With more than 20 million views, #fillergonewrong is captivating the aesthetes of TikTok with its can’t-look-away content: boxy jawlines, overstuffed lips, bulging under-eyes, and horror-show vascular occlusions that are often the result of botched liquid rhinoplasties.

In Washington, D.C., board-certified dermatologist Dr. Noëlle Sherber has been reversing her share of injectables gaffes from other practitioners—from uneven filler placement to overfilling and migration. She finds thin-skinned areas of the face, like the lips and under-eyes, to be “the least forgiving in terms of [inappropriate] product and technique, causing contour irregularities.”

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