The Lip King: We Need To Take Action On Unlicensed Practitioners

If you are unfamiliar with the tragedy that came from the ‘Lip King’, then you will be shocked to know that this individual is just one of several cases that occur within the UK of unmonitored individuals administering injectables without having the correct medical background, training or education on the matter.

The Lip King was the cause of a mother's death after an illegal injectable procedure called a ‘BBL’. In surgical matters, the BBL is an extremely dangerous procedure, which makes it no different when handling injectables, whether in the face or any other body part. While the lip king has not yet been tried for his crimes, it also raises so much concern that it’s taken for someone to lose their life for this now to be seen as a serious matter.

Why Has It Not Been Monitored?

For no reason other than the government hasn’t seen this as a serious enough offence or concern. It’s absolutely outrageous that some actions are against the law, but injecting chemicals into people's faces without any medical background isn’t one of them.

What Happens In The UK With Injectables?

As this has been unmonitored for so long, but also the ‘rules’ that have been put in place are only followed by the once who are medically registered and have nursing backgrounds.

However, some ‘practitioners’ believe they are fully qualified because they went to a course by watching someone else and training on a stranger's face. They are given a certificate from an aesthetics company that also doesn’t have any medical background. This has created a spiral of uneducated individuals who are then leaving and lying to customers that they are qualified, and potentially putting customers at risk.

Customers are none the wiser because they are trusting these people with a large following or a recommendation, or simply because they are offering injectables at an insanely low price. Overall, it’s not a well-known fact that for an individual to be fully qualified, they need to go through medical training and have a medical certificate or a nursing degree of some regard.

Because it’s not spoken about so much in the media or online, it’s getting forgotten about, but this means dangerous things are happening and have been happening for decades. Not only a couple of months ago, these practitioners have been purchasing ‘fake’ or foreign anti-wrinkle products and selling them as Botox. This fake Botox had dangerous reactions to patients' skin, and there were over 100 cases reported.

All that came of it was that practitioners needed to have a consultation with a new patient before administering the injectables. Which is ridiculous, as it’s not preventing the injector from being unqualified and administering the wrong products into people's faces.

What Of The Future?

Overall changes need to be made, and in the case of the Lip King, this might be a turning point in patient safety from backstreet cosmetic practitioners.

This means more qualified aesthetics companies, such as the likes of The Clinic Cheshire (my practitioner), won’t have to face the turmoil or pick up the pieces and damages these backstreet practitioners have done, and people will go to them in the first place for medical-grade and safe injectables.