He said sclera tattooing should be banned to anyone who is not a licensed eye surgeon. He started tattooing eyes about a decade ago, but admits the practice has made its way into the hands of people who don't know what they're doing. Luna Cobra has been performing body modifications such as splitting tongues and scarifications since the mid-1990s. "It's completely avoidable by not doing it."Įven the man who says he invented eye tattooing has reservations about how the procedure is performed. Blindness, the loss of an eye and vision loss are real potentials, he said. The needle can scratch the eye, causing infection, or an unsteady hand could send the needle through the sclera, the hard whites of our eyes, and disrupt its normal workings. Yes, people are now blind from eyeball tattooing.”Ĭanadian Catt Gallinger attempted to get a “sclera tattoo” last month but has said it turned out to be a “massive mistake.” Gallinger said in a Facebook post that her eye was damaged because an “inexperienced tattoo artist” injected an oversized syringe too deep.An untrained person holding a needle near an eye offers a litany of dangers, Rizzuto said. This is important to know because without the proper education, training, experience and guidance, these practitioners have caused vision impairments like blurred vision, spots or floaters, and even blindness. I have appeared on various tv/news segments though, and have inspired many copycats worldwide. Luna Cobra, who claims to be the inventor of the art, has a warning on his website: “I personally have not trained anyone else to do this procedure. The American Academy of Ophthalmology has detailed a case in which ink injected into the sclera reached the innermost layer of the cornea and the retina, causing painful damage to the eye. “My full-body suit tattoo is in progress after which I will have only one tattoo head to finger and toe tips.” Karan got his first tattoo when he was 13 and began making tattoos for others three years later. “I knew if performed perfectly, it will be successful,” said Karan, who uses only one name. Then after giving rest for two days, we did another session.” “(It) took a few hours and multiple injections in both eyes. It’s like multiple burning syringes being inserted in your eyes.”Īn Australian expert worked on Karan’s eyeball tattoos in New York on September 18. Some serious dedication and commitment is required even during the healing process. The eyes remain watery (some burning sensation) and tear drops fall on their own for a week. “One can’t go in sunlight without sunglasses.
He has multiple piercings, ear modifications and half his body tattooed. The level of penetration (has to be) extremely precise because it’s dangerous if over- or underdone,” says Karan about the eyeball tattoo that cost him “lakhs of rupees”. “The ink is injected inside the sclera membrane, which is very thin and next to invisible to naked eye at certain spots in particular angles. “If the needle is inside the eye and you move your eyeballs the sclera membrane will tear and the eye can be gone forever,” says Karan, 28. An eye specialist in New York told him the surgery was highly risky and would be painful, but he chose to get it done.
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Karan, a professional tattoo artist who goes by only one name, underwent a surgery called ‘sclera staining’ in which ink is permanently injected into the whites of the eyes. She called it a “massive mistake.” Delhi resident Karan has a different story to tell about eyeball tattoos. A Canadian woman was partially blinded recently when she tried to get her eyes tattooed.
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