Title: Keratopigmentation.
Age: First described in AD150, however not in a manner that might tempt you.
Look: Your alternative.
What are we speaking about right here? Corneal tattooing.
Tattooing your cornea, as in your eye? That’s it.
How do you tattoo an eyeball? Within the second century, the doctor Galen of Pergamum developed a technique of cauterising the cornea with a heated probe after which making use of a dye produced from pomegranate bark, however that’s not how they do it now.
How do they do it now? Procedures differ, nevertheless it usually entails making a doughnut-shaped incision within the cornea – with both a laser or a needle – earlier than injecting dye.
Who on earth would need that finished to them? Keratopigmentation is commonly carried out to appropriate a beauty disfigurement – corneal clouding, say, brought on by illness or harm. Often, it’s deployed to enhance the imaginative and prescient of a broken iris.
Sounds affordable. More and more, nonetheless, individuals are resorting to keratopigmentation simply to alter the color of their eyes.
For enjoyable? To enhance their look and increase their confidence, let’s say.
Can they make them any color they need? Inside purpose, however punters are normally altering their eyes from brown to one thing else: blue, inexperienced, gray, taupe, honey, sand.
How a lot does it price? It relies upon, however, for each eyes, don’t anticipate a lot change from £10,000.
Any potential facet-effects? A couple of, in line with the American Academy of Ophthalmology, together with an infection, irritation, mild sensitivity, leakage of the dye into the attention and imaginative and prescient loss.
Let me weigh that up for a second … The true threat is unknown, since no long-term research have been finished on keratopigmentation surgical procedure carried out on beforehand wholesome eyeballs.
I see. And for that purpose the process just isn’t accessible for beauty functions within the UK.
Another downsides price mentioning? It’s irreversible, but in addition liable to fading over time. And if the testimonial images on some surgeons’ web sites are something to go by, it makes you appear like a replicant.
How come? The process doesn’t change the color of the iris; it simply dyes the clear cornea that covers it, so the impact is eerily unnatural.
Why would anybody suppose it is a good concept? As a result of a whole lot of TikTok influencers are getting it finished and recommending it.
Persons are present process pointless eye surgical procedure as a result of folks on social media did it? After all. Individuals ate laundry detergent as a result of folks on social media did it.
That was years in the past. I assumed we’d received smarter since then. I’ve seen solely proof on the contrary.
Do say: “Don’t it make my brown eyes blue?”
Don’t say: “It’s to dye for.”
