Woman ends up scarred instead of beautiful

KUALA LUMPUR: She was told that she needed to look beautiful if she wanted to work as a beautician.

Under pressure to be as “hot and happening” as her fellow students at a “beauty academy” in Batu Pahat, the 34-year-old, who only wanted to be identified as Chin, underwent a procedure to have gold threads sewn into her face in July. But instead of becoming prettier, parts of her face became numb and scarred, and the gold threads later came out around her cheek and eyebrow.