Illegal Silicone Shots on the Rise

It reads like the plotline for a particularly lurid Law & Order episode: A 43-year-old Bronx woman dies suddenly; her death seems tragic but unsuspicious, until the medical examiner discovers a silicone embolism in her lungs and her family reveals that she'd been given body-plumping silicone injections by an unlicensed cosmetologist, who would have been charged with homicide had she not fled to the Dominican Republic. It's a trend that's either a gruesome indictment of our obsession with vanity, or a symptom of just how much cosmetic surgery shows have inured people to the dangers of sticking foreign substances beneath their skin, or both. But for whatever reason, silicone liquid—which can be bought at a hardware store—is increasingly being injected as a quick, cheap, black market substitute for surgical implants. The biggest customers are transgendered women and Latinas, who often want more exaggerated curves, which are not only being attempted with silicone injections, but also with castor oil, mineral oil, petroleum jelly and even automobile transmission fluid. READ FULL STORY
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