A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

Three blind mice

Warning: This entry documents a highly experimental procedure that should not be emulated. Follow-up entries will document healing and complications — which to be very clear for those considering this, can in theory include permanent blindness!

Yesterday, just after BMEfest and just before ModProm, we did the rather stress-inducing experiment of doing the first three “eyeball tattooing” experiments on sighted eyes. The procedures were done by Howie (LunaCobra.net), with photos by Lane Jensen (of Tattoo and Piercing Magazine). The first procedure was done on Pauly Unstoppable using a traditional hand-poked technique. The eye distorted significantly but it was difficult to get ink to hold. Probably about forty strikes in all were done but so far it seems like limited ink held.

Because the we had trouble getting the ink under the surface (and were able to “wash” it out of the small needle incisions), we tried the second procedure, on Josh using a 29ga needle and syringe, thinning down the ink very slightly with an antibiotic eyewash. Since the goal was simply to blanket the white of the eye in color, there wasn’t a need for fine detail. The first injection was shallow and appeared to dissipate on the surface, but the second injection was at the perfect level and formed a dark bubble of ink just over the sclera (in the third picture you can see some of the ink running back out of the injection hole).

Finally, we did my eye, using the injection method as well although this time with a 28ga needle. It is extremely difficult to precisely get the needle into the right layer. In my case the first one appears to be slightly shallow, with the second injection potentially entering the sclera itself (so basically there’s a bubble of ink in too deep a layer, although it appears to be surfacing).

The procedures themselves were effectively painless because there aren’t nerve endings in the surface of the eye, and we did additional control with lidocaine drops which numbed the lids. After pain is fairly minor, although we all have bruising and some discomfort. I have what appears to almost be blistering between the sclera and conjunctiva which is worrying me a little but so far I don’t have reason to believe this is abnormal. Aftercare, at least in my case, is antibiotic drops and a patch.

In any case, we’ll keep you updated!

I really have to emphasize again that the procedure was extensively researched and done by people who were aware of the risks and possible complications and that it should not be casually attempted. Now that this experiment has been started, please wait for us to either heal or go blind before trying it!

Edit: Since a few folks have asked “what are they supposed to be”, let me answer: they’re not supposed to look like anything. They’re experiments to see how to apply the ink and how it heals. In my case the goal is to eventually fully fill in the white of the eye with blue.

Comments

197 responses to “Three blind mice”

  1. marius van witzenburg Avatar

    Whow, looks like a nice thing to do…

    Do you have any good picture of the result?

    If so, could you contact me on my mail address?

    [email protected]

    Cheers!

    marius

  2. molex Avatar
    molex

    Pauly, could you clarify this statement, with references?

    “however you are guilty of what you are accusing me of”

    I’m not sure what I accused you of, other than perhaps an overzealous (if understandable) reaction to “the shit talkers”… and I most certainly don’t know what it is that I am guilty of doing. I voiced my opinion here, in a public forum, and asked that my opinion of this procedure not automatically be labeled as “shit talking” simply because it’s negative. Your statement that “… you are guilty of what you are accusing me of” is confusing and imo misleading: I haven’t accused you of anything.

    Perhaps my statement of “Please afford me the same courtesy?” has been taking as suggesting that you were trying to censor my opinions? That’s the only thing I can think of.

    Anyways, I’m confused. I never meant to put you on the defensive, I was only trying to clarify that my opinion of this procedure is a valid one, whether or not it agrees with anyone else’s.

  3. Becca Avatar
    Becca

    gah, that is so disgusting!
    But putting my squeemishness aside, this looks really extreamly dangerous. The wrong move could potentialy blind you or cause an infection that could blind you; I dont know… I think its a stupid place to be tattooed. And stupid as in placement, not that the thought is stupid.

  4. Max Brand Avatar

    Pauly…..I have no problem with the stuff you enjoy doing to yourself….

    But I’m bettin, if you go blind, after a while you’ll be askin yourself why you did it…..weather you think you have it all figured out or not, you never stop learning and growing….

    Why would you ever assume your own opinion would NEVER change…..

  5. Max Brand Avatar

    oh….and baseball isn’t cool…..but sometime when your a kid baseball cards are cool…..

