I apologize for these blurry photos, which are the only evidence of Tameka “Tiny” Harris’ new cosmetic procedure. Her eyes have gone from dark brown to an ice-gray. She’s not wearing contact lenses (Tiny says those made her vision blurry) but actual implants in her irises. Tiny removed the photos from her Instagram page — perhaps because of some backlash. She originally posted the above photo with this caption:
I permanently changed my eye color with Brightocular and loving it! Thank you Dr. Montasser Menif for the amazing experience and for making my dream come true. I hated wearing contacts just for the color and it made my vision blurry. Blessed to say my vision is perfect after my ice-gray implants..
[From Tameka “Tiny” Harris on Instagram]
I removed the promo code that Tiny included because I feel uncomfortable with Tiny receiving a kickback for such a dangerous procedure. Brightocular is sketchy (they may be the same company as the defunct NewColorIris) and has not received FDA approval for their procedure. Their website misleads consumers with information about how their materials are FDA approved. They also state that “anterior chamber intraocular lens implantation” is FDA approved, but that’s misleading too. The FDA has approved such a procedure for cataract extraction — but only because the risks (blindess, glaucoma, and light sensitivity) are outweighed by the benefits for someone with severe cataracts.
I can’t even handle the thought of Lasik, so iris implants don’t seem worth the risk, but this is Tiny’s choice. I hope she doesn’t develop any future complications. The NYT reveals that some iris-implant patients have developed “spotty” vision after a few years. One patient told the NYT she did develop glaucoma and cataracts. That patient had the implants removed, but her vision is worse than beforehand. She can’t wear contact lenses now, so she’s back to her old eye color.
T.I. had little to say to NYC’s Power 105.1 about his wife’s new eye color: “I don’t know. I don’t know. If she’s coming up here for something maybe you can ask her but I don’t know.” I’m including photos of Tiny with her natural eye color. Her new color is pretty but very surprising.
Photos courtesy of Tameka “Tiny” Harris on Twitter, Fame/Flynet & WENN
No. No. And no. Never mess with your eyesight. SMH.
I agree! I have really, very terrible eyesight and I won’t even go for Lasik because I’m afraid of potential damage & side effects. This is insane!
Beyond this – I have a medium complexion (I’m Native American) – dark hair, yellow skin… and light green eyes. It gives the effect people who have this procedure are looking for, but I always feel like I have serial killer eyes, lol! It’s unusual, but, IDK… I always wished I had brown eyes, because I felt they would work better with my coloring. I can’t believe this is a thing.
I know two people who lost their vision due to mistake/complication with Lasik. One was able to regain poor vision after almost a year, the other can only see light and shadow. I would NEVER risk it, and my eyesight is very poor without correction, too.
Eta – I bet your eyes are beautiful. I love them combination of dark hair and light eyes, but would never risk getting it artificially.
I’m halfway through the available powers for contact lenses. My vision will more than likely get so bad there won’t be contacts made for my prescription. So eye surgery, if I qualify, will be my only option. I’d do it. If you’re blind already the benefits outweigh the risks.
@AuroraO
Under those circumstances, I would, too. I should have said I would never risk it for vanity’s sake.
I desperately want LASIK but can’t afford it. I have terrible vision and having to wear contacts/glasses is such a burden, I think.
GiGi I’m sure the effect of your coloring if very striking! My eyes are Hazel but I’ve always wanted full on Green. However, I would never mess with my eyesight since I’m a photographer. My hubby had Lasik four years ago and no complications. My eyesight is easily corrected with contacts and glasses so I personally don’t feel a need for Lasik. I used to work in a same day surgery unit that did Lasik (one of many procedures done there) and I watched the procedure in person. I just can’t do it after seeing that. I guess if you want it badly enough you will.
@Gigi, your skin color and hair probably make your eyes like crazy. I have Native American as well, but I’m more white with red undertones, obviously I have more white ancestry, but anyways. I have dark hair, and very light blue/green eyes. People tell me I have creepy, but cool eyes. I bet your eyes look much color with your coloring.
Onto the article, it’s never a good thing to change one’s eye color permanently. Isn’t this a new procedure as well, so, many of the complications aren’t even fully know. I have to either wear my contacts or glasses, because I have TERRIBLE eyesight, and it keeps getting worse. I know one day that LASIK may be my only choice one day, but I hope and pray that a miracle happens, and I never need it. Yeah, glasses and contacts are problem some, but I love my eyesight, and one of the biggest fears are going blind.
Your eyes sound very unique and beautiful, bet they really stand out with your complexion!
GiGi, you are like my niece. My bro is white and sis-in-law is native. She is almost 6 feet tall with black hair. light brown skin, and vivid green eyes, just like her dad’s. My niece is drop dead gorgeous and I bet you are too.
