Some things still make me squeamish, and I’ve seen my share of body modifications! The body modification that is fairly new and making the news and blogs is eyeball tattooing. 
A new step in eyeball tattooing is coloring in the white sclera, like three members of BME’s ModBlog did on July 2, 2007. A series of injections, about 40 in the first session, inject the ink at specfic depths to hold the ink without damage to the eye.
Recently London’s Sun and Australia’s The Courier Mail posted articles claiming different timelines of the first person to tattoo on eyeballs.
On February 27, the Sun posted the July sclera tattooing as being “The world’s first eye tattoo.”
Later that night on February 27, The Courier Mail posted an article stating that in 1991 their reporter Philip Hammond published a story about Laurie Hirst, an eye surgeon who tattooed on a local girl’s damaged eye. The girl’s eye was white instead of colored with an iris and pupil, so Hirst tattooed these on.
This argument over who was the first to tattoo an eye is blury on its own. The media organizations are comparing the tattooing of a damaged eye versus a healthy, fully functional eye.
Cosmetic surgery on damaged eyes are common and have been around since the second century, according to Science News (previously Science News Letter), an award-winning weekly newsmagazine.
In the November 1937 edition of the Science News Letter, Dr. Ramon Castroviejo stated the following uses of cornea tattooing:
- Use of tattoo ink to fill in opaque spots on the cornea that interfere with vision.
- Use of tattoo ink to add color to the iris and pupil of the eye if it is missing color.
Photo by http://www.heidilassiter.com/
Today similar cornea tattooing can be done at the same location that many other cosmetic procedures are conducted.
For instance, in North Carolina, Registered Nurse Heidi Lassiter is a board certified permanent make-up artist performing cornea surgeries in addition to permanent makeup.
But, like all tattooing and ink pigments, it is not approved by the FDA and under investigation.
Eyeball tattooing is not quite a new fad, but something a handful of people are experimenting with. ModBlog warns this is a highly experimental procedure and should not be attempted.
So be smart, safe and sterile when it comes to tattooing, especially to the EXTREME.
Through ModBlog you can follow the three people who got their sclera injected with blue ink:
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Needled Blog on Eyeball Tattooing
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