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What ‘Australia’s most tattooed woman’ looked like before spending £212,000 on body modifications

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Published 13:23 7 Mar 2026 GMT

What ‘Australia’s most tattooed woman’ looked like before spending £212,000 on body modifications

Amber Luke looked very different before getting all the tattoos

Joe Harker

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Amber Luke, who reckons she's 'Australia's most tattooed woman', looked quite different before she spent a veritable fortune on transforming her body.

She's managed to get around 98 percent of her body tattooed and has 'no regrets' about it as she says it means she's 'seen how resilient she is'.

Having spent somewhere in the region of £212,000 on her tattoos and body modifications that's a good thing, as you'd hate to spend a small fortune on such a dramatic transformation and think it really wasn't worth it.

A prolific presence on social media, Luke has shared many images of what she looks like including some pictures of her appearance before she got so much ink.

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She got her first tattoo at the age of 16 as she wanted to know what it felt like, and she told The Sun by the time she was 20 she wanted a 'full bodysuit' of tattoos.

Amber shared an image of what she looked like before the tattoos (Instagram/@amberluke666)
Amber shared an image of what she looked like before the tattoos (Instagram/@amberluke666)

Five years after that she'd managed to get 95 percent of her body tattooed.

In addition to the vast amounts of ink on her skin, she also dramatically got her eyes tattooed blue which left her blind for three weeks with optometrists telling her the first procedure was 'botched', and she did end up getting her eyes tattooed a second time with a different artist holding the needle.

"If you blink or move when that needle is in your eyeball, you can go permanently blind," she explained.

"It was crucial for me to breathe through the procedure, as I was experiencing severe trauma and PTSD.

"It was so difficult to remain still with so much raging through my brain, but I’m beyond proud of myself for taking this situation back.

"The first procedure was hands down the most excruciating pain I’ve ever been through."

A side-by-side of Amber with and without tattoos (Instagram/@amberluke666)
A side-by-side of Amber with and without tattoos (Instagram/@amberluke666)

She says her second eye procedure had 'absolutely no pain', which was 'how it's supposed to be'.

Unfortunately for others who've undergone the eye tattoo procedure they've found it to be a hellish experience as a woman who also got her eyeballs inked faced the prospect of going blind.

Anaya Peterson said she was inspired by Amber Luke and got her own eyes tattooed, with all seeming well for a time before she work up months later and looked like she'd gone '10 rounds with Mike Tyson'.

Her eyelids started swelling and she was diagnosed with tattoo sarcoidosis, an autoimmune disease which means a person's white blood cells cannot fight some kinds of bacteria or fungi.

Tattoos can set it off and trigger sympathetic ophthalmia, an immune system response that can lead to a loss of vision.

Featured Image Credit: Instagram

Topics: Australia, Social Media, Lifestyle

Joe Harker
Joe Harker

Joe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He's also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]

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