I had to get laser surgery on my eyes 2 years ago. The little moisture ducts in the corners of my eyes were closing off and needed to be re-opened. The laser felt like someone was hitting my eye with the eraser end of a pencil. It was very annoying, but not at all painful. Now I’m supposed to go back for checkups every 5 years.
I was a little nervous, so I asked the doc what was preventing the laser they were shooting into my eyes from going right through my brain. He explained about the measurement length of the rays. I asked about practicing with a laser in med school, on cadavers and he said they can’t use cadavers so get their practice on the job. My obvious next question was how long have you been doing this? He had been at it for 5 years.
You have to do your research I did it here in London several years ago and wish I did it ages ago took 3mins an eye =£4000 he was expensive but the best in Europe or possibly anywhere. Best money I ever spent went from.450 to 20/20. Could walk from the beach to my spot in the sand and not sit with strangers as I couldn’t see until I was on top of them 🙂 wouldn’t do what she did for eye colour though
@AuroraO – Also research INTACS in case they can help. They do have a certain strength limit, but what I like about them is that they’re removable. They’re an implant which changes the shape of the eyeball in order to improve vision. (I can’t have them because my eyesight became too bad before I could find a surgeon to do the surgery.)
@LadyD – Hope everything went well. There are people, like me, who have plastic plugs inserted into our tear ducts so that our eyes won’t be so dry. I had the lowers done and it has made a world of difference for me.
I was thinking the same thing. It’s waaaay to risky.
I got lasik because the weight of glasses to accommodate my strong prescription was becoming unbearable. It was not without complications, a raging inflammation requiring steroid drops into the eyes 12 times a day for weeks. Then it was the dry eyes, which required continual drops for three months. But five years on I’m thrilled with the results. Changing your eye color sounds downright dangerous. Plus, your eyes match who you are. However, it’s her deal not mine and I hope it all works out for her.
She looks like a vampire now. Halloween year round! Congrats?
Cool or risky? Effing stupid.
Omg, this seems insane. BUT…I did have LASIK and I LOVE IT!! I wore contacts for 25 years and I was practically blind and now I have perfect vision. It’s a dream come true.
Me too! Lasik is the best. I did it 12 years ago and have never had any problems, perfect vision now. The actual procedure is not painful but it is a bit surreal – you are actually seeing the laser cutting your eye. Very very strange feeling!
Well, ok, but you were in a “what do I have to lose?” situation! If I were next to blind, I would do that, too. But to change your eye colour? I need glasses/lenses, even though I can see (a little blurry) without them too, and unless my sight drops dead, I would never get near Lasik! I am just terrified at the thought!
My Mother had her eyes done this past Summer. (Lasik)
But she went to what I call an old school eye doctor. One who repairs really bad eye injuries. Along with glaucoma and other dilemma’s with the eyes. Not some weirdo in a strip mall sending out coupons for Lasik. Which lets be real… you never ever decide on any surgery by getting a dang coupon. Don’t be cheap! Especially with your eyes!
Anywho. She had one eye done one week. Had the other eye done the week following. Things went very well for her. She is extremely pleased with the out come. And her vision is perfect now.
I had no idea that there was a procedure to change your iris color. Wow. Not something I would consider… but hope things end well for Tiny.
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I had LASIK, and I love not having to wake up and reach for my glasses anymore. I did a lot of research and balancing pros and cons before I made my decision, though. I couldn’t imagine messing with my eye for cosmetic reasons at all.
Do you have to wear glasses for reading or is your vision perfect for both distance and close up? I have terrible distance vision, don’t even get out of bed without putting on my glasses. When I asked about Lasik I was told that since my distance vision was so bad the surgery would correct that but then I would have to wear glasses for reading. Since I am an avid reader that would mean glasses all the time again. No deal. However, this was about 20 years ago. I know procedures have changed. Can they now give you perfect vision no matter what your problems?
Bef
Before surgery I was near sighted, (if something was right in front of face), now my vision is 20/15. They said as I get older, I will need reading glasses someday, it’s inevitable. I had my surgery almost a year ago. My only regret is that I didn’t do it sooner. BUT…the surgery wasn’t pleasant, no one really warns you about that aspect. It’s quick but I found it unsettling..the smell of your eye being lasered is gross and they had trouble getting this suction thing centered on one of my eyes and had to try a few times, it hurt and lots of blood vessels were broken in that eye. But saying all that, it was still worth it.
There is lasik for reading now.
Yes. They can do Lasik for near sighted people of a certain age who are having issues with farsightedness.
I had my Lasik three years ago and that was recommended for my case.
