1 / 9A teenager has died after developing a horrific infection from a botched self-piercing at home.2 / 9Izabela Eduarda de Sousa pierced her eyebrow with the help of a pal in the municipality of Engenheiro Caldas in the south-eastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.3 / 9But a killer infection savaged the 15-year-old and just days after the piercing she was raced to hospital where she had four cardiac arrests.4 / 9Tragically, Izabela had asked her mum for permission to carry out the procedure - and despite her mum saying no, she went ahead with it anyway.5 / 9Her mum was not the only family member against the piercing. Her aunt, Jurciene de Souza, revealed that the whole family was against it.6 / 9That did not stop Izabela from going through with the home procedure, and three days after making the piercing, she started to develop several symptoms.7 / 9The area around her eyes became very swollen and irritated and she was rushed to hospital where she suffered four cardiac arrests.8 / 9With her body having rejected the piercing, her health quickly plummeted and she was raced again to a better-equipped hospital.9 / 9She spent a week there, where she was incubated, but she eventually died, to the devastation and disbelief of her family.