A woman who was repeatedly mistaken for her husband’s mother decided to get face fillers to hide her “ageing” smile lines, but it went horribly wrong and caused her nostril to fall off
Krysta Carson, from Seattle, Washington, says her doctor administered a “clumsy” injection into a major blood vessel using too much filler, which caused her flesh to die and “melt off” two weeks later.
The 52-year-old decided to get dermal filler after being mistaken for her husband’s mum three times in the space of two weeks, despite having had Botox for nearly 20 years.
Krysta says she had filler injected into her smile lines every year since 2016 and loved the results, before a vascular occlusion in 2020 caused the skin inside her mouth, nose and around her left nostril to become necrotic and fall off.
Shocking photos shows how her entire nostril turned black and r0tted, before it fell off.
The professional entertainer says she “lost the will to live” after the shock disfigurement ruined her career of 30 year, despite her doctor claiming she would be fine within six weeks of the incident.
Krysta says that thankfully her husband, 42-year-old Redd Gill, found a facial prosthetics specialist after staying up all night doing research.
Krysta has shared her prosthetics journey on TikTok to warn others of the potential dangers of dermal fillers and to show how she used makeup and jewellery to hide her scars.
Krysta said: “I had been having Botox since the 90s and loved that and had amazing results.
“My husband is 10 years younger than me and after he joined me here [in Seattle], in a period of about two weeks I got mistaken for his mother three times.
“I don’t know if it was my neck or my cheek or what was giving away the difference in our ages, but I needed to do something about this. I sought out filler in 2015.