(Great experience, by the way. My vision was in the 20/600s. Because my vision was so bad, 20/20 results were not expected, but to even my doc’s surprise, I have perfect vision.)
I had LASIK done 2 years ago after wearing glasses since I was 5 and contacts for over 20 years. My vision was only getting worse each year so I finally saved up enough for the procedure and it was one of the best decisions I ever made!
I’m just glad I avoided watching the LASIK YouTube videos before the actual procedure otherwise I would’ve chickened out! 🙂
Lasik is THE BEST THING EVER! I was 24 when I got mine done, the youngest patient the clinic had ever had — but I also had close to the worst vision they had seen. Some 15 years later I have better than 20/20 vision. Loooooooove it.
That’s ridiculous. Why would you risk glaucoma for that? Crazy
Coloured lenses are a nightmare; I tried them once and they just made me cry! But all eye colours are beautiful in their own way. It’s not worth messing your vision up to change it.
This is just sad.
I was legally blind and just got PRK (the old-school version of LASIK), and it took years for me to find the right doctor and plan for all the risks. No way in heck would I do something like this for vanity’s sake!
Dream come true? Girl, you need a new dream.
This +10000
Yes! How shallow she sounds
“Dream come true? Girl, you need a new dream.”
Yes! This exactly!
Creepy! (The procedure)
Creepy! (The Impetus)
Just…wow. Completely by chance I ran across the company Brightocular and couldn’t believe people are still risking their eyesight with this crap after NewColorIris. Vanity really does trump everything for some people.
Yeesh. Messing with the eyes and vision without necessity freaks me the hell out. This has too much Josef Mengele written all over it. There is nothing wrong with any eye color.
+1 urchin. I can’t even make a joke about this, it’s too disturbing.
agree Kiddo.
Ever see a movie called Boys from Brazil? What they did to that little boy’s eyes. Gross.
It’s risky to mess with your eyesight… I hope nothing happens to hers in the long run.
IMO, LASIK is scary on some level… but I think if you go to someone who is qualified, I think it’s ok to do it. A coworker of mine had it done, and she had great results.
Oh wow I hope nothing happens to her vision. It’s scary what people are willing to risk and do to themselves for the sake of vanity.
Yeah, it’s so stupid that hurts.
I was thinking the same thing, what a dumb thing to do for vanity
Seems highly dangerous. I did read that there is testing being done for a laser procedure that would turn the eye from brown to blue. That seems the closest to lasik and probably will be approved.
Yeah, I read about that too. They strip away enough of the pigment that you’re left with blue eyes. The side-effects are sensitivity to light (blue-eyed people thing) and blindness. Everyone sign up!
I have naturally blue eyes, and snow, as well as bright light/sun (fluorescent ones mainly like in stores) hurt my eyes like crazy.
I have naturally light green eyes and I had lasik 10 years ago and it made my already sensitive eyes EXTREMELY sensitive to light. I can’t leave the house without sunglasses ever, especially in winter with sun reflecting off snow. At first my eyes were even sensitive at night to car headlights, they seemed extra bright but that got better as time went on. I don’t regret it because of the great vision now but there are definite side effects for some to deal with.
I have eyes that are usually bright blue. Sometimes they darken briefly. My sensitivity to light is so bad that I haven’t driven at night for over 12 years. I literally cannot see anything when headlights hit me. I can’t see the middle line, I can’t see the lines on the side of the highway, I can’t see the highway, and I can’t see the cars coming at me. I don’t know if I'[m in their lane or mine. I had to quit driving at night. I also wear sunglasses in the winter because of the glare on the snow. Apparently my eyes are flatter than most, which allows more light in.
Interesting. My mom has light blue eyes and she never leaves the house without her sunglasses. I never really made the connection between her eye color and light sensitivity before. My dad has brown eyes and I’ve never seen him wear sunglasses.
Hmmm….my eyes are very dark brown and also pretty sensitive to light.
@michbb- a friend of mine who has light green eyes also suffers from light sensitivity after having Lasik. She cannot leave the house without sunglasses and bc of the light sensitivity, she can also not drive at night. Seems like a lot of risk for the convenience of not wearing glasses, ya know?
For everyone with sensitivity to light, please go to your doctor and get your vitamin B12 level checked to make sure it’s normal. Normal is 350-900 and it doesn’t fluctuate much in a healthy person. I suggest this because there’s a “rare” autoimmune disease called pernicious anemia which can have photophobia as a symptom, and most doctors never check their patients’ vitamin B12 level. Absolutely get it checked if you’ve had chemotherapy or are a senior, because those are factors as well for low B12, due to the intrinsic factor in the stomach being killed off and not then able to absorb the vitamin. (I have pernicious anemia, as does my sister, because it runs in our family. My mother had pseudo-pernicious anemia from chemotherapy.) Best wishes!
