More On Eyeball Tattooing
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Tuesday May 13th, 2008 @ 10:20 AM
Filed under: At The Borders, Faces, Tattoos
Please don’t think that the title is a play on words.
John Blake (in the blue shirt) forwarded me some more pictures of himself, Cutthroat (red facial tattoos), and Josh (totally blue eye), who all have eyeball tattoo work by Howie (LunaCobra.net), along with Andrew S from Swingshift (last photo). Each experienced quite a bit of spreading after the injection.
Eyeball tattooing has got to be my favorite new mod… I don’t know if it’s got universal appeal (but who’d have thought tongue splitting, also decried as completely nuts, would take off like it did). My eye tattoo is now almost one year old (along with Josh and Pauly’s). Here’s some closeup photos of how it’s doing.
As you may recall, it had some problems with a cyst-type structure developing (which was examined by eye injury specialists and ultrasounded, with no complications other than the obvious being found). While it definitely made me nervous for quite some time, it appears to be stable at this point. I’m definitely looking forward to continuing this work, and I’m always thrilled to see more of these admittedly gnarly, mutated-looking zombie-like eye experiments!
Previous entries on eyeball tattooing on ModBlog and eyeball tattooing on my blog.
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43 Responses to “More On Eyeball Tattooing”
Hmm, this is the first time a kind of “guess what” picture without it being mentioned in the text.
Eve on May 13th, 2008 at 10:30 amBut where the f…. did he put such a huge tube through….
I wonder if UV ink would be safe in the eye? How cool would that be!
Unklebill on May 13th, 2008 at 10:35 amI love the completely blue eye, reminds me so much of dune. I wonder what frank herbert (r.i.p.) would say about this?
beyond_repair on May 13th, 2008 at 10:40 amlike the black one…
Jonathan Piercing on May 13th, 2008 at 10:47 amJosh’s is amazing… I hope he does the other one as well.
Shannon on May 13th, 2008 at 10:48 amUnklebill - There are already a couple folks with UV eyeball tattoos! One could make the argument that due to the encapsulation in UV ink, it’s safer.
Shannon on May 13th, 2008 at 10:49 amwicked for sure…like it a lot!
guzik on May 13th, 2008 at 10:56 amlooking at them always makes my eyes start to water lol, although i do like the look of them, esepcially the eye which has gone completely blue
Gingerbread_Gem on May 13th, 2008 at 11:28 amAny wierd bad sideeffects so far?
Therese on May 13th, 2008 at 11:34 amDune Inside!!
Morgan on May 13th, 2008 at 11:41 amI love it!!!
Looking good. It’s not something I’d do myself, but it’s still very interesting!
berryboo on May 13th, 2008 at 12:13 pmTo be honest, I’m a big fan of eyeball tattoos. They just look incredibly cool. Almost. My problem with them, so far (being so new and unknown risks put aside), is that they just don’t “natural”. I assume that Josh’s eye, the most complete I’ve seen so far, isn’t finished yet, so I’ll disregard the holes and smudges, but there’s a distinct white border around the iris, that, in my opinion, just ruins the look. I hope it’s just temporary, and will get filled as times goes by, but I’m getting the feeling (for no real reason) that it might be something that’s not so easy to overcome, which is a shame, because the look is cool in general.
RustY on May 13th, 2008 at 12:20 pmTherese - Two people (me and one other) had the cyst-like complication. I don’t know of any other problems so far.
RustY - It is possible to tattoo the iris as well, so in theory it could be borderless. Personally I like the “mottled” look and I don’t think I’ll want to fill mine solid.
Shannon on May 13th, 2008 at 12:24 pmI love the idea of eyeball tattoos, but I really don’t think I could ever do it! I love how yours looks like you dropped something in your eye, Shannon. Very cool!
Iam: demoiselle on May 13th, 2008 at 12:35 pmYes, but wouldn’t that obstruct the pupil?
RustY on May 13th, 2008 at 12:44 pmI’m with eve at #1 - that’s a great subtle “guess what” and I have no idea what!
vladimir Karpets on May 13th, 2008 at 12:55 pmIs the last picture not just a massively stretched transcrotal? I doubt any other part down there would stretch that much.
Jamie on May 13th, 2008 at 2:05 pmShannon, you and Josh have such beautiful eyes and the blue ink seems to just bring it out even more. all of the tattoos here look great, it’s so awesome to see something starting to take off with more and more people trying it!
silvereden on May 13th, 2008 at 3:18 pmDid Josh have more tattoo sessions in his eye than the others did? Or is he just really fortunate that his eye held the ink so well.
