We all want to look our best, and there's nothing wrong with that!
The most important part of being beautiful is feeling beautiful, whether that means dying your hair and getting a tattoo or getting a little bit of professional work done.
The status quo doesn't matter — every woman should be free to do whatever she needs to feel good in her own skin.
However, in the tragic case of one Florida woman, the person she entrusted with helping her feel beautiful was allegedly a con artist who cut corners.
Rajee Narinesingh is a trans activist, as well as an author and an actress, who has been working to advocate for the LGBTQ community for nearly two decades.
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Back in 2005, she went to an underground beautician named Oneal Ron Morris for injections to fill out her face, but she didn't realize that Morris, who claimed to be a plastic surgeon, had faked her credentials.
What happened was far from the beautiful transformation that Narinesingh was hoping for; apparently, Morris injected her with cement and tire sealant.
She ended up horribly disfigured by her experience, though today she looks better than ever thanks to two plastic surgeons who helped give her back her face!
Back in 2005, Rajee Narinesingh went to a "pumping party," where people are injected with cosmetic fillers, Botox, and other similar products.
These products are all designed to fill out the skin, erase wrinkles, and even add more volume to the rear end and chest.
However, authorities allege that the "doctor" running the party was a fraud.
Oneal Ron Morris claimed to be a plastic surgeon, but according to reports, she was really just scamming vulnerable folks looking for a fun beauty treatment.
Narinesingh said Morris injected her face, but not with Botox or normal filler products. Instead, she ended up with cement and heavy-duty tire glue under her skin.
These harsh industrial products quickly formed painful, unsightly lumps under her skin, making her face look entirely different from the activist's vision of a more beautiful self.
Authorities now say she wasn't Morris' first victim.
In fact, the self-proclaimed plastic surgeon has been dubbed the "toxic tush doctor" in the press for performing many botched procedures with cement and other industrial products.
Morris' injections allegedly left many of her victims incredibly ill. Press reports state that one patient actually died from respiratory failure as a direct consequence of the toxic treatment.
Narinesingh, above, ended up disfigured with large lumps on her cheeks, chin, and forehead, though authorities say she is actually lucky compared to some other women who received injections from Morris.
Even better, Narinesingh has been lucky enough to get expert help from the plastic-surgery team behind the hit TV show Botched, which corrects people's surgery snafus.
Narinesingh appeared on the show in the second season, but was told that they didn't have any good treatment options at the time.
However, the show's surgeons, Dr. Paul Nassif and Dr. Terry Dubrow, couldn't stop thinking about her plight and eventually worked out a solution.
In spring 2016, the Botched doctors had Narinesingh back on the show — this time to correct her horrifying injections once and for all.
They had to be incredibly careful because of the way the cement mangled her face, so they took a conservative approach to the surgery.
Using much caution, they were able to remove the large, unsightly lumps on her face and give her a smoother complexion.
Narinesingh's face eventually recovered from the trauma of surgery.
Any procedure of this nature is bound to cause bruising and swelling temporarily, but the ultimate goal was a huge improvement on the painful bumps from the botched injections.
I think we can all agree, Narinesingh looks much happier and healthier now!
In fact, she looks like a whole new woman in all of her recovery photos.
And not only does she look better, you can tell that she feels more confident, too, which makes a huge difference.
Here she is posing in a cute frock, with her new and improved face.
And here you can see her beautiful face up close!
She may still suffer from occasional cosmetic problems thanks to the alleged "toxic tush doctor," but the difference is night and day.
And she's using her experience to help continue her advocacy work for the LGBTQ community, telling LittleThings, "I think that it is important to show that many of us Transgender people are doing positive things in the world."
