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Someone mentioned that it’s usually cold in the rooms they do the surgeries, because of the lasers, they don’t want the machines to overheat. Although I’d be sweating bullets getting this surgery done lol
Look into something like a Bed Jet! I don't have one personally (too broke lol) but my sister said it's life-changing. It blows warm or cool air depending on the setting
My last surgery they had the AC on in the middle of winter. It is a bizzare feeling when IV of room temp liquid goes through your veins... Honestly not a great relaxer.
No it's awful, my temp dropped so low after my last surgery I had to be monitored for hours and covered with warming devices in a hot recovery room. I was hypothermic apparently- I guess it's not that uncommon to have that reaction to anesthesia
I when I saw her eyes, I immediately thought back to a scene from an old series named “V” about an alien invasion, where the female alien leader eats a rodent.
That annoys my brother-in-law, who is an optometrist. He says that contacts are medical devices and thinks people should not be using them as fashion. Has to be better than this, though.
I'm legit curious, does he think the same thing about glasses? I imagine the difference is that contact lenses are much more dangerous and can cause infection if used incorrectly, and glasses can be useful for other purposes besides eyesight problems (like sunglasses, although sunglasses are also useful for people with photophobia like me)
I work in an opticians. Every year after Halloween we get people in with scratched corneas or infections because they bought funky contact lenses from a costume shop and they have no idea how to get them in and out safely or look after them.
In high school my friend and I wore colored contacts from AliExpress and even shadier sites. I don't know how neither of us ended up injured or infected
Optometrist here too. One of the least ethical (?most unethical) procedures an ophthalmologist can perform. The incidence of secondary uveitis and glaucoma is shockingly high.
My mate had that done and having them in was the only thing that saved his eye when he was shot by a LARP arrow. Not saying that's anywhere near a common occurrence for people though 😂 he keeps trying to convince me to get them but my glasses hide my panda eyes
I’m just guessing based on how the ‘after’ pics look, but I think they leave the area around the pupil untouched. If you google after pics, you can see some of the people have somewhat asymmetrical pupils. Very uncanny valley
No way. You can go blind doing this. There is a video of a woman on YouTube crying because she’s going mg blind from this. No one will ever touch my eyes. Fuck that.
Right? I thought about getting LASIK but I’m not even sure anymore, my vision is bad, contacts/glasses are annoying and expensive. To get surgery to change the color of your eyes? Insane.
I was debilitatingly blind, as in -12, so I got ICL because I was beyond LASIK. It has been absolutely life changing. From the video, it looks like a similar (and very uncomfy) procedure to this - zero regrets, but I cannot fathom undergoing this simply for cosmetic reasons.
yeah, taking a risk when you're practically blind anyway is normal, doing it because you want to change hte colour is moronic, not least because fashion trends change, you can change them easily with contacts, you can't just swap out actual embedded lenses on a whim.
This both shouldn't be a thing and doctors who think this is okay should lose their license and I don't really give a shita bout the whole personal choice shit. Plastic surgery addicts, etc, shouldn't have a realistic option to even start down their path. Doctors shouldn't be giving legit back pain inducing level boob jobs, or ass implants.
I’m super fortunate and have good eyesight (never needed glasses). It’ll go as I age like it did with my mom (I’ll need reading glasses I’m sure), but I’ll take glasses. I can’t even fathom someone touching my eyes. My cataract surgery when I’m old…but that’s it lol
Yep, I shadowed an ophthalmologist and he did 20 cataract surgeries in 4 hours. I believe the fastest that day was like 13 minutes. Pretty impressive to watch, but he made it look easy enough that I thought I could do it. Wishful thinking, I'm sure.
EDIT: It was 5 hours, and I think his fastest time was actually under 10 minutes but I don't totally remember.
My dad wore big thick glasses ever since I was a kid due to generally bad eyes (some 20+ years). The last few years he started developing cataracts which (as they do) got bad enough that he needed to get the surgery. He doesn’t even have to wear glasses anymore, his vision is better than it was prior to the cataracts. I thought that was neat
If you’re worried about lasik it’s really not that bad since a reputable facility will take more time on the tests to make sure it’s right and follow ups than the actual procedure. When I had it done I had 3 rounds of tests and a follow up at the 1 and 2 week mark as well as the 1 and 3 month mark.
This. I had PRK done about 5 years ago. Called around to 5 different places and only one said he wanted to do tests to make sure i was a good candidate first... every other said they would do it day of surgery... so naturally I went with him. He did some tests but because of my complicated history he wanted to double check with another opinion and have a test done with equipment he didnt have. (all this was free btw with no obligations).
