A 40-year-old mother was left unrecognizable even to her own children after a strong reaction to eye treatment.
Mariana Janse went in for plasma fibroblast therapy to have her ‘drooping’ eyelids fixed but it did not go as planned as her face ‘ballooned’ in size.
The mother-of-four underwent the treatment, which involves a device zapping a high-frequency electric current through the skin to promote tissue regeneration, hoping it would ‘take some years off’ of her appearance for her son’s school event.
However, the treatment left her face swollen and when she went to her son’s school, even her 13-year-old child couldn’t recognize her!
“I wanted to take a couple of years off, hoping I’d look like I was turning 35 instead of 41,” Mariana from Northampton, East Midlands, said.
“I’ve got really droopy eyelids on the top and they literally hang on my eyelashes and I can see it – so it’s not just looking at it, it literally annoys me for my vision.
“I’ve also got excess skin and dark circles under my eyes so I was hoping that would help tighten the skin a little bit because it’s difficult to put make-up on because there’s so much skin.”
She went on: “Right after I just had red skin and little dots but when I woke up the next morning it was really, really swollen.
“On the second day I woke up it was super swollen everywhere – top and bottom – and then as the day progressed and the next day the swelling stayed but then my eyes became quite droopy as well.
“I knew what I was expecting but it was still a shock waking up and realizing ‘I’ve got to go to parents’ evening and face my child’s teachers looking like that.’
“The teachers asked me if I had an allergic reaction and I said ‘no I’m just trying to look younger.’”
Mariana said she could not help but laugh about her swollen eyes and having to meet teachers on parents’ evening.
“My family thought it was really funny but my son must have a fear of holes or something because he literally couldn’t even look at me or be in the same room as me,” she continued.
“It made him feel really uncomfortable and it was funny because it was Mother’s Day on Sunday and he was worried about how he was going to spend it with me, looking like that.
“Luckily some of the spots had gone by then and he could at least be in the same room as me even if he couldn’t look at me.”
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