Thanks for the tip Jag! (I’ve actually tested mine and my B12 is all good but great for others to know!) My Dad and I have blue eyes, both of us NEED sunglasses when outside at all times and even squint with them. My Mom and sister have brown eyes and they do not have this problem. So there’s a definite drawback to having light eyes. This is also why the majority of animals active in the day time have brown eyes (there are obviously exceptions but most have brown eyes).
Seems like a big risk just to change your eye colour. Seems shallow and stupid to me.
I know, right? To me, eye color is just something that…… is. Like why would you care about it enough to want to change it?
Holy crap. They’re her eyes and her choice, but that sounds dodgy as hell. I’d be terrified to try something like that just for vanity.
Her new eyes look AMAZING. There – I said it – am I the first? Well they do, they look great.
That said, the risks are terrifying and I would never mess with my eyeballs by an uncertain treatment in 1000 years. I love looking at stuff too much. :/
Self hatred is a powerful motivator.
@Lia I don’t want to jump to this conclusion, but what you’re saying was my knee-jerk reaction. Bleached blonde hair and now ice gray eyes. WTF? Toni Morrison wrote The Bluest Eye in the 1970s and we’re still dealing with this ish. Obviously, I don’t know this woman personally and her exact motivation for having this procedure but it appears as if she has internalized Western beauty standards and is willing to risk her health in pursuit of them. It’s likely more complicated than that, but as a black woman I am very disturbed by this and that she’s taken to bragging about it. It reminds me of the Dencia controversy.
Also, looks like she has embraced some ugly clothes and accessories, worst looking pretty faced petite average sizes lady I’ve seen, she should have kept the eye colour which was lovely, ditched everything else she was doing with her look, including the blonde, that is bad blonde, even if you like warm blonde and roots, it could look way classier than what she did. dressed normal. God she’s a mess (to look at)
Does she know nothing about being blonde? Be careful how you wash it otherwise you need to tone it down every 10 days or so. Ugh my eyes…. Trying to look like someone totally different doesn’t work for most people (makes you look uglier than if you just presented yourself to flatter your best points ) she may indeed have some kind of body dysmorphia
I kind of agree with you that it’s sad and disconcerting, but could she just be playing the game? The lighter you are in showbiz (and society) the more you are recognized and rewarded. Just look at Beyonce, Salt n’ Pepa, TLC, et. al. I literally know nothing about her, but it just struck me as an alternative possibility that perhaps she is a savvy businesswoman who knows how the world works.
@Stars If she just had bleached her hair I wouldn’t be as disturbed. I think a lot of people like to experiment with hair color, but the combo of the bleached hair and the risky procedure to lighten her eyes weirds me out. Tiny is already “fair” for a black woman, so I don’t understand why she would need to take the drastic measure of permanently changing her eye color. And unlike Beyonce et. al, Tiny is not an entertainer, so why does she need to play the game? That said, Beyonce has been called out for lightening her hair, as has Jennifer Lopez. I think people of color find it disturbing that minorities in entertainment “keep playing the game” to be more palatable to mainstream America. I was just as disturbed when Julie Chen confessed to having eyelid surgery because she was criticized for looking “too Asian.”
@Betty Yes, my first thought, too! The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison…wow, I can’t believe this is actually happening for real. Unbelievable.
THIS!! And the fact this woman has kids that look up to her and her colorstruck ridiculous self…ugh
I’m ridiculously fair with blue eyes, and I’d never thought much about eye color until college. A girl I became friends with (who had similar coloring to me, except she had deep, deep brown eyes) talked about how hard it was to grow up and constantly feel like brown eyes are “less” than blue eyes. Blue eyes were special and magical: brown eyes are boring. She was thrilled when Beauty and the Beast came out, because it was a case of finally feeling like brown eyes could be special and beautiful too.
So I think this procedure sounds stupid and dangerous and pointless, but I can’t fault Tiny. Much like that stupid old “blondes have more fun” saying, I think there’s this idea that light-colored eyes are somehow “better.”
Tiny is biracial. Maybe she longed to look like her maternal relatives. Maybe she was motivated by people being critical of her looks online. Or maybe she isn’t yet mature enough to realize that just because people automatically coo over blue eyed blond babies and call them gorgeous, doesn’t mean she isn’t gorgeous with her brown eyes and dark hair.