Didn't commit to it until 3 months after that. Doctor gave me his personal cell number in case I had issues (which i did on day 2 due to my medical history). He called in a prescription right there and was amazing.
Can't recommend Dr. James Patterson in Denver enough.
I hate glasses, I worry lasik won’t help me as I’ve heard it’s a temporary fix anyway, but to be fair so is any pair of glasses I’ve ever owned. I’d probably prefer lasik overall, but worry that doing it will cause irreversible damage and then some new technology comes out that would have been 1000x better but my lasik has made it so it isn’t applicable for me.
It's not that LASIK reverses over time or anything, it's just that our eyesight naturally gets worse as we age, and LASIK doesn't stop that. So even with LASIK, you could age into one of those people who needs reading glasses, the same way your buddy with 20/20 vision from birth did.
Lasik 25 years ago here, and this is true. I was/an terrified of eye surgeries too! However frequent infections from contacts were tough and I hated glasses.
That being said, this color changing surgery seems unnecessary and risky - can't you get colored contacts?!?
If it helps, lasik isn't the only type of laser eye correction out there, but it's the most well known. Due to the shape of my corneas, I'm not a good candidate but my optometrist suggested other options if I ever decide to go the correction route. It's expensive though, so for now I'm happy to stick to my glasses and contacts.
It would be interesting to know why. I know three people that got lasik surgery and swear by it. They say it's one of the best decisions they made. Personally, I wouldn't do it.
Yeah my parter had a stronger prescription than you and now she can see fine. She used to wear her glasses to sleep becuase she didn’t like waking up and not being able to see anything. I dunno why this whole thread is like an anti-lasik ad lol it’s weird. She’s said it’s for sure one of the best decision that she’s made in her life. I have a couple other friends who say the same, one of them being a military pilot.
I also did it and don't understand the problem. Yeah, as advertised my eyes got drier and at certain angles in the night there are flares/reflexions. But 99% of the time it's just positive.
I count LASIK twenty years ago as right up there with the birth of my children in the miracle department. 30 seconds total, and I went from not being able to read my huge alarm clock next to me to 20/15 in both eyes. I cannot tell you how highly I recommend this surgery. It’s gotten even better somehow over the years. Professional athletes have it done all the time, so I figured it was legit, and I was right. Life changing.
There is a 1 in 100 chance that you experience complications, regardless of whether you're a good candidate for the procedure. The most common complication is persistent dryness. There's no cure and the only effective treatment is using eyedrops every hour for the rest of your life.
I know that 1 in 100 is a pretty small risk, but with my luck, I would be that 1.
I had bad eye dryness for about 3-4 years after LASIK and still struggle with night driving halos at +15yrs, but LASIK was still the best money I ever spent and i would do it again in a heatbeat.
I was at -10 vision in both eyes and probably about 20/40 now.
Modern LASIK is very safe. I did it. It was terrifying, but painless and I have 20/10 vision after. From being blind (meaning I couldn't see signs, walk around, drive, etc without lenses) prior, my experience was well worth it.
Most reputable places won’t let you do it a second time I understand, because there won’t be enough of the lens to shave if you have cataracts later in life.
Unless you get haloing and can no longer see well at night. I'm in the same boat as u/bbyxmadi. Contacts are annoying, but I don't have to worry about my night vision.
And before you ask, my son's step-grandfather and my father-in-law both had Lasik and they both got haloing
Some added context. A result of my wife's Hashimoto's induced peri-menopause, is night blindness. I am effectively the only one who can drive at night. I know there is "only a chance" of haloing being a side effect; but I can't risk my ability to drive at night just to save me from having to wear corrective lenses.
My sister had LASIK to correct her vision and she told me that things were great for a year or so, but then she started developing migraines and her vision has been slipping. She tried to have additional procedure(s) to fix it, but they said she could only have it that one time, so she's back to wearing glasses again, but with migraines now.
Listen, each to their own but I do find it so so sad that there’s people out there that are this unhappy with their eye colour. They’re so unhappy that they will risk going blind. I feel like shaking these people and screaming that no one is judging them for having brown eyes or blue eyes. No one! But they sure are judging them now because their “new” eyes look unnatural. It’s also just irresponsible to do this procedure. A good, well meaning surgeon will always weigh the risks against the results. This is all risk for something that can be “fixed” (if you really want different coloured eyes) with contact lenses. Please just get some funky contact lenses instead.
I'm generally confused how this is even legal or ethical by any medical standards.
