# So maybe letting someone inject dye into your eyeball isn't the best idea. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 30, 2017, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648 "2017-09-30T15:46:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648/1 "2017-09-30T15:46:44Z")
Story from Ottawa: body modification enthusiast decided to get an eye tattoo - purple ink injected into the white of her eye. Her then-boyfriend tattooist volunteered to do it for her. The ink was leaking from her eye shortly after the “procedure”. Then her eye swelled shut. When she was able to re-open her eye, she had blurry, double-vision and pain. Doctors say the procedure is dangerous and untested. She will likely have vision problems in that eye for the rest of her life. Unless the dye migrates to the retina, in which case they may have to remove the eye entirely. Meanwhile the ex-boyfriend-tattooist says there wouldn’t have been any problems if she’d just put some eyedrops in. All her own fault, really. Why, he’s done this “procedure” over 20 times, and this is only the second time it’s gone wrong. (Helpful hint for the math-impaired tattooist-ex-boyfriend: that’s a failure rate of around 10%.) A few stories: “Eyeball tattoos could lead to blindness and severe infections, doctors warn.” > **[Eyeball tattoos could lead to blindness and severe infections, doctors warn |...](https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/tattoo-eyeball-1.4313440)** > > A 24-year-old woman says she has learned the hard way about the risks of tattooing the eyeball. "Artist defends eyeball tattoo that left Ottawa woman with partial vision loss. " > **[Eyeball tattoo left Ottawa woman with blurry vision: Artist says he did...](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/tattoo-artist-eye-blindness-1.4313799)** > > The artist who left an Ottawa woman blinded in one eye after a tattoo injection went wrong is defending his actions, saying he didn't make any mistakes during the procedure. Kids, don’t try this at home. Or anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648/2 "2017-09-30T15:52:48Z")
The level of people’s stupidity never ceases to amaze. ---
**Author:** ![Orwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/dfb087/32.png) [@Orwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orwell)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648/3 "2017-09-30T16:22:50Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > The level of people’s stupidity never ceases to amaze. But it woulda looked so dope\* if had worked!! - bitchin’, rad, cool, all that, bang on, slammin’, off the hook or whatever word the tattoo _artist_ might have used. The failure to think long-term is both astounding and rampant, it seems. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648/4 "2017-09-30T16:53:07Z")
Yeah, if I’m gonna let anyone with sharp objects get around my eye, that person’s gonna need to have a medical degree. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648/5 "2017-09-30T16:59:01Z")
Fixed your thread title for you. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648/6 "2017-09-30T17:08:40Z")
Thanks. Been a hard week at work and I’m a bit slow today. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648/7 "2017-09-30T19:15:25Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Unless the dye migrates to the retina, in which case they may have to remove the eye entirely. On the bright side for her,you can have a glass eye painted with any color or pattern you want. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648/8 "2017-09-30T19:17:07Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > On the bright side for her,you can have a glass eye painted with any color or pattern you want. Preferably paint it before inserting it. One would think that is obvious, but so is not tattooing your eyeball. ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648/9 "2017-09-30T19:23:24Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > The level of people’s stupidity never ceases to amaze. This ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648/10 "2017-09-30T19:24:54Z")
[Never put salt in your eyes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R15LkyO8gq8&t=0m41s). ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648/11 "2017-09-30T20:56:54Z")
I don’t know who is more stupid, her or the tattooist. I can’t imagine anybody ever voluntarily asking for this procedure to be done to them. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648/12 "2017-09-30T21:02:16Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I don’t know who is more stupid, her or the tattooist. I can’t imagine anybody ever voluntarily asking for this procedure to be done to them. Hey the tattooist has nearly a 90% track record of not making you blind. ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648/13 "2017-09-30T21:17:30Z")
I saw this headline and immediately thought of the case of the guy who died after getting his testicles gold-plated. But that was a [false story](http://www.snopes.com/lottery-winner-dies-gold-plating/), despite being pretty widely picked up, as far as I know. Think the version I read had a gang member, instead. And no pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Qwakkeddup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/90ced4/32.png) [@Qwakkeddup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwakkeddup)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648/14 "2017-09-30T22:43:17Z")
Can I tell the tale, of a just out of High School teen. Her boyfriend talked her into getting her tounge Peirced. He used a 6 inch framing nail. A rusty, broken general duty hammer. A chunk of 2x4 from the trash. I think she let him bully her into not going to the hospital. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648/15 "2017-09-30T23:00:00Z")
> [@Qwakkeddup](#): > > …A chunk of 2x4 from the trash… What was the purpose of the 2x4? Was that the anesthetic? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648/16 "2017-09-30T23:07:41Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > What was the purpose of the 2x4? Was that the anesthetic? I assume it was used as the backstop. Put down 2x4, pull tongue out and lay on 2x4, put nail on tongue, pound nail in. Then I guess you remove the nail from the 2x4, which I’m sure went swimmingly, either that, or the 2x4 becomes the back. Qwakkeddup doesn’t say what the end result of this was. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648/17 "2017-09-30T23:38:23Z")
She may have a new modeling [gig!](http://greatshirts.blogspot.com/2008/09/danger-do-not-look-into-laser-with.html) And some nice artwork for the [office](https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=AV9GGaoB&id=9F5A43CE9C1EF963795178476D976C9109B70643&thid=OIP.AV9GGaoBi0BlYcqI_RMe1gEsD9&q=It+could+be+that+the+purpose+of+your+life+is+only+to+serve+as+a+warning+to+others.&simid=607991221389561175&selectedIndex=13&ajaxhist=0). ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648/18 "2017-09-30T23:59:41Z")
Additional Washington Post story: “A model decided to tattoo her eyeball. Now she’s partially blind and in excruciating pain.” > **[A model decided to tattoo her eyeball. She’s now partially blind and in...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/09/30/a-model-decided-to-tattoo-her-eyeball-shes-now-partially-blind-and-in-excruciating-pain/?utm_term=.09ffd4a7fc77)** > > Catt Gallinger wanted the whites of her eyes stained purple — but the procedure went horribly wrong, she said. (May be behind a paywall.) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648/19 "2017-10-01T00:35:08Z")
25-odd years ago, my college newspaper had a cartoon about people one-upping each other with their exotic body piercings, and the last panel features a guy who’s had an arm cosmetically amputated. 😛 :eek: Apparently there are people who want this done, too. It never fails to amaze me what people will have done to themselves. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2017, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648/20 "2017-10-01T01:15:41Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Fixed your thread title for you. Try again. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-letting-someone-inject-dye-into-your-eyeball-isnt-the-best-idea/797648.md?page=2)