  6. SmokeMyBones Avatar

    Did you only tattoo one eye each, or did you do both? 🙂

    This is amazing tbh, I’d love to be the first to do something, especially if I’d been wanting to for ages… whatever the risks.

    Hope it all goes well and everything, looks really good 🙂

  7. Giles Wallwork Avatar

    >>>This procedure seems, to me, to be one based on “can we do it?” rather than “I need to do this…”

    In the words of the great Jeff Goldblum “They were so busy thinking whether they COULD they didn’t stop to think whether they SHOULD”.

    Paully >>”if i go blind so be it”

    I think somewhere along the way you have actually lost a basic understandding of what body decoration is if that is your attitude.

  8. Sean Avatar

    Alright. Firstly I am going to say this. I am an individual who suffers from several severe eye conditions one which is making me a prime candidate for early Macular Degeneration. Basically my eyes are oval and still growing back which is stretching my retina like a rubber band. The likelihood of my retina detaching and me losing my vision increases almost every year. Because of this I have to visit the eye doctor every six months to have things checked out and make sure I’m alright. At 22 my vision is just as bad if not worse than many of your grandparents. every single day I am threatened with the serious possibility that I could lose my vision. For the most part I am good about not letting it bother me but it’s always something I have in the back of my mind. And I have to keep it in the back of my mind so I don’t do something stupid or find myself in an accident where I hit my head too hard.

    The reason I writing this is because after seeing this I became incredibly offended and upset over the fact that someone would threaten the healthy vision they have to do something like experimenting what might happen if they want to change the white of their eye to another color. I would full fucking serious give my entire left leg if I knew I would be able to have perfect vision until I’m old in at least one eye. As I’m sure the millions of individuals worse off than me and the millions who are completely blind would do more to have vision as good as mine. This just saddens me to an exponential extent.

    Now I know these individuals meant no disrespect to those with sight problems. What I expressed above is a general one I have for anyone who attempts seriously dangerous actions on themselves which can result in something so life changing as causing them to go blind when they have two sets of perfect eyes that allow them to see everything beautiful in this world.

    The second reason this, and the following posts upset me is due to the fact that this procedure is so incredibly experimental. This should not have been presented to the public until it was completely healed and monitored for quite some time following the procedure for any later complications. I feel it was incredibly irresponsible of Shannon to publicly post something like this so early on. Had it been something posted on a more private site for individuals mature and educated enough to view and discuss everything I don’t feel I’d be as aroused over the subject matter. But posting it on a site that is become overly popular, where impressionable 12 year old kids view things and think they can do it with no problem is just asinine. Being a piercer I cannot even list how many occasions I’ve had someone come into the shop literally begging me for some insane piercing they saw on here that was taken out immediately after or took the serious time and effort of an individual who knows what they were doing to heal the thing. Or all the kids who see people with big lobes and think they are the end all of cool and stretch as fast as fucking possible. It’s these kids who are going to read this and despite the warnings are going to do it anyway by themselves with a fucking needle and pen ink.
    We don’t live in a world anymore where most people think before they do shit; especially kids. Parents couldn’t care less what their children are doing or looking at on the web. It’s posts like this that are going to get BME in trouble later down the road.

    I absolutely love Pauly. I message him now and again and he’s always been super positive about everything and writes me back quick with lengthly responses. I believe Howie does incredible work and have considered getting stuff done by him in the future. If it wasn’t for Shannon half us wouldn’t know each other or be able to have such an open forum to discuss different topics pertaining to the body modification industry. And I don’t know the other individual involved but I’m sure he’s a straight thinking and positive individual as well.
    Regardless of all of this I just can’t let myself accept what has been done here or promote it with anything less of distaste. I just can’t honestly understand why someone would jeopardize their sight of all things.

    And again, To Shannon, I really think publicizing this so early was a poor decision and quite irresponsible on your part. A post like this makes it seem as though you wanted to show off as fast as possible rather than thoughtfully present the experimental procedure to the appropriate people down the line from qualified professionals to the general public that frequent this page.

    It is stuff like this that make me feel like the envelope is pushed just to push it. And what promotes this feeling, again, is the fact that it was presented to the public so haphazardly.

