A tattoo artist based out of Delhi, Karan King, is making news for claiming to be the first Indian to have his eyeballs inked. He seems to be liking his new tattoo and is in fact, flaunting it, if his Instagram photos are anything to go by. Talking to indianexpress.com, the 28-year-old tattoo and piercing artist said he went ahead with his decision because he wanted to. “I was about to be disliked for my accomplishment anyway and still I did it because I wanted it. My eyes, my happiness, my life,” he said. While his attempt at getting inked was successful, he was well aware of the major risks involved in what he was signing up for. “I knew I might lose my eyesight but since I did my homework I went ahead with it. I was so hungry for it that I wanted it at any cost,” he said.

It was however, not very long ago that a Canadian model Catt Gallinger made news after her scleral tattoo went wrong and started shedding purple tears. Her botched up tattoo almost took her eye and the model is now on a mission to educate people to calculate the risks before colouring their eyeballs.

The process of getting a coloured eye tattoo involves injecting your eyes with ink and turning them into colourful orbs. Though the tattoo doesn’t seem to be for the faint-hearted, fanatics are trying out everything, starting from purple and red to orange and green. Here are pictures of some of them.