
I’m spending three to four hours a day, sometimes six, stretching, stretching, stretching. It’s very dangerous, it can kill you.Ī: I’m doing something crazy all over again. All I can say is, do not try this at home - leave it to the professionals. The eyes, I’m not going to talk about, because I don’t want people to replicate the eyes. The eyes have very little nerve tissue and you don’t really feel that much in the tongue. How’d you do that?Ī: With a hypodermic needle. Q: You tattooed your own eyeballs and tongue. For whatever reason, they have body issues - it’s not even about the tattoo. It seems to be a popular reason why people get tattoos. Do you encounter others who get tattoos to cope with medical problems?Ī: There’s thousands, probably millions of people like that in the world. Tattoos are the easiest pain I go through. You have no idea the suffering I go through that I cannot control in life. I’m going to the bathroom a million times a day. I’m dealing with all these medical issues all the time. Q: Do the tattoos give you a sense of control over your body?Ī: Exactly. I’ve worked for automobile racing associations. When people judge me, they see the checkers, they usually have a pretty positive view. Let’s face it, in life, if you’re face tattooed, you’re going to be judged. I’ve never known a single person who had a negative feeling toward checkers. It’s sort of a career, it’s sort of part-time work for a disabled person.Ī: Nobody hates checkers. I have kidney disease and this is how I get by. Q: Is this your main source of income, tattoo shows?Ī: It’s not really much for an income or anything. Now the only blank spaces are his palms and the soles of his feet, virtually un-inkable. For his 16th birthday, not long before she died, she paid to cover up his first tattoo. He’s unlikely to wrinkle much thanks to scarring from his tattoos. He doesn’t expect to live long, but his tattoos have given him a body and a life he loves. Faced with physical defects, he’s simply tattooed over most of them. He’s missing his left kidney, lower left bicep and major pectoral muscle. He suffers from Poland’s Syndrome, a rare birth defect triggered by his mother’s hemophilia. Gone’s tattoos were inspired by medical troubles. A maple leaf will be his 15th national flag, representing world travels, though he’s four or five emblems behind. He’s hoping to add another splotch to a blank checker on his leg. Since getting a bat scrawled on an arm 30 years ago, Gone’s been through more than 600 sessions, more than 1,000 hours and more than 110 artists - including himself - to drench and re-drench his body in ink.īeginning Friday, he’ll be on display at Edmonton’s Northlands Expo Centre, a piece of mobile art for the Alberta Bound Tattoo & Arts Festival.
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We’re not even talking the amount of skin coverage.” “At this point, we’re literally talking how many layers. “I have tattoos inside my throat, inside my mouth,” says Gone, leaving the world rankings to the metaphysicians. Yet the checkered 44-year-old Portland man insists he’s the got the most ink on the inside, on his tongue and gums and in nooks and crannies in his “underwear” zone. Sunday noon to 6 p.m.Īdmission: $25 at the door, $50 weekend pass, or ĮDMONTON – Tattoos cover 99 per cent of his body, but Matt Gone is only the fifth most-inked human on the planet. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.“I am NOT sharing this with you to cause trouble, I am sharing this to warn you to research who you get your procedures by as well as how the procedure should be properly done.” In another post about a month later, the model reported she suffered from blurry and double vision. “This was caused by undiluted ink, over injection, not enough/smaller injections sights,” wrote Gallinger in a viral Facebook post where she discussed her tattoo. Medical staff reasoned that the tattoo process had torn her sclera and told Gallinger that, even after taking medication for several weeks, her eyesight wouldn’t heal and she would go blind without surgery.

In an interview with The Sun, the model said that she experienced swelling of the eyes and blurred vision after checking in to a hospital. Although she figured the reaction was normal, Gallinger sought medical attention. After the procedure was finished, however, she realized that one of her eyes was oozing purple liquid. One example of eye tattoos gone wrong is the case of Canadian model Cat Gallinger, who got a sclera tattoo in 2017 to color the whites of her eyes purple.
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Of course, as with any procedure or treatment associated with the eyeballs, there is an exorbitant amount of risks associated with the body mod ink.