    If it wasn’t for our sight none of us would be able to even fathom the immense beauty of body modification. It is a sense we have that is far stronger than taste, smell, or hearing. The idea of putting this sense in a position where it could be seriously damaged or lost is saddening. And the fact that it was presented in such a way that it could effect immature individuals who are too young or sheltered to understand the severity of the procedure is even more saddening.

    I sincerely wish those involved the best of luck in healing and making it through with no problems; both short term and long. And my strongest hope will constantly be sent out that those who shouldn’t see this page continue not to view it.

  9. Giles Wallwork Avatar

    Sean – Best post on the subject so far.

  10. Pauly Unstoppable Avatar

    with all due respect i have to disagree with the idea that i was threatening my vision by doing this

    this is NOT a new procedure at all

    and i never thought i would ruin my vision at all, seeing how this was done in worse conditions hundred years ago

    to say i shouldnt do something cause it jeoprodizes my health or a part of my body maybe someone doesnt have or has a problem with is ludicris

    its like saying i shouldnt get my arm tattooed cause some people dont have arms

    or i shouldnt get my tounge split cause some people lose there tongues in tragic accidents

    yeah it sucks they dont have an arm or a tongue but that doesnt mean we have to change our views or decisions to fit other peoples lives

    we are all differnt

    i would use amputation as another example but i know since this is modblog it would just get assinine responses

    i love sean cool as kid, still want to hang with him when i am in ohio

    but i am not going to apoligize for chosing to modify any part of me even if people are offended by it

    i think its important to document the progress of all things even if all risk arent know yet, just like magnetic implants and so forth, that how we learn through open discussion, thats how procedures are betterd

    this really isnt as dangerous as everyone likes to put out, it use to be a widely done practice, when modern medicine was still pretty crude

  11. Pauly Unstoppable Avatar

    thats gonig to be my last post on the subject here

    if anyone else wants to contact me, i would be glad to have a discussion

  12. Encyfish Avatar
    Encyfish

    to the “three blind mice”:
    wow. plain, simple wow. and huh(./?) If this is successful, I could see some of my fellow Star trek fans getting both eyes pale yellow (Data) or one eye bright glowing red(Borg). I won’t be joining them, though, seeing as I sleep with my eyes cracked, and wake with them in vaying amounts of ow, and don’t wanna aggravate this feeling.

    to Sean:
    I have a friend in a similar state of vision loss, and I can see her position being very similar. She is also 22, and has never been able to drive at night, (but thankfully still has the ok to drive in the daytime from her state) and has already learned how to use Braille.
    You said “Had it [this post] been something posted on a more private site for individuals mature and educated enough to view and discuss everything I don’t feel I’d be as aroused over the subject matter. But posting it on a site that is become overly popular, where impressionable 12 year old kids view things and think they can do it with no problem is just asinine.” Honestly, I must defend Shannon in his posting this material here. If there are any twelve year olds who view this site, at least on any semblance of regularity, they are mature enough to handle seeing images and reading accounts like this. If they weren’t, they would see one to two entries in this blog, and leave in their disturbance, or be prevented from viewing things like this by their parents. The internet is a useful tool for the free discussion of all ideas, by anyone mature enough to handle it. In a society (Stateside, not too sure how other nations handle this) where everything is censored just so kids don’t experience things they will merely learn about a few years later, at least the internet is a place where adults and responsible minors may participate in whatever kind of discussion they want. The same freedom that Shannon has to discuss experimental body modifications gives you the ability to disagree with his doing so. So please, don’t close this frontier of ideas.

  13. molex Avatar
    molex

    “It is stuff like this that make me feel like the envelope is pushed just to push it. ”

    This is precisely what I was getting at, that this procedure very strongly has the patina of being a “just because we can” procedure. Again (I’m getting tired of saying this, frankly) I’m not suggesting people shouldn’t “be allowed” to do this or even that they just shouldn’t do it. I’m only saying that I do think motives matter when it comes to body modification, particularly regarding something with so much potential for an unwanted result as awful as blindness.

    To ME “just because I can” seems like a pretty thin motivating factor for risking one’s eyesight, and so far I haven’t seen any other motivations offered. I guess that’s all I’m trying to say.

