Lying face down and naked but for a thong and a couple of plasters on each buttock, Jemma Pawlyszyn couldn’t wait to show off the results of her latest cosmetic procedure.
‘Who wants a bum like mine???’ the elaborately-tattooed beauty salon owner wrote on her Facebook page.
Judging from the responses, lots. ‘This is unbelievable,’ wrote one woman. ‘I need these fillers,’ wrote another. A third posted six emojis – three hypodermic syringes followed by three party poppers. A month on, no one is celebrating.
Last week 33-year-old Alice Webb died after allegedly undergoing a non-surgical or ‘liquid’ Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) at the clinic in Gloucester run by Ms Pawlyszyn.
In so doing she became the first person to lose their life in the UK following the procedure, which typically involves the injection of chemical fillers into the buttocks.
Such treatments are offered online, with prices starting at less than £1,000, and can be completed in just an hour.
Last week 33-year-old Alice Webb died after allegedly undergoing a non-surgical or ‘liquid’ Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) in Gloucester
Medics and police were called to the clinic in a residential property in Gloucester late last Monday evening. Ms Webb, a mother of five who herself worked in the beauty industry, was taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital but died in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Two people have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and released on police bail.
Ms Webb is reported to have received the treatment at Studio 23, run by Ms Pawlyszyn from her semi-detached Victorian home on a quiet residential street in the city.
The 39-year-old, who offered treatments and training from her salon for other beauticians, is friends with Jordan Parke, whose love of cosmetic surgery has seen him dubbed The Lip King and who on social media describes himself as a ‘practitioner and trainer’ specialising in BBLs and body filler. Photographs posted on Ms Pawlyszyn’s Facebook page show the pair socialising together earlier this year at what appears to be a murder-mystery event.
When approached at his home in Dudley, West Midlands, last Thursday, Mr Parke refused to comment on Ms Webb’s death, saying: ‘I can’t talk to anybody. I was arrested but I’ve been released.’
Police later arrived at his house, with an officer seen speaking to him as he climbed into a Mercedes G Wagon bearing a custom number plate designed to resemble the word ‘pout’.
Mr Parke, who describes himself on social media as ‘The Plastic Surgery Advocate’, claims to have spent more than £130,000 on cosmetic surgery and has appeared on ITV’s This Morning, C4’s Bodyshockers and US reality series Botched to discuss his obsession. A Kim Kardashian fanatic, the 32-year-old has had at least four nose jobs and 50 other procedures and once said: ‘Plastic surgery is like sex. You can’t have it once. You have to have it over and over.’
Liquid BBLs use a range of dermal fillers, including hyaluronic acid, which are injected into the area
According to Ms Webb’s cousin Dianna, her relative had travelled to the clinic for a training session where she would learn how to perform a non-surgical BBL before undergoing the treatment herself.
On the Facebook page of Ms Webb’s own aesthetics business, which is based in Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire, she wrote in July that she would be offering ‘liquid BBL bum filler’ later in the summer.
‘Book in for your perfect bum!’ the advert read. ‘Liquid BBL for lifting the bum and balancing the hip dips. No downtime, not like a traditional BBL, which takes four weeks to settle. Instant results [as] opposed to not knowing if your fat will take [as] with a traditional BBL. No ugly scars. Little to no pain during the procedure. Results always give a natural rounded butt/hips.’
Mrs Webb said that she and her cousin had discussed the procedure she was planning to undergo at length.
‘She had told me she was going to have this done and I said she didn’t need it – she already looked beautiful,’ she tearfully recalled. ‘And she was stunning on her own. We were on the phone for two hours before she went. Alice said they seemed really professional and put her at ease about the procedure.’
Speaking to the Sun, she added: ‘She was not one of these people that would go and just have something done without looking at every little detail first, obviously because she worked in the industry too. Alice put her heart into her work. She took every course she could take, including this one, because she wanted to make sure she got everything right.’
