Amber Luke, dubbed “Australia’s most tattooed woman” due to her extensive body art, has jetted to Spain to undergo two drastic procedures that are heavily restricted in Australia.
The 31-year-old, also known as ‘Dragon Girl’ to fans, is covered head-to-toe in ink and has already spent upwards of $250,000 transforming her appearance. But in a series of new Instagram Reels, the tattoo and body modification fanatic revealed she was overseas for a series of surgeries that are banned in Australia.
“We are in Barcelona, and we’re about to get two body mods done,” she told her Instagram followers.
The Aussie influencer is set to go under the knife for subdermal implants, a procedure where a silicone shape or medical device is placed beneath the skin, allowing the tissue to heal over it that is strictly regulated in Australia due to the severe health risks involved.
While it is generally accessible for medical purposes, such as the contraceptive implant, subdermal implants for extreme body modification purposes are highly restricted and largely legally inaccessible.
In addition, the ‘coin slot’ procedure Ms Luke said she’s planning to have in her ear is not strictly illegal in Australia, but they are heavily regulated because they require the surgical removal of cartilage. However, body modifications similar to Ms Luke’s are entirely legal in Barcelona, provided they are performed in licensed studios and meet strict health and safety regulations.
Detailing the extreme procedures direct-to-camera, the huge tattoo fan revealed she was having the extreme modification in her right ear.
“I have had this plan for a while, but I am getting a coin slot in my ear,” she said to her followers. “They take a hole out of your helix, and then they put different earrings in and layer it.”
But she isn’t stopping there. For the past 18 months, Ms Luke has been eagerly planning to have a silicone bow surgically implanted under the skin of her left hand.
“The end result is obviously to have a nice implant, but obviously not let it heal all f***ed up. That is going to be my mission while I’m in Barcelona … just healing.”
While not detailing how long she will be in Spain for, Ms Luke said her main objective is for her body modifications to ‘heal’ while abroad.
She claims the main aim of the procedure is to look “sick”. This isn’t the first time the Aussie woman has travelled internationally to carry out modification procedures. Just recently, Ms Luke travelled 24 hours to Sao Paulo in Brazil, to get her eyeballs tattooed again. It comes after a botched procedure in 2019 left her screaming in excruciating pain and completely blind for three weeks.
Despite the terrifying ordeal, she went back under the needle to add black ‘nebula galaxy’ speckles to her solid blue scleras.
“The reason I’m doing this is because I was so botched in the first place, I do not ever want to experience that again,” she told Triple M WA breakfast host Ribbie Von, adding that there is “actually no risk if it’s done correctly”.
While her inky look has turned her into a viral sensation online, the 31-year-old admits her extreme aesthetic hasn’t made life easy in the real world, particularly when it comes to joining the workforce.
Ms Luke has claimed that it has been hard for her to get a job with the appearance she has. “Because the way I see it is, I don’t want to work for a company that’s shallow-minded [and can’t] look past my image,” she told radio hosts Kip Wightman, Robin Bailey, and Terry Hansen. “They won’t look at my work ethic, they won’t look at my morals or my values, or what I have to bring to the table.”
Despite the endless judgment and employment hurdles, Ms Luke often receives a positive response from her Instagram followers.
“Own it girlll! I support you every step of the way,” one follower claimed. “So sick,” another user wrote. Ms Luke hinted to her followers that the body modifications might not stop there, as she teased in her Instagram caption, “Travelled to Spain for my final body mods (Might not even be my last ones hahahh)”.
