"Botched 'thread lift' left me looking like a Halloween character"
- 5 months ago
A woman who says her 'thread lift' was botched and left her looking like a 'Halloween character' is warning others about unsafe aesthetic clinics.
Milly Powell, 27, wants people to do their own research before undergoing cosmetic procedures.
She says she was left ''unrecognizable'' after getting a thread lift at a clinic in Britain.
Milly, who works in marketing, intended to get the procedure done to fill a dimple on the left side of her face.
Milly initially went to her local clinic for a filler treatment but claims she was pressured into getting a PDO thread lift by three members of staff.
The procedure lasted 15 minutes and cost £850 but that quarter of an hour has resulted in a year-long battle trying to rectify the damage.
One year after the procedure, Milly took to social and went viral after imploring other women to do their research before getting a thread lift.
Milly's procedure consisted of making two incisions a few centimetres above her hairline before a fish hook-like instrument is inserted to pull the face up using a thread then a knot is tied to keep it in place.
PDO stands for Polydioxanone and refers to the material used to make the threads used in the lifting procedure
She also had filler injected into her jaw, lips and cheeks.
After the procedure, Milly was left looking like "a Halloween character" and eventually lost feeling in her nose after five days.
She also suffered from swelling, headaches and a tight feeling in her face.
Milly, who is from Cheshire, said: "I went to get my dimple filled, so essentially what they do is they inject filler into your face and it fills out the dimple.
"When I got there they said to me 'oh no, we've got a different procedure, it's way more natural than filler and what we do is we put threads in your face and pull back the skin and the dimple will be gone'.
"I was like, these [people] are professionals so I'm going to listen and I was lying on the bed and they make two incisions in your scalp about two centimetres above your hairline.
"They then insert a really thin metal rod and attached to that rod is a thread that acts like barbed wire with bits on it that get stuck in your tissue and they pull it back really tight and tie it.
"They completely numb your face first so I could only feel tugging and stuff."
The person carrying out the procedure told Powell that she would "balance out" her profile.
"She was injecting and injecting and injecting and the whole time she was injecting me she was on the phone.
"She was really distracted and was not paying the slightest bit of attention.
It took around a quarter of an hour but Powell estimated that it should take closer to an hour and a half.
"She asked if I wanted to have a look, it was just before Halloween, and I had a look and I looked like a Halloween character.
Milly Powell, 27, wants people to do their own research before undergoing cosmetic procedures.
She says she was left ''unrecognizable'' after getting a thread lift at a clinic in Britain.
Milly, who works in marketing, intended to get the procedure done to fill a dimple on the left side of her face.
Milly initially went to her local clinic for a filler treatment but claims she was pressured into getting a PDO thread lift by three members of staff.
The procedure lasted 15 minutes and cost £850 but that quarter of an hour has resulted in a year-long battle trying to rectify the damage.
One year after the procedure, Milly took to social and went viral after imploring other women to do their research before getting a thread lift.
Milly's procedure consisted of making two incisions a few centimetres above her hairline before a fish hook-like instrument is inserted to pull the face up using a thread then a knot is tied to keep it in place.
PDO stands for Polydioxanone and refers to the material used to make the threads used in the lifting procedure
She also had filler injected into her jaw, lips and cheeks.
After the procedure, Milly was left looking like "a Halloween character" and eventually lost feeling in her nose after five days.
She also suffered from swelling, headaches and a tight feeling in her face.
Milly, who is from Cheshire, said: "I went to get my dimple filled, so essentially what they do is they inject filler into your face and it fills out the dimple.
"When I got there they said to me 'oh no, we've got a different procedure, it's way more natural than filler and what we do is we put threads in your face and pull back the skin and the dimple will be gone'.
"I was like, these [people] are professionals so I'm going to listen and I was lying on the bed and they make two incisions in your scalp about two centimetres above your hairline.
"They then insert a really thin metal rod and attached to that rod is a thread that acts like barbed wire with bits on it that get stuck in your tissue and they pull it back really tight and tie it.
"They completely numb your face first so I could only feel tugging and stuff."
The person carrying out the procedure told Powell that she would "balance out" her profile.
"She was injecting and injecting and injecting and the whole time she was injecting me she was on the phone.
"She was really distracted and was not paying the slightest bit of attention.
It took around a quarter of an hour but Powell estimated that it should take closer to an hour and a half.
"She asked if I wanted to have a look, it was just before Halloween, and I had a look and I looked like a Halloween character.