I got Botox to fix my ‘gummy smile’ — now I look like a ‘serial killer’
She’s not smiling.
One TikTok user says she was left looking like a “serial killer” after getting Botox injections in an attempt to fix her “gummy” smile.
Chloe Ellies, who goes by the username @chloe_wellness on the social media app, took to the platform last week to share her 100-day eyebrow-raising tale.
“Watch my botched Botox kick in,” Ellies says in the 25-second clip, which has drawn over 58,800 views.
After the “before” photos, Ellies cuts to a pre-procedure snap of herself with white pencil markings drawn on both sides of her nose and under her eyes. In the comments section of the video, she explained the markings under her eye denoted where she had filler that needed to be dissolved.
“Why are you injecting so high for a gummy smile?” she wrote in white text over the photo, asking the question that viewers also had on their minds.
Ellies showed off more pics as her Botox journey progressed. She captioned the day 3 post-injection photo: “I look like a serial killer.”
Days four through 60: “Even my cheeks are frozen and what’s going on with my eyes?!?”
Ellies claims it took 100 days for her to notice the injections had worn off.
The Post reached out to Ellies for comment. She did not name her treatment provider in the video.
Typically, injections for a gummy smile — better known as a “lip flip” — go into your upper lips, according to The Cleveland Clinic — not above the lips as Ellies said she received. The goal of the procedure is to make your top lip look fuller.
In the comments section of her video, many could relate to Ellies’ injection dejection.
“Girl,” one user confessed. “Couldn’t swallow solid food for three months when my Botox for migraines migrated to my throat.”
Another laughed: “Lmfso this happened to me 3 months before my wedding. I almost called it off. I was mortified.”
“Same like mineee, and now I’m freekin out cause I can’t even smile,” someone else emphasized.
Another viewer compared Ellies’ new look to Cindy Lou Who, a button-nosed character from Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”
“They made you look like cindy Lou who !” the user exclaimed.
TikTok is filled with surprising Botox fails. Last month, one user claimed masseter Botox, an injection in the jawline, left her with a wonky smile.
Last year, another user who said she got injections was compared to a “hamster storing seeds” in its cheeks.
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