The sentencing of a convicted criminal with an
eyeball tattoo in an Alaskan court has drawn
attention to an unusual form of facial decoration
Jason Barnum, 39, who pleaded guilty to the
attempted murder of a policeman, has the white
of his right eye has tattooed jet black.
Arguing for the prosecution, Anchorage Police
Department Chief Mark Mew urged the judge to
take a look at Barnum's face which, he said,
showed the convicted criminal had "decided a
long time ago that his life was about being
hostile to people".
The technique, which he has modified over the
years, involves injecting pigment directly into the
eyeball so it rests under the eye's thin top layer,
or conjunctiva.
A single small injection has enough ink to cover
about a quarter of the eye. It takes several
injections to completely cover the sclera, which
is then coloured for life.
Kylie Garth, a body piercer who works in Luna
Cobra's Sydney studio, decided to change the
colour of her eyeballs,
"It was mentally intense," she says of the several
injections needed to colour her eyeballs a
delicate blue-green, a colour she refers to as sea
foam.
"It feels like somebody is poking at your eye,
then it feels like strange pressure and then it
feels you have a bit of sand in your eye, but
there's no pain."
Culled from BBC
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