I was left looking like a gargoyle after tattoo artist faked being a filler doctor with a certificate he bought online
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A WOMAN has been left looking like a 'gargoyle' after tattoo artist posed as an aesthetic doctor and gave her face filler. The 60-year-old is now so mortified by the botched procedure that she will only step outside wearing a mask to hide her face. Andrea spoke to the BBC about her ordeal and swore she would never do it again despite taking all the right precautions before visiting Sean Scott.
![[Headshot of Sean Scott.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/sean-scott-says-clinic-made-962753402.jpg?strip=all&w=320)
Now, two years on from the filler injections, Andrea covers her face when she leaves the house, because she worries people will laugh at her. "I see a gargoyle... something horrible, disgusting," she told the BBC. "I live a nightmare every single day.". The investigation by the BBC found that Sean, a tattoo artist who claimed to be an aesthetic practitioner was not medically trained.
![[Close-up of a woman's face showing swelling and bruising after receiving botched face fillers.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/former-tattooist-left-woman-looking-962753396.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
She initially visited Reshape U cosmetics clinic in Hull in December 2021 for breast fillers. Andrea said she did "all the right things" to check the clinic's reputation and was further reassured reading on its website that it had "won Best Aesthetics Clinic in Yorkshire in 2022 at the England Business Awards".
![[Before and after photos of a woman who received botched face fillers.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/former-tattooist-left-woman-looking-962753401.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
She was seen by Sean Scott at the clinic, and social media posts from the business at the time referred to him as Dr. Sean Scott, Clinical Director. Videos posted by the same accounts in January and April 2023 show a plaque on his door in the clinic saying Dr Sean Scott, PhD, Clinical Director.
