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Model Goes Blind After Tattooing Eyeball, Warns Others of Dangers
Dana Dovey,Newsweek 1 hour 34 minutes ago

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Twenty-four year old Catt Gallinger’s fun excursion into body art ended in horror when an eye tattoo left her partially blinded and oozing purple tears. The tattoo was meant to have tinted her sclera, the white part of her eye, but instead went terribly wrong, causing pain and possible permanent impairment. Now the young model is sharing her story in the hopes that others won’t make her same mistake.

Catt Gallinger’s eye tattoo became infected and swollen. It has nearly cost her vision. Photo Courtesy of Facebook/CattGallinger

In a post shared several thousand times on , Gallinger, who is from Canada, explained how a recent attempt to tint the whites of her eye purple has nearly cost her vision, The Independent reported. According to Gallinger, the artist did not dilute the ink, injected too much of it into her eye, and did not have enough injection sites on her eyeball. All this caused the eye to swell and the ink to seep out.

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The tattoo caused Gallinger’s eye to seep purple ink. Photo Courtesy of Facebook/Catt Gallinger

Immediately after the procedure, Gallinger knew something was wrong. She was rushed to her local hospital, where she received antibiotic eye drops for a week and a half. The drops did not help the problem and caused the eye to swell completely shut.

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Steroid drops caused the injection to form a clump around the cornea area, The Daily Mail reported. Gallinger is unable to see properly out of the injected eye, needs to see a specialist, and is at risk of becoming permanently blind.

Gallinger may suffer permanently from the repercussions of this botched eye tattoo. According to Dr. David Flug, an ophthalmologist working in New York, the practice is unsafe and extremely dangerous. Photo Courtesy of Facebook/Catt Gallinger

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The practice of tinting the white of the eye is fairly new and slowly gaining popularity throughout the world. According to Dr. David Flug, an ophthalmologist working in New York, the practice is unsafe and extremely dangerous.

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“Basically my feeling is that it’s insane. It can be done, but it has no long-term testing for safety. You have to be nuts to do it,” Flug told Newsweek .

Even Luna Cobra, the man credited with first making the procedure popular a little over 10 years ago, agrees that it is unsafe. In fact, he’s even working to help make it illegal.

“I’ve been trying to ban this. I think it’s super important that this becomes illegal,” Cobra told Newsweek. “To be clear, this is happening all the time, all over the world.”

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According to Cobra, he is the first artist to have refined the procedure that completely tattoos the whites of the eye. When he first began doing this procedure he would film it, and he told Newsweek that this led to many copycat artists trying to replicate his work. Unfortunately, these copycats were not as well trained as Cobra and as a result, the procedure often ends badly.

“I didn’t think people would think so lightly of this [tattooing the eye]." said Cobra. “I thought they would take it more serious. It looks like people are not taking it so serious.”

Since the initial procedure, Gallinger has updated her Facebook page with a post stating that her vision has improved in the past few weeks. But she says medical professionals have informed her that she will likely never completely regain complete eyesight in the damaged eye.

According to Metro, Gallinger insists she is not sharing her story to “cause trouble” but rather to warn others who may be contemplating their own eyeball tattoo. “Research who you get your procedures by as well as how the procedure should be properly done,” writes Gallinger.

Or you could just follow Cobra and Flug’s advice and not get the procedure done at all in the first place.

 

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We had a looong haired Persian cat, told the wife to stop vacuuming, I was going to spray her with Enddust and let the dog chase her thru the house.

She won't let me do it.....

 

I don't know if that's worse than the girl getting her boyfriend's name tattooed around her brown eye...

 

At least that is out of sight and if they break up it's in a fitting place.

 

I like that the artist was at fault....YOU CHOSE TO TATTOO YOUR EYE BALL!
Seriously. There has to be a way to convince people that drinking bleach will clean your liver. Youll just feel like shit for the first day while it takes effect, make sure you get the whole jug down.

 

Some old cadallic coup body mounted on what looks like a Jeep frame. Solid front axel with leaf springs. Badass beach car. Never seen anything like it.

 

Hmmm... Let me tattoo my eyeball, what could go wrong?

 

$100k truck anyone?

https://www.autoblog.com/2017/09/28/ford-f-series-super-duty-limited-luxury-pickup/

 

WTF? Who keeps allowing these nutters to just call themselves models?

 

I cant find any evidence of her being a model. Lol

 

Models of what NOT to do?

 

Smaller, plastic, less realistic version of the real thing.

 

Obviously the friends are not trust worthy.

 

I still don't know how trucks became luxary vehicles.

 

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