There are countless ways to puncture your skin with a metal stud or needle. The face is a popular place to start, and the eyes in particular. Piercings on or near the eyebrow, tear ducts and between the eyes are fairly common. Some have tattooed their eyelids and even their eyeballs! What else is left? Well, you could try a JewelEye, the only piercing in a place other than your largest organ, your skin. Yep, you can get a heart, star, euro sign, four-leaf clover, or a musical note implanted into your superficial, interpalpebral conjunctiva.
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Extreme Body Modifications
- Disruptive innovation opportunities lie in developing new and safe techniques for extreme body modifications like eyeball piercings.
- Personalized Body Jewelry
- Opportunities for disruptive innovation exist in creating customizable and unique body jewelry options like the JewelEye.
- Medical Tattooing
- Disruptive innovation can be found in the development of new techniques and materials for medical tattooing procedures like tattooing the eyelids and eyeballs.
Where This Applies
- Body Modification Industry
- The body modification industry can explore disruptive innovation opportunities by offering new and extreme forms of body modifications like eyeball piercings.
- Jewelry Industry
- The jewelry industry can capitalize on the trend of personalized body jewelry by creating innovative designs and materials for unique piercings like the JewelEye.
- Tattoo Industry
- Disruptive innovation opportunities exist in the tattoo industry by expanding the range of tattooing techniques and materials to include medical tattooing procedures like tattooing the eyelids and eyeballs.
