Given the opportunity, Would you change your eye color to blue?

Im too old for such nonsense.

I have seen the surgery and result, by the way. Its not a very pretty blue. If the surgery is perfected, and is reasonably priced, there would be NO point in doing it, as many insecure subaltern darkies around the world will do it, making it banal.

Eye color surgery? People can do whatever they want with their bodies but if permanently changing your eye color is high on your list of priorities I have to question your sanity.

My eyes are green and I'm happy with them, I'd be fine if they were brown as well.

I have blue eyes. Everybody in my family has blue eyes. I find them quite boring. Give me a guy with gorgeous, dark, cocoa-brown eyes and I melt.

Vivid green, yes. Oookie blue, no.

NO! I'd change them to GREEN!

Green eyes are GORG!

This guy has beautiful brown eyes. Handsome too.

Gorg eyes!

I love my baby blues.

More beautiful brown eyes.

R7 More spooky than gorgeous. He looks unhinged, and not in a good way,

r8, pedophile murderer. How many pairs do you have?

I know someone who signed up for the experimental surgery which is insane, I'd rather avoid medical intervention unless it was absolutely necessary, no way would I let anyone operate on my healthy eyes and I'm happy with my light brown eyes, they fit well with my skin color and hair.

also if someone is ugly or handsome their eye color wouldn't change that.

R7 He looks like a future Isis fighter. He looks like the brother of that famous National Geographic cover girl from the Middle East.

brown like Julia Roberts

I have light blue eyes, and I am into Latinos, blacks and Arabs, I don't say no to handsome blue eye guy, but opposite attracts.

I already have green eyes. Why would I want blue?

Brown eyes are nice on some people, but I think with my coloring I would have looked better with light eyes. Oh well, I am still hotter than most people.

Will it make my brown eyes blue?

Violet is the best, followed by blue, green and hazel. Brown is for the other 6.9 billion people.

Light eyes are especially striking when in contrast to darker skin. I don't notice eye color in extremely fair white people. But I always notice lighter eyes against darker complexions.

No. But I've noticed Asians do this.

I have hazel eyes. They're green with a kind of amber disc in the middle all surrounded by a silver ring. I think they're pretty unique so I have no interest in blue eyes.

I thought that green was the least common eye color.

I LOVE blue eyes, but sadly don't have them (my mother has the most gorgeous China blue eyes).

If it were totally safe and reasonbly priced, I probably would have done it long ago.

My eyes are green and I have no desire to change their color. I have many blue-eyed family members (German and Norwegian background), and I prefer my own color. Even if I didn't, I wouldn't get a procedure to change it. I'm extremely near-sighted and have never had lasix to correct that because the thought of eye surgery freaks me out, so I definitely wouldn't mess around with my eyes just for vanity reasons.

I have brown eyes. I wear corrective contact lenses, clear, green and grey. I love green eyes, always have. I would never permanently change my eye color.

Blue lenses give me a cold look, but that's my coloring. The green looks realistic because it's more subtle. The grey are fun, but not weird.

Oh never, I have big brown Persian eyes and they contrast really well with my pale skin. Even if I hated them, they'd at least protect me from sun damage, being brown. Who subjects themselves to unnecessary eye surgery anyway?? Eyes are too delicate for that crap.

R26 is a muslim terrorist!

I have my fathers eyes. No, I would not change them.

Not blue. Maybe if a vivid, dark purple were available, though ...

my hazel eyes read pale gray and are fucking gorgeous. why would i opt for something so common as blue?

Hmmm...I thought someone would have identified the OP as the PMBT by now.

Blue eyes = common and basic

I registered it early R31 and got in a critical dig about sub-altern darkies and how they'd quickly ruin the novelty and thus rationale for doing it.

I would change my eye color if it would help me to advance in my program or to sell more textbooks at inflated prices.

R28 is a murderer and body-part collector!

Where did you hide the rest of his body, you sicko?!?

Green is the rarest colour, as only about 3% of people have it.

My eyes are green with a golden ring around the pupil, and I get compliments on them all the time, even when wearing glasses! Why would I change them to common, boring blue?

Those are hazel eyes r36.

I've never seen anyone with gray eyes. The only one I've heard of with violet eyes is Elizabeth Taylor.

No, but I might consider changing my Major/Program though...

And how many resale books might I get as a bonus?

R36 has heterochromia. I do too. I love it. My eyes change colors depending on what I wear.

More specifically, R36 has central heterochromia.

I have Paul Newman blue eyes. It has made me life so much easier. I'd highly recommend the surgery.

My eyes are olive green. Wouldn't change the color for anything

I wouldn't change mine to blue but violet like Elizabeth Taylor's or hazel. I'm black/biracial and I have dark brown black eyes. I have always hated their color and felt they were to dark for my skin tone

haha

re: heterochromia

my mom will be so happy- there is something hetero about me!

R46 Ha!

I have brown eyes with blue flex.

I think you mean "flecks", r48.

Those eyes are the same color as mine, R45. I dislike brown eyes, but anything else is OK. I had no idea they had a term for them.