Campaigners have recently become increasingly concerned about the risks associated with the procedure, calling for it to be banned.
Ms Webb is reported to have received the treatment at Jemma Pawlyszyn’s clinic Studio 23, located in a semi-detached Victorian home on a quiet residential street in Gloucester
Ms Pawlyszyn (right) is friends with Jordan Parke (left), aka The Lip King, a ‘practitioner and trainer’ specialising in BBLs. He was one of two people arrested on suspicion of manslaughter
BBLs carry the highest risk of all cosmetic surgeries with more than one death per 4,000 procedures.
The standard surgical BBL involves the patient having fat harvested from their own body and then re-injected into the buttocks.
Liquid BBLs use a range of dermal fillers, including hyaluronic acid, which are injected into the area.
It is promoted as relatively pain free and less risky than a surgical BBL.
But Save Face, a national, government-approved register of accredited non-surgical treatment practitioners, says complaints about liquid BBLs have risen at an ‘alarming’ rate and has called for them to be banned.
The procedure is not illegal in the UK – but Save Face said it has supported 500 women who have suffered life-threatening complications, with more than 50 per cent of the cases reported to the organisation involving sepsis and 39 per cent needing corrective surgery.
‘We launched a campaign in December 2023 calling upon the Government to take urgent action to ban these procedures,’ said Ashton Collins, director of Save Face. ‘We made it absolutely clear that without urgent intervention, someone would die. It makes me incredibly sad and angry that 1728799192 our fear has been confirmed and a family has been shattered. Liquid BBL procedures are a crisis waiting to happen. They are advertised on social media as ‘risk-free, cheaper’ alternatives to the surgical counterpart and that could not be further from the truth.
‘All of the procedures reported to us were carried out by non-healthcare practitioners who are carrying out incredibly dangerous procedures in unsterile environments.
Alice Webb’s family are calling for a ban on BBL injections to make sure her death is ‘the first and the last’ of its kind in Britain
‘I would advise anyone considering one of these treatments to avoid them at all costs. The risks significantly outweigh any associated benefits.’
Ms Webb’s cousin said her family was calling for a ban on BBL injections to make sure her death was ‘the first and the last’ of its kind in Britain.
She said: ‘We want justice now because nobody else should go through what we are going through. We want the Government to ban these now because my cousin’s death must be the first and the last.’
Speaking of the moment she learned of Ms Webb’s death, she said: ‘I got a call and someone asked if I was sitting down, and then they told me Alice had passed away. It was very late at night. I just felt shock. I went straight to the hospital but there was nothing that could be done. I spoke to her and kissed her goodbye, and that’s the last time I saw her.’
According to friend Abigail Irwin, Ms Webb had only recently started working in beauty.
‘Alice joined the beauty and aesthetics industry two years ago and she has been smashing it, doing amazing,’ she wrote in a post on a website dedicated to raising funds to support Ms Webb’s grieving family.
‘She cared about her clients, she would always check in to see if they were okay… I feel very lucky to have known her and to have spent time with her in our salon.
‘Alice would ask for advice all the time and ask to check if there was anything more she could do to improve her skills. She was just a pure natural and never needed my help but always wanting to be the best at her job, and that she was.
‘Alice was beautiful inside and out with the biggest heart, her family was her world. She is leaving behind her partner Dane and five beautiful children.’
Ms Webb had five daughters, aged from seven to 15. Her partner Dane Knight, 38, runs a construction company.
In an emotional post on Facebook he wrote: ‘Want to say a heartfelt thank you to all family and friends that were here for us at our time of need, including all of the kind messages sent to my children and myself.’
The night before her sudden death, Ms Webb posted a photo on social media of a small pumpkin, which she said was a ‘present’ from one of her children. She added: ‘How cute.’
A message posted on Facebook by one of her daughters last night simply read: ‘I love you mamma xxxx.’
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