The FDA Is Trying to Crack Down on an Illegal Cosmetics Movement. It Doesn’t Seem to Be Working.

Life DIY Injections Are Dangerous and Illegal. That’s Not Stopping Some People From Doing Them—or Hawking Them. Want illegally shipped cosmetics? Use this code at checkout! Aug 12, 20261:49 PM Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Getty Images Plus. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Nikki Mayne is focused as she stares off-camera, her forehead and neck dotted with orange ink. In her hand is a syringe containing a Botox-like neurotoxin she’s purchased online, from South Korea. After a lengthy disclaimer about how this is not a tutorial, she prepares and self-injects the cosmetic. “I am so excited today to do some Botox,” Mayne, who was then 58, says at the beginning of the 45-minute video she posted