  14. Giles Wallwork Avatar

    Molex – It is very difficult trying to get an intellectual or academic opinion across on this list. People here have very bigotted ideals and are reluctanct to discuss them in any mature fashion.

    You have made some very good points but I wouldn’t hold your breathe waiting for a decent response.

  15. molex Avatar
    molex

    Thanks Giles. Like any online community I think modblog has a very vocal “group within the group” that displays a truly knee-jerk reaction to any negativity by saying (essentially) “It’s my body and I’ll do as I please, if you don’t like it too bad..”

    That reaction is defined as knee-jerk by the fact that very few of the comments on this topic have in any way suggested that the people doing this SHOULDN’t do it. So responding with “I’ll do as I please with my body” is tantamount to having completely misunderstood the negative reactions here; few, if any, have been aimed at stopping anyone from doing what they want with their bodies. The majority of them, some less eloquently than others, have questioned the motivations and purposes of this procedure.

    And what I have yet to see (at least in this specific thread) is anything even approaching a satisfactory explanation of what the motivation here is.

    I think Sean brings up a good point about publicizing a procedure like this before the final outcome is understood. Unlike most other severe bodyplay that has a serious potential risk (skewering, extreme genital torture etc), this eye-tattooing procedure has the potential to appeal to people who are not “serious” body mod people and who will not do the proper research and take the proper safety measures if they decide to emulate this procedure.

    Put another way: Damn few people are going to say “Hey, having burnt nuts looks kinda cool, I’ll try that out…” Furthermore, even if someone DID do that it’s highly unlikely they’d get far enough with it to severely injure themselves.

    However, I can certainly see some yokel saying “Hey, having blue eyes seems cool, I’ll try it out…” and it’s only a small slip of the needle between “cool blue eyes” and seriously injured eyes.

    Far fetched? Perhaps. But this procedure IMO blurs the line between aesthetic and extreme mods. This one is some of both, and if someone wants to achieve the aesthetic portion of it and doesn’t properly research the extreme part… they could end up BLIND. I don’t see how that possibility can be ignored.

  16. no Avatar
    no

    I tried to check the posts above, but it seemed that no one asked what I was interested.

    So:

    1)
    In what part of the eye is the ink is supposed stay? I have a laymans understanding on the basic biopsy of an eye, and as I understand the eye is basically a blob of viscous mass covered by a very very thin membrane?

    Will the ink migrate, cause colorization of vision if it intervenes with light traveling to retina?

    2)
    What is the composition of the ink used in this procedure?
    Basic, over the counter tattoo ink?

    Good luck and fast recoveries to everyone involved.

  17. Giles Wallwork Avatar

    Molex – There is an interesting interview with Fakir Musafar in Total Tattoo magazine (UK) in which he explains his despair at the current body modification scene which he finds lacking in spirituality with an emphasis on the extreme. He explains how many people today are following a trend of having very extreme permanent modifications simply because they can and have little to no explanation as to why.

  18. molex Avatar
    molex

    Certainly a voice in the wilderness there, albeit an important one.

    Perhaps my feeling that motivation is an important factor in extreme body modification stems from Fakir’s example. When I first became interested in body modification Fakir and Jim Ward were the only two widely recognized and published people to look to for information and example, and I probably learned from them the notion that there is (or ideally perhaps should be) a spiritual element to extreme body modification and play.

    But I certainly agree with Fakir now as well, that body mods have essentially become a “how far can I go” prospect for a lot of people, potentially sacrificing any deeper understanding of oneself for the much more immediate and gratifying rush of “look what I can do”. I think procedures like this one (at least as presented here) and others like so-called “guerrilla suspension” are mawkish in their extremity-for-extremetie’s-sake attitude.

    And again, I have yet to see any kind of explanation about what motivated this eye tattooing procedure outside the predictable “because I can do whatever I want”. It certainly isn’t presented as anything other than “look how extreme we are”. I appreciate Shannon’s warnings about the experimental nature of this procedure, but those warnings aside the whole thing is offered up in a very casual manner, replete with joke-y titles and Dune references.

    Perhaps body mods have really reached the point where anything approaching rational explanation is essentially irrelevant and considered to be unimportant. Maybe within the body mod community “because I can” has been accepted as a feasible and defensible position? In which case, body modification will probably suffer the same fate as punk and DIY… instead of being accepted as a valid statement of individuality it will be relegated (once again) to the fringes of societal acceptance.

