A beauty salon incident in Queens, New York City has left a customer with severe symptoms after being injected with an unknown substance by an Asian American beautician. The customer experienced swelling, red rashes, intense pain, and other serious reactions on her neck. The beautician, Fei Min, has been charged with two counts of second-degree assault, unauthorized practice, and second-degree reckless endangerment.
According to the Queens District Attorney’s office, the 41-year-old defendant Fei Min operated a beauty salon called Princess Beauty, Inc on Union St. in Flushing. The 57-year-old victim had been receiving services at this salon since June 2021, where she was told she would undergo treatments with botulinum toxin, stem cells, collagen, other injections, and microneedling.
On July 4, 2024, the victim returned to the salon for skin plumping treatment. Allegedly, Min injected the victim’s neck around 140 times with an unknown substance, causing redness, swelling, blistering, burning, and intense pain.
On July 18, the victim revisited the salon where Min injected her neck with another unknown substance in an attempt to alleviate the redness, swelling, blisters, and pain. About a month later, the customer returned for more treatments including injections and microneedling to reduce swelling, pain, and rash at the previous injection sites. However, these treatments resulted in bleeding, swelling, itching, burning, scarring, and severe pain without improvement.
Records from the New York state government show that Min held a personal beauty license, but her business license had expired in March 2021. Furthermore, she did not possess a professional license for injections and microneedling treatments.
Min was summoned on February 4 and charged with two counts of second-degree assault, unauthorized practice, and second-degree reckless endangerment. Judge Anthony Battisti ordered her to return to court on April 9. If convicted, she could face up to seven years in prison.
District Attorney Katz encourages consumers who have been harmed at the beauty salon to call the consumer fraud hotline at 718-286-6673 to report. She reminds consumers seeking beauty services to check with the New York State Education Department’s professional office to verify the qualifications of service providers.