I have green-blue eyes and get complimented on my eyes often. My eye shape is nothing special and my eyes are kinda small so it is a good thing the color is striking. I love hazel, blue and brown eyes; all of my significant others coincidentally had blue eyes. However I am not wild about light blue eyes. They have a "watery" and shallow look; they look terrible with light skin and white hair. Ugh!

I recently read that people with blue eyes are all descended from one common ancestor. Apparently, until 10,000 years ago, everyone had brown eyes, but then a genetic mutation occurred in one individual, affecting the OCA2 gene, which is involved in the production of melanin, the pigment that gives color to our hair, eyes and skin. This mutation resulted in the creation of a genetic switch, and rather than completely turning off the gene (i.e. the cause of albinism), the switch limits its action, which reduces the production of melanin in the iris. In effect, diluting brown eyes to blue.

Anyway, the DNA of around 800 people with blue eyes from multiple parts of the world were analyzed. Out of all of the participants, 99.5% had the same mutation in the OCA2 gene. In other words, they shared common DNA, much like relatives. This also indicates that one person is responsible for this mutation.

I have large almond shaped dark brown eyes, they are deep dark, sultry pools of mystery.

I've been in love with a blue eyed man, but his eyes really did nothing for me. I've been in love with a dark brown eyed man, and I drowned in those eyes every time I looked at them. They were hypnotic, mesmerizing. They made me feel like a child. I was helpless.

People with pretty eyes are answering this with variations on "no--why would I?" It's annoying and irrelevant. This question is obviously meant for people with boring, nondescript, basic brown eyes. No heterochromes or hazels allowed (eg Julia Roberts' eyes are too pretty to qualify).

R52 = jealous brown-eyed who'd love to think that all blue-eyed people are inbred!

sure old or young no matter give me some baby blues

R54, that is not what was asked, and it's ridiculous. Prettiness in eyes is not just about color. There are many people with blue eyes and their eyes are nothing special or pretty. Then there are those who had pretty blue eyes, but age made them no longer pretty. (I'm looking at YOU, Brooke Sheilds.)

I have blue eyes, and trust me if you have blue eyes you really don't care much about it.

I would never have elective eye surgery, the eyes are much too delicate. If something happens to your eyesight, you are totally fucked because there is nothing that can be done to correct it.

Incidentally, the pic above of Brooke is what most people's blue eyes look like, not like the pic at R56. That kind of blue eye is rare.

Is this a trick question?

No, I don't care for blue eyes. They remind me of fish eyes.

I have blue-green eyes, but I'd prefer it if I could lighten them up. Blue eyes aren't worth much if they're too dark to be noticeable.

[quote] I have large almond shaped dark brown eyes, they are deep dark, sultry pools of mystery.

Never was the reaction "Mary!" more deserved!

I used to think my hazel eyes were common, then recently I learned they're actually a little rarer than blue eyes (though still not as rare as green).

Nope, because I have green eyes. Was vaguely annoyed when coloured contacts came out because people began asking me if my eyes were 'real'. Besides, I'm a sucker for those melty brown long lashed eyes some men are blessed with...

R28=Adrian Woodhouse

It's fun to play game with vision, but don't play games with your eyes.

I have green eyes, and they do change with what I wear. Also when I cry, they turn bright green. My sister had beautiful brown eyes with copper flecks. I'd never change hers or mine.

You bitches are just jealous!

I have aqua blue eyes and get compliments all the time

I have blue-green eyes, green in the center that flows into a nice dark blue-grey around the outside. If I get a bad headache (which I haven't had in years) my eyes go dark emerald green. It's pretty awesome.

That said, I LOVE brown eyes. Give me dark brown eyes with long eyelashes and I will stare into them for days.

Mine kinda change from dark green in the day to chocolate brown at night.

What color are these eyes? Are they the elusive violet? Whatever they are, they're stunning...

No wonder Annie Lennox sang: "Catch me and let me dive under For I want to swim in the pools of your eyes"

Can you imagine "For I want to swim in the mud of your eyes"?

Where do I sign up?

My eyes are green but "sometimes" they are red in pictures.

Just eat lots of donuts, like the song says.

No I would not change my eye color. They are blue. Love guys with olive complexions and green eyes. Yum!

No. They're my least favorite eye color. I'd change mine to [bold]black[/bold].

I have blue eyes with very dark lashes and TBH I've never given it a second thought. People have the coloring that suits them by nature, one eye color isn't better than another. I do get a lot of compliments about my eyes but as I didn't do anything to get them it seems a bit pointless. Compliment me on my hard work or an achievement and I'm happy, genetic trait? Not so bothered.

As a red-head with green eyes, I'd say no. Most red-heads have blue eyes, so it's good to be a bit different, although red-heads with brown eyes are hotter than both green and blue.

Blue no. Deep green yes.

I thought one can wear contacts to change eye color? I wouldn't.

Green eyes are the most beautiful.

I only date guys with blue eyes. It's just my preference.

