A pregnant woman feared she would never be able to see her son after having a bad reaction to false eyelashes which made her ‘blind’. Stacey Ball, who is six months pregnant, lost the ability to see for two days and was left terrified her sight would never return after the reaction caused her eyelids to swell and fill with puss. The 22-year-old has been getting false lashes at the same salon for three years without a problem, but because of the heatwave, she went to a salon closer to home.
But as soon as she got home, her eyes started swelling and she was left with itchy eyes oozing with green gunk. She said: ‘I thought I would ignore it at first but it got really bad.
‘It was really scary and I thought I was going blind. ‘My eye was just getting worse and worse. ‘I lost my vision for two days and I was getting by with my left eye but everything was so blurry, I could barely see out of it.
Stacey, from Thamesmead, south east London, paid £23 to have her eyebrows tinted and false lashes put on at Ms Perfect salon on July 19, just a 15-minute walk from her house.
Stacey was surprised when the beautician put masking tape under her eyelids and the false lashes on top as she is used to having them being applied under her lashes at her regular salon in Woolwich, south east London. She said: ‘It felt different and the eye lashes didn’t feel comfortable.
‘The lady got glue in my eye and I remember she was wiping it and it got really sore.’ When she got home, her eyes started hurting and the next morning when she woke her eyes were stuck together and she had to prise them open.
She saw an emergency doctor who prescribed her eye drops but when they didn’t work she went back to the GP who referred her to Moorfields Eye Hospital in central London. She said: ‘When I thought I couldn’t see, I went to the doctor’s straight away. ‘I was waking up with my eyes completely glued together and a lot of gunky stuff was coming out.
Stacey called the salon to complain and told them about the awful pain she was suffering. But she said the salon denied responsibility. Stacey is adamant Ms Perfect are to blame and says she has never experienced any issues in the three years she has regularly used the other salon.
