Mother goes blind after tattooing her eyeballs against her daughter’s advice

Anaya Peterson, a 32-year-old mom, brushed off her daughter’s advice to not get her eyeballs tattooed due to potential blindness – and now, she’s going blind.

The Belfast, Northern Ireland-based woman, who happens to be a law student, admitted that she was inspired by Amber Luke – an Australian model who tattooed her eyeballs a vivid blue and went blind for three weeks after. Although Amber Luke later got her vision back, it appears that Peterson might lose her sight permanently.

“I was just going to get one [eye tattoo] at first, because I thought that if I go blind, at least I’ve got the other eye. I should have stuck with that,” Peterson told Kennedy News. “My daughter told me that I didn’t want to do that [the tattoo] asking, ‘What if you go blind?’ She wasn’t on board with it at all.”

“Unfortunately, my artist went too deep into my eyeball,” she said. “If your eyeball procedure’s done correctly, you’re not supposed to go blind at all.”

Anaya now wishes she had listened to her wise 7-year-old daughter after she was left hospitalized by the eyeball modification.