Washington could ban eyeball tattoos
OLYMPIA – Tattooed eyeballs are apparently rare in Washington state. A House committee was asked Wednesday to keep it that way with a bill that would ban tattoo artists from doing anything to the whites of your eyes.
They are known as scleral tattoos because they scratch or dye the sclera, the white outer layer of the eyeball. Just the description of the tattoos made some members of the House Health Care and Wellness Committee shudder.
“Everybody’s creeped out by this,” Chairwoman Eileen Cody, D-West Seattle, told the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Steve Tharinger, D-Sequim.
“It’s odd, but it’s not a joke,” Tharinger said. “There is serious damage that can happen to people’s eyes.”
His bill would put an outright ban on the practice and provide a civil penalty of as much as $10,000 for those who give someone a scleral tattoo.
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