Tributes have been paid to a lady who’s considered the primary particular person to die from present process a suspected “liquid Brazilian butt raise” within the UK.

Alice Webb, 33, was taken to Gloucestershire Royal hospital in Gloucester on Monday after changing into unwell and died early on Tuesday morning.

Gloucestershire police mentioned Webb had undergone a “suspected beauty process” earlier than falling ailing. Two individuals have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, the pressure mentioned.

Mates of Webb, who had 5 youngsters, arrange a fundraising marketing campaign to boost cash for her household but it surely has since been closed. The fundraiser mentioned she had undergone a Brazilian butt raise. The surgical model of this might usually see fats, taken from elsewhere within the topic’s physique, inserted within the buttocks so as to add quantity. Nonetheless, a less expensive non-surgical process – known as a “liquid BBL” and provided for round £1,600 – sees hyaluronic acid dermal fillers instantly injected.

Ashton Collins, the director of Save Face, a UK register of accredited beauty practitioners, mentioned Webb’s loss of life ought to have been prevented and referred to as liquid Brazilian butt raise procedures a “disaster ready to occur”.

She mentioned the organisation was aiding greater than 500 girls who had confronted well being problems after such therapies. Save Face mentioned this was the “first case of a loss of life brought about” by the process within the UK.

Webb’s accomplice, Dane Knight, declined to remark at his dwelling however mentioned in a tribute on social media: “Wish to say a heartfelt thanks to all household and buddies that have been right here for us at our time of want, together with the entire sort messages despatched to my youngsters and myself.”

A pal of Webb posted on social media: “This previous 24 hours has been a dream I’ve so desperately wished to get up from.

“You have been the most effective pal anybody might ever ask for I’m heartbroken that you simply needed to develop your angel wings and grow to be one other guardian angel to observe over me, your loved ones, the youngsters and Dane.

“I’ll ceaselessly love and miss you. It’s not goodbye simply tada for now Amy. Life won’t ever be the identical once more.”

Webb labored within the magnificence business and lived in Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire.

Save Face launched a marketing campaign calling for the top of liquid Brazilian butt raise procedures within the UK final December. Collins mentioned: “We made it completely clear that with out pressing intervention somebody would die. I’m devastated by the information of Alice’s passing. It makes me extremely unhappy and offended that Alice’s loss of life might and may have been prevented.

“Liquid [Brazilian butt lift] procedures are a disaster ready to occur. They’re marketed on social media as ‘risk-free’, ‘cheaper’ options to the surgical counterpart and that would not be farther from the reality.

“We now have supported over 500 girls who’ve suffered problems due to these therapies, lots of which have almost died.”

Collins mentioned greater than half of the instances reported to Save Face contracted sepsis, a life-threatening response to an an infection, and two in 5 of those instances wanted corrective surgical procedure.