Man Tattoos Own Eyeballs, Ophthalmologist Shockingly Suggests You Shouldn’t Do That

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by Jon Bershad | 2:53 pm, October 22nd, 2010

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Dilemma: You’ve tattooed your entire head with a rocking checker pattern but your stupid eyeballs are right there in the middle ruining it by not following the color scheme. What do you do? If you said “Grab a needle and inject colored ink into your own eyeballs,” then you’re absolutely right! And by “right,” I, of course, mean “as out there as Portland’s Matt Gone.” The tattoo enthusiast did just that.

You’ve got to give Gone one thing, he owns what he’s done and he did it for himself. He started tattooing himself over 20 years ago in response to and to disguise birth defects which caused some of his muscles to be underdeveloped. In the video below, he tells reporters that the “tattoos make me not hate my body even though my body seems to be hating me.” Good for him, I suppose, but seriously…needles in your eyes?!

Unsurprisingly, ophtamologists don’t recommend tattooing your own eyeballs. From Portland’s KPTV Fox 12:

“But some doctors believe Gone has gone too far with his latest design. Dr. Douglas Meier, an ophthalmologist with the Portland Clinic in Beaverton, said Gone is at risk for infection that could lead to blindness or could even cause him to lose his eyes.
‘The risk of putting a needle near your eye is grave,’ said Meier. ‘Someone at home does not have access to the equipment nor the expertise.’
Gone said he knew the risks and he proceeded with caution.
‘I patch tested it and was successful. I had to take the risk; I’ve done that a lot of times before,’ said Gone. ‘I’m not crazy. I’m trained. I have a lot of experience.’”

So, for all our readers who are seeing this article and want to follow Gone’s lead (You never know. There might be a Mediaite reader who just really hates the phrase “whites of their eyes”), you might want to think twice before you grab the needle.

Check out CNN’s video of Gone showing off his new tats below.

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Kitsune

1. How does one not go blind doing this?

2. How does somebody get enough work to pay for all these tattoos? You’d think nobody will hire someone who tattoos themself that much, since they don’t have a coporate appearance. You wouldn’t even be allowed into a convenience store to buy a pack of cigarettes looking like that, around here.
BatBoy

Finally “The REAL ROYAL KING” shows his face!
stoogedudes

I hope this guy is self employed, because who would hire someone who looks like this?

Oops. I guess that means I’m a tattoo-ist.

Fitting that his last name is Gone. Boy, is he ever.
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stoogedudes said:
Fitting that his last name is Gone. Boy, is he ever.

He’s Gone off the deep end, for sure.
Big Dumb Ape

It’s for doing truly IDIOTIC things — like trying to tattoo your own eyeballs, at the risk of self-inflicted blindness — that the letter combination WTF was created !
BlackWidow

This man is self-abusive to the max.
murphy0071

Kitsune said:
1. How does one not go blind doing this?

2. How does somebody get enough work to pay for all these tattoos? You’d think nobody will hire someone who tattoos themself that much, since they don’t have a coporate appearance. You wouldn’t even be allowed into a convenience store to buy a pack of cigarettes looking like that, around here.

Are you just an idiot or did your parents drop you on your head. Eye infections from foreign materials are common and extremely dangerous. Many who don’t properly sterilize their contact suffer from infections, some of which render them blind.
He supposedly did it himself, much like a carefully done jail tattoo. That can’t be particularly expensive. Having worked at a jail in the medical department, I have reported such tattooing. It is very common. Even on the worst day no one was so stupid as to go for the eyes with tattoo ink and needle.
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murphy0071 said:
Are you just an idiot or did your parents drop you on your head. Eye infections from foreign materials are common and extremely dangerous. Many who don’t properly sterilize their contact suffer from infections, some of which render them blind.He supposedly did it himself, much like a carefully done jail tattoo. That can’t be particularly expensive. Having worked at a jail in the medical department, I have reported such tattooing. It is very common. Even on the worst day no one was so stupid as to go for the eyes with tattoo ink and needle.

I think Kitsune was agreeing with you. Other than that, I agree with all the posts on this. I have asked myself the same question as to how do the inked and pierced fanatics get meaningful jobs (other than in tattoo and piercing joints–not saying that’s “meaningful.”)