People with blonde hair and light eyes are celebrated in magazines, advertisement, television, movies, sports and porn. This occurs whether their features are actually symmetrically beautiful or not. People color their hair, bleach their skin and wear color contacts hoping to get some of that veneration for blue eyes, porcelain skin, and blonde hair. Blue eyed blond Russian tennis players are described as hot. Serena Williams and Venus are described as man-like. So it’s easy to see why Tiny might be willing to go blond and grey eyed. But one would hope that she could love her own dark hair and big Brown eyes.
Did she get a new nose too?
Right…… Serena and Venus are seen as more mannish than Maria sharapova and Anna kournikova, only because they are black?! It’s rude that any one say that but I think it’s more about their body shapes And faces, much more mannish than average for any race of woman or any famous woman I can think of. If they looked like Kelly Rowland or Jennifer Hudson I doubt any one would say that. Of course there also white women who have masculine features, Lea Michelle comes to mind. I’m not into sports but I bet many of the white female soccer players have that masculine look that the Williams sisters have and the most famous pretty Eastern European players don’t
Of all the life choices one could make, why this?
One could say that a lot about Tiny.
I’ve never heard of these procedures. This seems like such a huge risk for vanity. I don’t get it. I can’t help but to think of Michael Jackson here. I hope that she’s not following in his footsteps. I don’t follow T.I. or Tiny. I’ve only heard of them because of friend of mine loves them.
Why do people hate themselves so much. Our eye and hair color is what makes us unique from others. To even take the slightest chance of injuring your eye or worse is beyond belief. Joan Rivers went to have that minor procedure and never lived to see it. Come on Tiny, is changing your eye color going to change your life. No, not unless you have problems with it in the future.me. The fragile egos of some people never ceases to amaze me.
I went to Brightocular’s website…holy hell there are some freaky looking people on there. I had no idea this was even a thing. All eye colors are beautiful I think. I have green eyes and I was kinda hoping my daughters would have green eyes too. My girls are biracial and I thought green eyes would look pretty with their complexion but they both have brown. My oldest has lighter brown eyes, like an amber color and my youngest has the most beautiful dark brown eyes, reminds me of a chocolate bar…and they both have BEAUTIFUL EYES. Can’t imagine them with any other color and would hate it if they ever changed it.
Woah. Some of those people look terrifying. All colored eyes are not meant for all colors of people. Yikes.
Strange, looks like they implant a small flat silicone ring on top of your current iris. Wonder how popular this may become in the next ten years.
For the record there are many black people that have blue eyes. It is a small percentage but not unheard of. Normally it is the result of a recessive gene or isolated albinoism. You can google for pictures
Just because something is not FDA approved does not always mean it is unsafe. Our FDA is riddled with politics and has often outlawed drugs used safely in other countries simply to protect drug manufacturers from losing money. If it has a successful track record in other countries then I do not see why it is any more or less risky than any other cosmetic procedure.
Very true statement, but I think changing one’s eye color is something most people few as unsafe. I remember interning for a short with eye surgeons talking about this procedure, and the risks they listed to me were scary. Plus, just like most of these type of surgeries, since this is still considered relatively new some of the adverse effects and complications aren’t fully known. Each to their own though. I wouldn’t do this even if I had brown eyes, but that’s me.m
Usually anything involving sharp objects (surgery) and eyeballs is risky – with naturally perfect vision I say no thanks get away from my eyyyeeesssss.
@hunter. Agreed, every surgery had it’s risk. I have a weird thing with my eyes especially, when I involves sharp objects going to them. I hate even going for eye appointments. Have one Tuesday for new contacts.
I envy you people with perfect vision, I have to wear either contacts or glasses. I opt for my contacts mostly, I’m very active.
•Mike•
Very true.
The FDA is pretty messed up as you forgot to mention the fast-tracking of meds that are super risky and often (almost always) get pulled due to safety concerns after a few years. That happens more often than not. As does the FDA promoting pharmaceutical backed treatments vs safe, alternative treatments (e.g. therapeutic doses of vitamins) which can’t be patented by the pharmaceutical companies. Patented drugs are BIG money and causes more issues than it helps. Plus, most of the FDA is now staffed with people that worked for those same pharmaceutical companies. It’s very incestuous and this is why the FDA no longer has the consumer’s best interests in mind when they approve/disapprove treatments and medications.
However, this still sounds risky. No surgery is 100% risk free and a surgery of this magnitude should be approached with extreme caution — especially as its done for cosmetic purposes only. And just because it’s ‘safely’ done in other countries doesn’t mean the surgeon here in the US has the same safety track record as the doctors abroad.
The risk here is MUCH higher than just a ‘regular’ cosmetic surgery procedure as you could lose your eyesight.
Yikes.
