You’ve got so many lines you’ll end up like Gordon Ramsay...
. . . that’s what the beautician here told our fresh- faced reporter in a bid to give her Botox illegally. . . . . . just one of the rogue practitioners who can leave women like THIS
minutes of her arrival, claiming it ‘could not go wrong’.
She then told the reporter, aged 26: ‘There are so many [lines] and eventually they are going to become permanent and you are going to look like Gordon Ramsay.’
She also offers non-surgical nose jobs, and ‘butt and breast’ enhancements using dermal fillers – all treatments which come with serious risks. She told our reporter that a buttock enhancement (achieved by injecting vast quantities of fillers) would be safer than choosing surgical implants.
Astonishingly, this is not illegal, despite a major Government review in 2013 recommending they be banned for use by non-medics, as is the case in other countries.
Mr Grover said: ‘These are risky things – and when you inject in the breast and buttock, you are putting in a high volume of substances. Even if there are safe products out there, how does someone who isn’t qualified get hold of them? A British girl underwent buttock injections with a rogue practitioner in a hotel room in America and died.’
One of Ms Gouzd’s clients, Mary Smith (not her real name), compared the pain she experienced during her appointment to ‘going through childbirth without pain relief.’ She said one of her eyebrows fell off after treatment for ‘microblading’ and one of her lips was left with a hard lump of filler on one side.
Another rogue beautician is Sharon Freeman, 44, of Forever Young Aesthetics, in Birkenhead, Merseyside, who is said to have disfigured two women by carrying out tear trough fillers – both of whom spoke to The Mail on Sunday.
She used a substance called Juvederm Ultra 4, which according to manufacturer Allergan, is not suitable for use on the delicate skin near the eyes, and says so on the product labelling. It is designed for reconstructing larger areas such as cheekbones and the jaw.
Allergan added that the treatment, ‘should only be done by a trained and qualified healthcare professional… in an appropriate clinical environment.’
Alarmingly, when former client Roxanne McGenity, 31, went for corrective treatment with a consultant, the filler was found at the back of her eyeball – and she said the doctor told her she was lucky not to have gone blind. ‘She used me as Frankenstein’s monster – she literally butchered me,’ said Ms McGenity. ‘My face felt like I had sinusitis – the fillers had been moving around in my eye area. My doctor said I was lucky not to get an infection or go blind.’
She added: ‘I couldn’t even look at myself in the mirror – I cried every day. I had to have the filler dissolved – because she even injected behind my eye socket.’
Ms Freeman is also alleged to have carried out Botox injections illegally – clients told us they were given Botox without a consultation with a registered prescriber beforehand, and she advertises Botox treatments on her Facebook page, charging £90 for one area, £180 for two.
Chloe Davies, 32, was treated with facial and lip fillers in her own home by Ms Freeman earlier this year, paying £370. Chloe said: ‘I went into hiding, and spent as long as I could off work. My eyes were really painful. Whenever I looked up, my eyeballs would start to throb.’
Another client said Ms Freeman offered to rectify botched fillers using a ‘draining process’ – however the correct way to solve the problem is to dissolve the fillers.
Ms Freeman told The Mail on Sunday: ‘I have nothing to say to you’, and slammed the door of her home. Ms Gouzd is understood to deny any wrongdoing.
I couldn’t even look at myself in the mirror – I cried every day