३१ ऑक्टोबर, २०१४

Eye color implants.

"I looked in the mirror and I was, like, they’re amazing."

ADDED: "The Bluest Eye is a 1970 novel by American author Toni Morrison.... The title The Bluest Eye refers to Pecola's fervent wishes for beautiful blue eyes. She is rarely developed during the story, which is purposely done to underscore the actions of the other characters. Her insanity at the end of the novel is her only way to escape the world where she cannot be beautiful and to get the blue eyes she desires from the beginning of the novel."

३६ टिप्पण्या:

chickelit म्हणाले...

No one knows what it's like
To be the bad girl
To be the sad girl
Behind blue eyes

अनामित म्हणाले...

Aren't these called colored contacts?

Shanna म्हणाले...

Crap. Now instead of people randomly asking me if I wear contacts, they are going to start asking if I had implants.

traditionalguy म्हणाले...

Since brunettes look more attractive with blonde hair styling, then the addition of blue eyes seems like a good choice.

One could use colored contact lenses with added trouble and expense.

But why would implants be forbidden? implants are used in all cataract surgeries today, so how dangerous can they be?.

Amexpat म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Wince म्हणाले...

“I just wanted to do something different. I have the right to do that,” Harris said. “It’s my body.”

It's offering the service that's illegal.

You can do it yourself.

Mark म्हणाले...

Looked at the pictures and my first thought was "Happy Halloween!"

MadisonMan म्हणाले...

@eric -- know. They're actually implanted beneath the eye's surface (Ouch!)

How long before someone grinds out an article bemoaning that the color switch is a sign of underlying racism?

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

What is it about blue eyes?

glenn म्हणाले...

After 50 years of marriage I'd still like dive into my wife's beautiful brown/green with gold flecks eyes and swim around. Nobody has eyes like her.

chickelit म्हणाले...

What is it about blue eyes?

Same as red hair. It's recessive. It's actually minority status and rare in the world. But nobody thinks that.

Hagar म्हणाले...

Blue eyes tend to be more sensitive to strong sunlight and other eye troubles.

chickelit म्हणाले...

If these cosmetic physical changes are seen to impart an evolutionary advantage, they are mistaken.

It's a bit like small breasted women with implants getting more mates. This will, over time, increase the pool of small breasted women if breast size is hereditary.

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

"Same as red hair. It's recessive. It's actually minority status and rare in the world. But nobody thinks that."

No, it's not like red hair, because red hair isn't enthusiastically embraced as clearly the best hair color. Many people think it's the worst.

The enthusiasm for blue eyes is something else. It might be in part the rarity, but it can't be just the rarity.

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

Toni Morrison wrote a book that seems to be about a black person going insane from her incapacity to have blue eyes.

I haven't read the book. What I quoted was from Wikipedia. I've seen the book title for years.

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

"It's actually minority status…"

As a person of red hair and blue eyes, I have acquired a deeper understanding of what it means to be in the minority and the challenges that people in other minority groups deal with every day. It’s made me more empathetic, which has led to a richer life. It’s been tough and uncomfortable at times, but it has given me the confidence to be myself, to follow my own path, and to rise above adversity and bigotry.

Achilles म्हणाले...

I wonder how people will adjust to culture when any person can pretty much look how they want to look. When everyone can get cosmetic surgery done for relatively cheap will there be supermodels? What will you do when everybody is hot?

अनामित म्हणाले...

Implants are more serious than contacts. Located in an area as sensitive as the eye, I would assume they can have more drawbacks in the long run.

So much of your life trajectory is predicated on what you look like, especially if you are female. As far as evolution, (@chickelit), you are instead selecting for character traits - the type of woman that would risk later complications to put plastic bits in her body to fit the accepted mold of success, which is a trait unto itself - sort of a genetic business major. ;) You're also selecting for guys that can't tell the difference or don't care.


Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

"I wonder how people will adjust to culture when any person can pretty much look how they want to look. When everyone can get cosmetic surgery done for relatively cheap will there be supermodels? What will you do when everybody is hot?"

"The Twilight Zone" already did that: "Number 12 Looks Just Like You."

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

"What will you do when everybody is hot?"

I presume individualism or naturalness will become more valuable.

Isn't that already true? Perhaps not. If not, what difference will anything make anymore? Who will care?

I stopped going to the movies when it became hard to tell the characters apart.

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

But I am not a man, and I find it impossible to understand the enthusiasm for breasts with implants. Maybe you just have an internal trigger that's wholly apart from anything to do with thinking, and your response is unaffected by the knowledge that there are these these are bags of liquid or gel or whatever that the woman has allowed her breasts to be sliced open to be slipped in and sewn permanently inside. Why isn't that, to put it mildly, off-putting?

Sigivald म्हणाले...

No, it's not like red hair, because red hair isn't enthusiastically embraced as clearly the best hair color.

I've never noticed blue eyes being "clearly the best" eye color.

They're occasionally lauded in English culture.

But so's green, and also brown.

Let's not over-analyze aesthetics.

Shanna म्हणाले...

I've never noticed blue eyes being "clearly the best" eye color.

Seriously. I wanted brown eyes when I was a child.

Green eyes are far less common than blue, btw.

अनामित म्हणाले...

AA: What is it about blue eyes?

Maybe they're just pretty. Like gemstones are pretty. Recent mutation in humans, possibly subject to sexual selection. 'Cause they're pretty.

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

I accidentally made a separate post out of what was only going to be my next comment here.

M. Findlay म्हणाले...

Althouse said:
But I am not a man, and I find it impossible to understand the enthusiasm for breasts with implants.


I'm a man and I think breast implants, for strictly cosmetic reasons as opposed to prosthetics, are cheating. They do nothing for me visually, and detract from attractiveness if obviously fake.

I just happened to re-watch a long forgotten Seinfeld episode in which Jerry breaks up with a woman because he believes she has implants. He explains to Elaine that finding out that a woman's breasts were fake would be like finding out that Mickey Mantle corked his bat.

I agree.

madAsHell म्हणाले...

Those tits appear to be bolt-ons.

traditionalguy म्हणाले...

Old Gray Eyes, also called Abe Lincoln, sounds like a good Presidential eye color to me.

When my shirt is a blue, than so are my eyes, but when my shirt is a white/black than my eyes are gray.

Never trust a gray eyed lawyer.

traditionalguy म्हणाले...

As for breast augmentation it was done more for symmetry of size between the pair to help shy women who felt defective. Than Playboy Magazine had run so many 5 foot centerfolds with normal breasts that size di8fferential became a fetish, but one that women accused men of having.

But it was never a bigger size matter for most guys; so long as they female curve difference was visibly there in cleavage of any size.

RecChief म्हणाले...

I'm a man, and I don't understand the fascination with breast implants either.

Hammond X. Gritzkofe म्हणाले...

Blue eyes? Hardly noticed them. I was so drawn to and captivated by the nose ring.

Hammond X. Gritzkofe म्हणाले...

...and those Oh-So-Sexy attractively displayed black roots in her hair.

Hammond X. Gritzkofe म्हणाले...

But the boob-tat. OMG! 'Scuse me while I go choke the chicken.

अनामित म्हणाले...

I'll go with archetypal aesthetics: blue eyes are the color of the sea and sky.

chickelit म्हणाले...

I'll go with archetypal aesthetics: blue eyes are the color of the sea and sky.

Naomi Wolf suggested earth tone eyes for Al Gore.

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

Some people see dark eyes as deep, and you could feel the person is profound or able to hide their real feelings.

Blue eyes seem clear, as if you perceive honesty. That's why it's effective politically.

It's all illusory, of course.