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TikTok trends gone wrong: the dangerous beauty hacks you should rather stay away from

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Tilly Whitfield was left with permanent scarring after she tattooed henna freckles on her cheeks. (PHOTO: Instagram/ @tillywhitfield)
Tilly Whitfield was left with permanent scarring after she tattooed henna freckles on her cheeks. (PHOTO: Instagram/ @tillywhitfield)

It would be a harmless enough procedure, just a tiny drop of dermal filler to plump up her pout, she thought. She’d seen countless women on TikTok and other social media who had their lips amplified and she wanted it for herself.

Kailee Jones got what she wanted – but not in the way she hoped.

Within an hour of her doctor injecting a millilitre of filler in her lips, they started to balloon to eight times their size.

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