It’s a hairy situation.
An influencer says his head “blew up like a balloon” after he violated the “no-sex rule” after undergoing a hair transplant in Turkey.
“[I] woke up the next day and my head was just absolutely massive,” Ruben Owen, 24, told South West News Service about the supersize side effect.
The cranial complication occurred in 2022 after the Wales-based social media influencer flew to the Anatolian nation at the age of 22 to get his lost locks surgically restored.
The content creator was reportedly concerned with his hairline and was offered the op free of charge provided he did some modelling for the clinic in question.
Amazed over the seemingly bang-ing deal, Owen flew to Turkey, underwent the procedure and returned to Wales the next day — a pilgrimage that cost him just over $1,000 round trip.
All seemed to go swimmingly until the Welshman ignored surgeons’ advice to abstain from hanky-panky for seven days post-op.
Dome reforestation experts warn that partaking in sexual activities too soon can cause increased blood pressure, reopen incisions, and cause infections, among other complications.
“I didn’t quite listen about the sex part,” said Owen, who reportedly made whoopie that very night.
Unfortunately, this decision literally blew up in his face as the next morning he awoke with an “enormous” noggin.
“I wake up and my head’s blown up like a balloon — face puffed, scalp tight, and it looked like I’d been stung by 100 bees,” lamented Owen. “The left-hand side was bigger than anything to the point it didn’t even look like I had been punched — it genuinely looked like my face was going to explode.”
He was initially concerned he had contracted a sexually-transmitted disease, but then realized it was his fault for “going too hard too soon.”
Thankfully, doctors informed him that his puffed noodle was nothing to worry about and that the swelling would go down in about a week, which it thankfully did.
Owen said he definitely learned his lesson the “weird way,” but now sees the funny side of his accidental noggin augmentation.
“It is one of those stories that still gets brought up, and to me it is too good not to share,” he said. “This is one of them things that I look back on now and it was really stupid I hadn’t listened but it was really funny.”
Owen emerged relatively unscathed compared to other horror stories out of Turkey, which has become a mecca for those looking to go under the knife on the cheap.
Last month, influencer Ana Bárbara Buhr Buldrini, 31, died after undergoing several cosmetic procedures, including breast augmentation and liposuction at a hospital in Istanbul.
She had reportedly signed up for the surgeries in return for promoting the facility on her social media.
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