A mum admits she regrets not listening to her daughter’s warning she could go blind if she got her eyeballs tattooed – as she is now losing her sight. Law student Anaya Peterson, 32, from Northern Ireland, was inspired by ‘blue-eyed dragon’ Amber Luke, an Australian model who went blind for three weeks after dyeing her eyeballs blue in 2019.
The mum-of-five, from Belfast, was left hospitalised after her eye alteration and faced permanent blindness after a suspected reaction to the eyeball ink. The body modification fanatic got her right eyeball tattooed blue in July 2020, and despite dealing with headaches and dry eyes as part of the healing process, she opted to get her left eye dyed purple later that year.
After months without complications, Anaya woke up in August 2021 to find her eyelids appeared swollen as though her “face had been inflated with air” and looking like she had “done ten rounds with Mike Tyson.” As the swelling worsened, Anaya checked herself into the hospital’s A&E ward, after prescribed antibiotics did nothing to reduce the “severe inflammation.”
