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Make Those Brown Eyes Blue
randomErr writes A new procedure has been developed that can turn any brown eye to blue. The procedure uses a laser that disturbs the melanin in the pigmented part of the eye. Over the course of a few weeks your body would eliminate the disturbed pigment revealing the blue layer below all people have. The procedure costs about $5,000 and only takes a few second to complete. You can't get it yet in the U.S. because it still going through clinical trials and some ophthalmologists fear that process could increase pressure in the eyes.
Hitler would approve...
...things not worth $5000
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There's no need for it. At all. It serves no medical good.
I did risky surgery for something I could have had with colored contacts! Why?! WHY?!?
It's like a tattoo that won't come off until the next machine comes along.
The experience should be something like a face tattoo.
I heard about this being developed a long time ago, and when I did, my best friend and I both said this would turn into a gold mine in Japan. They'll go nuts for the ability to give themselves real and for true blue eyes without having to wear contact lenses.
I'm an older gent (I'm in my late 70s). I've witnessed a lot of change of my life, including the rise of computers and the Internet. But nothing amazes more more than medical science. Here we are, able to turn brown eyes blue. I never would have thought that would be possible during my lifetime. And I've also heard that thanks to modern surgical techniques, it's possible to turn a woman into a man, and a man into a woman. Sometimes the surgery is so effective that it's nearly impossible to tell the difference! Back when I was a young man, if somebody had blue eyes, it's because they always had blue eyes. And if somebody had a penis, it's because they always had a penis. But thanks to advancements in medical science, what I knew to be true when I was a young man is no longer the case now. Brown eyes can become blue. Penises can be surgically crafted, and be indistinguishable from the real thing. Medical science: it's amazing!
And is it permanent, or does the brown pigment return eventually?
To imagine that changing their eye color will make them happier.
I have brown eyes. Of my 8 great-grandparents, only 1 had brown eyes. Of my 4 grandparents, only 1 had brown eyes. Of my parents, 1 had brown eyes. These are the eyes I was born with and these are the eyes I will die with.
Of all the things one could change, eye color would be way down on the list. Perhaps someday one will be able to buy intelligence or self-respect.
Not at the same time :( but I found that if we had a all-night fuck session, their hazel eyes would turn greyish-blue as they got more tired. A good all nighter with an 8-ball would do the same thing, too.
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I'm not sure this is a good thing. The extra melanin apparently gives the eye extra protection from UV rays. I guess if you live in the far north its no big issue but if you live in the southern hemisphere near the equator you may want to thing twice about this. That melanin is there for a reason
What's this you're doing to my brown eye?
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look diseased. never trust anyone with too many visible signs of recessive genes.
I for one welcome my blue eyed Michael Jordon overlord .....
All I see is white and gold...
I have green eyes, you insensitive clod!
Sounds like a great idea if you want pigmentary glaucoma. Enjoy your tunnel vision!
When you could etch an image in blue and brown instead? Maybe like the All Seeing Eye of Horus or something.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Anyone know how some animals get the golden yellow colour? That would be cool.
There was a certain asshole in Germany back in the 40's who did similar research. It creeps me out a bit that people are attempting (and apparently have succeeded at) the very same thing.
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only in medicine can you charge 5000 dollars for a few seconds of work.
Shooting a laser at my browneye. What could possibly go wrong?
Blue eyes are universally more attractive to all humans at a subconscious level. That has been scientifically proven. It has to do with sensing pupil dilation easier with the high contrast of black and blue (or green or hazel or any other light color) to sense mutual attraction as nonverbal communication. If a person's irises are black, the signal to the other person's brain is that they're disinterested in them romantically.
Need I say more?
Blue ones not so much. They are rather washed out and unremarkable in most cases. Only advantage is that blue works better with colored contact lenses. Why change something that is already good?
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
In Japan, a few people will do this, mainly celebrities. In South Korea, everybody except spies will do this. In North Korea, just the spies.
He turned her blue eyes black.
This isn't "news", you can find articles stating the exact same information from like, 2011. Some due diligence please!
I used donuts. After all, just like Crystal Gale was singing: "donuts make my brown eyes blue..."
I predict it'll become part of the plot to a film or a TV episode, that a blue eyed mom and a blue-eyed dad will have a baby with blue eyes, and the dad will FREAK and call the mom a whore, because his GENOTYPE really codes for brown eyes like he was born with, as was everyone in his family going back 10 generations, and that his eyes only LOOK blue because of the 5000 dollar laser eye surgery he got, and any kid that is actually the fruit of his loins should be BROWN-eyed, since brown-colored irises are a dominant trait!
Then she'll reveal that she knew the kid's eyes would be brown due to amniocenteses, and she panicked, knew he'd freak out, and so got in utero laser-eye color-change surgery for the baby so they'd match the EXPECTED color, and that he's the liar for never telling her what his birth-eye-color was, since they met online and he described his eyes as blue!
It'll be just like in the Gift of the Magi!
Light your farts with LASERS! YEE-HAW!
'nuff said
What about green. If blue is possible then green should be possible as well?
...to be the sad man... behind blue eyes...
but soon we can ALL know!
Only $5000 folks. And they call that a bargain - the best I've ever had...
.. false advertisement.
Damn liars =P
Yeah, you with the boob job, you too! ..)
(It may still look better though. But I guess it may look the most interesting when a black of whatever shade have blue eyes, but maybe that's simply because I'm white from Scandinavia and white people with blue eyes isn't all that different
I dig the vampire look.
See, I'm only going to do one eye. That way I'll look really unusual (or worse terms :-) ) , plus I'll have 2500 to waste on hookers and blow.
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I bet the Nazis would have loved a way to turn brown eyes blue.
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Is it only half price, or is there some "set up" overhead?
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Maybe you can turn one half of each eye blue. Top blue/bottom brown, etc.
Some succeeding where Dr. Death (Mengele) failed... with no casualties.
Here's an article on basically the same thing from 2011:
http://news.discovery.com/huma...
Is this a new system of doing this, a new group following previous working, just rehashing old news?
Or is it the same group getting a lot closer to being approved for use?
The article doesn't seem to even mention the name of the company. I believe they are called Stroma Medical. There may be others doing it too.
You might be able to get the procedure sponsored if you choose to have a particular motif. I'm assuming that it's possible to selectively etch away the melanin. So this breakthrough opens the way to eye tatoos.
DNA is the ultimate spaghetti code.
And in related news, scientists discover how to turn blue eyes brown, after people realized that everyone having blue eyes was boring
Those people will still be full of shit.
First thought when reading it: Hong Kong.
They know where are they going with this, and if it works and it's safe, they'll make a killing in Asia. There is lots of demand for this kind of fripperies there, from 'whitening' creams, to changing the eye lids, and this just takes the cake.
Street shops offering it in Kowloon? Possible.