Woman left with second-degree burns, scarring after common beauty procedure: I wanted to feel confident

Beauty is pain — but not this kind.A woman was left with second-degree burns and permanent scarring after a microneedling session gone wrong.“I wanted to feel confident without makeup,” Melia Nielsen, 24, told Kennedy News.“Now I’m in an even worse position because I’ve got a huge scar across my face instead of just a few spots.”The Lincolnshire-based finance worker had undergone treatment to improve her skin complexion, shelling out almost $100 on microneedling in July, a procedure that involves puncturing the skin with small needles to generate collagen.She had already had one session of microneedling before returning for a second, which is when things went awry.

The provider went over the same spot too many times, wearing away at the first few layers of skin.“At the time she never said anything about it but I was actually bleeding,” Nielsen recalled.“She only said five or six days later over a message that she’d noticed that I was bleeding quite a bit.”Because she was bleeding, the provider, who she didn’t name, was cleaning the area — with what she suspects was toner — that resulted in a chemical burn on the “new, raw skin.”“At the time it was stinging quite bad and she kept asking, ‘Are you okay,'” she said.

“Now I understand why she was asking that.”While the provider assured Nielsen to just “keep an eye” on the area — which was not just red but a patch of white — she noticed that the skin “was weeping.”“I was like ‘surely this isn’t normal,'” she said.“I was panicking the night that it happened.

I washed it with water and didn’t put anything on it.”When she raised concerns to the provider, her messages were ignored — that is, until Nielsen said she was headed to the emergency room.“When I woke up the next morning the whole thing looked bruised.It had gone all horrible and purple,” she explained.“It had stopped weeping but it was wet to touch.

It was really, really swollen....