During one idle evening scroll through social media, my thumb stopped short. The video before me was titled “My story about how Sonya Dakar permanently damaged my face.”
I recognised the name. Sonya Dakar has reportedly been a powerhouse in the beauty industry for decades, providing bespoke facials to Los Angeles’s most luminous faces. She is said to have treated everyone from Jennifer Lopez to Gwyneth Paltrow to Priyanka Chopra. Scoring an appointment with her is considered the beauty world’s equivalent of a front-row seat at fashion week. So how, I wondered, could she have allegedly caused irreparable damage to this young woman’s face?
