Eyeball Tattoos
Sagging pants – that’s so yesterday! Never let it be
said that criminals are not on the cutting edge of fashion. The newest
craze given to us from behind prison walls: Eye Tattooing.
Prisoners have found a way to color the whites of their eyes
to blue, black, red or any color in the rainbow.
The general process of this consists of a total of 40 injections into the eye to capture the proper pigment. The pigment is initially injected under the
top layer of the eye using a syringe. At first a traditional needle that had
ink on it was used, but the ink can not hold, so a syringe is used. To watch the process click HERE.
Although we don't know much about style-behind-bars, we were aware of the body piercing and the tattooing that goes on in the cells...but two prisoners have opened our eyes to the newest self-mutilating trend: eye tattoos that change the sclera to be blue or even red.
When asked why he would do this to himself, David Boltjes (whose eyes are red) poetically remarked, "You can't ask why...the real question is why not," and his fellow inmate, blue-eyed Paul Inman explained that now, no one in the world would have the same color peepers as he has. Neither man would say how they managed to color their eyeballs, but both concurred it was extremely painful.
To watch the video click HERE (not safe for the easily nauseated):
Presented by Literally Lawyer and Huff Post Style
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