Woman Performed Illegal Nose Thread Lifts & Other Beauty Treatments in S’pore Hotel

As the saying goes beauty attracts the eyes, and apparently, there is nothing people won’t do to pursue it, including seeking out some random people advertising beauty services on Instagram.

#facepalm

Thankfully, in Singapore, we’ve got strict laws surrounding medical procedures and prescription medications, and they encompass invasive beauty procedures as well.

Woman Performed Illegal Nose Thread Lifts & Other Beauty Treatments in S’pore Hotel

The 26-year-old Malaysian beauty consultant, Tan Shu Min, initially started her beauty service business in Malaysia, but she thought she could earn more by selling to Singapore customers thanks to the exchange rate.

She also thought that the Singapore market has a better market for beauty procedures like botox and fillers.

Due to this, she proceeded to create an Instagram account (sg_aesthetics26) to promote her services, targeting Singaporean customers.

Unethically, she sourced for before-and-after images on the internet rather than using any of her own.

In January of 2019, she finally caught her first few “fishes”.

The customer agreed to meet Ms Tan at Genting Jurong Hotel at 11am on Jan 27.

When the customer arrived, she noticed that Ms Tan already has another client and was attending to her prior to the customer’s arrival.

The customer was asked to lie down as she put on surgical gloves.

She then cleaned the customer’s nose bridge with alcohol, injected lidocaine into her nose, and then inserted more than five threads inside.

As a result of the procedure, there was some mild swelling around the nose. Ms Tan proceeded to give the customer two types of oral medication, claiming they were antibiotics.

The procedure cost around S$400 to S$600.

On a separate occasion (May 27, 2019), Ms Tan returned to Singapore and rented a room in Admiralty where she performed two more beauty procedures.

One of her customers reported her to the authorities and Ms Tan was arrested later that same day.

Pleaded Guilty

Ms Tan pleaded guilty in court yesterday.

She was charged with importing health products without a valid license and importing syringes containing a local anaesthetic (lignocaine) which is listed as a “poison”.

Other charges such as illegally performing acts as a medical practitioner and importing health products without a valid licence will be taken into consideration during sentencing.

The prosecutors representing the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Health Sciences Authority is pushing for 6 months of prison time and fines respectively.

The defence is trying to appeal for a much lighter sentence – 4 weeks of jail time and a lower fine, by saying that his client greatly regrets her actions and that she didn’t break the law for more than 5 months.

The judge will hand out her sentence on May 28.

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