A 14-year-old girl was having a bath at approximately 11 pm. She wore a moisturising gel mask covering most of her face, the only exposure to the air was via the apertures over her eyes and mouth. The lower half of her body lay completely submerged beneath the water, leaving her upper chest, arms and head above water. She had been using a commercially available pliable bubble foam spray manufactured to produce bubbles in the bath, and these had covered the surface of the water. The windows of the bathroom were left opened throughout and scented tea candles were placed along the peripheries of the bath. She accidently tipped one of the scented tea candles into the bath causing an immediate purple flash flame which engulfed her upper torso. She immediately commenced first aid comprising of a cold water shower over 20 min. She then presented to the local regional burns centre. On examination, her airway was patent with no sign of inhalational injury on oropharyngeal examination. However, she sustained partial thickness burns to her lips, face, right upper breast, neck and right arm which were patchy in distribution. There was also singing of eyelashes bilaterally but sparing of the eyebrows as these were covered by the face mask. Her lips appeared grossly oedematous and were the worst affected area, this was probably due to the aperture in the gel mask exposing this area. No ocular injury was noted on fluorescein examination. Final estimation of total burn surface area (TBSA) post debridement of blisters was approximately 1.5% superficial partial thickness burn with larger areas of surrounding erythema. She was managed conservatively with topical paraffin ointments and silicone dressings. Given the severity of lip burns, and the nature of flash burn which occurred in a small room, she was admitted for overnight for airway observation and pain management, and was discharged 24 h later (Figure 1).