Influencer undergoes so many cosmetic procedures her phone's Face ID fails to recognise her: 'I started to panic'

An influencer has revealed the moment she was 'locked out of her life' after her phone struggled to recognise her new face following a slew of cosmetic procedures.

Debora Peixoto, a model from Rio de Janeiro, told Daily Mail she recently had AU$2,007 worth of filler injected into her face.

However, she was left 'panicked' following the appointment because when she tried to call her partner to pick her up, her iPhone's Face ID couldn't recognise her. 

'My face was so puffy the phone simply didn't recognise me,' explained the 33-year-old adult content creator.  

'I tried from every angle and nothing. The phone just wouldn't recognise me. I was standing there thinking, even my iPhone doesn't know who I am anymore.' 

Debora left the aesthetic clinic after receiving several treatments, including hyaluronic acid lip and cheek fillers, as well as 'facial harmonisation treatments'.   

'I knew I would swell, but I didn't expect it to be that intense,' she said.  

'When I tried to unlock my phone, it just didn't work. I thought maybe it was a glitch, so I kept trying again and again from different angles.

'At first I was confused, then I started to panic a little because I needed to call my boyfriend to come get me.

'I was standing outside the clinic thinking, "How am I locked out of my own life right now?"'

However, the repeated failed attempts triggered a temporary security lock on her mobile.  

'At that moment I thought, that's it, I've got sausage lips. Even Face ID couldn't handle it,' she joked.

After being locked out of her phone for a short while, the device finally let her back in with a passcode and she was able to call her boyfriend. 

'When he saw me, he laughed at first because it was so unexpected, but then he was like, "Wow, you really do look like a different person right now,"' she recalled.

'He couldn't believe the phone didn't recognise me, but when he looked at my face, he understood why,' she added. 

Debora said her 'lips were extremely swollen' and her 'cheeks were also really puffy', adding that 'everything felt tight and unfamiliar'.  

'I looked in the mirror and honestly didn't recognise myself for a moment,' she admitted.

The influencer said it took three days before the swelling in her face went down enough for her Face ID to recognise her again.

'I had to use my passcode for everything. It only started recognising me again once the swelling went down and my face went back closer to normal,' she said.

Despite the mishap, Debora doesn't regret anything, and while her 'focus is always on the final result' she accepted the healing process.  

'We always think about the final result, but not about the process. The first few days can be quite extreme,' she said.

'I never thought something as simple as unlocking my phone would turn into a problem, but it really did.

'In the end, I can laugh about it, but in the moment it was stressful.'