Woman who spent $250,000 on tattoos and body modifications shares what she looked like before
An Australian model with more than 600 tattoos has shared a picture of what she used to look like before she spent AU $250,000 (£120,000) on her extreme transformation.
Amber Luke from Brisbane, now dubbed 'the dragon girl', said she was a 'plain Jane' before her treatments that include injecting blue dye into her eyeballs which, she says, left her blind for three weeks.
She's also said her face tattoos have 'limited [her employment] options'.
The 29-year-old has also had a breast augmentation, cheek and lip fillers, pointed implants placed in her ears and a Brazilian butt lift, as well as modifications such as getting her tongue split in two.
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The model, who goes by 'Blue Eyes White Dragon', shared old pictures of her, where she was seen smiling at the camera without any visible inking on her face.
Amber shared that she had begun getting tattoos as a teenager, posting one image of her at 20, before she had any inking on her face.
She wrote on her Instagram: "I realised when I was 20 years old that no matter what I did - society judged me anyhow. I couldn’t please anyone - so that’s when I decided it was time to take my power and harness it.
"I wanted to express myself - but I also didn’t like what I looked like. In all retrospect, do I regret my decision making process?
"Nope. Everything happens for a reason, sometimes for the reasons we don’t understand until later in life."
Although the model has become famous for her 600+ tattoos, she revealed some of them are not here to stay in an update this summer.
The model said: "It’s now August 2025 and I am currently in the process of removing all my 36 face tattoos - mainly because i have lost and gained weight over the years...my face tattoos are now distorted and half faded."
Luke has also appeared on various media platforms to talk about her modifications, including filing her teeth down to have white gold fangs fitted. One of the most painful procedures for Amber was dying her eyeballs blue.
"They literally inject your eye with a syringe," she explained to Studio 10.
"It's done four times in each eye. Someone holds your eye open and someone injects. It wasn't done correctly. He actually went too deep into my eyeball. It was very, very, very painful."
She also counted getting her tongue split as one of the other more 'excruciating' procedures, as she underwent it twice, cutting through scar tissue.
"I've gone into shock so many times I've had fits, and I'm not epileptic," she added.
"The experience I went through made me extremely resilient and so strong."
The model also ran into legal trouble in the past, pleading guilty to seven drug charges in December 2020 after police raided her home and found sealed bags of marijuana and MDMA.
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Faima Bakar