butt injections
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Another Woman Dies from an Illegal Butt Injection; Medical Examiner Rules It Homicide
When Leslie Ayala traveled to New York from Philadelphia on June 17 for another round of black-market injections to enhance her buttocks, she expected to leave with more curves, not go into cardiac arrest. Instead, the 48-year-old suffered an embolism while recovering from the illegal procedure at a friend’s house in the Bronx, dying in…
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Killer Curves: BET and La La Anthony Take an Intimate Look at an Obsession That's Killing Us
“What is beautiful? Who wrote the book on what the (bleep) beautiful is?” text They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but as black women, we know all too well the dichotomy between mainstream beauty norms and the ones upheld within our culture—many of which have been appropriated and regurgitated by the…
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Put What in the Butt? About That Time We Learned About Chicken Stock Butt Injections
Every so often, we become aware of a beauty practice that, for the life of us, we just can’t make sense of; something we actually wish we could un-know. This is exactly what happened earlier this week, when, while minding our own blissfully unaware business, deputy managing editor Yesha Callahan slid us a link to…
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Man Sentenced to 14 Years for Giving Butt Injections to Woman Who Later Died
Vinnie Lysander Taylor, 44, was sentenced by a federal judge to 14 years in prison for illegally giving a woman silicone butt injections days before her death, according to the Washington Post. Taylor would travel around the country injecting women with silicone to give them larger buttocks. This particular woman in Maryland died a few…