When it comes to beauty, people have tried some crazy new trend in the hopes of looking better. For one mother from Kansas City, Missouri, a new beauty trend that she tried went horribly wrong in a way that is now going viral.

Jami Ledbetter was born without eyebrows, so she was very excited when her daughters gave her a Groupon for a mircoblading session. When she looked in the mirror after getting the treatment, however, she was horrified by what she saw.

“I would never wish this on my worst enemy,” she said.

Jami, 42, was given $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. Afterwards, when she saw what the technician had done to her face, she could not believe her eyes.

“I was devastated,” Jami said.

She went on to say that her life has been affected in numerous negative ways sine she got the treatment.

“What it’s done to my self-confidence, it’s been hard,” she said. “I was even dating a guy, and he stopped dating me at that point.”

Jami was so mortified that she could not even bear to leave her house most of the time. She finally went to see a second specialist, who promised she could help “camouflage” her brows, but they ended  up looking even worse six weeks later.

“It was pretty painful,” Jami said. “I tried to have a good attitude, but it burned a lot. It kind of felt bruised.”

Jami was eventually referred to Kara Gutierrez, a licensed and insured tattoo artist, for tattoo removal.

“It took everything in me to hold back tears because this is the worse I’ve ever seen,” Kara said. “Within 24 hours of a botched job, I can remove the bad brow.”

This left it unclear whether or not Kara could help Jami, since it had been months since her botched job by that point. Kara first met with Jami back in February, and in that session, she used Li-ft to help lift the pigment out of the mother’s brows. Li-ft is first tattooed into the brows and then when the brows scab, it takes the pigment off with them.

“It’s very unpredictable to how much you can remove, but it works,” Kara said of the treatment, which takes eight weeks.

Kara is warning other women to watch out for unlicensed microblading specialists, as there is very little regulation on this. In Missouri, microblading is not regulated and is technically considered “semi-permanent” under the law.

“Nobody’s governing this,” Kara said. “No one is saying, ‘This is the right way. This is the wrong way.'”

Technicians can get a microblading certificate with very little training.

“The money is good [in microblading],” explained Missouri state Rep. Nate Tate. “You just take the class, pay your $2,500, and you can perform it. I think as we start seeing the propagation of these microblading shops popping up, it’s going to become more of an issue.”

Kara is advising the public to look beyond a simple certification if they want to have a microblading season.

“A certification is just a fancy piece of paper saying [someone] learned how to do this,” she said. “It doesn’t necessarily mean [they’re] an expert. Don’t just look into the person that’s doing it. Look into their instructor.”

It’s safe to say that Jami learned this lesson the hard way.

“If I would have known it was going to turn out like this, I probably would’ve never done it at all,” she said.

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