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When filler removal goes wrong: ‘My lips and cheeks caved in’
The trend for ‘duck lips’ is over and many people are seeking to reverse their cosmetic treatments – often with painful and disfiguring results
“There is a push towards a more natural beauty, with many people wanting to reverse that kind of overfilled look that was popular five, six, seven years ago,” says Ravindran, who has clinics in Cheshire, Manchester and London and a client list that reads like the programme for a Love Island arena tour. In fact, she says it was great: “She was a nurse and she only put half a mil [0.5ml] in my lips.” But when that practitioner stopped doing it because, in Winter’s words, she “felt it was only a matter of time before something went wrong”, she found someone on Instagram who had done a one-day training course while working at a fast-food restaurant. Griffiths is part of a growing group of doctors pushing for regulatory frameworks in the industry – specifically, a traffic-light system that would require the most high-risk procedures to be done at a premises regulated by the Care Quality Commission.
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