Badine on May 13th, 2008 at 3:52 pmAmazing.
Wasnt the guy with facial tattoo’s on ‘wife swap’?
matt on May 13th, 2008 at 3:56 pmBadine - Josh has had the most work done, by far.
Shannon on May 13th, 2008 at 4:48 pmi’ve just saw an episode of csi ny…one of the suspects had an eye-ball tattoo xD getting trendy…
valy on May 13th, 2008 at 5:37 pmI love how in one of the pictures, his hand is through what I’m assuming is a transcrotal piercing. Love it.
Neon on May 13th, 2008 at 7:06 pm[insert nerdy Dune reference here]
Xenobiologista on May 13th, 2008 at 8:01 pmya its a transcrotal…. to all that have asked…. the pictures are great!!! im really excited to see how this is turning into a really popular thing ..
Smoosh on May 13th, 2008 at 8:13 pmThe spice must flow…
I’d love to do a full eye tattoo with UV ink, but I’d worry too much about corneal scarring. Maybe someday I’ll get just my whites done. That would be kick ass.
Rose on May 13th, 2008 at 10:28 pmTHE SPICE,
MUST
FLOW!
James Blackinson on May 13th, 2008 at 11:12 pmI heard on the radio the other day talking about the most painful place to get tattooed and they placed the eye as number 1. By any chance, is this true?
piraterie on May 13th, 2008 at 11:53 pmI love how the blue eyeball tattoo came out - it’s pretty amazing. The black is alright…it might look better if it were all black. I’m still waiting for someone to do tattoo their eyeball with red ink…
Steev-O on May 14th, 2008 at 12:22 ampiraterie, i dont think theres any nerve endings on the surface of the eye…. my guess would be that its just uncomfortable?
Smoosh on May 14th, 2008 at 6:22 ami would like to see this mod with more, or mixed colours!
zagy on May 14th, 2008 at 7:38 am#15 Rusty - I think no matter HOW dark it is in the room, you always have at least some sliver of iris showing around your huge pupil, it doesn’t go to nothing.
So, if you only tattooed not the entire iris but just barely the border of it, possibly not a problem? True, the people I’ve heard of with entire-iris tattooing have all been blind (with odd eyes, they were tattooing them to look normal).
Unrelated to that, I know a guy who has a big black blob in his eye looking similar to the picture, only his is some natural weird thing (it’s a bit more purple, too). He’s never liked it but maybe one day he can tell people he was cool before it was cool :)
akibare on May 14th, 2008 at 8:29 am#29 - imagine if the skullface tattoo guy from Montreal did it!
akibare on May 14th, 2008 at 8:31 amIt’s not painful at all, no.
Shannon on May 14th, 2008 at 9:17 amI’d love to get some eye tattoing done. Actually I missed Howie being in NYC by a week. I was planning on gettin my tongue split but didn’t get paid till then week after. I was pretty bummed hopefully he’ll be back in the not too distant future. Maybe I’ll see about gettin some ink impaled in my eye too
Anthony on May 14th, 2008 at 11:17 amThe blue eye thing is pretty cheesy.
Rachel on May 14th, 2008 at 1:01 pmZOMG it’s the guy off Wife Swap USA. Always wondered whether he was on IAM.
Josh’s all-blue tattoo looks great!
starless_dark on May 14th, 2008 at 1:13 pmHa! I finally got my picture on here proper!
Had to get stabbed in the eye, but I’m famous now!! lololol
The ink has actually spread some since those pictures. As soon as I possibly can, I will submit a sequence of pictures that shows how much it spread over the course of a few days. I’m extremely happy with the results, and thank howie for his time and work.
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CutThroat on May 16th, 2008 at 3:32 amI also, felt absolutely no pain as the ink was being injected. Nor when the needle touched. Nor any time, other than when saline was sprayed into my eye to rinse out the excess ink.
Who’d have thought mild salt water would hurt worse than needles in the eye??
Wild world. Wild world.
CutThroat on May 16th, 2008 at 3:52 amHOWIE É O MESTRE DOS MESTRES….
raldy.... on May 16th, 2008 at 3:19 pmблин……так круто!!!
анюта on May 23rd, 2008 at 5:07 am[...] blend nicely. You can see some great pictures of Josh’s eyeball (a mix of blues), as well as other eyeball tattoos in my previous ModBlog posts. Definitely I’m very jealous every time I see one, and I hope [...]
Shannon Larratt is Zentastic › My Zombie Eye, Update on May 25th, 2008 at 10:24 amEyeball tattooing is OK, I guess, but how would it affect someone like me who has had laser surgery to correct their vision?
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