She couldn’t feel a thing.
When it comes to cosmetic procedures, there are many potential side effects — including an unexpected one that can affect your sex life.
Brooke Carrero knows best — she’s a registered nurse trained in aesthetic injections who tells it like it is when it comes to trendy cosmetic procedures women often want to get done, like lip flips on her TikTok page.
For patients who want to plump their top lip, dermatologists will inject Botox near the upper lip to relax the muscles to flip them upward.
While the results might look great — there are many everyday activities lip flip patients often struggle with, including one dirty act, as explained by Carrero in a now-viral video.
“Side effects of a lip flip: putting lip gloss on. When you put your lips together, it’s hard to [rub in the gloss],” the nurse who’s based in Philadelphia said in the clip.
She went on to demonstrate how pronouncing certain letters like “B” and “P” is also challenging after getting this common procedure done.
“Blowing out a candle,” Carrero said while trying to blow out a flame on a lighter. “I can’t do it,” she laughs.
“You can’t blow out a candle, which means you can’t blow anything,” she shockingly told over 4 million viewers, most likely insinuating that a lip flip patient cannot perform oral sex on a guy.
That side effect stopped many in their tracks.
“The whole blowing thing absolutely not.”
“talked me right out of it.”
“Well, never mind then lol.”
In an interview with People, the nurse went more into detail about how this procedure affected her sex life. “My skill set probably went from a 10 down to a six.”
“I feel like I’ve gotten used to the way that my mouth kind of moves,” she told the outlet.
Carrero said her husband is used to the different treatments she experiments with, and he “laughs at me with my side effects.”
She’s not the only expert warning people against this popular procedure.
“This is something your dermatologist should tell you if you’re considering getting a lip flip,” said NYC dermatologist Dr. Shereene Idriss in a TikTok video.
She mentioned how it practically ruined her birthday because — like Carrero warned — she couldn’t blow out her birthday candles.
“The issue is, Botox takes a good 10 to 14 days to kick in, and when it’s at that peak period of two to four weeks, it’s very hard to move your upper lip,” she said.
And many in the comment section of the derm’s video shared their bad experience with lip flips.
“I couldn’t drink from a straw, it was ridiculous!”
“I regretted mine immediately and will never do it again!”
“It changed my smile.”
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