PHOTOS AND VIDEO: Countess Vaughn... The Horrific Dangers Of Lace Front Wigs

If you watched sitcoms during the 90s, then you’d be familiar with actress Countess Vaughn. She was the funny girl on “Moesha”, then landed her own spin-off show “The Parkers”, and then did a brief stint on the VH1 weight loss reality show, “Celebrity Fit Club.” The actress recently appeared on “The Doctors” where she revealed the horrors of lace front wigs and what they did to her hair and scalp.

After a five-year long love affair with the hair pieces that require constant application of wig glue to stay in place, Countess realized that she had developed a severe scalp infection. But because she couldn’t accept that a wig could be causing such damage, the actress let the oozing and hair loss that resulted from the infection go on for six months before consulting a dermatologist.

“The red flag was the oozing from my ears, from my forehead, the whole nape around my head. The puss, that horrible smell, it was painful. I let this go by for six months,” she explained on the show. Little did she know, Countess had a severe reaction to the glue that she used to apply the wig. The reaction resulted in severe pain, massive hair loss and skin discoloration. The skin around her ears even fell off.

Some women wear lace front wigs for the simple convenience of shielding their own hair from damage and changing up their style. Others use these wigs to conceal severe hair loss from illness, such as cancer or even stress. Lace front wigs became popular when women saw how versatile and natural-looking the appearance of the scalp looked. Using tape or glue to hold the wig in place is common, however, those can be very damaging to the scalp and hair if used consistently. Countess struggled with self-esteem issues and used this experience to instil self-confidence in her daughter.

“I was embarrassed, you have to be at home, and be bald,” Countess said while holding back tears. “I had to go through this to teach my little one that you have to love yourself before anyone else will.”

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39 Yr Mum dies after injecting Vaseline into her BOOBS to make them bigger

Sonia Perez Llanzon was admitted to hospital with breathing problems following the dangerous procedure and suffered a fatal blood clot



Fatal procedure: Sonia Perez Llanzon died in hospital in Argentina after injecting Vaseline into her breasts to make them bigger

A mum has died in hospital in Argentina after injecting Vaseline into her breasts to make them bigger.

Amateur athlete Sonia Perez Llanzon, 39, suffered a fatal blood clot in her lung a month after being admitted to hospital with breathing problems following the dangerous procedure.

Police cadet son Kevin Berazategui, 20, wrote on his Facebook page: "I will love you for ever.

"The 20 years I spent by your side were beautiful."

Julio Pla, Head of Surgery at Lucio Molas Hospital in Santa Rosa, 350 miles south west of Buenos Aires, said: "The dead woman arrived at hospital with injuries to her breasts.

"She denied everything at first but then confessed she had injected Vaseline into them.

"I've never seen a case like this. The human body has antibodies to remove bacteria and viruses but it hasn't got any mechanisms against this type of product.

"Other people using vaseline like this are putting themselves in danger."



"Obsessed with appearance": A friend said Sonia Perez Llanzon had previously suffered sunbathing burns

Local media reported Sonia, a respected runner and keen boxer, had suffered third degree burns last year while sunbathing.

An unnamed friend said: "She was obsessed with her appearance."

Doctors have warned in the past about increasing numbers of men injecting themselves with Vaseline, which contains petroleum, to increase the size of their penises.

Injuries consists of severe deformations caused by tissue damage and erectile dysfunction.


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New craze of "Sellotape selfies" hits online as people wrap their faces with clear tape for grotesque photos

A hilarious Facebook craze .... "Sellotape selfies", where people upload their grotesque sellotaped selfies  on Facebook and nominate a friend to take part in the embarrassing challenge

 

Thousands of people have been wrapping clear tape around their face to achieve grotesque looks.
They then upload these photos on Facebook and nominate a friend to take part in the embarrassing challenge.
The craze went viral with more than 50,000 people 'liking' the Sellotape Selfie page in the first 24 hours after the launch on Wednesday.

Two objects spotted in the southern Indian Ocean may be debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (CNN) - Two objects spotted in the southern Indian Ocean may be debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australian authorities said Thursday, fueling hopes of a breakthrough in an international search of unprecedented scale.