    What a shame that would be. There was a time when a guy with a pierced ear was a defacto “faggot”. I’d hate to see that come around again.

  19. Giles Wallwork Avatar

    Molex – Shame you don’t have an IAM acct as I think there are a fair few of us who share similar beliefs and it would be productive to share ideas.

  20. Max Brand Avatar

    This all just makes me happy that I’m so perfect the way I am….haha!

    (and I’m speaking about my head, cause I do have tattoos all over my arms and legs)

  21. sean Avatar

    The main point I was attempting to arouse was that Shannon was completely inappropriate in his decision to post the procedure so quickly. It’s just uncalled for to let it be known to the general public this short ahead. A lot of the flack the body modification community gets is from highly complicated procedures in the surgical realm that non-medical practitioners perform. I know I have not been in the industry long enough (only 5 years) nor do I indulge myself frequently in the subject matter of body modification industry persons who perform such surgical procedures and the legal jargon they face state to state and procedure to procedure. However, I do know that it is highly frowned upon and in some places will find the individual performing the procedure in quite a bit of serious trouble; even if the individual is highly experienced in the field and uses all appropriate and completely sterile equipment and procedures.

    Taking that into account it is our responsibility as a community who lives and in some cases survives off such a highly dangerous, highly scrutinized, and highly experimental field to do our best in making painstaking efforts to completely and thoroughly go through extensive research in all areas of a new procedure, testing, re-testing, documenting, following up, discussing, and so on before just doing a first run and posting first draft tests on a public forum – Even before the healing has complete!!!

    Freedom to do what you want to yourself aside, you are presenting something to this centuries civilization that has been done for the first time without knowing the results!! Maybe it has been done in the past but it hasn’t been down NOW. And none of you can tell me that someone isn’t going to see this and immediately want it done and do something like try it themselves. I have young boys and girls come into my shop more often then I’d like to see with crazy infected piercings because the child wanted it done, saw it done by a friend, on the internet, or on TV and figured they would have no problem doing it them self. How the hell is this any different?
    -and like someone else said, this isn’t someone puncturing their scrotum with play needles, or doing sounding, or cutting off their labia’s. This is something cool! What young individual wouldn’t want their eye blue or green or red!! I remember when I was young there were a bunch of kids getting horrible eye infections because they were using food dye to dye their contact lenses. And I shouldn’t even cut it off at an age, there are people on this board posting who say it looks cool and would probably get it done. However these individuals, I hope, are intelligent enough to understand that everything they see on here is not something they should maybe go out and do themselves or by a seemingly qualified practitioner.

    It all comes down to the fact that this procedure should not have been publicized until completely researched, tested, and retested. By posting it right away it is hard for a lot of us to not think “Wow, all Shannon wants from this is shock value.”
    -and I want to make it clear that the reason I specifically say Shannon and not anyone else is because it was him who chose to post this and make it public. Even if the other individuals may have given him the OK or begged and pleaded him to make it public it comes down to the fact that it is he who put it up and made the final decision.

    All we need is for some dumb person to try this on their own, them get seriously injured and for it to get public and then linked to this page and our community. That’s all it’s going to take. Then we are fucked. Even stiffer laws will be passed and all we will have to blame is ourselves. But will we blame ourselves? Probably not. It will just give another reason for the militant thinkers in the industry to say “the government is trying to shut us down!” well, do you blame them? Here is prime evidence to a first time onlooker of our community that we just might be as haphazard with our bodies and decisions as they thought.

  22. Moira_mod Avatar
    Moira_mod

    This has to be singularly THE most dangerous mod experiment I have ever seen. The eye is the most sensitive part of the body but you guys just stuck needles in them pumped ink into them.

    You guys are true pioneers & REALLY hope this works out, for the betterment of people in the mod community. Rock on & mod safe.

    Later,
    Moira

  23. molex Avatar
    molex

    Sean, I think your comments are dead on. This isn’t a question of what’s “allowable” it’s a question of a community being aware of itself and careful as to what it propagates and displays in a public arena.

