We all try crazy new trends in the name of beauty. But now one mom from Kansas City, Missouri, is sharing a beauty treatment she recently did that went horribly awry. Jami Ledbetter was born without eyebrows, so she was excited when her daughters gifted her with a Groupon for a mircoblading session. But when she looked into the mirror after her treatment was completed, she was horrified by what she saw. “I would never wish this on my worst enemy,” she said.
The mom said that originally she was excited to get her eyebrows treated by a woman who claimed to be a professional.
As reported by Fox 4 KC, the 42-year-old mom had received the $250 Groupon from her daughters to get her eyebrows microbladed — a technique which involves tattooing individual eyebrow hairs with a tiny needle or small blade — in November. But what she saw the job that her technician had done, she was heartbroken.
“I was devastated,” she said of her botched brows.
Not only did Ledbetter’s self-esteem take a hit from her botched brows, she said that the man she was seeing stopped dating her.
“What it’s done to my self-confidence, it’s been hard,” she told reporters. “I was even dating a guy, and he stopped dating me at that point.”
Things were so bad that Ledbetter was embarrassed to leave her house. She said she only went to work, the grocery store, and then came home. And her attempts to cover her brows with make-up didn’t work either. Ledbetter even went to a second specialist who promised she could help “camouflage” her brows, but six weeks later, they looked even worse.
“It was pretty painful,” Ledbetter said. “I tried to have a good attitude, but it burned a lot. It kind of felt bruised.” But Ledbetter was determined to find a way to fix her brows.
“It took everything in me to hold back tears because this is the worse I’ve ever seen,” said Kara Gutierrez, a licensed and insured tattoo artist whom Ledbetter was referred to for tattoo removal.
“Within 24 hours of a botched job, I can remove the bad brow,” she said. But would she be able to save Ledbetter’s twice-botched brows?
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