You want to change the color of your eyes.

Changing eye color is something that many have always wanted, partly because humans want to imitate and we like to have what others have and also because culturally we have been made to think that certain eye colors are more beautiful.

When there is so much interest in getting something, it is not unusual for there to be many people breaking their minds looking to get it and in the process make a fortune. This is the case of techniques to change eye color that promise to become another cosmetic option, such as using makeup or dyeing your hair.

Colored contact lenses were the first, they have been around for almost a century. The first were manufactured in the late 1930s when a makeup artist at the Metro Goldwyn Mayer film studios asked a Beverly Hills ophthalmologist to find the way to change the eye color of an actor who had brown eyes to blue for a role in a movie.

These were basically painted contact lenses, which became unpainted with use, but from then on they were widely used in cinema many years later, in 1969 a way was found for the pigment to remain in the contact lens, it was recorded the patent and by the 80s they were already a super popular product.

The effect was not the most realistic, especially up close, but it is the most practical and cheapest option to change eye color. Some manufacturers have taken it to the limit with contact lenses that have gold and diamonds encapsulated at a cost of between 10,000 and 50,000, although that type of lens has not been rigorously tested, so in case you have the money to spend on that, I would not recommend it.

Although colored contact lenses have been used for a long time and are known to be safe, there are still some risks because they are still a foreign object in the eye, which is a super delicate and super important organ, basic precautions are not sleep with them on, do not rub your eyes and wash your hands before touching them and preferably seek guidance from an ophthalmologist to tell you what type of contact lenses you can use.

Now follows a much more invasive and therefore dangerous method, silicone implants in the anterior chamber, this is between the iris and the cornea, I don't need to tell you that it is an unnecessary and extremely invasive surgery, but I can show you this study that found serious complications in the people in whom the implants were performed, in all 14 cases the implant had to be removed due to serious complications, that is, this method has a success rate of 0% according to this study, guaranteed that it is bad

Of these 14 cases, 5 eyes required a partial cornea transplant, in 1 total cornea transplant, 7 eyes required cataract surgery and 6 eyes required glaucoma surgery, therefore, this method is terrible and I would only recommend it to those who want lose sight

Having said this not all implants are bad, in fact, Iris shaped silicone implants are something that is used in people who were born without Iris, a condition called aniridia or in cases where due to trauma the Iris is torn or left open allowing too much light to pass through the retina, people who have these conditions not only cannot see well, but the world is blindingly bright to them.

You probably already know the most famous case without knowing it, many people think that David Bowe had one light-colored eye and one dark-colored eye, a condition called heterochromia, but in reality he had an injury to the nerve that controls the sphincter, so he was permanently relaxed, discovering an extremely dilated pupil, this condition is called anisocoria.

The injury occurred in 1962, when a 15-year-old David Bowie got into a fight with his friend George Underwood over a girl they both liked. He received a blow to the eye that caused trauma to the nerve of the eye. Iris of the left eye, although their friendship lasted beyond the incident. They even collaborated musically, Bowie's eye never recovered, forming part of the iconic appearance of this artist with a thousand faces.

The case of David Bowie's permanently dilated Iris could have been a good candidate for a silicone Iris implant, as these types of implants are placed in the posterior chamber and do not cause injuries to the cornea, which do occur with cosmetic implants.

Now with the options presented, you would like to change your eye color.

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