{"id":51578,"date":"2014-09-27T13:11:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T13:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=51578"},"modified":"2014-09-27T13:11:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T13:11:56","slug":"man-gets-tattoo-on-his-eyeball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=51578","title":{"rendered":"Man gets tattoo on his eyeball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has undergone a rare procedure to get a tattoo on his eyeball.<\/p>\n<p>William Watson, 58, of New York, had ink injected into his eye after living\u00a0with an all-white iris following an injury when he was young.<\/p>\n<p>As a child Mr Watson was struck in the face by a ball.<\/p>\n<p>The incident left his eye a cloudy hue which drew unwanted attention, he said.<\/p>\n<p>So the Madison Square Garden worker\u00a0decided to undergo the hour-long cosmetic procedure \u2013 which does not improve the condition of the damaged eye but creates the appearance of a normal pupil.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Emil Chynn of Park Ave SafeSight and CJ Pento was drafted in to ink up Mr Watson\u2019s eye.<\/p>\n<p>After the tattoo Mr Watson said: \u2018It felt like someone was rubbing it \u2013 that\u2019s about it. It went smoothly, no nothing whatsoever. It was nice.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>And amazingly, after a few weeks of healing, his\u00a0pupils looked nearly identical.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NEW YORK - JUNE: William Watson pictured after the surgery with a coloured iris on in June 2014 in New York City. A MAN with an all-white iris has gotten a tattoo \u00f1 on his EYEBALL . The extremely rare procedure is not for the faint-hearted but for 58-year-old William Watson, from New York, it has changed his life. He suffered an eye injury when he was young and his left eye has been white and cloudy ever since. Now, thanks to cutting-edge technique, he can look strangers in the eye. PHOTOGRAPH BY Incredible Features \/ Barcroft Media UK Office, London. T +44 845 370 2233 W www.barcroftmedia.com USA Office, New York City. T +1 212 796 2458 W www.barcroftusa.com Indian Office, Delhi. T +91 11 4053 2429 W www.barcroftindia.com\" src=\"http:\/\/metrouk2.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/ad_146771002.jpg?w=644&amp;h=429&amp;crop=1#038;h=667\" width=\"644\" height=\"429\" data-rsz=\"shrink\" data-rewritten=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<figure><figcaption><strong>The pupils look nearly identical (Picture: Barcroft)<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He continued: \u2018I can\u2019t believe how much better I look on the outside and how much better I feel inside.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Dr Chynn gave me a way to normality I didn\u2019t even know existed six months ago. I feel much more confidence in myself.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Metro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has undergone a rare procedure to get a tattoo on his eyeball. William Watson, 58, of New York, had ink injected into his eye after living\u00a0with an all-white iris following an injury when he was young. As a child Mr Watson was struck in the face by a ball. The incident left his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":51579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-51578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-togbe-afede-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}