*shudder*
Yes to all of that, LadySlippers. It’s the ocular nature of these shenanigans that takes it to a higher level of risk than your standard nip/tucks. That procedure is straight up batshit insanity.
Are they still together?
It does look really pretty, though. That’s a cool color.
I wouldn’t do it just to change the color of my eyes. Can it be undone? What if you hate that color later in life?
I have permanent contact lenses that are implanted in my eyes to correct my vision. I don’t qualify for LASIK, my corneas are too thin due to my poor vision. The procedure can be undone for any reason and I can go back to wearing regular contacts/glasses. I’m happy with it because my vision was so bad and it’s nice to see when I wake up, shower, swim and live normally without fumbling for my glasses on the nightstand. That being said, I’ve had them for over five years and I think my vision is changing as I inch closer to 40 so I may need to make a change – either replace the lenses or remove them.
Wow! I didn’t even know this was a thing, you could implant contact lenses on your eye! How does that work exactly? How does the lens stay in place and remain attached? I’ve been wearing contact lenses for over 10 years now and wearing the daily contact lenses for about 7 (I used to wear the two week ones but those were too dry for my eyes). I thought I knew everything there was to know about contacts because I had a lot of issues with them awhile ago. Unfortunately, after a round of Accutane for acne, my eyes have become very dry (if you’ve taken Accutane, you know what I’m talking about!). I’m hoping eventually my eyes will go back to their natural moisture because it’s hard for me to even wear the dailies now without putting in eyedrops several times a day. I’ve toyed with the idea of Lasik but I don’t think they recommend that to you if you already have dry eyes to begin with?
However I will never change my eye color! My eyes are kind of unique (I have partial heterochromia) and a weird color, nobody can seem to correctly identify what color they are. I’m not squeamish about my eyes much, I put in and take out contacts all the time. But changing your eye color… that’s just taking it too far and why risk it if you could get glaucoma??
@Amy – It might be INTACS, but Hope will have to tell us the name. Since you had Accutane, please do two things for me: start getting your vitamin B12 level checked at least once a year at your doctor’s and please know the number. Accutane is linked to destroying the intrinsic factor in the stomach, which causes pernicious anemia, aka low B12. B12 is necessary for nerve health and so much more in the body, and pernicious anemia is eventually fatal if left untreated. Also, people with low vitamin B12 should never use laughing gas because it can cause a fatal heart attack.
The second thing is to research tear duct implants. Both my sister and I had Accutane, and we both had to have tear duct implants due to eye dryness. I chose to have them implanted rather than go on the risky eye drops which can cause vision issues or eye color changes in some people. My sister and I are very happy with our implants because they took care of the problem. I only had my lowers done, but I believe she went back and had her uppers done as well. Best wishes.
I don’t know the name brand I got, there are a few out there. It’s an actual surgery. You do a series of eye drops the week before and the day of you get numbing drops and a bunch of others put in to make your pupil tiny. Then into the OR where your eye is taped open and they use a scalpel to peel back a layer of your eye. The contact is placed and the put the layer back down.
You can see normally in a few hours, it starts out blurry and as your eye settles you see more clearly. The implant is made of collagen, no stitches. Your eye looks red and irritated for a few days at most but most people thought it looked like I had an eye infection because of the redness. It didn’t hurt, just mentally it’s unnerving to have someone cut at your eye. I drove myself home after the procedure. They do one eye, then the other.
A coworker had LASIK is one eye and the implant in the other because his cornea was thinner in one eye.
You can’t tell by looking at my eyes I even have lenses. Even my regular physician shined the light in them during a checkup, saw a glare and asked why my eyes “sparkle” when a light is on them – it’s the lenses.
I think of you search for “implantable contact lenses” you can find info on it and surgeons who are certified to do the surgery.
I had an eye doctor who kept pushing lasik on me. I finally had it written in my file “Don’t ask her about Lasik.” I wear glasses for distance but not to read. Lasik would only have reversed that! So what would be the point? And he knew that! I now have a new eye doctor who doesn’t ever mention it.
The point would be that the doctor wanted money.
I’m actually in the process of looking for a new dentist after the new dentist he brought into his practice tried to scare me into shelling out thousands of dollars for “problems” … luckily, I have an acquaintance who works in the dental field, and she said this has become a common practice and I shouldn’t panic. It’s just become an easy way for them to make money.
I went to a dentist for a while who told me that she left her previous practice because the head dentist told her to upsell as much as possible. Not surprised.
Renee, elle, I was once a skin clinic receptionist and we were required in the counter to hard sell some stuff the clinic is affiliated with to patients. Since most patients have vanity problems, meaning wrinkles, aging, acne, they would easily purchase those overly expensive, unnecessary items. It was easy to sell stuff to noveau riche patients as they don’t do much research and will buy anything trendy.
