A law student admits she regrets not listening to her seven-year-old daughter's warning she could go blind if she got her eyeballs tattooed - as she's now losing her sight. Mum-of-five Anaya Peterson was inspired by 'blue-eyed dragon' Amber Luke, an Aussie model who went blind for three weeks after dyeing her eyeballs blue in 2019.
Unfortunately, 32-year-old Anaya, from Belfast, was unluckier as the eye alteration left her hospitalised and facing 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 in December.
After months without complications, Anaya was in for a shock when she woke up in August last year, to see that her eyelids appeared 'swollen' as though her 'face had been inflated with air' and looking like she'd done 'five rounds with Mike Tyson'. As the swelling continued to get worse and worse, Anaya checked herself into the hospital's A&E ward, after prescribed antibiotics did nothing to reduce the 'severe inflammation'.
