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The woman who caused horrific burns to Dana Vulin she thought was having an affair with her husband will remain behind bars after losing her appeal.

Natalie Dimitrovska was sentenced in the District Court of Western Australia on Wednesday to 17 years in prison for causing burns to more than half of Ms Vulin's body during a premeditated attack.

Obsessed with the notion that her husband and Ms Vulin were having an affair, she walked into Ms Vulin's home in February 2012 and doused her with methylated spirits before setting her on fire.

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Dana Vulin was doused with methylated spirits and set on fire by a jealous estranged woman who thought she was having an affair with her husband

Natalie Dimitrovska was sentenced in the District Court of Western Australia on Wednesday to 17 years in prison for causing burns to more than half of Ms Vulin's body during a premeditated attack

In the weeks leading up to the incident, Dimitrovska made repeated threatening phone calls, saying: 'You're dead, b****' and vowed to ruin her 'pretty little face'.

When Dimitrovska advised Ms Vulin that she had reunited with her husband, from whom she had been separated, her victim replied via text that she did not care but wished her a good life.

But the threatening calls from Dimitrovska continued, with Ms Vulin being called a 'f***ing sl**'.

The attack occurred after the jealous estranged wife snuck into Ms Vulin's apartment complex in Perth, barged into her unit and searched for her husband, who was not there.

She returned the following day, having smoked amphetamines throughout the night, breaking in through the balcony.

Road to recovery: Dana Vulin suffered horrific third degree burns to her face and body. Using skin taken from her legs, doctors have reconstructed the 29-year-old's scorched skin over countless operations during the past three years. Ms Vulin has many more operations to come and still suffers greatly with functionality

Ms Vulin spent two years and eight months wearing a compression mask to help put her face back together

Ms Vulin was holding a lit meth burner when she was set alight, resulting in third degree burns to two thirds of her body and countless operations to reconstruct her scorched face, arms and torso.

Dimitrovska then changed her hair colour and bought a one-way ticket to Macedonia - only to be arrested at Perth Airport.

After finding out that Dimitrovska was lodging an appeal to argue her sentence for grievous bodily harm with intent was ‘manifestly excessive’, Ms Vulin told Daily Mail Australia in an interview in April: ‘I’ve been given a life sentence and she’s complaining about 17 years'.

‘My understanding is she thinks it’s a sentence too long for what she has done. It’s just annoying I just want to move on and she’s already caused me enough pain, leave me alone.'

In appealing her sentence via video link from Bandyup Prison, Dimitrovska argued the victim's injuries were not as severe as suggested but was told her appeal bid had been dismissed.

Ms Vulin, seen here before the attack with her sister, was set alight by a jealous estranged wife of a man she had met once

Ms Vulin spent two years and eight months wearing a compression mask to help put her face back together

Since the assault when she was 25-years-old, Ms Vulin spent two years and eight months wearing a compression mask to help put her face back together.

‘It made me feel like nothing of me was Dana, not the life I lived, the things I did and not the exterior,' she told Daily Mail Australia.

‘I would have rather endured physical pain than wear that mask.

‘It helped to shape the face and the pressure was so tight it helped flatten and massage the face and try to keep it from going inside out.’

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