'My eyebrows started rotting': Woman nearly loses face to beauty procedure

In Russia, a dangerous beauty procedure called BrowFlash is gaining popularity. Masters promise women thick eyebrows enhanced using a unique Chinese method. But they remain silent about the fact that the procedure is not only quite painful but also, as it turns out, very dangerous for health and even life. It has been nicknamed «corpse eyebrows» by the public, and one of its victims is a resident of Zheleznovodsk (a town in Russia): after the beauty procedure, her eyebrows are literally rotting.

The miracle technology BrowFlash was first talked about a couple of years ago. At that time, a wave of expensive master classes for beauty technicians swept through various cities. Brow artists were promised that they would be trained in an innovative beauty method.

The technique involves implanting artificial hairs under the skin, meaning that although it is a painful process, it produces a wow-effect on clients: their eyebrows acquire such a natural appearance.

However, no one talks about the side effects that occur a bit later in clients. But even doctors are shocked by the risk women are exposing themselves to, unaware of the dangers.

The first victims of the trendy technique were shown on the show «What Have I Done» (a Russian TV program). Women candidly told how they fell for the advertised procedure and what a nightmare it turned into for them.

Lyubov from Zheleznovodsk is a beauty master herself. She heard about the novelty from a friend who was so inspired by the innovation that she persuaded her to take the courses. They thought that BrowFlash needed to be implemented urgently in their city before other beauty salons picked up the idea. Lyubov agreed, took her savings, a loan, and went to the master class. There, she also tested the technique on herself.

— The procedure is performed with an assistant. Their task is to insert the hairs into the needle, and the master inserts the needle into the skin. I endured this procedure for three hours. It was torture, — recalls Lyubov.

Clients are given anesthesia, but it is not enough since the needle is inserted very deeply, causing women to still experience severe pain. Lyubov says that the master who performed the procedure on her only treated the needle with chlorhexidine, explaining that all hairs are manufactured at their factory in Korea and are sterile.

Experts say that the hair implantation works on the principle of fishhooks. That is why the material does not fall out immediately.

— The result after the procedure is amazing. It looked very beautiful, like sable eyebrows. The artificial hair is indistinguishable from real one, it«s a direct wow-effect, — says the woman.

Lyubov returned to her city and started looking for clients for the new procedure. After all, initially, her enhanced eyebrows did not cause any problems. The master managed to provide the service to three girls.

In almost all of them, complications started immediately: for some, the eyebrow area became covered with pimples, for others, they did not take. And for all, she promptly removed the artificial hairs. Then problems began for Lyubov herself.

— Not even a month had passed before my own eyebrows started rotting. The skin became inflamed. I had the feeling that cockroaches were running under my skin. It was impossible to bear, — shares the victim. — I returned to the training center, where they told me how to treat it. And when I noticed craters already formed around the hairs, they started accusing me of self-mutilation.

Doctors explain that everything happening to clients after the hair implantation procedure is an expected reaction of the body to a foreign object. Figuratively speaking, the hapless masters were driving hundreds of splinters into women«s faces. Synthetic hairs over time provoke purulent inflammations. Then scars form on the skin, which are very difficult to get rid of. But this is not the worst. Neglected inflammation can lead to more serious consequences, up to meningitis.

Now, victims of the procedure are trying to unite to stop its spread. At least one lawyer is currently working on this. He also found out that the BrowFlash technique is called a technique for the dead because it is not applicable to a living organism.