When DIY Treatments Go Horribly Wrong

I am all for home treatments, do it yourself cosmetic procedures and the like, especially in this economy, but this is just a bad idea that just got worse!

Hang Mioku, a 48 year old woman from Korea, got completely addicted to cosmetic surgery after her first procedure at 28. She moved to Japan and had even more operations.

After so many operations that she was no longer recognizable to her own parents, and surgeon after surgeon refused to do any more work on her, she moved back to Korea, where she was able to find a doctor to give her silicone injections. In a move that seemed innocent at the time, the doctor gave her a syringe so she could self-inject. Good call doc.

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When she ran out of silicone, she resorted to injecting cooking oil into her face. Yeah, you read that right – cooking oil. She seemed intent on plumping up her face and thought cooking oil was the best way to go about doing that.  Her face became so large that she was called “standing fan” by kids in the neighborhood.

After being featured on Korean TV, viewers felt bad for her and sent in enough donations for her to enable her to have surgery to correct her own poor judgment. The first procedure removed more than 60g of foreign substance from her face and more than 200g from her neck.

While she told the Telegraph that she too can see the damage she’s done to herself and would like her original face back, I’m not sure that someone who is so addicted to plastic surgery procedures that she would resort to injecting cooking oil will be able to simply go back to her original face and features without wanting to change anything.