man tattoos his own eyes

Not with a design or anything, just color of course but it's just as dangerous, or is it?


WAFB.com, Louisiana's news channel did a story on a man in Oregon who had his 98% of his body covered in tattoos.

Matt Gone is a tattoo extremist whose birth defects prevented some of the muscles in his body from developing properly and inspired him to get his first tattoo nearly 22 years ago.

"The tattoos make me not hate my body, even though my body seems to be hating me," he said.

Gone had his eyes inked two different colors. His doctors have expressed concern with the ink in his eyes causing infection, but Gone is assured that the procedure is safe.

"I patch tested it and was successful," he recalled. "I had to take the risk. I've done that a lot of times before. I'm not crazy. I'm trained. I have a lot of experience."

Doctors still disagree and think he has gone too far.

"The risk of putting a needle near your eye is grave," said Dr. Douglas Meier, an ophthalmologist with the Portland Clinic.

With 98% of his body inked including his eyes, Gone thinks that just about enough.

"I never really knew how far I would ever go," he said. "And this is about as far as you can go."

tattoos and stretch marks?

Angelas Smith for Ezine Articles reports that people are finding themselves using tattoos to cover stretch marks vs. using "lotion or potions."

She gives a guideline of tattooing over stretch marks, including:

1. The age of the stretch marks. If your stretch marks are less than 1 year old, you should wait to have them tattooed. Usually, the color of stretch marks will fade from a pink or purple to a more silvery flesh tone after the first year.
2. Find a tattoo artist, who is experienced in tattooing over scars/stretch marks. As him/her how many of these types of tattooing he/she has done and if they have any pictures of the final design after it was finished. Maybe they have collected testimonials from them that you can read. Sometimes, your doctor may be able to refer you to someone.
3. Have your tattooist start out with a small design that, if the tattoo does not take well, you can live with. This is a test site, and you should be able to tell how well your scarred skin will take and hold the tattoo ink.

As with any scar, getting a tattoo over sensitive skin in that state can be more painful vs. a tattoo on clear skin. More on this story is also found at the BioCutis Blog

Just be careful in choices and remember, YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL JUST THE WAY YOU ARE! xoxo

tattoos linked to hepatitis C?

word to the wise: GO TO A PROFESSIONAL, GET A BACKGROUND CHECK OF THE PLACE AND PERSON WHOSE GOING TO WORK ON YOU, CHECK YOUR SURROUNDINGS AND MAKE SURE ALL IS CLEAN AND THERE IS NO DIRTY NEEDLES OUT AND ABOUT.

SAFETY ALWAYS COMES FIRST!

ABC News reported back on August 10 a story about the "growing risk of hepatitis c due to tattoos" with a supported report that "A systematic review of 124 published studies from 30 countries found that people with tattoos were almost three times as likely to have hepatitis C as those without tattoos, according to Dr. Jane Buxton of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control in Vancouver and colleagues." (ABC News)


More information about this claim can be found at www.medpagetoday.com.