A woman in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing is blind in one eye after undergoing a cosmetic procedure on her nose, local media reported Tuesday.

The woman, a 19-year-old university student surnamed Chen, told a local news network that the procedure had taken place earlier this month at Emay Family, a beauty parlor in Chongqing’s Yubei District. After purchasing a “beauty card” for 980 yuan ($140), Chen elected to receive a nasal filling with hyaluronic acid, a popular noninvasive procedure used to adjust the shape of one’s nose. Chen said she had hoped the procedure — sometimes called a “liquid nose job” — would make her “more beautiful.” Instead, it left her blind in her right eye.

When Chen went to a local hospital, medical staff diagnosed arterial thrombosis, or a blockage of the blood vessel, and said her vision may never return. It is unclear from the report whether Emay Family had been licensed to perform the procedure Chen received.

Botched cosmetic procedures occasionally make headlines in China. Buoyed by increasingly beauty-conscious consumers — both women and men — the country’s cosmetology industry reached an estimated 192.5 billion yuan in 2017, according to Deloitte. The thriving sector even saw its first homegrown company debut on the Nasdaq Stock Market in May of this year, raising $179 million in its initial public offering. (Image: VCG)