Complaint Review: Melinda Farina

Melinda Farena aka Beauty broker sucked me up into her con game. I am a busy single mother entrepreneur who simple needed guidance to get the best plastic surgeon around to help my eye area and sagging face and droopy neck.Mind you I am attractive and was just in need of a spruce up and could have waited a couple of years, but I thought that now would be a good time to nip the sag in the bud,. My girlfriends and mom all discouraged me me but after meeting Melinda in NY at a woman's fundraiser, she convinced me otherwise. "Go for it", " I know allthe best doctors because I am bicoastal", and the best "Why do you think I look the way I look- its cuz I go to the most artistic best surgeons in the world" and other self-serving snake-oil lies were her words to con me into signing up.

I flew to LA to meet her docs because I was doing business there. She had me meet 43 docs only and when I asked about others I just heard about in the press she hated on them big time. I met with Dr Ben Talei and Mani who convinced me I was a great candidate for a facelift, bleparoplastys and lip lift by dr talie. I chose Dr Talei and Melinda said it was the best decision over Dr Mani-Stupid me. It was the worst decision in my life and left me with horrible scars and disfigurements. He was nice enough in a sleazy car salesman kind of was and did a facelift, neckift, eye lifts and lip lifts, all in one setting.

I got necroses around my ear which gave me a keloid. No cortisone injections have helped it after 4 times.My face is obviously pulled too tight on my left side giving me weird looking fabric pleats over my cheek and neck.to add Insult to injury, the lip lift was crooked with wide scars that were thick, distorting my nose as well. I asked Melinda for a solution, but she just said there is no alternative and welcomed me to go elsewhere. Dr Talei could not have cared less about his disaster. I have now found out she has stolen money from many other unsuspecting patients in NYC and relies on them being naive so she can bamboozle them out of their hard earned money. Woman to women, beware!!