A quick surgical procedure can permanently change your eye color, but experts warn it’s not without risk
CNN
When he was a kid watching American movies in Thailand, Jack Titus’ one dream was to become an American. After the model made it a reality a few years ago with a move to Las Vegas, he developed a new dream: To look more like an American. And to him, that meant eyes that weren’t dark like his.
When he was a kid watching American movies in Thailand, Jack Titus’ one dream was to become an American. After the model made it a reality a few years ago with a move to Las Vegas, he developed a new dream: To look more like an American. And to him, that meant eyes that weren’t dark like his. Colored contacts were OK, but when he started researching other options, he found a type of surgery that could lighten his eyes permanently. Three years ago, when the now-32-year-old told his family he was having the procedure, they were shocked. “They tell me it’s too risky, because you only have one set of eyes,” Titus said. Colored contacts, which cover the colored part of the eye with a tinted lens, have been used for cosmetic reasons since the 1940s – there’s even speculation that myopic Marilyn Monroe may have worn them – but cosmetic surgery to make a color change permanent is a more recent phenomenon. The trend has been popular in parts of Europe for about a decade but really started taking off in the United States over the past few years after people revealed their dramatic color transformations on social media apps like TikTok and Instagram. Procedures called iris implants have received US Food and Drug Administration approval for people who are missing part or all of their iris, but no procedure is approved for cosmetic purposes. In January, the American Academy of Ophthalmology issued a warning about the risks of vision loss and complications with two eye color change procedures: iris implants and the one Titus had, called keratopigmentation. But when Titus looks in the mirror and sees that his once-dark eyes are now blue-gray, he says, he’s grateful that he had the surgery.
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