Shriek, scary, omg, i have a thing for eyes. NO NO NO. I am flinching.
This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. People have real problems, and this girl was unhappy with her perfectly healthy brown eyes? She needs help.
I heard about a (also unapproved) procedure where the pigmentation in your eyes is destroyed to reveal whatever colour is below. I’d go for that much sooner than I’d *shudder* get a cosmetic disk implanted in my eye. Wouldn’t this affect night vision? (The way coloured contacts do?)
Nerdy aside:
Blue and grey eyes are really eyes that have no pigmentation at all (human albinos have blue or grey eyes, not pink eyes like a rabbit.) The blue colour, if present, comes from the way light scatters on some people’s irises. And green eyes are just blue eyes with a bit of brown pigment that acts as a yellowish filter over top of the blue. Amber eyes are the same thing except on top of a grey iris.
No. No no no no. l am slowly going blind and have a chance of losing my vision entirely someday. You do not f with this stuff for something as trivial as eye color. It’s amazing what people will take for granted when they don’t understand how precious it is. I would love to have the security of my eyesight and I am tested regularly to preserve what I have. Throwing away that security over nothing seems ridiculous.
Did she have that done in some shady dude’s workshop or something? ‘Cause that sounds like some crazy back alley business right there. It looks disharmonious to me, her v1.0 eyes were a much softer look imo.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/iris-implants-threaten-vision-1.1251270
scary!!
HOLY CRAP!! Just….holy crap. Who the hell thought this crazy sh-t up? Some med school drop out trying to make a quick buck?? Watch, in a couple of years you’ll have these news specials about all these people who bought into this gimmick and can’t see shit.
I have horrible eyesight. I’ve worn glasses since 2nd grade, contacts since 7th. I’ve pondered corrective surgery, but it’s off the table for me- for now. I used to go to an optometrist who tried to scare me into getting that RK surgery that they don’t even do anymore. At that time, there were two types, RK and laser. He went to some seminar and was renting the machine for random weekends- told me if I was in a hotel or someone else’s house and there was a fire, I’d be too disoriented to find my glasses and I could die trying to find my way out. (Went home, told my mom, I was in high school and of driving age- we dropped him like an old suit). Now- I’m really glad I didn’t succumb to any pressure because I have pre-cataracts and they don’t have any good research on how people fare when they get cataracts after having eye surgery years before. **Bonus points, they will fix your vision during cataract surgery and it’s covered by insurance since it’s deemed medically necessary.
Sorry, that was long. Key lesson- don’t jack with your eyes. Especially if you don’t need to.
Article on why they don’t do RK surgery anymore: http://www.lasikcomplications.com/RK-radial-keratotomy.html
I would love to have green eyes. That’s the most beautiful, lucky eye color to me. I don’t know why, but for some reason I’ve always associated green eyes with magic, mystery, and sex appeal. The last time I heard about eye-color changing surgery I heard that the procedure only allows for brown eyes to be turned to blue eyes, and nothing else. I don’t know if this has been changed since then- the last I heard about it was 2 years ago. But since I don’t have vision problems, I wouldn’t go through with it anyway- I’d rather be stuck with the medium amber/hazel/light brown color (they change in shade) I have now with good vision than spend some probably ridiculous amount of money on green eyes and potentially damage my vision.
Green eyes are pretty. I also love hazel and gray. Tiny’s eyes look interesting but I wish she would’ve stuck with the pretty brown eyes she was born with.
AHHH!! I would NEVER do this, ever!! OMG – it’s giving me the shivers!
Any shade of eyes can be beautiful – it’s the gleam, the look, in them that makes them stand out, in my opinion.
Brightocular is not the same as newiris.com from Panama. The shape and even patents are not the same as this can be looked up at the USPTO.
The colors are even different from newiris and brightocular. Check out both sites and compare. The surgery videos how its implatanted is even difference, Those publications or problems are from newiris by kahn medical not brightocular. Brightocular says on their faq page that they do not recommend brightocular.
“Brightocular says on their faq page that they do not recommend brightocular.”
Hee.
This is some crazy Toni Morrison/The Bluest Eye kind of shit. That was literally the plot of the book-the little girl wanted to have blue eyes like white movie darling Shirley Temple because her community bases its conception of attractiveness-and thus how much somebody deserves loves and attention and respect-on white standards.
Oh man, that novel. D: I read that book when I was in…high school? I think. That was some soul-crushing sh*t right there. I felt depressed for a week after I read it.
Same here…I read that book in college and it depressed me for weeks! Such an impactful and sobering story.
