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WOMAN IS GOING BLIND AFTER TATTOOING HER EYEBALLS

A 32-year-old woman from Belfast, Northern Ireland, is going blind after tattooing her eyeballs blue and purple, despite the warning of her seven-year-old daughter.

Anaya Peterson, a young law student and fan of body modification influencer Amber Luke, who famously went blind for three weeks after tattooing the white of her eyeballs a bright blue, is slowly going blind after following in the footsteps of her idol.

The mother-of-five admired Amber’s unique look and decided to have her own eyeballs tattooed in 2020, despite the warning of her daughter, who asked her what would happen if she went blind.

Anaya got her right eyeball tattooed in July of 2020, and even though dealing with headaches and dry eyes during the “healing process,” she decided to have her left eyeball tattooed as well, just five months later.

The procedure seemingly went without a hitch, but after months without complications, in August of last year, the Irish law student woke up with swollen eyelids and looked like she had been in a boxing match with Mike Tyson.

Because the swelling kept getting worse, Anaya checked herself into a hospital where antibiotics seemed useless against the inflammation. She received medication through a drip for three days and had a biopsy taken out of one of her eyeballs. She eventually underwent eye surgery to save her vision, but even though she recovered enough to be discharged, her problems were far from over.

Although her inflammation problem was eventually resolved, the ink in her eyeballs has already had a serious impact on her vision and general eye health. After examining her, an ophthalmologist told Anaya that she is at high risk of developing glaucoma. Her vision has already deteriorated drastically.

“I’m basically on the verge of going blind,” she said. “I don’t have 20/20 vision anymore. From a distance, I can’t see features on faces. If I had not had my eyeballs tattooed, I would not be having this problem.

“I can not get these eye tattoos out. I’m always going to have this problem. So, I basically think that, as I get older, it may just be best to let me go blind. When I’m 60 or 70, I do not want to have to go to the eye doctor every two or three days,” Anaya added.

The body modification fan said that her daughter India was always against her getting her eyeballs tattooed, but Anaya would not listen to her. Looking back, she says she should have just tattooed one of her eyeballs black and left the other one alone. That way, at least she would always have had one good eye left.