These glow ups come with a secret gross out.<\/p>\n
Big Apple \u201cmedspas\u201d routinely perform Botox, Brazilian butt lifts and other beauty procedures without medical licenses, clean conditions \u2014 or even real doctors, a stomach-turning probe found.<\/p>\n
City and state investigators looked at 15 medspas \u2014 or medical spas \u2014 in the five boroughs between June and September of last year and reported finding shocking violations at each of the locations.<\/p>\n
A new probe reveals that medspas across the Big Apple have been conducting Botox, Brazilian butt lifts and other beauty procedures without licenses, clean conditions and even real doctors. Robert Miller<\/p>\n
Manhattan Councilwoman Gale Brewer said, \u201cYou have prescription drugs that are outdated. You have doctors who are not doctors doing Botox. No, thank you.\u201d Robert Miller<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have prescription drugs that are outdated. You have doctors who are not doctors doing Botox. No, thank you,\u201d said Manhattan Councilwoman Gale Brewer, as she unveiled the findings at one of the outposts, Sutton Wellness NYC in Midtown.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have sanitary conditions all over the place in terms of needles and filth. There was one situation where people who worked there lived in the basement. It goes on,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The medical spa industry has boomed in recent years, with more than 10,000 across the nation, according to a 2024 industry study<\/a>.<\/p>\n But the craze comes with potential dangers, as swanky Upper East Side moms who\u2019ve flocked to shady clinics for off-brand Ozempic<\/a> and Botox-seeking clients of a Hell\u2019s Kitchen aesthetician<\/a> have allegedly learned.<\/p>\n An investigator involved in the probe estimated there are hundreds of medspas in New York City, meaning the 15 inspected are only a fraction of those clinics.<\/p>\n The probe by the City Council\u2019s Oversight and Investigations Division \u2014 conducted alongside state agencies \u2014 dovetailed with other reports that found medspas often skirt safety requirements as they peddle cheap fillers, IV therapies and other trendy beauty treatments.<\/p>\n