A woman who says her 'thread lift' was botched and left her looking like a 'Halloween character' is warning others about unsafe aesthetic clinics.<br /><br />Milly Powell, 27, wants people to do their own research before undergoing cosmetic procedures.<br /><br />She says she was left ''unrecognizable'' after getting a thread lift at a clinic in Britain.<br /><br />Milly, who works in marketing, intended to get the procedure done to fill a dimple on the left side of her face.<br /><br />Milly initially went to her local clinic for a filler treatment but claims she was pressured into getting a PDO thread lift by three members of staff.<br /><br />The procedure lasted 15 minutes and cost £850 but that quarter of an hour has resulted in a year-long battle trying to rectify the damage.<br /><br />One year after the procedure, Milly took to social and went viral after imploring other women to do their research before getting a thread lift.<br /><br />Milly's procedure consisted of making two incisions a few centimetres above her hairline before a fish hook-like instrument is inserted to pull the face up using a thread then a knot is tied to keep it in place.<br /><br />PDO stands for Polydioxanone and refers to the material used to make the threads used in the lifting procedure<br /><br />She also had filler injected into her jaw, lips and cheeks.<br /><br />After the procedure, Milly was left looking like "a Halloween character" and eventually lost feeling in her nose after five days.<br /><br />She also suffered from swelling, headaches and a tight feeling in her face. <br /><br />Milly, who is from Cheshire, said: "I went to get my dimple filled, so essentially what they do is they inject filler into your face and it fills out the dimple.<br /><br />"When I got there they said to me 'oh no, we've got a different procedure, it's way more natural than filler and what we do is we put threads in your face and pull back the skin and the dimple will be gone'.<br /><br />"I was like, these [people] are professionals so I'm going to listen and I was lying on the bed and they make two incisions in your scalp about two centimetres above your hairline.<br /><br />"They then insert a really thin metal rod and attached to that rod is a thread that acts like barbed wire with bits on it that get stuck in your tissue and they pull it back really tight and tie it.<br /><br />"They completely numb your face first so I could only feel tugging and stuff."<br /><br />The person carrying out the procedure told Powell that she would "balance out" her profile.<br /><br />"She was injecting and injecting and injecting and the whole time she was injecting me she was on the phone.<br /><br />"She was really distracted and was not paying the slightest bit of attention.<br /><br />It took around a quarter of an hour but Powell estimated that it should take closer to an hour and a half.<br /><br />"She asked if I wanted to have a look, it was just before Halloween, and I had a look and I looked like a Halloween character.
