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World's First Eyeball Tattoo - Ouch!



A Toronto man has been the first to get an eyeball tattoo. Basically, he has turned the whites of his eyes blue.

Corneal tattooing is usually used for patients that have had trauma to their eye, not for this, which is called body modification.



It took 40 injections of blue ink in order to complete this procedure. Pigment was injected under the top layer of the eye using a syringe. The syringe injected the ink into the eye. At first they had tried a traditional needle with ink on it, but when the ink didn't hold, they switched to the syringe.

The man has reported that all is well so far, but it feels like he has something in his eye.


I can barely stand needles poking me anywhere, but in the eye? I can't even imagine. I wonder what would happen if you decided to change your mind after it was done?

Who here wants to get the world's next eyeball tattoo? Maybe a colorful rainbow would work nicely.

Sources: absoluterandom, nypost



Diana Eid
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Oh how gross!

Toby's picture

Diana.. you have outdone yourself...:)



Is that the tattoo artist's

Is that the tattoo artist's dirty finger nails in the first picture? If so, gross!


it wasn't really tattooed...

and there wasn't just one man there were 3, and I don't think they ever got finished. Here's the original http://modblog.bmezine.com/2007/07/02/three-blind-mice/. I think they all just have the initial spot.


Ummmm

Gloria Campos's picture

Ouch! Can he go blind


I don't think he can go

I don't think he can go blind. Someone commented in one of the links above that light passes through the black part of the eye, not the white.

Very interesting, to say the least! 

Diana



Besides the eye catching

Besides the eye catching title (no pun intended), the dirty fingernails in the first picture, grossed me out too. I wonder if he can laser his tatoo away like traditional tatoos that people eventually realize that they don't care for - talk about ouch!


WOW

Great post Diana!  I bet you this catches on, even though I'd never do it!Thomas A. Parmalee


Good Lord

Why would anyone want to do that???


the sleeper has awakened!

Long live the fighters!


dang

get a load of those filthy fingernails in the first pics, those cant be sterile..


it should be noted

That that's Shannon Larratt, the owner/publisher of BMEzine, a body modification e-zine. The pictures above are a bit deceptive, it makes it appear that the whole eye is blue when really the first picture is more accurate as to what I looks like, the last picture is just ink in his eye that's not actually under the skin. The dirty fingernails are Shannon's I believe.


Gross

The dirty nails totally grossed me out more then the eye tattoo.


So when he contracts

So when he contracts pinkeye, does it change to light purple?


Dune Fan?

Could this dude be a huge Frank Herbert fan? In Herbert's Dune books,characters addicted to the mind altering "Spice" were easily distinguished by the drugs effect of turning the eyeballs bluish.


baaaaa

does he realize that it is much quicker to get to the bloodstream from the eye than from the skin?


Ohhh...

Why would God let this happen????


sheesh

oh god my arse...


O_o

Persian_Gulf's picture

I can't understand what's the use of tatooing one's eye??? Also I cannot comprehend what this tatto represents after all, I mean, is it a figure or is just a drop of ink or what? And couldn't the owner of those dirty fingernails just wash his hands and brush the nails before having their picture taken??? 


He is not the first by far,

He is not the first by far, unless he's lived 2,000 years.


Some People Are Realy Rock

Only an idiot or a brave man can do this. I cant say what he is?????

Vinod Paliwal


?

I reckon its more likely to be the idiot receiving the Tattoo


contact would have been a

contact would have been a better choice!

 

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eyeball tattoo

Ok so I get it, but what is the end result? a blue eye.. I dont get the point ???
if that is not the end result then what the hell is?
I am intrigued yet totally grossed out !!!!!!


Fingernails

I think the fingernails are not "dirty" in the sense of having dirt and grime. More likely they are stained with tattoo ink, and not a health hazard.


Honestly

Why the f**k would you do that


Taking fantasy too far

I could be wrong, but I suspect this person has gotten a little too immersed in the Dune books by Frank Herbert and wants to look like a Fremen desert warrior


Someone might do that if...

he was a big Frank Herbert/David Lynch fan

As in to look like the Fremen of Arrakis

:)

=M0=


tatoo

Wouldn't the point be to have something in the blue? like a shape? or a word? Ugh that would be creepy.


dirty fingernails...

you think "ew gross... he just doesnt wash his hands" but if your working with black ink all the time, its going to dye your fingernails...

food coloring does the same thing.. and its blackneess of his nails, not like a dingy brown or anything..


Oh Jesus Christ! WTF! how

Oh Jesus Christ! WTF! how effing retarded....dude! there MUST be something else to wrap your head around instead of F$cking up your eyes! DUDE!!!!!


that was dumb .. ?

This was completley pointless.


...

this man is CRAZY!!!


okay

well that's kind of gross. contacts would've made more sense, wouldn't they?

imagine this guy at 80, hobbling around with his blue eyeball(s),


So What

So the guy got his eyeball tattooed... Good for him he wanted to do it. He thought it would be cool. It probably did not come out like he wanted. Most things never do. But it was his choice hes not asking you to do it so lay off. Oh and I have been a tattoo artist for five years and I'll tell you its not the craziest thing I have ever seen. I have seen alot crazier in person.


crazy... but awesome!

wow! i didn't know u can tattoo your eyes... until 2nite! this is hectic!


What?

I have several tattoos, but this by far has to be the stupidest thing anyone could ever do. It's interesting to see the pictures though, to each his own.


cool

i first seen this on csi new york & thought it looked cool so i've been researching since & am quite convinced i will get this done (after i find out the end results,obviously i don t want to go blind)
i think the whole point of getting this done is just to be different


EYEBALL TATTOO

I think that this is by far the most stupidist idea that I have ever heard of.

Yes it does look cool, and yes it would look cool if you tattooed your eye with rainbow colours but I would never do this as you would probably go blind and besides, how would you change it back to your natural colour if you didnt like it anymore or were sick of getting dirty looks when you walk down the street.

I would love to hear from anybody that has actually had their eye tattooed.

Thanks from Emily x


Ol Blue Eyes won't outgrow

Ol Blue Eyes won't outgrow that Fad anytime soon. What a putz


insanity kills

insanity kills


paunaxonga

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falta de mulher é fooda !
vai chupar uma rola entãao _l_


Rose tinted glasses?

Perhaps the moron should have chosen a pinkish rosy ink for both eyes. Would if that would affect those colour blind. Hmm perhaps not as it's a brain, optic nerve or neural thing.

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I WANT ONE!

I WANT ONE!


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