My lips are numb... I even drool at night

MOTHER-of-two Lilly wanted her lips plumped after seeing the ‘dermal filler’ craze sweep social media.

She booked her first appointment in October 2016, getting 1ml of hyaluronic acid gel syringed into her lips. Three years and a further 6ml of filler later, she is at the centre of a cosmetic horror story.

With a drooping and heavy top lip, broken blood vessels pushing at her overstretched skin and a constant sensation of both burning and numbness, Lilly is uncomfortable and in pain.

The care assistant, from Livingston, West Lothian, who did not want to give her real name, has had treatment from a number of beauticians. She had her most recent procedure – a 1ml lip top-up – in February. Although she initially showed off her newly plumped lips on social media, she is now suffering challenging complications.

Each morning, after another night of drooling on her bedsheets, she wakes with her top lip swollen and curled up towards her nose.

She said: ‘It feels like my lips are twice the size. They’re red, nippy and throb. They fold over every morning when I wake. My lips are curled up, sticking up, giving me creases at the sides of my mouth.

‘I still like how big they are but when I smile I can see bits of my lips dangling down over my teeth. They’re cold and numb to touch on the top, I can run my nail along it and there’s no feeling and it’s hard.’