Influencer details horror experience after being forced to pay $26,000 to fix her 'free nose job'

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Influencer Isabelle Lux has detailed her horror experience after being forced to pay $26,000 to fix her botched nose job.
The 33-year-old recently told People that until she was 21, she could only breathe properly out of one nostril.
She said it had 'always bothered' her but didn't realize it was a big issue until a doctor diagnosed her with an internal deviated septum.
In 2014, Lux was told she needed to have a septoplasty operation to straighten the inside of her nose.
And, when she was planning the surgery, she realized that because it was a medically-insured procedure, she could also ask for cosmetic changes too.
'People were like, "Oh, you can get a free nose job,"' the TikTok star told the outlet.
'It never really occurred to me. I actually always liked my nose.'
However, the content creator admitted that though there were internal issues, nothing was noticeable from the outside, so she didn't need any cosmetic changes.
Once she started thinking more about the procedure, she decided to request that the doctors make her nose 'a little bit cuter.'
'We didn't talk at all about aesthetics. I told them before, I was like, "Make it cute,"' Lux admitted.
Despite not talking about her desires with her medical team, she did expect to wake up with a 'nose job nose,' but when she woke up, her nose looked exactly the same as before.
Though she could initially breathe much better, things started to change a year after the surgery.
'It was one of those things that I didn't really notice changing because it was so gradual,' she explained.
'Until one day I looked underneath and it was completely closed on one side.'
Lux had no idea what had happened to her nose since the initial success and began to question what they did during her septoplasty operation.
'I think they tried to straighten out my septum by attaching it to something in the nose,' she guessed.
The TikTok star, who admits she is 'aesthetically driven,' started to panic after realizing her nose was collapsing on one side.
'I was shocked. It looked to me like a Voldemort nose,' Lux shared.
'I was like, "This cannot be. I have to go see a good surgeon."'
During the time between the two operations, her nose had lost its original shape - which was the one she liked.
'At a certain point, it was just so messed up,' the influencer reflected.
'I had to get a really expensive, fancy nose job after that to fix it.'
Lux spent $26,000 for a rhinoplasty to repair her nostril.
And, after her traumatic experience, the influencer wanted to make sure she was transparent with fans about what she went through.
'Nobody shares the full story. They just share little tiny pieces,' she said.
'I know that everyone's trying to use insurance to get a septoplasty nose job. Don't do it. It's not even worth it.
'It's the same thing with teeth. It's the same thing with everything.'
Lux said that if TikTok was around when she went through her first experience, she would have shared her results immediately and when they took a turn.
'If I were to have shared my septoplasty nose job journey, I would've been like, "Great, look at me. I got a free nose job everyone should do it,"' she told the outlet.
'Because that's how information is shared right now. It's so quick. You don't get the real "after."'
Lux said - after her horror experience - she doesn't pick the cheaper option when it comes to these kinds of operations.
That was her key message in a TikTok video about her surgery.
In the video, she posted her collapsed nostril as a warning to others who get 'free' medically insured nose jobs.
'I think people are using these cheaper aesthetic options, especially surgeries, as ways to not even have to really consider the consequences. When it's free, you're like, "Yeah, I'll take it." You don't think things through,' Lux explained.
'If you have to pay up, then you start considering, okay, who's the doctor? Who am I seeing? What are the possible repercussions? What exactly do I want to come out of it?'