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WHAT’S the next trend when tattoos are too mainstream?

When scarring yourself is too tame and inserting silicone implants under your skin is not quite edgy enough – why not just tattoo your eyeballs?

Yes, you read that right. In an alarming new trend, hundreds of people worldwide, and a surprising number of Australians are permanently inking their sclera (the white area around the iris) in a procedure which has been labelled “experimental, extreme and potentially carcinogenic” by medical professionals.

The modern process (other forms of eyeball colouring have previously been employed in various cultures) was pioneered by US-born body modification expert and tattooist Luna Cobra, who splits his time between Melbourne and San Francisco.

It involves injecting ink directly into the eyeball. The ink then spreads under the eye’s top layer (conjunctiva) and colours the white of the eye. The results are completely irreversible.

Eyeball tattooing briefly came to the public’s attention in 2012 when Jason Barnum faced an Alaskan court with half of his face tattooed, including an entirely black eyeball.

But Luna Cobra has been honing his technique for almost a decade. It all started after he saw a picture of a friend who had photoshopped his eyes to look like a character from cult sci-fi film Dune.

That friend agreed to become an eyeball tattooing guinea pig and make the photoshop a reality, on the condition that two other people would join him. Those two people were found, the experiment seemed to work and Luna Cobra has now performed about 100 eyeball tattoos worldwide, with clients — including about 20 in Australia — ranging from fellow tattoo artists to IT professionals and an increasing number of tradies.


Ox Brady, who has had his eyeballs tattooed, pictured at the annual Surf N Ink International Tattoo Exhibition on the Gold Coast.Source:News Limited

He said it was almost entirely painless and that, with regular tattoos becoming increasingly commonplace, some people were looking for something that made them stand out. He was keen to emphasise that he’s always careful to vet his clients properly given the unusual nature of the practice.

“I think it’s just becoming a trend among people that just want to be super-extreme. But the worry is that they are just getting anyone to do it — or doing it themselves — and a lot of people have been hurt, gone blind or lost eyes from this — although I want to stress that hasn’t happened to any of my clients,” he says.

“But if some guy is sitting in his bathroom with boiled-down pen ink then he’s probably going to f*** himself up. These people are not looking up the history of it or the dangers of it or anything, they just think ‘oh it looks cool, let’s do it.’”

One of his more recent clients was also a colleague. Kylie Garth, 30 and living in WA, had her eyes tattooed to complete a look that includes scarification (cutting up the skin to create ‘designed’ scars), tattoos and several piercings.

She backed up Luna Cobra’s assertion that, despite appearances, the process was almost pain free. But that didn’t mean it wasn’t terrifying.

“There’s always that little element of fear so I was a bit scared,” she said of the day she had her eyeball tattoo done. “I knew that it wasn’t painful but still, when you’re lying in a chair and there’s a needle coming for your eye there’s always going to be that moment where you’re like ‘f***.’

“It’s the strangest thing, I felt some pressure, like a little bit of sand in my eye and then it was done. I stood up and burst in to tears afterwards because it was mentally so intense. It’s like skydiving or bungee jumping — you know it’s safe but still actually doing it is crazy. It was scarier than skydiving actually — I would go skydiving again before I had my eye done.”

While many people opt for black or other less ‘natural’ eye colours, Ms Garth opted for a relatively subtle pale blue tattoo to match the colour of her iris. She said this makes her look less threatening and confronting for others and she’s received only compliments on her new appearance.

However, she did admit that, because of her profession and circle of friends, the reaction to her tattoo may be different to the experience of most people and warned that anyone considering it should first seriously consider their future employment prospects.

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ISOBEL Bowdery, a young music fan who attended the Eagles of Death Metal concert at the Bataclan in Paris, has shared a chilling Facebook post about how she played dead for over an hour to avoid being killed by the gunmen who stormed the concert hall.

Posting a picture of a blood-stained vest, Ms Bowdery went in to detail about hearing screams and lying in pools of blood while the chaos erupted around her.

“As I lay down in the blood of strangers and waiting for my bullet to end my mere 22 years, I envisioned every face that I have ever loved and whispered I love you. Over and over again,” the 22-year-old wrote on her Facebook post.

“Pools of blood filled the floor. Cries of grown men who held their girlfriends dead bodies pierced the small music venue.

“Futures demolished, families heartbroken. In an instant. Shocked and alone, I pretended to be dead for over an hour, lying among people who could see their loved ones motionless.

“Holding my breath, trying to not move, not cry — not giving those men the fear they longed to see. I was incredibly lucky to survive.”

Ms Bowdery detailed the thoughts going through her head as she lay motionless on the concert hall floor.

“Reflecting on the highlights of my life. Wishing that those I love knew just how much, wishing that they knew that no matter what happened to me, to keep believing in the good in people. To not let those men win.

“The atmosphere was so happy and everyone was dancing and smiling. And then when the men came through the front entrance and began the shooting, we naiively believed it was all part of the show,” Ms Bowdery said.

“It wasn’t just a terrorist attack, it was a massacre.”
American rock group Eagles of Death Metal perform on stage at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, few moments before four men armed with assault rifles and shouting "Allahu akbar" ("God is great!&quot. Picture: AFP/Rock & Folk/Marion Ruszniewski


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THE second terrorist involved in the horrific Paris terror attacks which left 129 dead has been named as 25-year-old Ahmed Almuhamed.

Serbian newspaper Blicshared a passport photo of the Syrian man which it claims is one of the terrorists who blew himself up at the Bataclan concert hall on Friday, killing 89. The Syrican passport was found on the body of a suicide bomber.

Blic reported Almuhamed posed as a refugee when he arrived on the Greek island of Leros on October 3. He reportedly applied for asylum in Serbia before crossing into Croatia and Austria.

Authorities said he was unarmed when he moved through Serbia, meaning he acquired weapons on his way to Paris.

“We confirm that the (Syrian) passport holder came through the Greek island of Leros on October 3 where he was registered under EU rules,” said a statement issued by Greek minister for citizen protection, Nikos Toskas.

Greece is the main entry point in Europe for thousands of Syrians refugees. European security forces have long feared that IS militants could hide among them.

A Greek newspaper, Protothema, said Almuhamed was travelling with a second man, Mohammed Almuhamed, and published pictures showing their purported travel documents.

Police have already identified one gunman who blew himself up at the Bataclan concert hall as 29-year-old Paris native Omar Ismail Mostefai. He has never been linked to terrorism. His father and 34-year-old brother have been taken into custody and their homes are being searched.

At least 129 people died and 99 were critically injured after three teams of gunmen and suicide bombers attacked the Stade de France, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall on Friday.

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