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11 Beauty Horror Stories You Have to See to Believe

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by Jenn Sinrich | COMMENT

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Chemical Peel Leaves Woman With Cystic Acne-Covered Face When most of us hear the word "peel" in relation to skin care, we immediately worry we'll wind up looking red-faced and blotchy, à la Samantha in "Sex and the City." As if that iconic scene alone didn't strike enough fear into the hearts of naive beauty queens everywhere, horror stories in the news about chemical peels pushed others over the edge.

Take what happened to then 26-year-old Georgie Aves, from London, for example. She opted for what she thought was a harmless and rejuvenating facial treatment -- aka a laser chemical peel known as a C02 treatment -- and suffered an allergic reaction that left her with terrible scarring all over her face. The original price tag was a whopping £1,200 (about $1,582), and she was told that, at worst, she'd experience minor scabbing. Instead, she experienced what she described to the Daily Mail as "a scene from a horror movie." Six months post-treatment she still experienced severe facial scarring as a result of what was a rare but serious allergic reaction.

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