Honestly, all cosmetic surgery comes with some level of risk, however routine some of them may be at this point. While I wouldn’t take the risk on something that wasn’t FDA regulated yet, I don’t find this any more problematic than skin bleaching/body lifts/breast jobs/etc.
Even if my boob job went horribly wrong I’d still be able to see and hear.
Your boob job could get you killed or permanently injured if you have an adverse reaction to the anesthesia or a post-op infection. A friend of mine had a boob job in her early twenties. She later developed complications where a nerve wrapped around the implant, making that breast extremely touch sensitive and destroying her ability to nurse children. Because of how entangled the nerve was, they couldn’t go in and remove the implant without risking damaging the nerve cell permanently. My own mother developed drug-induced hepatitis after developing an infection after a very minor skin operation (infected insect wound).
I work in pharmacy, and it surprises me how many people don’t realize how much risk goes into altering your body. There’s a ton of complications and problems that can occur as a result of the entire process, whether it’s the drugs, infections, or just the stress of surgery on the body. So yeah, I’m going to say that I don’t find this any more or less risky than other surgery. It has the potential to do damage, but so do ALL of them. It just happens that most of these cosmetic surgeries have been around longer, so they’ve developed a false reputation for being “safer.” It’s not something I’d go for myself, particularly since it hasn’t been fully approved yet, but it doesn’t surprise me that such a surgery exists.
Don’t want to mess up with the eyes. I could lose my peen on some “lengthening ” procedure but never my eyesight.
I get what you’re saying. I just find it amusing that as soon as eyes are involved, everybody gets squicked out more than they would with other procedures. I’m not saying that I like the procedure, but I’m not going to berate her for it either when all of them carry a level of risk. There is the larger issue of how black women are taught to frame themselves in a culture of white beauty, but I don’t know her well enough to judge that her motivations are derived purely from self-loathing.
(I’d personally love to have gotten my mother’s green eyes instead of my dad’s brown ones – all I got was a tinge of green on the edge of iris! such mockery! – but I’ll stick to contacts if I want to change them.) 😉
She should go on a talk show for a male under . The eyes, despite the risk, are the least of her sins here. My friends kids have light green eyes and the dad is black, similar to this, so really it’s not the most unnatural look, the problem is everything else she has going on. Looks worse than Paris Hilton ever did
Ridiculously stupid procedure. I feel shocked!!! that it even exists. Should have opted for brain transplant instead.
Very sad
so basically they are misleading like miranda kerr’s kora that were not organic and don’t care when consumers have a rash or even problems after using their products
OMG!!! Firstly, I didn’t think this was possible.
Secondly, why would you risk your eyesight for vanity where there is nothing wrong with it?
Are coloured contacts so bad? Paris doesn’t seem to think so.
And I can’t believe i’m now praising Paris for being less vain or having more sense to use contacts rather than surgery.
The website is skeevy. Why would you operate on someone a cartoonish iris permanently? Why would someone want that? They don’t look good at all. They might mess up with your passport identification or biometrics. Eye color: green, blue, brown, turquoise Green with limbal ring. What the hell?
Wow, the people on the brightocular site look freaky. More striking, but still freaky. I think they’re now sitting firmly in ‘uncanny valley’ territory, because someone would know there’s something just a bit off about them, but not be exactly sure what it is (hint: the permanently undilated pupils).
I checked patient photos on the site and WTF is up with that one kid? He looks 12 at most!
I thought this was going to be the procedure where the thin layer of color is lasered off, but no, it’s not the same thing at all. (I’m not sure how safe that procedure is, but definitely would consider it over this implant!) How does an implant know how big your pupil gets to let in light, or if the opening is that big, do you still see the natural eye color behind it when your pupils dilate? How very strange.
I once tried wearing purple contacts because I wanted violet eyes. What I didn’t realize until riding in the car one day and happening to glance in the side-view mirror was that in really bright sunlight, you could see the contacts color and then my natural blue eye color behind it. I looked like an alien. lol That was the last time I wore colored contacts.
I don’t get the motivation. I have brown eyes, and I really like them. I think brown eyes are warm and pretty.
smdh
Same. I have dark dark brown eyes but am a naturally blonde/pale skinned girl, and I get compliments on my eyes all the time! I have never understood the appeal of people with dark eyes wanting green/blue eyes. And her eyes just look weird, like a Halloween costume freakshow.
Ok what in the world would ever make you do that to your eyes?
There are people that are blind and here she is risking possible issues for what? To have blue eyes?
Lady, get some colored contacts and call it a day.
I’m in shock that anyone would do this to themselves.
Sigh. Gender selection in utero, bio jewelry that links into your veins, eye colour changes, microchips linking you to your home/car — this is the way the future is going to go.