Rebecca Morris, 18, from Hull, admitted throwing bleach at Victoria Smith in August 2014. The attack temporarily blinded the victim and left her scared she might never see again.
Miss Smith, who was 17 at the time of the attack, attempted to kill herself two months later.
Prosecutor Stephen Welch told Hull Crown Court there had been “ill-feeling” between the pair, who were both students at Hull College, and Miss Smith had made a complaint to the college about Morris.
Morris shouted: “There's your shot of bleach instead of your shot of vodka. That's for getting me kicked out of college” as she threw the bleach at Miss Smith whom she had followed from a house party in Hull.
Miss Smith attended hospital, where she was given eye drops. Her hair turned green and she suffered burns to her scalp.
The court heard the victim's hair began to fall out and she now wears a wig after shaving her head.
She was saved from more serious harm by the quick actions of her friend who washed her eyes with a cola drink.
Miss Smith, who goes by the modelling name of Toria Melody, feels unable to model any more because she has lost her “confidence and self-esteem” and stopped going to college because she is “frightened and scared” of being bullied, Mr Welch said.
He said she has stopped going out and feels like a “prisoner in her own room”.
Miss Smith went to Hull Royal Infirmary on October 21 last year after taking an overdose.
Morris, who has one previous conviction for common assault, has admitted throwing a corrosive liquid with the intent to burn, maim, disfigure or disable or do some grievous bodily harm.
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