Just like everyone else these days, Maroondah Leader wanted long, luscious lashes. And when mascara no longer cut it, she turned to semi-permanent extensions applied by her local beauty salon. Three hours after getting her lashes fitted, she noticed a ferocious rash spreading all over her face.

"I didn't think anything of it at first, but three hours later I noticed the rash had spread all over my face," she told Look. Her entire face felt like it was on fire, so she did what most of us would do in the scenario -- wash off our makeup and hit the hay with the hopes that the swelling would subside the following morning. In Leader's case, she woke up with white boils everywhere. After an emergency visit to her doctor, she was diagnosed with Staphylococcus, or a staph infection.

Thankfully, she caught the bacterial infection early and was given antibiotics, but her lifelong message to beauty lovers near and far is to head to sanitary and respectable salons for any and all procedures.

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One Queenslander man decided to do something about a regretful ink decision and scheduled an appointment at a local laser clinic to get the words "Live Free" removed from across his knuckles. He was told he'd need about 10-12 treatments and signed the dotted line, waiving the clinic of any liability should he suffer any sort of reaction.

After undergoing between 15-20 sessions (several more than they said he would need), at $170 a pop, he was frustrated with the lack of result and asked the technician why it wasn't working. Her response? She turned the laser machine the highest it would go and quite literally cooked his hand. He was left with sweltering blisters that prevented him from working or carrying out the majority of his day-to-day activities.

Sadly, the clinic's waiver relieves them of any responsibility. He now has holes in each of the fingers on his right hand and is using a heavy cream, which doctors use to transport organs for organ donation, to help his skin heal.

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Word to the wise: Don't get cosmetic procedures at a house party, or you might wind up looking deformed. That's what happen to a young Toronto woman, Jenna, who opted to get her lips done (twice!) by a completely unqualified individual who told her she was a nurse.

After experiencing two sessions at $200 a piece, Jenna was happy with the results. But, when she went back for a third time, things got ugly -- fast. Minutes after the procedure, her lips started to swell. The "nurse" put some dissolvent on the area, thinking that she may have overdone it with the filler.

An hour later, the swelling worsened and she experienced a blue discoloration on her chin area. She went to the ER, but was sent home because they assumed it was normal swelling that would eventually go down. When the swelling worsened even more, she visited a plastic surgeon who discovered that the filler was injected straight into a blood vessel, causing an obstruction in the lower lip. She was treated with hyaluronidase and nitropaste to enhance blood circulation, but the surgeon told her she might have lost her entire lower lip had she visited him just hours later.

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