'I was left blinded for life and suicidal after botched fillers – and there are hundreds more like me'
13- to 24-year-olds see lip fillers as routine as getting a haircut or manicuredifferent types of dermal filler available for use in Europe, compared to only 10 in the US where they have tighter regulationsposts for #lipfillers on Instagram13- to 19-year-olds say images on social media cause them to worry about body imageMeiska Mamajeski, from Leeds, was left permanently blind in one eye after deciding to try out a newly developed facial filler to smooth out her facial lines and wrinkles.
when filler was wrongly injected into her arteries, causing her lips to burst and leading her to swallow the solution. "There’s nothing wrong with trying to look as good as you can for as long as possible - it’s a privilege our parents didn’t have, if you do it the right way in the right hands," she says.
"It had already been severely compromised, and I was probably going to lose the sight at some point anyway - but it was horrifying. I was in shock – both my daughter and I were scared to death."
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