There is something about blue eyes that can pierce another person’s soul while also acting as a revealing window into your own. Eyes that are brown? Not so much. What if you wanted blue eyes, though? colour contacts? Meh. Try this new laser surgery that’ll permanently transform your eyes blue.
Brown to blue, permanently. That’s what Dr. Gregg Homer from Stroma Medical in California says he can do. His Lumineyes procedure uses a laser tuned to a specific frequency to blast the brown out of eyes into blue. The process only takes 20 seconds too and it literally removes the melanin–the brown–from a person’s eyes, which in turn reveals a blue colour in two to three weeks. Of course the blue isn’t real. Natural blue eyes have lower melanin in the front of the iris, and so the blue colour in blue eyes is for the same reason why the sky is blue.
Dr. Homer says he still needs about $US800,000 to complete clinical trials. If all goes to plan, the procedure will be available in 18 months outside the US and 3 years inside the US. The process is expected to cost around $US4,800. I can imagine many wannabe starlets getting this done right after a boob job. [Daily Mail]
Vron
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 1:48 PMYea take every bit of Melanin out of your eye and your prone to Cataracts further more !
Russell
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 7:18 PMMelanin has nothing to do with cataracts
Azza
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 2:32 PMA procedure that takes 20 seconds is going to cost $4,800?
Obviously...
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 2:53 PMFuck that, if I’m going to spend $4800 for 20 seconds I’m getting me a high class hooker.
Jester
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 2:58 PM20 seconds? Umm, maybe there’s another type of medical assistance you should be researching…
Graeme
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 3:06 PMWhy? Surely 20 seconds is enough for two sessions?
Obviously...
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 3:22 PMI’m there to get my rocks off in a spectacularly kinky fashion, not win a marathon.
Jester
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 2:57 PMFeeling pretty good at this point with my naturally blue eyes, apparently just saved myself $4,800! :oP
Seriously though, people would pay to get this done? Too much cash, not enough common sense…
Flux
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 3:18 PMTurning brown eyes blue? There’s a joke about mooning in the snow there somewhere…
Kevin
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 3:36 PMI don’t see what’s so bad about brown eyes.
DarthDVD
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 4:10 PMok… so a doctor is saying its fine to shine lazers into peoples eyes…..
its cheaper to get the contacts and safer (if you keep the contacts clean)
Vron
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 5:26 PMContacts vs Lazer are 2 diff worlds, contacts are plastics and are fixed focus colours, your cornea acts like a freak, always open…
Besides, Blue eyes make a man look too feminine…! lol
Ozoneocean
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 5:59 PMYeah, Vikings and Nazis were such a girly bunch.
Vron
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 6:54 PMI’ve got green eyes and they penetrate ur soul mate, blue are a buch of panzies…, but i wouldn’t be an illeterate to judge the Vikings and Nazis based on their eye colour, lmao…
ozoneocean
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 10:59 PMI thought traditionally green is supposed to be the more feminine eye colour…?
The most soul staring eyes I ever saw were on an old lecturer of mine- his eyes were so pale blue they were almost white, but had a dark black ring around the iris (real, not contacts). They looked like wolf eyes. That guy was freaky.
Parker
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 4:11 PMbut brown eyes can be dreamy!
Also, I’m guessing there’s no control over what shade of blue you end up with. The wrong shade of blue could be just as undesireable as the wrong shade of brown…
Daniel Timmons
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 5:00 PMYou’ my.. Formerly Brown Eyed Girl.
Paul Cahill
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 5:21 PMWhat ever happened to the Hypocratic oath?
We now live in Australia. My wife has blue eyes and really suffers with bright sunlight.
Crazy.
Peter Carr
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 6:06 PMFirstly Paul, it’s the Hippocratic oath, and secondly, it’s not used in Australia. We have ethics and legal obligation and in some cases fiduciary duty to ensure good healthcare, not an antiquated, self regulated oath with no legal foundation.
5432
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 10:25 PMThat doesn’t stop it being told to every medical student at orientation. These days though, it’s more of a “don’t cause unnecessary harm to the patient” message (obviously more complicated than that, but you get the idea).
James Mac
Friday, November 4, 2011 at 11:07 AMAlso, there’s rule 2.
Sometimes, you have to harm the patient to treat them.
IJustKnowStuff
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 5:29 PMThis guy will make billions in Asia alone.
5432
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 6:58 PMI’m hoping that the majority will have the good sense not to/be too poor to do this.
On the other hand, Japan sets new precedents for…alternative fashions.
Ozoneocean
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 5:57 PMGreat, now all the world can have wishy-washy dull grey blue eyes like me!
illogical
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 6:02 PMi’d love grey eyes.
just stare at people autistically.
how awesome
jj
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 6:27 PMYeah you can get your melanin free blue eyes and keep your Uv sunglasses on all day…. Why get rid of what nature gave you for protection?
greg
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 10:47 PMCreeps me out.
No one is reminded of the Nazi experiments on changing eye colour? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation#Experiments_on_twins
ozoneocean
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 10:53 PMYou just know that in the next two years there are suddenly going to be a lot of blue eyed Japanese models… Very sad.
vince3141
Friday, November 4, 2011 at 2:19 AMAh yes, the old Xena vs Callisto debate – I prefer Callisto myself