A tattooed model who has nearly every inch of her skin covered in tattoos has revealed what she looked like before.
Australian Amber Luke – who sometimes goes by the nickname ‘Blue Eyes White Dragon’ on social media – has reportedly spent over $280,000 on tattoos and body modifications in order to transform herself into a walking work of art, according to the Daily Mail.
The 29-year-old model recently revealed to the Brisbane radio show ‘Robin, Terry, and Kip’ that she has more than 600 tattoos that cover 99% of her body.
However, despite boasting a uniquely beautiful appearance, she revealed that members of the public often tell her that she has “ruined” her looks.
“I am getting very heavily tattooed, but I’m not hurting anyone in the process,” she said in response to her critics. “Everyone has their own opinions of what beauty is.”
“You see these cultures [where people] stretch their necks, their ears, their lips. But at the end of the day, we all are entitled to our opinion and that’s okay. But, what gets to me is when someone expresses their opinion to me in public and comes up to me and says, ‘Oh, you’re ugly’, or, ‘You’ve ruined yourself’,” she added.
Speaking to the Daily Mail back in 2019, Luke revealed that her modifications have helped improve her confidence.
“Back when I was 14, I didn’t know who I was or what I wanted from life,” she said. “I was catatonic and couldn’t see what was best for me. I was naive. But I now have a backbone and I can stand up for what I believe in. I also have the confidence to look however I want too.”
In fact, Luke recently treated her 30,000+ Instagram fans by revealing what she looked like prior to all of her modifications.
In a compilation video, Luke can be seen smiling with blonde hair and just a modest nose piercing. Check out her transformation below:
In response to her compilation videos, many of Luke’s Instagram fans agreed that she looked “beautiful then and beautiful now.”
“Started gorgeous and just gets better and better,” one support wrote, with another adding: “So beautiful. Always have been.”
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As well as tattoos on her skin, Luke also has multiple piercings, a split forked tongue, and has undergone a Brazillian butt lift.
However, perhaps her most controversial modification is her tattooed eyeballs – which helped earn her the nickname “Blue Eyes White Dragon”.
Check out a close up look of her two procedures below (warning – not for the faint of heart):
Luke, who hails from Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia, spent 40 minutes undergoing the procedure – and risked going permanently blind.
“If I moved, blinked, or flinched while the syringe was in my eye, I would have gone blind,” she told ITV talk show This Morning back in 2019.
And despite saying the pain was like rubbing “shards of glass” into her eyeballs, Luke said she has “no regrets” over the procedure. But the eyeball inking wasn’t without its complications, and Luke revealed that she did lose much of her vision for around three weeks.
And although that would be enough for most of us to never go near a tattoo needed, Luke recently revealed that she is once again inking her eyeballs.
“The reason I’m doing this is because I was so botched in the first place I do not ever want to experience that again,” she said during an appearance on the Triple M WA breakfast show.
“People say, “Why the hell would you put yourself through that again, knowing that that could be a risk?” But there is actually no risk if it’s done correctly.”
But according to WebMD, “the long-term consequences of eye tattoos are unknown” due to the modification being so rare.
