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When Rachael Knappier went to a "Botox party" at a friend's home at the end of August, she planned to indulge in a shot of the wrinkle eraser in her forehead and a glass of fizz with her pals.

But, after a few glasses of Prosecco, she also agreed to have lip fillers.

What she didn’t bank on was the beautician injecting the filler into an artery, which caused her lips to swell massively.

In fact, the complications were so serious that she almost lost her top lip.

"My friend had raved about this beautician and how great she was so I decided to go ahead," Knappier said.

The 29-year-old had previously visited a local, highly-qualified, aesthetics nurse for Botox and a small dose of filler in her top lip to even out a permanent bump, a legacy of a fire door hitting her face as a teenager.

Even though her lip filler was due a top-up, Knappier hadn’t intended getting it done at the party. But that’s before the booze was uncorked.

Botox parties, which offer cheap beauty treatments as you relax with friends, are a growing trend in the UK. It’s now estimated that more than a million Botox procedures are performed each year in the UK and that number is rising.

Lip fillers alone cost an average of £300 (approx. $380) in a clinic, but Knappier, who works for a law firm, had fillers and Botox for around £220 (approx. $280) at the party.

"There was fizz and cake and it was a bit of a conveyor belt with girls sitting in the kitchen waiting their turn with local anesthetic cream on their faces," Knappier, of Leicestershire, said. "The beautician – who I assumed at the time was a nurse – didn’t ask me to sign any consent forms so alarm bells should have rung. But being at a party with friends took away all the seriousness of having filler injected into my face."

"She noticed the bump on my lip when she was doing my Botox and said she could inject a bit of filler for me if I wanted her to," she said. "To be fair, she told me to go and have a think about it in the kitchen but she’d found my weakness. My lip is the one thing that really bothers me about my appearance."

Knappier was given numbing cream to use on her lips before she hopped onto the bed where the beautician told her she was using a brand of filler called Teosyal, though it later transpired she'd used a different make entirely.

"One injection upwards towards my nose was very painful," Knappier remembered. "Within a few hours I began to feel unwell, my lips swelled like nothing I'd ever seen before and the pressure was unbearable."

Panic stricken, she called the beautician – who Knappier has since discovered was released from prison earlier this year – who then Facetimed her to look at her lips.

“She was visibly shocked, clamped her hands over her mouth, told me I was having an allergic reaction and that I needed to take an antihistamine and get to A&E," she said. “At A&E they tested me for anaphylactic shock but three medics concluded I wasn’t having an allergic reaction and told me to go back to the beautician for treatment to dissolve the fillers."

After leaving A&E Knappier’s top lip split. She called her mom who suggested she contact The Consultant Clinic in London (who she followed on social media) for help.

“The owner told me I needed to get to London immediately and that she’d have an emergency doctor waiting for me," Knappier said. “She said that, based on looking at my pictures, her medical team suspected vascular occlusion, meaning that the filler had been injected into an artery and could lead to necrosis – death of soft tissue. I honestly thought I was going to die."

Due to the pain in her lips and the severity of the pressure, she contacted a local aesthetic nurse who injected her with antihistamine medication to attempt to reduce the swelling and pressure.

A couple of days later, Knappier then had several doses of dissolving agent injected into her lips at the Consultant Clinic.

“It was so painful, that my mum, who was sitting upstairs in a waiting room, could hear my screams," she said.

Within 72 hours of the emergency dissolving treatment, Knappier's swelling began to subside and, three months on, her lips are almost back to normal.

“I would never go near a Botox party again. I’m cross that I didn’t do my research and just assumed that everyone who injects Botox and fillers has been to medical school," she said. “I could have had the same reaction to the filler with a doctor but the difference is that they would have known what to do to treat it. The combination of the party atmosphere, my own naivety and the beautician’s lack of training meant I could have lost my lip."

She then contacted Antonia Mariconda, founder of the Safety in Beauty campaign, who said Knappier’s botched lip fillers were one of the worst cases she’s seen.

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Note to self: never let . . . Screw that I would NEVER let some stranger put a needle any where near me!
Some folks are seriously dangerous to themselves due to vanity, stupidity, or what ever causes them to
say : " Come over for Drinks and Cake, and this lady I met at the local halfway house, is gonna shoot us up with some botulism, and shit. Well, yeah, that sounds great!"
 
