cosmetic surgery procedures. Save Face, a government-approved register of accredited pract...
BBC Fake Britain - The Fake Botox Treatment That Left One Woman With Life-Changing Injuries
Fake Britain features the case of Ozan Melin who was convicted of grievous bodily harm after posing as a doctor and injecting several women Fake Botox. Save Face supported victims and worked with th...
CLOSER Magazine: Woman Hospitalized After Love Island Inspired Lip Fillers
Are the villa stars to blame for the shock rise in cosmetic procedures? Cult TV hit Love Island has been slammed for encouraging young Brits to seek cut-price cosmetic procedures, with figures from ...
Save Face Investigate Rogue Aesthetic Practitioners with ITV The Kyle Files
Save Face teams up with the Kyle Files to investigate rogue practitioners and we share our expertise on the challenges the public face when seeking to find a safe practitioner.