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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.
...things not worth $5000
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There's no need for it. At all. It serves no medical good.
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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Because people have expensive plastic surgery all the time for no good reason?
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I have green eyes, you insensitive clod!
When you could etch an image in blue and brown instead? Maybe like the All Seeing Eye of Horus or something.
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AIUI, the blue is caused by refraction and all other colors by pigments.
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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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Psssst! Buddy! I've got a laser. I'll shine it in your eyes and turn 'em blue for $5!
Dumbass. The $5k is called Return on Investment.
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.
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!
Not sure why parent is being demoted - that is one way Nazis could react to this sort of fake aryans. OTOH there is no regime on this earth that does not like to dispense certificates for money.
That depends on where do you live. If you live in a northern country where everybody has blue eyes, you may find them "unremarkable".
I wonder if there are such countries. Here in Finland, most people seem to have greyish eyes with green or blue overtones, but a lot of natives also have very dark eyes, not to mention immigrants. So we do regard blue eyes as somewhat special and attractive -- though we also have "blue-eyed" as a synonym for "gullible".
At school we were taught that the gene for blue eyes is recessive when compared with brown eyes, which might explain the global trend, but it didn't matter either way to our class of 25 shades of grey.
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That's a bit more than return on investment there.
'nuff said
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(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 once charged $1000 equivalent in local currency to walk into a place, press a power button and press Enter and then walk out again (server "wasn't working", whole business was down, told them to try various things, ended up in them requesting and emergency callout, had to move clients around and rush over there, to find that the display on a server wasn't switched on. On the screen, it had "Press Enter to boot from...." message. I pressed Enter. Waited around a bit to ensure that was all that went wrong, charged a day's callout, went home).
It's not the action you take, it's the knowing that the action you take is the correct action to fix things, guaranteed. Back then, I wasn't paid by the hour, or paid by the qualification, or paid by the years of experience, or paid by the number of things I did. I was paid to solve the problem. And solving the problem often needed a whole lot more insight than just pressing a button but often that's what it LOOKED like. "Should we just restore from backup?" Woah, no, hold fire. Let's stop, think. And that stopping and thinking saved my arse on more than a few occasions rather than launching into fixing the symptoms of the problem.
And I bet medical school costs a FUCKING lot of money and the laser costs a FUCKING lots of money and the insurance if you get things wrong costs a FUCKING lot of money and the sterile building full of nurses and other equipment costs a FUCKING lot of money too. Plus, it's cosmetic surgery, so it's profit-based. To be honest, I'm amazed it's that cheap. You can barely get laser correction surgery for that price.
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.
Nope. That's return on investment. The inventor invested time & money. The clinic that bought the device did so with money. The technician who operates the device invested time & money into their education. Everybody wants to make a profit.
If this was an AIDS vaccine or something, I'd say "yeah man, but the greater good!" But this is a device invented to efficiently separate fools from their money. More power to 'em.
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Vampire? You want some glitter injected into your epidermis? I can do that for only $5000. (Results not guaranteed permanent. Additional procedures may be required. Not FDA approved. Your friends will both love and fear you.).
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.
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.
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And in related news, scientists discover how to turn blue eyes brown, after people realized that everyone having blue eyes was boring
Light (enough) brown is yellow. Blue plus yellow is green. Green eyes is blue eyes with threads/whisps of brown in them. From far back, they are green. Close up, they are blue in back, and light brown in front. And yes, the kids have green eyes. One more blue than green. The other more green than anything else.. Mine are grey (blue in back, white wisps in front, makes a blue/grey look). The wife has brown eyes.
The lights/angles/surrounding colors make a difference. I've heard mood does as well, but haven't been able to see or cause any changes that way.
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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.