DJ runs off stage after blasting herself in face with confetti cannon

You had one job! DJ runs off the stage after accidentally blasting herself in the face with a confetti cannon during a show in Brazil leaving her with first-degree burns

• Flavia Ribiero, known as DJ Flavinha, was forced to make an embarrassing escape after her attempt to amp up the crowd backfired
• The DJ suffered first-degree burns and cuts to her face after accidentally firing a confetti cannon directly into her face
• Despite the searing pain, the fearless disc jockey returned to the stage and continued her set before eventually rushing to hospital

A DJ was forced to make an embarrassing escape backstage after accidentally blasting herself in the face with a confetti cannon. 

Flavia Ribeiro, known as DJ Flavinha, suffered first-degree burns and cuts to her face after the confetti cannon fiasco at a show in Santa Catarina, Brazil, on Saturday.

Despite the searing pain, the fearless disc jockey returned to the stage and continued her set before eventually rushing to hospital when she ‘couldn’t take any more pain.’ 

DJ Flavinha was forced to make an embarrassing escape backstage after accidentally blasting a confetti cannon directly into her face

She suffered first-degree burns and cuts to her face following the blast, but returned to continue her set for another 20 minutes after the accident

A viral clip of the humiliating injury has been viewed by 10s of millions of people since it emerged online following the disastrous performance.

Footage of the blast shows DJ Flavinha first bringing out the confetti cannon as she amps up the crowd, unaware that her antics would soon backfire. 

While her music set boomed in the background, Ribiero raised up the cannon to blast it over the crowd, seemingly clueless to the fact she was holding it the wrong way round. 

After painfully firing the gas-powered device into her face, Ribiero is seen hastily running away from the shocked crowd and towards the back of the stage. 

Following her embarrassing performance, the artist addressed the incident in a video to her 33,000 followers on Instagram. 

Ribiero was seen in clip the with bandages on her neck and several cuts to her face.

‘My video is rolling everywhere. There was an accident,’ she said. 

The DJ spoke to her fans after the accident, where she revealed that she carried on her set until she ‘couldn’t take any more pain’ 

DJ Flavinha, real-name Flavia Ribiero, addressed the embarrassing misfire on Instagram, telling her fans she is ‘recovering and it’s all right’ 

The artist told her thousands of Instagram followers she is ‘recovering’ after making the embarrassing blunder 

‘I ran behind the sound equipment and kept playing even with a lot of blood dripping, with a lot of pain. 

‘I threw my hair forward and I stayed there. People on my team wanted to take me out, and I didn’t want to leave.’ 

However, her gallant attempt to tough it out only lasted around 20 minutes, and she admitted that eventually she ‘couldn’t take any more pain.’ 

‘I left the stage, went to the emergency room of the event and then to the hospital.

‘Now I’m recovering and it’s all right. 

‘I’m going to leave the video so you can see what happened, because a lot of people texted me. 

‘Thank you for the affection, people.’

The confetti cannon used by Ribiero has been previously warned about by the Santa Catarina Fire Department, the same coastal region where the DJ suffered the blast, reports Globo. 

The devices are reportedly available at common festive goods stores in Brazil as long as they don’t contain gunpowder.  

The department has said that the equipment, which is usually gas-powered, is lacking ‘a specific standardization’, adding to the risk of injury. 

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