So maybe letting someone inject dye into your eyeball isn't the best idea.

[lisiate]

Thanks for the heads up.

[Northern_Piper]

Update: Province of ONtario plans to ban dye injections into the eye, and also decorative eye implants.

Ontario working to ban eye tattoos after woman injured

[Senegoid]

@Northern_Piper

Update: Province of ONtario plans to ban dye injections into the eye, and also decorative eye implants.

Well, isn’t that just like the damn Big Gummint, telling people what they can and can’t do with their own eyeballs. The day I give up MY eyeball will be the day they pry it from my cold, dead orbit!

This thread somehow reminds me of Qadgop the Mercotan’s patient’s penis.

[LSLGuy]

@nearwildheaven

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.

Yes, this post is a couple months old.

See http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5761587&postcount=8 and A somewhat disturbing link... - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board

wayback even has a copy of her original site.

Hooray for DORRANCE #5X STAINLESS STEEL HOOKS!!

People be crazy an shit.

[Doctor_Jackson]

So, does the tattoo artist actually measure before starting this type of tattoo or do they just dyeball it?

[Northern_Piper]

@Doctor_Jackson

or do they just dyeball it?

how can I throw something at Dr Jackson over the intertubes? :smack:

[LSLGuy]

First you stick a turkey baster into your end of the tubes. Then …

[gigi]

@Doctor_Jackson

So, does the tattoo artist actually measure before starting this type of tattoo or do they just dyeball it?

Reminds me of the old saying, “Measure twice, permanently damage eyeball once”.

[Senegoid]

@gigi

Reminds me of the old saying, “Measure twice, permanently damage eyeball once”.

To be sure, there were two eyeballs there to practice with. Ruin one, but gain some experience there, do better with the next one.

[Velocity]

@k9bfriender

Yeah, if I’m gonna let anyone with sharp objects get around my eye, that person’s gonna need to have a medical degree.

I’m so terrified of things happening to my eyes, I’d be afraid even to let certified ophthalmologist surgeons operate on it.

[DorkVader]

dammit, how did I not see this thread till now!?

[gigi]

@guestchaz

dammit, how did I not see this thread till now!?

You had something in your eye?

[gigi]

@Velocity

I’m so terrified of things happening to my eyes, I’d be afraid even to let certified ophthalmologist surgeons operate on it.

My father had one cataract done, no problem. The second one, the nurse missed his vein with the sedative (his hand filled with the meds and became a nice-looking hand balloon) and he was awake during the whole thing. :eek::eek::eek: He didn’t want to make a fuss and ruin their well-oiled machine of one surgery every 15 minutes. I would have ruined their machine with my screaming and throwing myself off the table.

[DorkVader]

@gigi

You had something in your eye?

that’s inkoncievable!

[ThisIsTheEnd]

Guy’s Plan B: you’ll be fine, we’ll seal the bad eye shut with superglue and tattoo a normal looking eye on the eyelid.

[Guinastasia]

Have these idiots never heard of contact lenses?

[gigi]

In the category of why did I search for that?: Apparently you can get your sclera pierced too!

[Northern_Piper]

@Senegoid

This thread somehow reminds me of Qadgop the Mercotan’s patient’s penis.

Every time I skim past this post I misread that as referrring to “Qadgop the Mercotan’s patient penis”. Too much information! :smack: