Posted on 03/06/2015 1:41:37 PM PST by Red Badger
BOSTON (CBS) Theres little question that blue eyes, for whatever reason, are considered an attractive facial feature, and only 17% of the worlds population has them. The vast majority of us have brown eyes. But apparently, for the right price, you, too, can have blue eyes.
The only way to change your eye color has been to wear colored contact lenses, but now theres a new procedure that change brown eyes to blue.
According to ophthalmologists, we all have blue eyes below our brown eyes, under a thin layer of pigment.
A California company has now developed a laser treatment that disturbs the melanin in the pigmented part of the eye and causes the body to eliminate it over time. The procedure only lasts seconds, but it may take weeks before the blue tint emerges.
This laser treatment is not available here in the U.S. yet, but has been tested overseas with success. Researchers claim it is safe but have to conduct more clinical trials before they can apply for FDA approval.
Some ophthalmologists are concerned that tampering with pigment could cause blockages and increase pressure in the eyes.
The procedure is expected to cost around $5,000.
Don't know when I've been so blue
Don't know what's come over you
You've found someone new and
Don't it make my brown eyes blue
I'll be fine when you're gone
I'll just cry all night long
Say it isn't true and
Don't it make my brown eyes blue
Tell me no secrets, tell me some lies
Give me no reasons, give me alibis
Tell me you love me and don't let me cry
Say anything but don't say goodbye
I didn't mean to treat you bad
Didn't know just what I had
But honey now I do
And don't it make my brown eyes
Don't it make my brown eyes
Don't it make my brown eyes blue
5K I can save. I am among the 17%
I’d wait 10-15 years to see if complications arise from the procedure.
Aw hell, I never even got the chance to be the first!
How about green eyes?
Hey i got blue eyes.....and i’m also left handed.
I must be a rare creature.
What is the difference between a green eyed Democrat and a blued eyed Democrat?
The blue eyed Democrat is a quart low.
I guess that would entail adding melanin...............
Didn’t Elizabeth Taylor have violet eyes?
Haha :D
Why in heaven’s name would that possibly be important to someone?
You beat everybody to that one.
I could swear that there was a blues song (not a folk song) where the main lyric was “I’m Black and I’m blue,” but I can’t find it using the usual search engines...
Only $2500 for David Bowie and Max Scherzer.
I was gonna say there’s a song about that! LOL
shoot.
ok. Here’s the beatles come together. (john scrambles a few of the lyrics in this version.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSM5MpKSnqE
the lyrics
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/beatles/cometogether.html
My Italian dad lived most of his life life with dark brown eyes, but by the time he passed away at 99, his eyes were blue. At 75, my once dark brown eyes are turning blue.
What if I just had one eye done?
I used to work with a guy who had one Blue eye and one Brown eye.....................
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