Eyeball tattoo gone wrong: how a model nearly lost her sight

Expectation

Reality…

Catt Gallinger is a model from Canada and a big fan of tattoos. One day she wanted a new design on her body and decided on what was, to put it mildly, an extreme procedure.

2017. A body art festival. At the event, Catt goes to an artist who does purple scleral tattoos.

Eyeball tattooing is not a tattoo in the usual sense of the word. It is an injection in which ink is introduced into the sclera with a syringe and fills the eyeball.

Original? Yes. Risky? Of course!

If an incompetent practitioner takes it on, this procedure is very likely to lead to serious complications. An artist's mistake can guarantee the client complete loss of sight!

Unfortunately, Catt ended up with exactly that kind of hapless artist. After he injected ink into her left eye, she felt pain and went to hospital. There she was prescribed antibiotic eye drops, but they did not help.

Her eye swelled shut, and purple tears began to run from it... Just looking at the photo is chilling, isn't it?

Catt Gallinger, facebook.com/CattMarley?ref=br_rs

Catt's vision was rapidly deteriorating, and nothing helped! It turned out that an infection had been introduced into her eye during the procedure. Doctors said that Gallinger would most likely not regain her sight. She took the news very hard and even thought about suicide.

So how did it all end? Did Catt go completely blind?

Fortunately, her story had a happy ending! Doctors operated on her eye and saved her sight. More than three years have passed since the incident, and the only lasting consequence is the bright colour of her sclera.

Eye before surgery

Eye after surgery

It all ended well, but this is brutal, friends. Risking your health like that... and for what? Catt herself responds to people's attacks like this:

"You know what? Do you really think that after everything I've been through, I don't understand my mistake? I'll be the first to speak out against tattoos like this! I think about it every time I look in the mirror."

I hope each of you will think a hundred times before deciding on such an extreme procedure. Always weigh all the risks and act consciously! Do you really need this? Or would it be better to buy safe coloured contact lenses?

Remember that the wish to stand out can do irreparable damage to your health!