A young model became partially blind after getting a tattoo on her eye. Here’s why you should avoid tattoos on certain parts of your body.
She says her tattoo artist didn’t dilute the ink and injected too much of it in her eye. This caused her eye to swell and for her to cry purple tears.
“The sense of sight is so precious and important. Why would someone subject their eye to unnecessary procedures performed by a non-eye care professional?” Dr. Colin A. McCannel, a professor of clinical ophthalmology and vitreoretinal surgeon at UCLA’s Stein Eye Institute, told .
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“All procedures have risks, ” McCannel added. “And in this kind of case — to have the tattooing done by someone who is a complete layperson with regard to the eye and its unique anatomy and challenges — is something I do not understand.”
Dr. Adam Friedman, a dermatologist from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, said tattoo inks weren’t intended for use in the eye.
“I am personally shocked someone would tattoo their sclera or conjunctiva. The anatomy of the eye is completely different from the skin, which is the intended target of the various tattoo pigments, ” he told .
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“When considering the ears or genitals, one has to consider that the skin is thinner for both than other areas on the body, ” Friedman said. “Ears are not highly vascular and are unexposed areas often forgotten when considering sun protection, so therefore, healing is often slower, ” he explained.
“Gram-negative bacterial infections are known to occur on ears following procedures more so than other locations, ” Friedman added. “Conversely, the genitals are highly vascular and have no cartilaginous or bone support. Injury to underlying vessels is greater because of this — not to mention the thin nature of the skin.”
And although Cyrus is sporting an inner lip tattoo, the American Dental Association (ADA) says research into the safety of mouth or lip tattoos is limited.
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“There are currently no tattoo-ink products or procedures that have been properly evaluated regarding their safety for use or application within the mouth, ” the ADA said in a statement to .
A 2017 poll found that 4 in 10 Americans have at least one tattoo. That’s up from 2 in 10 in 2012.
That same poll found that almost half of millennials surveyed say they have at least one tattoo, compared with just 13 percent of baby boomers.
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“People have been trying to enhance various body parts since ancient Egyptian times, ” Dr. Michi Shinohara, associate professor of dermatology at the University of Washington, told .
“Genitals are an area of the body which already carries a higher microorganism load, and so is at higher risk of infection than other parts of the skin, ” she said.
Dr. Mary Jane Minkin is a clinical professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the Yale School of Medicine.
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“First of all, there is always a risk of infections anywhere, and infections in the genital region can be quite painful. And do remember there are tons of bacteria in the area, ” she told . “Also… there are many nerve endings in the genital region. One condition that we deal with is vulvodynia, a common pelvic complaint of pain in the vulvar area… why introduce another potential cause of pain?”
But the case of the 24-year-old model shows that despite the risks, some people are still likely to continue with tattoos in sensitive places.
“If someone is determined to get a tattoo in a sensitive area, they should go to an experienced, licensed tattoo artist who demonstrates that they have experience tattooing these areas of the body, ” Shinohara said.
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“Don’t mess with your eyes. It is arguably the most precious sense we have and usually lasts us to our last breath. Don’t risk it, ” McCannel said.The sentencing of a convicted criminal with an eyeball tattoo in an Alaskan court has drawn attention to an unusual form of facial decoration - one that is less than a decade old, but winning new converts all the time.
Jason Barnum, 39, who pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of a policeman, has ornate tattoos on his head and part of his face - teeth on his cheek, an eyeball in middle of his forehead. But even more dramatically, the white of his right eye has been tattooed jet black.
Arguing for the prosecution, Anchorage Police Department Chief Mark Mew urged the judge to take a look at Barnum's face which, he said, showed the convicted criminal had decided a long time ago that his life was about being hostile to people.
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But, in tattooing his eyeball, was Barnum really expressing hostility to the rest of society? And if our eyes really are the window to our soul what else might a tattooed eyeball say about its owner?
The man who first experimented with injecting ink into an eyeball is a US tattoo artist who goes by the name of Luna Cobra. Far from wanting to look evil, the original goal was to look like the blue-eyed characters from the cult science fiction film, Dune.
That year, an old friend had Photoshopped a picture of his eyes to look blue like in Dune. I told him, 'I think I can do that for real.'
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I'm aware of how insane that sounds, but I've been doing this type of thing for my whole life so I wasn't coming from nowhere with this, he says.
His technique, which he has modified over the years, involves injecting pigment directly into the eyeball so it rests under the eye's thin top layer, or conjunctiva.
A single small injection has enough ink to cover about a quarter of the eye. It takes several injections to completely cover the sclera, which is then coloured for life. He has done it for hundreds of people - in blue, green, red and black - from Singapore and Sydney to London and the US.
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If you want to amuse yourself by decorating your eyeball, why not do it? he says. I do a lot of things that look like tie-dye or 'cosmic space'. I think it brings a realm of fantasy into everyday life.
Looking a little out-of-this world is something that appealed to Kylie Garth, a body piercer who works in Luna Cobra's Sydney studio. Before deciding to change the colour of her eyeballs, Garth had experimented with a number of body modifications including face tattoos, piercings, elf-like pointed ears and a bifurcated tongue.
It was mentally intense, she says of the several injections needed to colour her eyeballs a delicate blue-green, a colour she refers to as sea foam.
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It feels like somebody is poking at your eye, then it feels like strange pressure and then it feels you have a bit of sand in your eye, but there's no pain.
One customer who might disagree with this is a Polish rapper, Popek, who was filmed having his eyes tattooed green by Luna Cobra in London. A couple of days later he experienced a painful burning sensation in his eyes that prevented him sleeping.
Fortunately, it was temporary - he was later reported to be considering going back under the needle to darken the tattoos - but opticians warn about a risk of damage to the eyes, and even loss of vision.
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It's thinking about getting a needle in your eye that makes people say, 'I can't believe you did that.' But I've never had anyone say my eyes look scary, she says.
I tell them you're going to look frightening forever to the majority of people you encounter. You might find people have trouble connecting with you or looking at you because they can't follow your iris.
Luna Cobra says he urges young people to wait until they have a job before getting a black eyeball tattoo, because otherwise they may never get hired.
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I was living on the streets, and I tried to get a job, but of course my beautiful face didn't allow me to do that, Barnum said at his sentencing in Anchorage.
But whether or not Barnum intended to shock, many of Luna Cobra's clients are hoping to do just that. Some dismiss his warnings saying it would be cool to frighten people. Others say they don't care.
Over the past few years, some US prison inmates, who already use tattoos to signal their crimes and gang affiliations, have attempted to colour their own eyeballs.
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An episode of the US reality TV programme, Lockup, shows two inmates who try to tattoo their eyeballs blue and red using smuggled-in instruments.
Everybody's got tattoos, everybody's got stretched ears [but] you never see anybody with the whites of their eyes tattooed, says prisoner David Boltjes, explaining why he took a huge risk to inject himself.
Luna Cobra says that what started as an experiment between friends, and fans of Dune, has run out of control. He's also heard that it's fashionable among Brazilian teenagers and in some Russian sub-cultures - and worries that people could be being harmed.
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