An allergic reaction to Halloween make-up left a 25-year-old woman with permanently damaged eyesight.

Emmajane Duffy, 25, dressed up as a clown for just one night but within hours, the customer relations adviser from Blantyre, Glasgow, began to experience irritation, which worsened to become an excruciating pain.

She recalls: “It felt like a piece of glass was in my eye - I was in terrible pain. I did an eye bath to clean them out, but it didn’t help.

“Minutes later, the sensation worsened. It felt like I had razor blades cutting across my eye-ball. It was the most horrendous scratching pain.”

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Despite having carefully cleaned off the make-up, she was unable to open her eyes the next morning and was forced to use Siri on her phone to call her boyfriend, Steven Stewart, 27.

"I couldn’t see a thing so Steven had to dress me and give me sunglasses to wear to protect my eyes from the light.

"As we drove to the hospital, I was terrified I would never see again.’

Doctors at the hospital told her she had superficial scratches all over her corneas and was lucky not to have gone blind.

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It took four days before Emmajane was able to open her eyes.

After visiting her opticians, she said: “The optician told me that my eyes were badly damaged and really sensitive to light.

“He could still see gold glitter at the back of my eyes."

A week later she started wearing her new glasses, but still suffered from hazy vision and sensitivity to light.

She said: “It was the worst experience of my life. Halloween became my own personal horror story that nearly left me blind.

“I definitely won’t be dressing up again in a hurry.”

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The 25-year-old is warning others to take care when wearing cheap products and also issuing a warning to fellow Halloween revellers after her nightmare experience on October 29 last year.

She now rely on glasses because of the damage done to her eye,

‘I’m just glad I didn’t lose my sight,’ she said.

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Someone even fainted because of same thing