21-year-old shares TikTok beauty hack horror story as a warning

A 21-year-old reality star from Australia is warning fans against trying out DIY beauty hacks from TikTok... . after she attempted to give herself an acupuncture facial and now is dealing with deep, severe scarring. In a viral Instagram post, Tilly Whitfield, a current contestant on Australia’s Big Brother, . finally addressed fans’ questions about why she often wore a blue clay mask on the show. “this is what my face looked like a week prior to entering the house hence why I always have makeup on and my skin is always covered,” Whitfield wrote. “This is the result of attempting to remove scarring I inflicted on myself trying to replicate an at-home beauty procedure I saw on a TikTok video”. Whitfield didn’t reference a specific TikTok, nor did she give many details about which hack she was trying to replicate. However, she did deny in the post’s comments that her scarring was related to a chemical peel. Instead, Whitfield updated the Instagram caption, to claim the damage was related to some sort of acupuncture attempt