    As much as we all may wish it were so, body modification is not a mainstream event. It’s not something that people generally understand or accept, and with this procedure there is a definite boundry line that I think has been crossed. Like I said before, lots of mods are so extreme that it’s unlikely that many people are going to see a pic of them and want them right away. But this procedure is definitely something that aesthetically could be very appealing to people… enough so that they might do it without proper care and research.

    And like you said… “And a shocking story tonight on Channel 11 news, after seeing pictures on a website a teenager in (insert generic city name here) blinded himself yesterday by attempting to get a tattoo… on his EYE. More after these messages.”

    That’s the kind of attention we all want, right? Isn’t it?

    But like someone in one of the other eye-tattooing threads posted, we have no responsibility as a community, we’re only here to live our lives.

    Yeah. Right.

  24. steven Avatar
    steven

    HOLY SHIT I HAVE ALWAS WANTED TO DO THAT !!!!!!!!!!!!
    BUT PEOPLE TOLD ME IT COULDNT BE DONE BUT FUCK I HOPE THERE GONNA BE OK SO I CAN TRY IT !!!!!!

  25. penski Avatar

    Molex, Giles:

    I don’t understand why anyone should require any impetus other than “I like the way it looks,” or “I like the way it feels,” for any modification they choose to make.

    Both these and “Because I can” are as much a valid reason for any modification as any psuedo-spiritualistic excuse proffered.

    Perhaps because I am very much a self-aware individual and one who is very much driven by aesthetic qualities alongside physical sensations but I find the ‘spiritual’ reasons for modification to simply be the product of those who can’t accept that their impulses are either base and animalistic (aesthetics or sensation) or formed around a basic desire to do something a bit different; one fears ridicule or segregation as a result of being honest about reasons so one constructs a cod spiritualistic framework which allows one to shelter within and use it as a catch-all excuse.

    I am torn between the wish to see this unfold in ‘real time’ and the thought that it should not have been posted until ‘complete’.

    *n

  26. MK Thorne Avatar
    MK Thorne

    you are retarded…it looks stupid and seems rather pointless…but good luck with it anyway

  27. molex Avatar
    molex

    Penski, I applaud and support your frank self-understanding, if purely aesthetic motivation is satisfactory for you then that’s as valid a reason as any to pursue a modification.

    But… (you knew there was a but in there, right?)

    Not everyone is as self-aware as you are, and it’s those people who concern me when exposed to a procedure that’s highly aesthetic *and* highly dangerous such as this. And I know, “It was done hundreds of years ago, it’s safe…” etc. etc. Well, I have yet to see a single verifiable reference to previous incarnations of this procedure, and any time you stick a needle in your EYE it’s dangerous, sorry common sense rules.

    Anyhow, one of the benefits of a verifiable REASON to do a procedure like this is that it just might give someone thinking of doing it themselves a moment’s pause to think “OK, so why am *I* doing this??” instead of just going and doing it because “it looks cool”. Introspection is always advisable before making a permanent change to one’s body. By posting this procedure without even a HINT of the causality behind it the concept that this is a purely aesthetic situation is furthered, and any potential self-awareness prior to action is minimized. A shame in my opinion.

  28. gavin Avatar

    THE SPICE MUST FLOW!

  29. greg Avatar
    greg

    You Are f’n refukintarded

  30. Campbell Avatar

    Sean, in my opinion, Shannon’s ‘publication’ of this makes no real difference. He’s stressed that it was “a highly experimental procedure that should not be emulated”, and I don’t know how much clearer he could be.

    If someone really wanted to do this, they would have done it themselves anyway.

    I understand your displeasure, and I can associate with it just a tiny bit – my father is blind, my mother works for a retinitis pigmentosa/macular degeneration supporting charity, and my girlfriend is slowly losing her vision – but I think it is illogical for you to express your unhappiness at this event through saying it will “let people think it’s OK/safe/clean/easy”, as Shannon stated twice that it is not OK to DIY this at this point in time.

    Thanks 🙂

  31. sean Avatar

    Again, and for the final time:

    The personal feelings I have for this procedure are my own and due to my own personal situation. I feel now that I probably shouldn’t have expressed them because, like the whole topic of “it’s my body I can do what I want” topic the main point gets sorta lost along the way. And that point is that despite the warnings after each post IT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PUBLICIZED YET! Plain and simple.

