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In the Wrong Hands, Hair Removal Can Cause Burns, Scars, Pigment Changes Terri Bowling, a 36-year-old Pennsylvania office worker eager to be rid of the bother of shaving, wound up with deep second-degree burns that left stripes of checkerboard scars up and down both legs. Kim McMillon, a 40-year-old vice president of Deutche Bank, went to a posh Manhattan spa for eradication of facial hair. Some of the hair is gone now, but the right side of McMillon's face is disfigured by a zebra-like pattern of raised scars and discolored patches that heavy makeup and long hair only partly camouflage. A 50-year-old woman was admitted to Washington Hospital Center recently with third-degree burns inflicted by a treatment to erase wrinkles. A doctor who examined her said the injuries resembled an acid burn. A Northern Virginia woman in her thirties has spent $10,000 and consulted half a dozen prominent dermatologists in her quest to treat an indented purple scar across the bridge of her nose, the result of a botched treatment of a broken blood vessel seven years ago. Courtesy of the Washington Post
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