A $12k Surgery to Change Eye Color Is Surging in Popularity

[bookofjoe]

https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/eye-color-change-surgery...

[Eumenes]

I was terrified to get lasik, which ended up being the best thing I've ever done, I can't imagine getting cosmetic eye surgery ...

[lm28469]

People get their healthy and perfectly fine teeth filed to install fake teeth that look like ass so nothing surprises me anymore

https://www.papermag.com/tiktok-dentists-veneers

[bdcravens]

I like the idea of lasik, but am still nervous as hell about it, since wearing glasses isn't that big of a deal to me.

[johnisgood]

A couple of days ago, I heard someone was planning to travel to Turkey for plastic surgery to enhance their abdominal area and make their abs more pronounced, achieving a toned "six-pack" look. Wild to me.

[pfannkuchen]

How do Nordic people feel about other people commonly mimicking their hair and now apparently their eye coloration too?

I think the historical taboo of nordicism not being consciously connected to this sort of practice is… interesting.

[coffeebeqn]

As a official representative of the Nordics, I truly don’t care

[tokai]

As nordic person I fail to see how this relate to me or my ethnicity. If someone get green eyes done how would I even know if they are "mimicking" me and not Iranians or Afghans?

[sandworm101]

Blonde hair and blue eyes are a sign of youth (aka beauty) in many areas far outside the north. Eyes and hair darken with age in many mammals. All kittens have blue eyes but virtually no cats retain them. Interestingly, the only mammal that regularly changes its eye color is the reindeer, a responce to the dark northern winters, although the mechanism is different than iris color.

[xenospn]

I know a lot of Nordic people who dye their hair black. So it goes both ways.

[conradev]

Nordic, and Baltic, and 27% of the US population

My blue eyes come by way of Poland

[grumple]

Light eyes of various sorts are seen throughout much of the world, including North Africa, Egypt, the Levant, and south-central Asia like in Afghanistan. Blue eyes originated in Africa 50,000 years ago.

There's no "cultural appropriation" here, it's just color. People are free to do whatever cosmetic nonsense they want and take on the health risks associated with it.

[Yizahi]

I was recently asked what was my eye colour by the visa officer and I couldn't answer, because I honestly had no idea. Gray-ish, brown-ish, whatever? I mean, outside of people wearing very bright and intense cosplay lenses, does anyone really care about eye colour that much, to go to such length as to risk your eyesight irreparably and pay for that a price of a used car? Insanity.

[fragmede]

The other color change we could hypothetically do would be to change the amount of melanin in your skin via an mRNA shot.

[dyauspitr]

We already have hydroquinone that can do this.

[xenospn]

My eyes are sewage-green. I doubt anyone would pay to get those.

[andy_ppp]

One person’s sewage-green is another person’s hazel-olive. You could consider reframing such thinking…

[sgt101]

When I was a young fella I had a thing for folks with green eyes - I ended up marrying one!

So - don't knock it!

[PessimalDecimal]

Maybe they should pay to get therapy for some self-loathing?

[11235813213455]

*rainforest green

[yieldcrv]

But I began the surgery with a land acknowledgement!

[PessimalDecimal]

It's a culture, not a costume!

[yieldcrv]

Oooh I’m into this

[grbrr]

If people do this the government should never pay for anything related to their eye care for the rest of their lives.

[bastawhiz]

That's an outrageous take. Should they be disqualified for screening and treatment for glaucoma, cataracts, or macular degeneration as they age? What about diabetic retinopathy? There's plenty of conditions that are obviously unrelated to such a procedure where the obvious cause is age. We don't deny breast cancer screening or treatment to women who have had silicone implants, or testicular cancer treatment to men who have had vasectomies. Or treatment for throat and lung conditions to smokers, or diabetes treatment to people who have eaten shit food their whole adult life. Or skin cancer treatment to people with tattoos

[lm28469]

What about people who drink coke, or smoke, or don't exercise?

The vast majority of the burden on the health care system comes from very preventable causes

[bdcravens]

That seems reasonable, but a significant amount of illnesses can tracked back to personal choices as well.

[FriendofChicken]

I'm interested in knowing more about your opinion on this. Can you tell me why you believe this?