‘Like a dystopian world’: inside the booming demand for cosmetic injectables

Cosmetic injections require a valid prescription from an authorised prescriber such as a doctor, but those administering the treatment do not need to complete specific cosmetic injectables training beyond their generalised health qualification. Composite: Getty

Zeinab Zeineddine had been getting injected with filler for a few years before it all went horribly wrong.

In early 2021, the western Sydney resident went to a nurse who ran a local cosmetic injectables clinic and asked her for “a little bit of a top-up on my cheeks, a little bit of chin, a little bit of jawline”.