YOU MUST KNOW
- A woman recently went viral on the internet for her reaction to botox
- Ashley Warwick tells PEOPLE that she had previously taken injections for 10 years before having a very different reaction in November
- Her TikTok video has more than 3 million views
An Arizona woman’s reaction to what Botox can do to her face is going viral.
Ashley Warwick, 37, of Phoenix, talks exclusively to PEOPLE about how her return to injections ended up having her loved ones raise eyebrows and the internet in stitches.
“I’ve had Botox regularly for about 10 years. I took a two-year break and this was my first time back from that break,” Warwick tells PEOPLE.
He adds, “I consider myself a seasoned veteran with injectables [such as] Botox and fillers, but more recently, just Botox to quell any premature aging.”
On November 23, Warwick, who was on an extended break for the time, posted the video on TikTok. As of December 24, the clip has more than 3.5 million views.
“My botox is starting to kick in,” she said at the start of the clip, capturing her face in a selfie-style video.
What happened next is why her video was able to garner such attention in just under a month.
“Look, I’ve never been able to make that face in my life. Is this normal?”
Warwick raises her eyebrows, but they’re far beyond what she’s used to, curling inward in a very animated way.
“No, there’s nothing normal about this mom being scared,” one person commented, along with a zoomed-in screenshot of the 37-year-old. Another wrote that she looked like “my sim when she found out she was pregnant”.
Despite her drastic brow arch, sometimes known as a “spock eyebrow,” Warwick tells PEOPLE she didn’t notice it until someone else brought it to her attention.
“The only reason I noticed it was because I was having a conversation with my fiance and I proceeded to make faces and my fiance freaked out,” she says. “Then I ran to the bathroom to look at it in the mirror and decided for whatever reason the internet needed to see it too!”
She had filmed on TikTok two days after receiving the injections, calling the visible change “my fastest Botox ever to kick in,” though it usually takes about five days to see a difference.
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“I think as the Botox starts to set in, you can distort your face in different ways as it slowly takes effect. I had so much fun with it!” Warwick tells PEOPLE.
Through her experience with viruses, she learned that others have gone through the same thing.
“People were posting selfies with their crazy expressions as their Botox wore off,” Warwick says of her comments section.
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He also admits that he found the temporary situation quite amusing.
“I didn’t realize this was a thing, but I was laughing hysterically reading the comments and all the pictures people were posting,” Warwick tells PEOPLE. “It helped me feel a little more comfortable knowing that at least this wasn’t going to be permanent.”
