Now that's more like it

[sigma7]

Ah, this is the humanity I'm used to. Twin Cities resident decides $2700 silicone injection treatments are too expensive and hey, what do docs know anyway? So she buys $10 of silicone lubricant online, gets a syringe and injects her face with it.

Amazingly the results were not what she expected.

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[redmonster.livejournal.com]

She doesn't look nearly as bad as I feared she would.

But still, yeah: dumbass.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, on one hand I'm impressed by her bravery in being willing to puncture her own face, but on the other hand it's probably just vanity and insecurity driving her. And maybe a touch of madness.

And I was expecting something worse, too, but maybe the face-transplant stories have raised the bar for me.

[beeform]

One of my co-workers yesterday said she saw a story about a woman who "fell asleep" while getting 3 stars tattooed on her face (around her eye area?). When she woke up, she found she'd been given 56 stars on her face instead.

How does one sleep through *56* tattoos?

[redmonster.livejournal.com]

I'm betting the girl was high on something. You sort of have to wonder if "You know what'd be a really good idea, as long as I'm in Romania? I think I'll get 3 stars burned permanently into my face, by a guy who doesn't have a language in common with me!" is the sort of thing an 18-year-old Belgian thinks when she's perfectly sober. So she probably passed out.

[teal-cuttlefish.livejournal.com]

The tattoo artist and a witness say she requested 56 tattoos and was happy until her father saw them. Now she's covering. And if you see a picture of the tattoo artist, he is a sight to behold -- his face is tattooed as a skeleton with some musculature, and he has about 7 or 9 lip piercings. If I wanted a small tattoo on my face, I'd have selected an artist with a bit more demonstration of his grasp of subtlety. He did exactly what was asked of him.

Despite that, he's offering to split the cost of laser removal with her.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

He also claims to have a witness who saw the girl get up to check herself several times in the mirror during the process, well after the third star.

[teal-cuttlefish.livejournal.com]

That's right, I forgot that detail.

While I can see a face full of stars being a major employment drawback, I don't know that white star-shaped patches all over her face from the laser removal will be any better. She might be better off living with the tattoos.