    Go read my reasons again on my last post. I don’t have these feelings because I suffer from eyesight problems, I believe in them because they are more morally and ethically right and don’t put our community in a light we’ve been trying to get ourselves out of.

    I can put warning signs on every inch of the studio I work at telling people not to take out their jewelry, handle their piercing, or put in new jewelry after they buy it and they are still going to do it. I even have people place the jewelry they’ve taken out ON the warning sign sitting in front of them without thinking twice.

    I can tell every single one of the teenage girls tomorrow that I pierce not go swimming and not to go tanning in a tanning bed. I can show them the warning in the aftercare pamphlet we give them. I can make it the only thing I tell them over and over and over again while they are in the piercing room. I can even email them or leave comments on their myspace pages telling them not to go swimming or go tanning and I 100% guarantee that by the end of the week at least 4 of them will be in a pool or tanning in a tanning bed. And I can also guarantee that we get at least 2 people in a week who have severely irritated piercings because they didn’t listen to a fucking word we told them before, during, after their piercing or had the common sense to read the pamphlet when they got home like we suggest.

    Warnings mean nothing to people who want to do something I can tell you that right now.

  32. Carlos (UK) Avatar
    Carlos (UK)

    One word:
    Why?

  33. Kamikazai Avatar

    No offense, but I hope you all go permanently blind. You obviously don’t appreciate or value your eyesight. twats.

  34. Kamikazai Avatar

    On second thoughts… I’ve always wanted a bullet hole in my head. One that goes clean through, from side to side.

    Sure, I might die in the process but what the hell *shrug* why not? It would look cool and impressive – talk about extreme body modification!

    “because I can” sounds like great logical reasoning. It’s my body, so what’s the problem? I mean, we only live once right?

    /sarcasm off

  35. carpundit Avatar
    carpundit

    You people are idiots.

  36. ryan Avatar

    didnt hitler do this to the jews to make them have blue eyes?

  37. redjellydonut Avatar
    redjellydonut

    Beautiful work. Good luck!

  38. the black adder Avatar
    the black adder

    proof that vain and gullible people will fall for anything.
    God Bless America, land of the stupid

  39. Reality Avatar
    Reality

    BOO HOO.

    Daddy didn’t give you enough attention.

  40. alleyghost Avatar
    alleyghost

    I don’t see the point (pun intended).

  41. CeeZe Avatar
    CeeZe

    Won’t the tears your eye produces, wash out the ink?

  42. gafeman Avatar

    that’s fucking crazy !!

  43. Johnny Avatar
    Johnny

    You are a moron.

  44. Mark Avatar

    Stupid. Absolutely stupid.

  45. kat Avatar
    kat

    So…I suppose every mod has to begin somewhere. I hope this works out for the volunteer. It is entrancing to look at. Perhaps I am part of history to be viewing the first of its kind. I suppose if you’ve dedicated your life to body modification, it would be exciting to be a part of pioneering new inventions. Best of luck. Peace.

  46. hammerhead Avatar
    hammerhead

    I remember where I have seen the “blue” eye thing before,,, the movie Dune, too much spice,,,lol

  47. Kay Avatar
    Kay

    Cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye… why is nobody asking the question: How has it affected your vision? What does it look like from the inside, assuming you can still see? Consider it asked. At least one enquiring mind wants to know if everything will go blue.

  48. Shadow Avatar
    Shadow

    okay, people, if you want to talk trash about people, go talk to a mirror. what these three have in mind is an awesome idea, and if it proves to be as conclusive as i’m reading, I’d enjoy getting my eye’s like a cat’s…but seriously, Dont down other people fr pioneering something new. Tske a damn history class; everytime we’ve done that in the past, within 100 years later people looked back on them and said “damn we were dumbasses. what they did helped to get us where we are today.” fr an example, look up been franklin. people called him an idiot too, but its because of him we have electricity. I wish the three who participated here much luck, and hope all goes as planned ^^

  49. csm Avatar

    hay que ser muy conchesumadre para hacer esa wea!!!!!!!!

  50. Albertsons Pretzels Avatar
    Albertsons Pretzels

    Maybe one day in the future this will be a safe procedure…but for now, hell no.

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