A teacher who used a £50 lip filler in a bid to emulate Kylie Jenner was horrified when the product turned her lips lumpy, swollen and blue.
#1 Amelia Greville, 24, found a Groupon deal and had £50 lip fillers injected at a clinic in Bangkok
A young woman who had £50 fillers injected at a Thai clinic after finding a cheap deal on Groupon was horrified when her lips turned blue and lumpy.
Amelia Greville, 24, who lives in Bangkok and works as a teacher, saw a deal for Juvéderm lip fillers online and purchased it, delighted as this is the brand Kylie Jenner uses.
The 24-year-old, who is originally from Redditch, Worcestershire, was not concerned about the cheap price - in the UK Juvéderm fillers normally cost up to £400 - as she believed Groupon was a 'trusted site'.
She had researched the brand, and having discovered the fillers are non-permanent, says she considered a cosmetic procedure such as this similar to 'getting your hair dyed'.
After having the injections in April last year she was initially happy with her new look, as her lips were much plumper.
But within months she was devastated when hard, wart-like lumps formed on her mouth.
#2 A month after having the fillers, Miss Greville's lips swelled up and hard lump formed on them. They later turned blue
#3 Miss Greville said her lips looked 'grotesque'. She told MailOnline: 'The word I always say is "mangled"'
#4 Miss Greville, pictured displaying the lumps that formed in her lips, said she shyed away from kissing her boyfriend, and, now she is single, would be 'mortified' at the idea of going on a date with her mouth in this state
#5 She complained to the clinic, who injected her with more fluid they claimed would correct the problem. However, it only made her lips worse. She is pictured before having the fillers
#6 Miss Greville had bought the fillers believing they were Juvéderm, the brand Kylie Jenner is known to use. Eventually, hard yellow lumps formed on her already-lumpy lips and - with her confidence in tatters - she contacted another doctor
#7 Miss Greville said: 'Now I try to never smile with my mouth open because I’ve got these massive three groups. Whenever I meet someone new I’m self-conscious, I think "they must be looking at my lips"
#8 Miss Greville moved to Thailand after graduating from university, and works as a teacher in a primary school
#9 The ordeal has affected her professionally, as children at her school as 'Teacher, what's wrong with your lips?'
#10 After an injection known to dissolve Juvéderm lip fillers didn't work to correct the lumps, Miss Greville became suspicious the Thai clinic had injected her with another filler. The lumps are pictured soon after forming
#11 Miss Greville said: 'I can't stop myself from licking and biting them. I’m compelled to do it. It's like my body is saying "There's something foreign in your lip". If I touch them they're so sore.'
#12 A doctor at another clinic said he suspected the clinic where Miss Greville received her fillers had injected her with a cheaper product like silicone, which is illegal in Thailand, instead of Juvéderm
#13 She was referred to a prominent surgeon at the Samitijev hospital in Bangkok, who said he could fix her lips with with surgery and a fat graft, but the cost will be around 75,000 Thai Baht (roughly £1,500)
#14 Kylie's pout has inspired many lip plumpers
#15 Miss Greville, pictured on holiday in Bali, claims surgery will not only boost her confidence, but will allow her to prove the clinic illegally injected her with silicone
