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Tat’s not all, folks.
An influencer dubbed “Australia’s most tattooed woman” has said she is abandoning her plans to remove dozens of tats from her body after getting “freaked out” by the thought of having clear skin.
Amber Luke, 30, asked AI to generate an image of what she would look like if she went through with removing 36 tattoos from her face and body, and was horrified by what she saw.
“I put my face into ChatGPT and asked it to remove all my tattoos,” Luke, who has spent the equivalent of $257,000 on her body art, told NeedToKnow.
“I absolutely hated what I saw. I f–king despised it,” the woman from Brisbane, Australia said.
“I think, in the end, I was doing it more for everyone else’s benefit rather than my own,” she added.
Luke admitted it’s been 10 years since she’s “seen her face” without any ink, and has so far had seven of her tattoos lasered off.
But she said there were also moral and ethical reasons preventing her from going through with the removal.
“[I was going to use stem cells] to make healing a lot easier and quicker. It was the only thing that would regenerate my face after such an intense and painful experience,” she said.
“But I didn’t know if they were ethically sourced. I just felt wrong using them,” Luke said, adding that, luckily, her previous removals on her face were done for free.
Luke is a brand ambassador for Xanadu Therapies in Springwood Brisbane, which carried out the removals.
Describing them as “gnarly,” Luke said she didn’t use any numbing cream during the laser removals, as she wanted to feel the burning and stinging “intensely” on her face.
She is now planning on getting fresh tattoos on her face to replace the ones she had removed — which are also being done for free.
“There’ll be a cover-up for my old life. I will have another face tattoo done soon on the other side,” said Luke.
“I don’t need to get many more – just a good banger to fill my face. I would like to also add something to the side of my other cheek — something similar to what I already have – but I’m not too sure yet,” she said.
Luke previously had to have a body modification implant designed to “pixify” her ears urgently removed, after it was found to be causing serious health issues.
The implant was left hanging out of her ear, which later gushed with yellow fluid.
In the aftermath, Luke said she was left feeling lethargic, and lost a lot of weight.
Luke—who admitted to becoming a tattoo addict at 16— had her eyeballs dyed blue back in 2018.
She later revealed that she was blinded for three weeks after undergoing the gruesome, 40-minute procedure.
Despite that, in 2024, she insisted it was worth it. telling a podcast that she had recently returned to Brazil to have her eyeballs re-inked.
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