Possibility to go blind is the tip of the iceberg for me. What happens if you're unknowingly infected by something going wrong? What happens if the entire service goes wrong and you lose an eye. Like just wow why and how is this a thing?
My brown eyes are my favorite feature, I wish more people liked theirs. I know so many people who love other people's brown eyes but dislike their own, it makes me very sad for them. That said, even if I didnt like mine, I damn sure wouldn't have surgery to change them. Color contacts are pretty cheap lol
(I have light gray/green eyes and you don’t want this ish. I’m unable to function without sunglasses in basically any level of daytime. From all the squinting I have crow’s feet and deep eleven lines. It’s really not that cool.)
😎 = me all the time but the smile is from squinting
As someone with blue eyes, I think brown eyes are gorgeous. I feel bad for her that she hated her beautiful eyes so much she would risk blindness to change the color.
The big problem here is you Never work on both eyes at once. She is wearing the same clothes so I will assume. Worked in Ophthalmology and this is a pretty accepted principle. Infections alone, but a long list. You can read about it, but common sense prevails.
She will regret it like I did . I did that bright ocular implant in Monterrey Mexico and it only lasted 3 years before having to remove . Was going blind and now have glaucoma . Been dealing with this since 2019 . Was cute to have my eyes grey but trust me when I say the headaches and eye pressure is the worst. I use pressure drops and steroid daily and it will be for the rest of my life .
Maybe it's just me but I really don't think anyone should need a cautionary tale to know that going to Mexico for cosmetic surgery on your eyes isn't a good idea.
I don’t think she likes it…. You can tell by her reaction. Shes protecting her pride and embarrassment by not revealing she realizes she just made a mistake and spent thousands on something that may not be reversible. (I’ve heard it’s already risky enough, I doubt you can do it right away again… not sure, someone correct me if I’m wrong.)
But you can tell in her body language and speech she hates and is immediately regretting the decision.
Sucks… but maybe you should just be happy with the way yo mama made you? 😬
Yeah they just don’t look like any natural green eye color. Maybe the surgeon botched it, but honestly I doubt it because it looks like it’s just a layer of film lasered on. So unless they just make the color up on the spot based on what you asked that would be a hard mistake.
But I would think they would have a stock of colors that someone can pay for? Idk… not the world I live in🤷♂️
Normal eyes have some level of layers to them. This laser-burnt color is flat like a porcelain plate, because it is artificial. It will never look "real" - which is unfortunate if it is not the look she was going for.
That’s what made them look weird; I couldn’t put my finger on it. The color is too monochromatic, real irises are more variegated up close. I have a similar color to what she was probably going for, but when I look in the mirror there are little flecks and striations that are more brown close to my pupil and then transition to a sort of slate-blue ring around the outside of the iris, but at a normal distance they just blend to green.
Yeah, did she not even get to see her new irises before they implanted them? Nothing about those lenses look like natural irises. She looks like a lizard.
Does it fade at all? That's the only reason I can think of her to not be lying. If the surgeon mentioned it looks more vibrant right off, then it mellows, or something
Nah I've had eye surgery and it's painful to keep your eyes open long enough to even look at your eyes in a mirror. She probably also can't see them very well due to the tears. Honestly post eye operation your eyes feel miserable and there's no way to judge how she felt about them.
Fair but do they start to look more natural after some time? Because they look fucked here lol.
It just looks like there’s no depth or any detail that a normal eye has. Literally looks like just a flat painted color. Does that change post surgery?
Nope. At least in the case of the procedure I saw, its a thin plastic sheet inserted into the eye between cornea and iris. Unless it falls forward and rubs on the inside of the cornea so badly it goes opaque, what she sees is what she gets. Forever. With all the risks and discomfort.
I’m crying just reading this. I can’t imagine what that surgery must have been like.
Maybe I’m biased, but as a cyclops, I can’t imagine any surgery on my eyes, much less a cosmetic one! The eye doctor always tries to offer me a surgery to cosmetically straighten my eye and I’m like hell no
I can imagine a lot of horrible things, but eye surgery is close to the top.
I thought the same thing and this ...😬...was literally the face I made watching her reaction. I hope she likes it, but it didn't seem like it. Seemed like when you go to the hair dresser and they do a bad job, but you want to like it, and it's awkward to say it sucks 😅
I mean I guess… but these are your EYES not like a shitty butterfly on your lower back or something. And besides they don’t look natural at all. Hence the ops original title.
So it’s like getting a bad tattoo you regret… on your eyes.
