Is BuzzFeed abusing its staff for traffic?
That, or two female BuzzFeed staffers have turned themselves into online guinea pigs all for the sake of looking more like Kylie Jenner.
As anyone who has watched Keeping Up With The Kardashians knows, Kylie got big fat lip injections and looks dramatically different than her former thin-lipped self.
She tried to hide the fact that she got them for a long, long time.
But considering the show is reality TV, the secret was never going to hold.
Enter two female BuzzFeed staffers — Maycie Thornton, a BuzzFeed video curator, and Ella Mielniczenko, a member of BuzzFeed’s motion pictures staff, who went to Dr. Andre Berger of Beverly Hills for the procedure.
On a form, a line reads: “Reason for visit.”
They replied, “Getting Kylie Jenner lips.”
Three days later, the women were back and terrified and awaiting Dr. Berger who would numb their lips and ultimately inject them with Juvederm.
Honestly, the results were hardly dramatic and their lips were not at all like Kylie Jenner’s. Depending on which version of filler they used, they paid at Least $595 each.
Both women — after feeling pain when the numbness wore off — regretted having the procedure.
One of the women, Maycie Thornton, liked her new lips but didn’t think it was worth it: “I liked my new lips, but was still shocked by how scary, painful, and drawn out the whole ordeal was.”
The other went on a terribly clichéd rant about loving yourself the way you are and not caring about what others think. “Ultimately, we realized that our original lips weren’t so bad, and we gained a new appreciation for people under pressure to look their best all the time.”
She added, “If you want to make a change it has to be because you want it, not because of what other people are going to say or think about it.”
More importantly, these women should ask for refunds and find out why Dr. Berger stinks at his job.
Seriously, check out the before and after shots.
On the upside, traffic on the feature is high — it’s trending and nearly 800,000 have viewed their failed procedures.