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Make Those Brown Eyes Blue

Posted by timothy on from the you-can-always-reembrownen-them dept.

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.

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  1. Re: Godwin by Grishnakh · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nope. Only brown eyes are caused directly by pigments. Blue eyes and green eyes actually don't exist per se: there is no blue or green pigment. Blue eyes look blue for the same reason the sky looks blue: Rayleigh scattering. Green eyes, much more rare, are in-between, and don't even look green in certain lights or certain angles.

  2. Re: Filed under... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, but less likely to go snow blind.