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'My lips swelled to the size of a golf ball'
Woman's Hour spoke to Emma, a young woman who was injected with lip filler in a 'clinic' set up in a stranger's apartment.
She had such a bad experience, she was forced to attend an emergency clinic two days later after her face turned purple due to a lack of blood supply.
This comes after The British Association of Cosmetic Nurses found that 40% of their members have rectified problems with fillers over the last two years - with a quarter reporting serious issues, such as blocked arteries and necrosis.
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