![]() ![]() * To ‘ease’ the discomfort of poking, a hypodermic needle was used which was a little improvement but still took some effort to find the right layer to put it into. The method anyway involved 40 pokes in the eye to get the colour in and was very cumbersome for the subject, not to mention horrifying with a person poking their finger in your eye 40 times, according to. * When the idea of colouring the eye first came out, some tattoo artists went with a traditional ‘hand-poked’ method, which the artists used before the electrical machines had come up. Here are important things to keep in mind before taking the plunge. While getting a scleral tattoo might sound fantastical to some and scary to others, there is always a list of dos and don’ts to know before taking the step. Though the tattoo doesn’t seem to be for the faint-hearted, fanatics are trying out everything, starting from purple and red to orange and green. Here are pictures of some of them. ![]() The process of getting a coloured eye tattoo involves injecting your eyes with ink and turning them into colourful orbs. It was however, not very long ago that a Canadian model Catt Gallinger made news after her scleral tattoo went wrong and started shedding purple tears. Her botched up tattoo almost took her eye and the model is now on a mission to educate people to calculate the risks before colouring their eyeballs. I was so hungry for it that I wanted it at any cost,” he said. “I knew I might lose my eyesight but since I did my homework I went ahead with it. While his attempt at getting inked was successful, he was well aware of the major risks involved in what he was signing up for. My eyes, my happiness, my life,” he said. “I was about to be disliked for my accomplishment anyway and still I did it because I wanted it. Talking to, the 28-year-old tattoo and piercing artist said he went ahead with his decision because he wanted to. He seems to be liking his new tattoo and is in fact, flaunting it, if his Instagram photos are anything to go by. (Source: Catt Gallinger/Facebook, Tattoographer/Instagram)Ī tattoo artist based out of Delhi, Karan King, is making news for claiming to be the first Indian to have his eyeballs inked. ![]()
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