On November 2, 2006 by D. Bell
A Ghanaian woman who went to a beauty salon so she could “look pretty for herself and her family” sued the shop Thursday saying a worker removed layers of skin and flesh from her top lip during a hot wax hair removal procedure.Mercy Ago, 48, said she was bleeding and in pain after having a hot wax treatment Oct. 23 in Master Nails USA, a beauty shop near her home in Harlem. Ago said shop employees gave her a bandage and ointment for the wound.During the same visit, Ago got her eyebrows hot waxed. Because of chemicals in the topical cream the salon employee used, said Ago’s lawyer Alan Schnurman, the skin around her eyes darkened so that she looked like she had two black eyes.”I was suicidal” after looking in the mirror, said Ago,who spoke in halting English during a news conference in Schnurman’s office. “I felt awful.”
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When she got burned the first time, she should have paid for the lip wax and left. No, she stays and get further work done. Now she wants to Sue.
If I was on the jury, she would not get a dime.