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Step1. Draw out the guidelines. These lines will be in blue for the remainder of the tutorial so they are easily visible.

Step2. Draw out the top of the eye, the actual eye itself and the circle inside the eye. Then add in the bottom of the eye.

Step3. Draw in the eyebrow. Add another small circle in the eye and another two small ones inside of it. Draw wiggly lines on each side for the light detail.

Step4. Finish the sharp lines on both sides of the tribal design. The ends should be sharp points and the edges should be sharp.

Step5. Draw in the final curl at the bottom. It should also have a pointy tip.

Step6. When you erase all the guidelines, this is what your finished drawing shoud look like. And you’er totally done.

Have you finally made that heart-wrenching decision to get a tribal eye tattoo? If so, know that you need to do some research in regards to your new ink.

At this point, you have decided that you want a tattoo, but there are many things that you should take into consideration. For example, tattoos are permanent and are very hard to be altered later down the road - possible, but very difficult. In other words, you must make sure to get the tattoo design that you want. You will be unable to change this tattoo a few months down the road when you’ve decided it’s just not right. But how will you know when you’ve chosen the right tribal eye tattoo? You’ll know. You’ll feel it in your heart and your gut that it’s the right one.

You also want to make sure that you choose a diverse design. You probably don’t want a tribal eye tattoo that is on everyone else, right? Of course not; therefore, research is required.

You can search online for tribal tattoos; however, you should do more than just a Google image search for your new ink. Try checking out various websites online that have large compilations of tattoo designs for you to choose from.

IF you think the common tattoos are so over, you’ve got another think coming, eye tattooing maybe can attract you.

To tattoo the eyes, the doctors used two different procedures. First they used a traditional needle with ink on it, but when the ink didn’t hold, they switched to a syringe that injected ink into the eye. The most recent posts indicate that all was well, with one of the guys saying it felt like he had something in his eye.

But that’s not to say it’s a good idea.

“Cosmetic tattooing of the cornea can be extremely dangerous,” advises Dr. Sandra Belmont, a clinical associate professor of ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical Center-New York Presbyterian Hospital. “Infection, perforation and hemorrhage are among the potential complications.”

However, there are good reasons for getting an eye tattoo. If a person has suffered eye trauma - burning, laceration or bruising - scars can result, which a tattoo can cover. It can also help people with leucoma - an opaque blemish, usually white in color -and return the eye’s appearance to one of more normalcy.

Consult your doctor. Some will do corneal tattoos if their patient has suffered from some sort of eye trauma. However, most doctors will refuse to give a healthy person an eye tattoo. There are too many risks involved in the procedure. Tattooing can cause blindness, infection, scarring and hemorraging. While there has been some research into eye tattoos, the results and implications are not yet known.

Talk to a tattoo artist. Some are starting to do blue eye tattoos. One technique involves injecting your eye with a traditional needle with ink on it. However, this is extremely risky.

Be prepared for the technique. The artist will inject ink into your eye with a syringe. It turns the entire white part of you eye blue. It is extremely difficult to get the ink injected into the right layer of the eye. Do not attempt to give yourself an eye tattoo. You could go blind.

Use lidocaine drops to numb your eyelids before the procedure. The surface of your eye doesn’t have any nerve endings, so there isn’t much pain.

Apply a patch and use antibiotic drops after you get an eye tattoo.

If you suffered some sort of eye trauma, including a laceration, burning or bruising, an eye tattoo can cover the scars. People with leucoma have white blemishes on their eyes. Tattoos can make their eyes look normal.

The variation of eye tattooing comes as a great shock to most people. It seems unlikely that the eyeball is an area that can actually receive any form of pigmentation without suffering major damage.

During the tattooing procedure, the pigment is placed under a thin film on the cornea of the eye; specifically, it is injected between the sclera and the conjunctiva. The pigment then bleeds through the space creating the so-called eye tattoo. Warnings against this variation of eye tattooing include risk of eye-tissue penetration which can potentially damage the tissue and retina impairing overall eye functionality.

Eye tattooing of this nature is generally considered dangerous and unadvisable; however, some people choose to undergo the procedure as an expression of boldness, body ownership and originality.