From bubble face to wombat butt: this can go wrong with botox and fillers

I myself am not averse to a little injection here and there, but quite a bit can go wrong with botox and fillers. Take Mickey Rourke, who nowadays looks more like Mary Borsato than his old self. I once thought it was a good idea to visit the dentist in Aruba who also did botox. It was quite affordable, and such a man surely knew how the anatomy of a face works. I ended up with a frozen forehead and one eyebrow that I could almost lift to my crown. After scaring all the kids in the neighborhood for three months, the botox thankfully wore off and I promised myself to only go to real professionals from then on.

Nowadays I go to Falck Clinic. My favorite doctor is Jani van Loghem, who gives training in injectables all over the world, but Aleid and Job are also great. They are specially trained as cosmetic doctors and ensure that you look fresh, but don’t end up with a pumped-up face. I told them about my botox adventure in Aruba and asked what else could go wrong. Well, that’s quite shocking. Here we go:

The bruise

Okay, this can happen to the best doctor. During the injection, a blood vessel can be hit and a bruise appears. I once had one next to my eye. I just said I got a twig in my face while cycling. Fortunately, it went away after a few days.

Drooping eyelid

If too much botox is injected into your forehead, it becomes so heavy that your eyelids start to droop. Fortunately, you are rid of this Sharpei look after three months. I would definitely ask for your money back and buy a nice pair of sunglasses with it.

Necrosis

Okay, this is really very scary. A less experienced injector can inject filler into your blood vessel. If that happens, you will no longer get oxygen supply to the tissue and it will die off rapidly. The skin literally turns black and the damage is irreversible. Michael Jackson, is that you? If this happens near your eye, you could even go blind. This seems to me even more reason not to go to a beautician, but to a specially trained doctor.

The wombat butt

I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of wombats, but wombats are animals in Australia that defend themselves by standing in their burrow with their butts facing out. Their butt is so hard that no predator can get through. If you dream of a derrière à la Kim Kardashian and see that it can be realized in Istanbul for a nice price: don’t do it. The fillers are often ordered via AliExpress and no one knows what’s in them. Severe infections and hard plaques can be the result.

Bubble face

In the past, they were crazy about permanent fillers. Just a splash of silicone oil in your face and you were set for the rest of your life. However, permanent fillers often encapsulate over the years. You then get those hard lumps in your face that need to be cut out from the inside. Goodbye cheekbones, hello scar.