TATTOOS aren’t a decision to be taken lightly – and one woman is now losing her sight after getting her eyeballs inked.
A mum-of-five has admitted she regrets not listening to warnings she would “go blind” before getting her eyeballs tattooed.
Kennedy News/inkedup_britishjamaAnaya has one eyeball tattooed blue, and one tattooed purple[/caption]
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Kennedy News/inkedup_britishjamaHer eyeballs swelled up causing her to go to A&E[/caption]
Body modification fan Anaya Peterson, 32, was inspired by Australian model Amber Luke who dyed her eyeballs in 2019.
The procedure left the so-called “Dragon Girl” blind for three weeks but this failed to put off Anaya.
She got her right eyeball tattooed blue in 2020 and faced headaches and dry eyes in the aftermath.
Anaya was inked again in December 2020 and when her left eyeball was tattooed purple.
Belfast-based Anaya was shocked to wake up months later to see her eyelids “swollen” and her face looking as though it had been “inflated with air.”
She was given antibiotics but checked herself into A&E days later after they failed to reduce the swelling.
Anaya then had medication “through a drip for three days” before having a biopsy performed.
Her sight is now deteriorating due to the modification which her seven-year-old daughter India warned her against.
She explained: “I was just going to get one [eye tattoo] at first because I thought that if I go blind, at least I’ve got the other eye. I should have stuck with that.
“My daughter told me that I didn’t want to do that [the tattoo] asking, ‘what if you go blind?’ She wasn’t on board with it at all.
Anaya admitted that her top and bottom eyelid both started to swell, continuing: “It kept getting worse and worse. I looked like I’d done ten rounds with Mike Tyson.”
The law student has been told by ophthalmologists that she is now at a very high risk of contracting glaucoma.
She is also being supported by her university who are making adjustments to make reading easier for her.
Anaya said that while she is “kind of recovered on the outside” she is still having difficulties every single day.
She concluded: “I’m basically on the verge of going blind, I don’t have 20/20 vision anymore.
“From a distance I can’t see features on faces.
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“If I didn’t have my eyeballs tattooed, I wouldn’t be having this problem. Even today I woke up with more floaters in my eyes. And that is dangerous.
“I can’t get these eye tattoos out. I’m always going to have this problem. So, I basically think that as I get older, it’s just best to let me go blind,” added Anaya.
Kennedy News/inkedup_britishjamaAnaya regrets not listening to her daughter[/caption]
The mum says she deals with the negativity by telling her daughter “not to care” about the opinions of others.
Anaya has multiple other modifications such as face tattoos and a split tongue.