I’m sure you are aware of the kinds of comments that are made when aesthetic treatments go wrong. Why would you let somebody mess with your face like that? Clearly she went to see somebody dodgy. The feeling—sometimes implied, sometimes explicitly expressed—is that the person affected ‘should have known better’.
This is, obviously, incredibly judgmental. But more than that, it ignores the beauty standards that drive people to seek treatment, as well as the huge gaps in our current system that leave people exposed to harm. And it’s women who are most affected.
