Horrific details have emerged from a London-based beauty parlour performing botched liposuction that’s said to have left several women ‘injured and disfigured’.
One woman is reported to have been hospitalised after the instrument used during the procedure ‘hit’ one of her internal organs.
Another former client recalled noticing ‘blood splattered up the walls’ when she visited the premises, as well as ‘swabs lying around that still had blood from the previous person’.
Campaigners have warned these shocking findings expose an alarming loophole in UK law that they’ve long highlighted, which enables cowboy beauticians to perform surgery without medical qualifications.
In fact, according to UK law, it is not illegal for any non-medic to attempt an operation — so long as the person doing it does not claim to be a surgeon, and the client consents.
Regulatory bodies such as the General Medical Council and the Care Quality Commission cannot prosecute or ‘strike off’ aestheticians or beauticians.
Ashton Collins from Save Face, a charity that helps victims of botched cosmetic surgery, told MailOnline rogue beauticians could ‘technically’ be charged with assault for injuring a client.
‘But it’s a struggle to get the police to take these cases seriously,’ she said. ‘Most police forces adopt the attitude of; you consented to the procedure, it’s your own fault.’
Daria Barbara Wisniewska is one of the owners of Luxury Medical Aesthetics and Academy, who was seen using a suction machine to suck fat from a woman’s chin.
Clips from the establishment’s Instagram profile page show the beauticians injecting what appears to be filler into a patient’s face.
Sarah Guy, a beautician from South Wales told the BBC she paid £1,500 to the clinic, called Luxury Medical Aesthetics and Academy, for a ‘one day fat reduction masterclass’
Details of the London establishment came to light after one client was so ‘shocked’ about what she saw during an appointment, she contacted the BBC.
Sarah Guy, a beautician from South Wales told the broadcaster she paid £1,500 to the clinic, called Luxury Medical Aesthetics and Academy, for a ‘one day fat reduction masterclass’.
She was enticed by advertisments seen on Instagram that offered training in a new type of fat-dissolving procedure called Lipolysis.
Lipolysis is also known as ‘fat-sculpting’, and is a minimally invasive procedure that involves breaking down fat cells using lasers, injections or a cold probe that ‘freezes’ the tissue.
But videos taken by Ms Guy of the training session — and shared with the BBC — do not show appear to show a typical lipolysis procedure.
In the videos one of the owners, Daria Wisniewska [pictured above] is seen injecting a solution into a woman’s chin who has agreed to be a model for the procedure.
Ms Wisniewska then makes a small hole in the area using a scalpel, before inserting a long cannula attached to a suction machine. She then begins to suck out fat.
Ms Guy said the same method was used on another model’s chin, and a third woman’s stomach.
Ms Collins from Save Face, who has been supporting those who say they were injured by Luxury Medical Aesthetics, said the women were told they were having non-surgical fat dissolving treatment not liposuction.
She said: ‘It’s only when they’ve been numbed and they see the actual device coming out and they feel it prodded in their skin, do they realise what’s actually going on.’
Sarah Guy passed the training course and was given a certificate from Luxury Medical Aesthetics, despite refusing to perform procedures on the models.
The salon owners Daria and Monika Wisniewska did not respond to the BBC’s messages about the complaints.
It comes after the UK saw its first death from the deadly Brazilian Butt Lift procedure.
In September it was revealed that 33 year-old mother-of-five Alice Webb had died after undergoing the buttock-enhancing treatment, believed to have been performed in the West Country.
Gloucestershire Police confirmed it is investigating the death and arrested two people on suspicion of manslaughter.
According to a report from Save Face published in July there has been an ‘alarming increase in the number of patient reported complaints relating to non-surgical breast augmentation and BBLs’.
Ashton Collins from Save Face, a charity that helps victims of botched cosmetic surgery, told MailOnline rogue beauticians could ‘technically’ be charged with assault for injuring a client
The report said that more than half have resulted in severe and life-threatening complications, including sepsis, abscesses and infections.
There are two main types of Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) procedures, and both are considered deadly.
The most well-known is the surgical kind, which involves transferring fat from other areas of the body, such as the hips or stomach, to give patients a fuller derriere.
But it is particularly risky — carrying a one in 15,000 risk of death — because surgeons can accidentally inject the fat into the bloodstream, causing a potentially deadly blood clot.
It is thought that Ms Webb underwent a liquid BBL, which involves having dermal filler injected into the buttocks to boost volume.
Unlike with facial fillers, performed to add fullness to the lips or cheeks, where complications can be managed by skilled injectors, these procedures often require hospital settings, intravenous drugs, and surgical intervention to rectify.
A Save Face survey of more than 2,200 health professionals who practice aesthetic medicine also saw 98 per cent of them say they do not offer liquid BBLs, given there is ‘high risk of multiple complications’.
