![]() ![]() Boxer Wachler used white ink to correct a surgical eye coloring procedure that had gone wrong. Brian Boxer Wachler, M.D., a Beverly Hills–based ophthalmologist, tells SELF he has performed this procedure a single time in a patient who had an extenuating circumstance. “As long as they aren’t hurting anyone else, they should do what makes them happy.In rare circumstances, eye doctors may need to whiten the sclera.īarth is correct, but it's not something doctors encounter very often. “Everyone should have the right to express themselves and make themselves look on the outside the way they feel on the inside. She added: “It always strikes me as unusual when people stare if the two of us go out somewhere, and then I have to remind myself. “Burns’ modifications have kind of become invisible to me because I’m so used to them.” She said: “I’ve always had a thing for dragons, so I love it. However, she is 100 per cent behind her boyfriend’s plans. Though at one time, she had “one of the smallest waists in Canada” – 16.5ins -due to corsetry training, the only body modification procedure she has had is a chip in her hand too. In fact, we’re some of the most genuine people you’ll meet, because we aren’t afraid to express our true selves.”Īnd one of Burns’ biggest supporters is his girlfriend Tristan – known by her stage name Little Miss Risk – who he met backstage at a performance six years ago, and now shares a home, four six-foot snakes and a lizard with. He went on to say: “We aren’t bad people. These two get excited about everything!Ĭlick here to sign up to The Secret Elves Club. How would you like to join The Secret Elves Club, a community of more than 100,000 Elves who get excited about Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Bonfire Night and everything in between?Įach week, this lucky bunch of Elves receive the best shopping deals and money-saving tricks and tips direct to their inbox.īy signing up you will receive a newsletter from our two resident elves, Elf Alan and Elf Amy. “I felt like I was becoming the person I was meant to be.” “I absolutely loved it when it was finished,” he said. So, in 2009, aged 19, Burns was introduced to a body modification artist – who has done the majority of his procedures – paying $500CAD (£283) to have his tongue split. He continued: “I already had all these piercings, so it wasn’t that far-fetched for me.” He said: “I saw it and immediately thought, ‘I want that’ because reptiles have split tongues too. Then, when he made a friend in the juggling community who had their tongue split, he was fascinated. “Obsessed” with reptiles since he was a child, Burns began working at carnivals as a teenager, eventually moving on to become a juggler and street performer.īy his late teens, sporting a Mohawk haircut and several piercings, he already had an alternative look – which his parents hoped would be a phase.īut soon after he left home aged 18, he got his first tattoo – a dragon heart design on his chest. He added: “I’m liking where I’m at currently but every time I get another tattoo or another modification, I feel more confident and happier – and it helps with my career.” ![]() But I also want to look aesthetically pleasing.” ![]() He also has thousands of pounds worth of tattoos – the most intricate of which took an eye-watering 51 hours to complete – and wants to get his penis and gums inked, too.Īnd his girlfriend, Tristan Risk, 40, is completely supportive of his plans to push his transformation even further.īurns said: “I want to be 100 per cent covered as a dragon, and beat all the world records out there for the most modifications and tattoos. Since then, the performance artist and reptile seller, of Vancouver, Canada, has had his earlobes cropped and ears shaped to appear pointed, dyed his tongue purple and inserted silicone ‘horns’ into his forehead. Now 30, Joshua Burns, who goes by his surname, began his journey aged 19 when he had his tongue cosmetically split in two. A fire-breathing performer who has had £11,000 of procedures to look like a dragon – including carving scales into his arms and tattooing his eyeballs – is determined to become the most modified person in the world. ![]()
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