Believe it or not, most chemical peels are gentle -- that is, when carried out by a skilled and qualified technician. What happens when you undergo the procedure by a random staffer at a beauty clinic who's about to do it for the very first time? Turns out, some serious damage.

School teacher Mary Hope didn't realize she was getting an Obagi chemical peel by the hands of a novice. After shelling out some serious cash for the procedure, she was left with a beard of permanent scarring around her cheeks and chin which caused her to wear a plastic compression mask 24 hours a day for 18 months straight. The disaster did earn her £130,000 (about $172,000) in compensation, but in exchange she had to promise not to reveal the name of the company responsible.

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Most of us think nothing of wearing a hair tie on our wrists -- we rock them like an accessory piece. But after learning what happened to Audree Kopp, you may want to keep your wrists bare and your hair where it belongs.

Wearing her hair tie on her wrist like most people do left Kopp with a growing lump on her arm. At first, she paid no attention to it, assuming it must be some sort of bug bite, but when it continued to grow in size, she knew it was something more serious. She made a visit to her doctor's office and received an antibiotic, which did nothing to stop what was clearly an infection. She was later sent to the ER for surgery. They discovered that the culprit was not just one, but three, flesh-eating bacteria caused by a glitter hair tie. The friction of the texture rubbing against her skin allowed the infection to get underneath and spread. Thankfully she has recovered, but continues to warn women against ever wearing a hair tie on their wrists.

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The goal is to kiss a frog with the hopes that he turns into Prince Charming ... not brush on a little brow tint and wind up looking like Kermit himself.

The latter happened to 16-year-old Tylah Durie, after she attempted to darken her eyebrows with some store-bought dye. The result looked nothing like Cara Delevingne, but rather a puffy, swollen mess of redness. The brand she used apparently offers an allergy patch test to make sure that users don't wind up with an allergic reaction ... ahem, something Durie chose to ignore (like most of us do).

Ten minutes after applying the dye and rinsing it off as instructed, all seemed fine -- she was even pleased with the results, so she told Elite Daily. Then, the burning and itching sensation ensued, leaving her with a severe allergic reaction (to the ingredient paraphenylenediamine, a darkening agent) just 30 minutes later. The poor girl couldn't open her lids! Bottom line: Take the patch test -- for all of our sakes.

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Word to the wise: Don't get your brow tinting done at a nail salon. That was one Bristol mom's bad move before she wound up with "two black slugs" for eyebrows. The procedure was offered to her while she was having her nails done at a nearby salon. When speaking about the mishap, her daughter told Bristol Post, "They weren't qualified to do this. Her face ballooned and we had to get the paramedics out as her eyebrow was burnt off while her face was puffing really badly." The salon technicians apparently told her to keep the tint on for an hour, when the max exposure time should have been 10 minutes.

Research shows they should never have offered her the tint in the first place, since she had just had a wax and doing so after waxing is a major no-no since the follicles are wide open and the chemicals seep deeper into the pores.

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The famed brow-enhancing technique known as "feathering," a typically painless procedure that leaves you with semi-permanent brows, has taken social media by storm -- so much so that it inspired Australian Amanda Coats to give it a try.

While she was getting the procedure, Coats noted that the technician was very rushed and was even tending to other clients' eyebrows in between finishing her procedure (without switching gloves!). The result? Her forehead and eyelids started showing some signs of redness and the ink started to fade -- two unusual symptoms post-procedure. But what happened days later was even more shocking: Her entire face and eyes started to swell significantly to the point where her eyebrows looked like third-degree burns. She had to go on antibiotics to reduce the swelling, which left her with almost $1,300 in medical bills.

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