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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If this headline alone doesn't give you the chills, buck up, because the full story is even more disturbing.

Hang Mioku, a plastic-surgery-obsessed Korean patient whose doctors had told her they would no longer operate on her due to psychological issues, decided to become her own plastic surgeon -- injecting an entire bottle of black market silicone into her face.

When that wasn't enough to satisfy her desires, she resorted to cooking oil -- yes, the kind you'd use to cook up a stir-fry. Her story was so tragic, that it was covered on a Korean television show, which was good news for Mioku, since it earned her thousands of dollars, which she used to pay for corrective surgery. After 10 operations, where surgeons removed nearly 300g of silicone, oil and other foreign substances from her face and neck, she is still left disfigured.

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The competition between sisters can be a fierce one, especially when it comes to beauty. Such was the case with Cynthia Nkomo, who decided to use her sister's beauty cream -- a treatment which her sister has used for years and attributed to her good looks and enviable figure. But when Nkomo gave the mixture a try, she wound up with a red, swollen face and mouth. In fact, she claims her mouth was so swollen that she couldn't even kiss her boyfriend and could only drink liquids out of a straw for two days straight. It turns out, there was likely something in the cream that caused her to have an allergic reaction that her sister never experienced. We guess that's why there's a right skin-care regimen for each and every skin type!

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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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