Mary Magdalene already had the white of her left eye tattooed black, but wanted to get her right eye inked neon green to look like a ‘mutant hybrid apocalyptic otherworldly goddess.’
However, just hours after the procedure, the yellow ink injected during the process began to clump near her tear duct, and then seeped into her lower eyelids.
‘There’s a big clump in the corner that isn’t spreading—it’s like it’s stuck there,’ she said in a TikTok video that has so far been viewed over 102,00 times.
She continued: ‘It’s completely bruised and completely bloodshot.’
‘I don’t want them to amputate [sic] my eye for no reason but I woke up just now and have so much light sensitivity in both eyes. I can barely even see.’
The Mexican-born influencer, whose real name is Denise, already has most of her body tattooed, having inked her arms and chest pure black last year.
In a series of videos following the procedure, Denise asked her followers for advice, as her eye began to swell dramatically until she couldn’t see.
@marymagdalene555this was a few hours post opp eyeball tattoo
‘I think I should go to the ER,’ she said.
‘I don’t know if I should wait it out. One second I think it’s okay, then the next second I look at it and it looks more swollen to me.’
Eventually, after seeking medical advice at a nearby hospital, Denise was given medication to bring down the swelling and was told to return the following morning for further tests on her eye.
She claims that doctors warned her that she may have to undergo an enucleation procedure—an operation to remove her entire eye—if her symptoms deteriorated overnight.
‘The doctor was really aggressive. He was just saying the most dramatic things like “you’re going to need to get your eye removed probably”,’ Denise recalled.
Despite showing no improvement in her symptoms, the model—who charges almost $30 (£22) a month for her explicit content—was hesitant to return to the hospital, in case medics recommended surgery to remove her eye.
‘I just don’t know what to do,’ she said to her followers in one of the clips.
‘I’m just nervous to go to the hospital and then they don’t know what to do with this type of case and then they’re trying to amputate my eye.
The yellow ink stained her surrounding skin, which she will likely have to undergo surgery to remove
The OnlyFans creator looks completely different in this pre-surgery photo
‘I was feeling optimistic when I woke up today, but I can’t open my eye. When I use the doctor’s medication, it burns,’ she added.
Denise then sought a second opinion from an ophthalmologist after she started vomiting and experiencing visual disturbances in both eyes.
After four days, however, her vision began to improve and the swelling started to go down.
‘When I open [my eye] I can see, but it doesn’t stay open it’s so swollen,’ she shared in an update.
Whilst her original plan was to incorporate green and yellow tones to create a ‘psychedelic effect’, the adult creator will likely have to undergo surgery to drain the excess ink from her eye.
This comes following a string of cosmetic procedure that set the OnlyFans model back more than £110,000.
In an emotional post, shared in 2023, she admitted that she had been ‘trapped in a never ending cycle’ of plastic surgery and was constantly going under the knife to fix botched procedures.
The model originally rose to fame after getting an illegal procedure to create ‘the world’s fattest vagina’ in a surgery that almost killed her.
The influencer posted to TikTok just two hours after the procedure, before the ink had begun to spread, dying her skin yellow
The former stripper and escort has forked out over $150,000 (£110,000) on plastic surgery
In 2023 she admitted that maintaining her head-turning aesthetic ‘is not worth all the unnecessary stress.’
‘It’s not a fun little adventure anymore, it’s just draining in every possible way,’ she said.
‘My time gets drained, my bank account, my energy, my health. And in the long run, you just kind of end up digging yourself into a really expensive time-consuming hole.’
Experts have previously warned against any procedure which permanently changes the colour of someone’s eyes due to the risk of infection and vision changes.
This includes corneal tattooing, laser depigmentation and iris implant surgery.
Whilst these procedures are sometimes used to treat an eye injury or existing medical condition, when used solely for cosmetic reasons, there are a number of risks to be considered.
Dr James Tsai, president of New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, told ABC News: ‘These risks can be sight-threatening and can include glaucoma, cataract and corneal problems.’
Instead, if you’re not happy with the colour of your eyes, specialists recommend contact lenses that can allow the wearer to completely change their eye colour.
It comes as shocking research published earlier this year found getting a tattoo could nearly triple your risk of certain cancers.
Danish and Finish scientists analysed data from over 2,000 twins, comparing cancer rates in those who inked up versus those who didn’t.
They found those who had a tattoo were up to 62 per cent more likely to be diagnosed with skin cancer—but those with ink larger than the palm of the hand, were at a significantly increased risk.
For these people, the risk of skin cancer increased by a shocking 137 per cent and for lymphoma—a deadly type of blood cancer—the risk soared to 173 per cent.
They said their findings were concerning given the rising popularity of tattoos in European nations, particularly among younger generations.
Surveys estimate that about one in four people in the UK now have at least one tattoo.
