“I think that over time, I’ve learned to actually understand that it doesn’t change you,” she said, “It’s the society’s perception on it. Yes, jet-black eyeballs, as if they were filled with inkwhich they kinda are, as one commenter pointed out, writing, the whites of her eyes have been tattooed dark. And prop her up, and love her.” Luke’s mother said her daughter “never saw herself as beautiful,” and with the help of the modifications, she watched her daughter's confidence thrive. “But I brought her into the world with the best skills that I could give … it’s just for me to be there and go along the journey with her. ![]() Luke's mother Vikki said that she struggled with her daughter's appearance, “As we know as the parents, some kids will just do what they want to do, regardless of what we say,” she said. “If your eyeball procedure’s done correctly, you’re not supposed to go blind at all. “Unfortunately, my artist went too deep into my eyeball,” she told Barcroft Media, as well as saying that she aims to be completely covered in tattoos by March 2020. Maya Lu from Tengen, South Germany, had her first try at a tattoo gun when she was just two years old, practising how to ink scribbles on her fathers feet. This surgical procedure is not to be confused with the cosmetic tattooing of the conjunctiva (white of the eye), which is dangerous and can cause vision complications or even blindness.A post shared by Blue Eyes White Dragon □ on at 9:16pm PST A talented nine-year-old girl may just be the worlds youngest professional tattoo artist, inking customers since she was a toddler. Mr Saldanha truly is a marvellous man – he’s amazing.” “Now I’ve had that done too and it’s fantastic. “Mr Saldanha thought that perhaps it would compensate for the other eye but it accentuated the problem because I was left with one squinty eye. She said: “Once the dressing came off and my pupil dilated again, it was instant. Mrs Liscombe had the procedure on her right eye, the worst affected, two years ago. She wanted us to do it – and to do the other eye too.”Īlthough the first of its kind in Wales, Mr Saldanha has since published an article on the procedure so other surgeons can adopt it. "She found it was dramatically different. “The beauty of it was, we had actually checked it out first by temporarily using marking ink on that area, but on the surface, and asked her to go out for a couple of hours and come back. “It’s like having a filter in the clear window of her eye but without affecting the coloured part, and retaining the artificial opening. ![]() We then put in a layer of tattoo ink and closed the pocket. “For Mrs Liscombe, we used a tiny, precise scalpel to create a pocket in the centre of the cornea, over where she had the laser. Mr Saldanha said surgeons traditionally used tattoo ink to try to block off certain abnormalities on the cornea, the clear window of the eye.īut, unlike skin, the cornea has no pigment to take up the ink so it was always a temporary procedure that faded and had to be repeated. He explained the problem was caused by light entering Mrs Liscombe’s eyes twice: through the pupils and through the artificial openings the laser procedure created. Then after five years of problems she was referred to Mr Saldanha. Other consultants suggested she wore coloured lenses, which made no difference, and then coloured contact lenses which she couldn’t tolerate. But once headlights hit me, I really couldn’t see.” I drive early in the morning to go to work and I drive the grandchildren. “Sometimes I felt it wasn’t safe to drive in the dark. “It affected me when I was watching TV or when I was in the theatre or cinema. ![]() Unfortunately a side-effect affecting perhaps one in a thousand people left her with life-changing problems. She was advised by another consultant to have laser treatment, making tiny incisions in the coloured part of her eyes to release the pressure. Mrs Liscombe explained there was a family history of glaucoma, a build-up of pressure in the eye that can cause permanent sight loss or damage. It reached the point where Mrs Liscombe began to worry it was no longer safe for her to drive. Various solutions were tried, unsuccessfully. Some years ago Mrs Liscombe had laser surgery to treat glaucoma but an unusual side effect meant her eyes became highly light-sensitive. Left: Mrs Liscombe’s eye with the tattoo ink clearly visible Mandy Liscombe had tattoo ink inserted into her corneas – effectively creating a pair of shades inside her eyes – by pioneering Singleton Hospital ophthalmology consultant Mario Saldanha. The girl with the dragon tattoo has nothing on a Swansea gran who has had her eyes “tattooed” to cure a rare condition.
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