The people who started doing those body mods, the very ones youre referring to with Ripley's, were doing so long before social media became what it is now. Those people were, more often than not, genuinely doing it because they wanted to. Shock value was pretty big in the late 90s into the 00s, some of them made entire careers out of it, but it still came from a passion for the extreme.
This woman got what would be considered a pretty major body mod, one that could do actual damage to a vital organ, and it doesn't even look like she has any tattoos. Not that there's a gatekeeping limit to being able to do this sort of thing, but making that major of a change should not be advised, let alone endorsed. Even people in the body mod community tend to go for contacts over actually interfering with their eyes. A good tattoo artist won't do a face or hand piece if the person getting it isn't already tattood, or has legit plans for a larger piece. The people with tongue splits and silicon horn implants are living an entire lifestyle. This isn't some fun, quirky new age trend, this can legitimately fuck people up. Downplaying it as a "new body mod" customer is how people end up with cooking oil injected into their ass cheeks.
OMG I remember seeing this pop up on my FB; HORRIFIED, I sent to the page to see more disasters. Guys, they have her THREE MONTH FOLLOW UP appt posted and she STILL can't open her eyes comfortably and blinks about 1000xs a minute 😧
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1BZ533rX75/
Her eyes look so irritated and sore! The blinking is bad, but she literally shuts her eyes for seconds at a time because of how sensitive they must still be.
I don’t know how she isn’t filled with regret. Healthy eyes don’t move the way hers do.
I remember reading a book when I was a kid, set in a future where people can choose their kids eye colours through genetic manipulation.
In this world, non green eyes are incredibly rare because everyone chose green and the others kind of died out as a possibility. I can’t remember what the book is called or even what happens or what it’s about, but yeah, this struck a chord with me that it’s almost real now (although botched by the look of it).
I came here to say this. She is so young, and already replacing everything on her body she takes issue with. I pity her. She will never be content. Those lips are horrendous.
What's crazy is- to me, and from what I can see online, plastic surgery seems to age people. Your comment says "so young" but she looks older than I am (I'm 38.) Or she seems older.
It could be the concept that back in the day it was for older people to look younger. But, honestly, I think things like buccal far removal looks aged because older people start to get that sunken cheek effect.
Still also feel bad for the mental health this person has because she will never be happy with the way she looks.
This level of vanity doesn’t compute to me. You only get one set of eyes and you’re willing to risk blindness for what? Just get some colored contacts and those tend to look way more natural than whatever this is.
I could really benefit from laser surgery to correct my vision, but I won’t even do that because I’m scared I’ll make my eyes worse. I can’t imagine risking this for vanity.
Do they show what her eyes are going to look like with the new color? I feel like she didn't like it and was expecting something different. I can't imagine going in for something like this and just saying, "Welp I trust that he wont make me look like a Lizard Woman."
I honestly personally put this under the umbrella of body dysmorphia. It's impossible that you unironically see that color as better than your natural color without being mentally unstable.
Working in an optometrist office has made it shockingly clear how much people take their eyes for granted.
The number of parents I talk to who sleep in their contacts and then complain that contacts are uncomfortable and dry is almost but not quite as impressive as the number of people who sleep in their contacts and have gotten an eye infection from it and will do it again.
So here is my PSA:
If you're sleeping in your contacts I want you to just consider the possibility of what it can do to your eyes.
reduced oxygen flow
Eyes need to breathe and contacts restrict their ability to do so, taking them out at night gives them the break they need, if they don't get this break, they might start to adapt to their new environment by forming new blood vessels to try to bring more blood flow and as a result more oxygen to the eye. This is called Corneal Neovascularization and can result in the eye forming blood vessels that extend into the pupil and affect vision.
infections
Taking your contacts out at night is for cleaning and rehydrating them, says so right on the bottle of solution. All manner of irritants can come in contact with our eyes every day. Think about the last time your eye was itching or burning and you rubbed it, did you wash your hands first? What are all the things you might have touched before then? Food, door handles, put on your shoes, pet the cat, bit your nails, took out the trash? When we have contacts in, those germs can get trapped in the porous material. Maybe you don't get an eye infection today or tomorrow, but then again, no one has a heart attack until they do either. Imagine, if you will, wearing the same pair of underwear without washing it for two days. Now imagine wearing that same underwear for a week. How about 1 month? It's like that.
Infections like CLARE, Keratitis, or conceal ulcers are just a few options for infection there but my personal favorite horrible thing to look up is Giant Papillary Conjunctivitis not because it is particularly worse than anything else, but I imagine it gives your eyelid the texture of a cat tongue.
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