I'd like to see a photo of her normal lips before the procedure. I bet they looked fine.
They did, and they do once again. Ghosttruck's post has a link with during and after photos, as well as what may possibly be a "before" photo.

--Al
 
@Alf. Thanks the link took forever to load for me, i see it now.
That woman is a fool to worry about botoxing or filling anything at her age.
 
Years ago, I was told by my mom that her beautician was taking classes so she could start injecting clients with botox and other similar procedures. I assumed this meant real classes, like a six month intensive course or something. Nope, it was a one day seminar, with a hundred attendees, and after taking it, they would be "qualified" to inject botox into people's faces. I was horrified.
 
Jeebuscripes.
Do these people learn nothing from the past? *coughs* *Gloria Grahame*
She even went to a real plastic surgeon, and still lost all sensation in her upper lip, causing her to need speech therapy for years in order to pronounce words properly. I still am mesmorized whenever I watch her movies because that upper lip NEVER moves, and you can't help staring at it. She might as well have a parasitic twin on the side of her face, it's so damn compelling to watch.

And these bimbos go to primping and plumping parties, willing to let a total stranger with no medical training just inject botulinum toxin right into their faces. Just any old where, no worries. Until they hit a nerve and your entire face goes as slack as a stroke victim's for life, or they hit a nice juicy vein and pump that shit into your blood stream.
This woman is just damn lucky that she didn't have her lip amputated.
Someone's house, with fizz and cake is not a sterile setting, nor is having a roomful of women lined up against the wall, or sitting conveyor belt style waiting for their turn for some dumb ass to inject them with one of the most toxic substances known on the planet.
You have no way of knowing if the "certified" person dispensing the shots is familiar with the facial nerves, if they're wearing sterile surgical gloves (which are specially packaged individually), if they're changing surgical gloves every time they break sterility, or lastly and most importantly, if they're changing the damn syringes between victims volunteers.:rolleyes:
 
Looks like her nose was affected also. Looks like she done that stupid Kylie Jenner challenge or whatever it’s called. She might as well get some home tattoos too, she seems like she would.
 
Note to self: never let . . . Screw that I would NEVER let some stranger put a needle any where near me!
Some folks are seriously dangerous to themselves due to vanity, stupidity, or what ever causes them to
say : " Come over for Drinks and Cake, and this lady I met at the local halfway house, is gonna shoot us up with some botulism, and shit. Well, yeah, that sounds great!"


Half way house ... lol ...god I hope not. I bet who ever is giving these injections works in a salon, and is boosting this stuff from the cupboard. I knew a booster that would call everyone up when she had stock, and we'd come over and shop from tables set up in the garage ... like it was Tupperware.
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I think she looked fine with her lip completely swollen.

You're bent ...
 
Looks like her nose was affected also. Looks like she done that stupid Kylie Jenner challenge or whatever it’s called. She might as well get some home tattoos too, she seems like she would.

Ooooh, lemme get a ballpoint pen ink and a sewing needle and I'll do them free hand for nothing.:cool:
BTW, I can't draw for shit without a drafting table, T-square, triangles and drafting kit.;)
 
Ooooh, lemme get a ballpoint pen ink and a sewing needle and I'll do them free hand for nothing.:cool:
BTW, I can't draw for shit without a drafting table, T-square, triangles and drafting kit.;)
Gteat idea!! I could really fuck her up on a drafting table. Make her look fucking awesome!

I was gong to give you an excellent but my bold is gone til I get it reinstated so, two thumbs up!!
 
Hey there. I'm really sorry for reviving such an old thread, but please, help me!! I was really close to getting scammed by one of the nearby microneedling specialist, so I'm looking for another reliable one. Could you please advise me about such a specialist? It would be great if he/she were located in CA.
 
Hey there. I'm new here, but happy to help out. Sorry to hear about your bad experience with the botox specialist. So, have you considered trying microneedling treatment in Calabasas CA? It's a great alternative to botox and can do wonders for your skin. As for finding a reliable specialist in the area, I can definitely ask around and see if anyone has any recommendations. In the meantime, just remember to do your research and always go with your gut feeling when it comes to choosing a specialist. Best of luck!
 
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