A 32-year-old mother of five, Anaya Peterson, whose 7-year-old daughter advised her against tattooing her eyeballs is now at risk of permanently losing her sight.
Anaya, a Belfast law student has also admitted her regrets for not heeding her daughter’s counsel after she tattooed her eyeballs blue and purple.
Inspired by Amber Luke, an Aussie model who herself went bind three weeks after altering her eyeballs in 2019, Anaya got her right eyeball tattooed blue in July 2020 and followed with the purple dye for the left in December 2020.
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According to her, her plan was to alter one of her eyes but ended up tattooing both against her daughter’s advice.
“I was just going to get one [eye tattoo] at first because I thought that if I go blind, at least I’ve got the other eye. I should have stuck with that. My daughter told me that I didn’t want to do that [the tattoo] asking, ‘What if you go blind?’ She wasn’t on board with it at all,” she said.
Although Anaya went months without complications, she started experiencing distress in August 2021, waking up with “swollen” eyelids.
She said her “eyelid started to swell, and my bottom eyelid started to swell. It kept getting worse and worse. I looked like I’d done 10 rounds with Mike Tyson.”
Anaya revealed that she was given surgery after checking herself into the hospital’s A&E ward.
With her eyesight already deteriorating, she has now been told by ophthalmologists she stands a very high risk of contracting glaucoma.
Speaking on her ordeal, the body modification fanatic said, “I’m kind of recovered – on the outside, it’s recovered. It’s just inside. I’m basically on the verge of going blind. I don’t have 20/20 vision anymore. From a distance I can’t see features on faces.
“If I didn’t have my eyeballs tattooed, I wouldn’t be having this problem. Even today I woke up with more floaters in my eyes. And that is dangerous. I can’t get these eye tattoos out. I’m always going to have this problem. So, I basically think that as I get older, it’s just best to let me go blind.”
“When I’m 60 or 70, I don’t want to have to go to the eye doctor every two or three days. If I could go back in time, I would have done one black [eye tattoo] and left it. I would have done one black. Absolutely.”
She advised anyone looking to do same to ask questions, prepare and carryout research.
“I would highly recommend and suggest that you do immense research. Make sure you ask the artists botched rate – the procedures that went wrong. I personally would also recommend mentally preparing yourself for seeing a needle go into your eyeball. The anxiety is high as hell,” Anaya said.
Naira Marley gets new tattoo of late Queen Elizabeth II
In other news, famous Nigerian afrobeat singer, Naira Marley recently showed off his latest ink on in honour of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
While Britain and the rest of the world mourn the passing of the queen after her 70-year reign, the singer took things a step further by getting a tattoo of her face on the dorsal side of his left hand as a sign of respect
Hours after the Queen was pronounced dead, Naira Marley, who resided in the UK before moving to Nigeria, shared a video clip of the tattoo on Instagram.
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Sharing his condolences, the artiste offered a short prayer for the late queen to rest in peace.
