
A former tattooist who left a lady “trying like a gargoyle” after giving her botched face fillers had been posing as a health care provider at his aesthetics clinic, a ORIONEWS investigation has revealed. It comes as a number one practitioner warns of extra “demise and disfigurement” as plans to control the trade proceed to be delayed.
Andrea covers her face when she leaves the home, as a result of she worries folks will chortle at her, two years after having beauty procedures.
“I see a gargoyle… one thing horrible, disgusting,” she tells the ORIONEWS.
“I reside a nightmare each single day.”
The 60-year-old initially visited Reshape U cosmetics clinic in Hull in December 2021 for breast fillers.
She says she did “all the fitting issues” to test the clinic’s fame and felt additional reassured studying on its web site that it had “received Finest Aesthetics Clinic in Yorkshire in 2022 on the England Enterprise Awards”.
She was seen on the clinic by Sean Scott. Posts on social media pages for Reshape U and Faces by Sean on the time referred to him as Dr Sean Scott, Scientific Director. Movies posted by the identical accounts in January and April 2023 present a plaque on his door within the clinic saying Dr Sean Scott, hPhd, Scientific Director.
Nonetheless, the ORIONEWS has found Mr Scott isn’t medically educated. He stated he “naively and regretfully” purchased an honorary doctorate in enterprise consultancy on-line and displayed the certificates in his clinic.
He says he didn’t painting himself as a medical physician and claimed he knowledgeable shoppers who requested that he was not medically certified. He says he stopped utilizing the pretend title on recommendation from Hull Metropolis Council (HCC) in 2024, with the authority telling him it was “deceptive”.

Andrea claims Mr Scott gave her antibiotics to take after her first breast filler process in December 2021. She says he gave her antibiotics once more when she returned the next month for a second breast filler process.
“I trusted in every thing that he stated to me… as a result of he knew what he was on about – he was the physician,” Andrea admits.
The Common Medical Council, which regulates docs, says solely “medical professionals” can prescribe antibiotics and Botox and they need to solely achieve this if they’ve “ample information” of the affected person.
Mr Scott has informed the ORIONEWS he didn’t prescribe the antibiotics or Botox, and as a substitute used a “registered prescriber with an authorised pharmacy” to acquire the medication on-line.
Two months after receiving breast fillers, Andrea says Mr Scott inspired her to have facial fillers.
Dermal fillers are injections of hyaluronic acid, that are used to fill wrinkles and add quantity to tissue.
Andrea claims Mr Scott informed her he thought her cheeks had been “uneven” and he may assist “harmonise” her face.
Andrea had filler in her cheeks, chin and jaw however says her face began swelling and darkish marks appeared. From there, she says the supposedly “easy process” changed into a listing of botched remedies.
Andrea claims Mr Scott informed her the swellings had been brought on by an insect chunk and says she was inspired to have additional remedies.
Mr Scott strongly denies the allegations, including: “By no means as soon as did we carry out any remedies whereas the shopper was displaying any indicators of swelling, bruising or some other facet impact.”
He stated the one complaints Andrea initially made had been that she “wasn’t fairly joyful” with the remedies, and that was the rationale she had “so many” follow-up appointments.

Mr Scott additionally claimed Andrea had visited different clinics for therapy throughout this era, together with one which broken her pores and skin, and that his clinic handled this injury. Andrea says she solely had one dermal filler therapy elsewhere, which she was pleased with, three years earlier than visiting Mr Scott.
Mr Scott was a tattooist for 33 years earlier than opening Reshape U in 2019. He additionally runs an aesthetics coaching enterprise, the Yorkshire Aesthetics Coaching Academy.
Over the course of 10 months, Andrea had greater than 30 appointments with Mr Scott, together with for fillers, Botox and threads. Mr Scott stated he solely carried out procedures at a few of these appointments.
Andrea bought jewelry and borrowed cash to pay for the remedies, which added as much as hundreds of kilos, however says the response received worse.
In October 2022, she says she went to hospital, barely in a position to open her eyes. In letters from plastic surgeons seen by the ORIONEWS, Andrea was informed her reactions had been brought on by the beauty procedures.

A cosmetics professional who has since examined Andrea stated her scarring was seemingly brought on by an an infection, which may happen from beauty procedures however is uncommon in a clear atmosphere with good methods.
The ORIONEWS is conscious of at the least three different complaints made about Mr Scott and using a pretend qualification.
Two of these had been made to registered practitioner service Save Face.
Director Ashton Collins stated the individuals who reported “dangerous observe” by Mr Scott had chosen him as a result of they had been underneath the impression he was a health care provider.
Well being and security officers from HCC visited Mr Scott’s premises in 2024 after issues had been raised about his credentials.
The council stated it had discovered quite a few points requiring enchancment however no formal motion was taken as a result of the enterprise was receptive to its requests.
‘Learnt useful classes’
Mr Scott informed the ORIONEWS the clinic had taken recommendation and “completely reviewed all our procedures” since then.
He added: “Whereas we could have made errors at first, we have now all the time given 100% of our means to our shoppers. We have now learnt useful classes and progressed with ongoing coaching and growth already.”
Warnings in regards to the aesthetics trade have been made for years.
In 2013, a evaluation of the regulation of cosmetics concluded dermal fillers had been “a disaster ready to occur” as a result of anybody is usually a practitioner, “with no requirement for information, coaching or earlier expertise”.

In 2022, the Well being and Care Act gave the federal government powers to introduce licensing for non-surgical beauty procedures in England. That is but to be enacted.
The primary demise from a beauty process was recorded within the UK in 2024.
Dr Paul Charlson, who’s an aesthetics physician in East Yorkshire and member of the Joint Council for Cosmetics Practitioners (JCCP), warns there will probably be “extra deaths and extra disfigurement” until the federal government “will get on with” enacting the laws he helped to attract up alongside others throughout the trade.
“If the federal government stated ‘we wish this in in six months’, it could possibly be carried out,” he stated.
The JCCP stated it had handled an “explosion in complaints” from native councils about poor observe within the sector. In 2023, it was conscious of complaints from two native authorities, in contrast with 65 by the top of 2024.
A Division of Well being and Social Care spokesperson didn’t touch upon Dr Charlson’s criticisms, however stated it was “unacceptable” that folks’s lives had been in danger from “inadequately educated operators within the beauty sector”, and it was “urgently exploring choices for additional regulation”.
They urged anybody contemplating beauty procedures to discover a respected, insured and certified practitioner.
Andrea says she has been scarred each mentally and bodily, struggling frequently with ache in her face and says she has been identified with post-traumatic stress dysfunction.
“I’d by no means do it once more and I’d by no means advise anybody to do it,” she says.
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