The objects are indistinct but of "reasonable size," with the largest about 24 meters (79 feet) across, said John Young, general manager of emergency response for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.
They appear to be "awash with water and bobbing up and down" in an area 2,500 kilometers (1,500 miles) southwest of Australia's west coast, he said.
"If that piece of the plane is that big, maybe it's the tail section" said David Gallo, one of the leader of the search for Air France Flight 447, which crashed in the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. But he warned that the size gave him a degree of concern.
"It's a big piece of aircraft to have survived something like this," he said.
The tail height of a Boeing 777, the model of the missing Malaysian plane, is 60 feet.
The announcement raised the prospect of finding parts of the plane amid a huge search that is now in its 13th day. The plane vanished over Southeast Asia on March 8, and previous reports of debris found in the sea have turned out to be red herrings.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott first announced the discovery to the House of Representatives in Canberra on Thursday. Australian search teams have been at the forefront of the hunt for the missing plane in the remote southern Indian Ocean.
"There have been so many false leads and so many starts and changes and then backtracking in the investigation," said Mary Schiavo, a CNN aviation analyst and former inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation. "He wouldn't have come forward and said if they weren't fairly certain."
But officials cautioned that there were no guarantees that the objects now being investigated would prove to be from the missing plane.

Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, Suleiman Abu Ghaith, has unexpectedly testified at his trial on terrorism-related charges

Bin Laden son-in-law unexpectedly testifies

Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, Suleiman Abu Ghaith, has unexpectedly testified at his trial on terrorism-related charges and denied that he had any role in al-Qaeda plots against the United States.

Abu Ghaith, 48, is one of the highest profile people with purported links to al-Qaeda to be tried in a US civilian court, Reuters news agency reported.
Prosecutors in federal court in New York have accused him of serving as a spokesman and recruiter for al-Qaeda and of knowing about planned attacks against Americans, accusations he denied on Wednesday.
Abu Ghaith's decision to testify came a day after US District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that jurors would not hear testimony from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the September 11 attacks.
Mohammed is being held at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 

Abu Ghaith said on Wednesday that he met Mohammed while in Afghanistan but that they did not discuss any planned attacks.
Under questioning from his lawyer, Stanley Cohen, Abu Ghaith on Wednesday described meeting Osama bin Laden, a founder of al-Qaeda, in Afghanistan just hours after the hijacked plane attacks of September 11, 2001, which killed about 3,000 people.
After driving several hours into the mountains, Abu Ghaith said that he had met bin Laden and several of his lieutenants,
including Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian now considered al-Qaeda's leader, inside a cave.
Bin Laden was killed in May 2011 by US forces at his hideout in Pakistan.
Abu Ghaith testified that bin Laden asked him if he had heard about the attacks but he said he first learned about the attacks from news reports.
"We are the ones who did it," bin Laden said, according to Abu Ghaith. "What do you expect to happen?"

Oppression of Muslims
Abu Ghaith, who was speaking through an interpreter, said he predicted that the United States would not rest until it had accomplished two things: killing bin Laden, and toppling the Taliban government in Afghanistan.
"He said, 'You are being too pessimistic'" Abu Ghaith told jurors.
He acknowledged making several videos at bin Laden's request, including one in which he warned that a "storm of airplanes" was coming, but denied that he had any advance knowledge of other plots, such as the shoe bomb that Briton Richard Reid attempted to detonate aboard an airplane in 2002.
Instead, he said, bin Laden asked him to deliver a "message to the world" in his role as a speaker and an Imam.
His speeches were based on talking points that bin Laden gave him, he said.

He also claimed that some videos were an attempt to counter the propaganda against Muslims from the United States.
"My intention was not to recruit anyone," he said. "My intention was to deliver a message, a message I believed in, that oppression, if it befalls any nation, any people, any category of people, that category must revolt.
"What happened was a natural result of the oppression that befell Muslims."
Abu Ghaith also said he had never became a member of al-Qaeda. 


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