Honestly, everyone looks best with their natural eye color. I work in an extremely ethnically diverse environment, and every day I see otherwise attractive people looking like fools with their ridiculous colored contacts. They never seem to float correctly, and frequently seem to move ever so slightly off center giving the wearer a faintly wall-eyed look. The wearers think they make their eyes "pop." Yes, they get my attention but not in a good way. I have a strong suspicion that the eye-color changing surgery would have a similarly disturbing result. People would stare at your eyes, not because they are such a beautiful color, but because they are trying to figure out what is wrong with them. But I have no problem at all with changing your hair color. Go figure.

So grateful of my blue green aqua eyes with amber starburst around my pupil. Blows away the blues To keep them light, I always sport sunglasses because you can actually tan your eyes in the sun. The only brown eyes I find hot are almond shaped, Asian or NA. Envious brown eyed people are so truly sad Let me pour one out to my ancestors .

...........

Newsflash: Kanye and Kim have already booked a place for this procedure...

Expect blue-eyed Kim to hit the cover of Vogue very shortly.

My old buddy, Joe, worked as a doctor in Europe years ago. He would do all kinds of fun experiments to alter children's eye color. This was all done in some type of summer camp, I believe. My friend Dr. Mengele was not successful in his atempts, but I am glad today's scientists will soon be fulfilling his dream.

As a 9 year old in 1989, I attended summer camp for the first time. This was a year after my adoption. One of the girls had one dark brown eye and one sky blue eye. I was very fascinated, because I came from a Central American country, where being lighter = more beautiful. If you had dark skin but light-colored eyes, then you were even more of an anomaly, but a treasured one.

Anyway, I asked the girl what happened to her eyes, and she told me that she'd had this operation that made her change her eye color. All she had to do was press the area right below her eye and it would change from brown to blue and back again. She said she could have both brown eyes or both blue eyes, but she felt this was a better style, like mismatched socks. Of course, I asked her to show me how she changed her eye color(s), but she never did. When my adoptive parents picked me up at the end of the week, on the ride back home, I wouldn't shut up about the eye color operation and asked if I could have it, too. They were like "WTF?" But they humored me by saying that I'd just had one major operation (the previous December, I'd had reconstructive surgery on my hand, because it had been badly burned in Guatemala as a tot and had been useless for many years) and that my body could only handle so much surgery at a time.

Needless to say, I was disappointed. But I continued to believe the girl's claims for many years. I was a very gullible and naive kid.

R91, that's great that the girl was able to have fun with it at such a young age!

I have blue-green eyes and would want some variation on that if I didn't have them, but I'd be afraid this technology would affect my vision in some way they don't know about yet, so no.

Brown eyes are the sexiest.

[/quote]Because blue eyes have always been very popular despite the fact that only 17 percent of the world population possess this eye color.

What world do you live in? Caucasions don't even make up 17 percent of the world population much less those with blue eyes.

[quote] Caucasions don't even make up 17 percent of the world population much less those with blue eyes.

"Caucasions"? Oh, dear.

And you DO realize that Arabs, Indians, Pakistanis, Hispanics, etc. are all CAUCASIANS? It's not just Europeans.

Our most famous eyes ever!

I wouldn’t, OP. I think part of the appeal of beautiful blue eyes is that not everyone has them.

People have already been doing it for over a decade. It's a sludgy opaque blue, not sparkling at all.

I always wanted dark blue eyes but when I tried to dark blue contacts they didn't suit me at all so I'm happy to stick with dark brown.

'So grateful of my blue green aqua eyes with amber starburst around my pupil.'

But not grateful for your grasp of prepositions, huh?

People with brown eyes tend to have long dark eyelashes whereas blue eyed people are often stuck with blond lashes.

I have blue eyes and black eyelashes, as did/does everyone in my family-grandparents, parents, uncles, aunts.

i have green eyes, and i would never change them. like r68, when i cry my eyes turn a vivid emerald color. i used to think green was the rarest color (2% of world population), but it turns out that there are "gray" eyes, which i didn't know, which is the rarest (1%). i've gotten compliments on my eyes my entire life. my natural hair color is a chestnut-red color (now getting gray though).

My eyes are an unusual shade already, with a [italic]partial heterochromia [/italic] structure. My siblings have it, too.

So, no. Blue would be boring.

[quote]Hmmm...I thought someone would have identified the OP as the PMBT by now.

Years later and this was still my first thought when seeing this thread.

Blue, no. Green, maybe.

Is this the surgery we're talking about?

No. Blue eyes are overrated.

Haha no I wouldn’t.

r10 must be Samantha Eggar.

I have big, light crystal blue eyes, people have commented on them my whole life. Frankly they're a pain in the ass because they have no ability to block light naturally.

Even a small amount of overhead lighting and the resulting glare on things makes my eyes and muscles around my eyes twitch. I hope if people are getting a surgery for really light eyes they know that they may wind up basically living like a vampire

Dark blue eyes look nice but the light ice blue ones creep me out for some reason.

Love blue eyes but I wear contacts and have never even bothered to get blue tinted contacts so I doubt I would get the surgery. I am scared of getting Lasik so I doubt I would get surgery to change the color. I have green eyes but no one ever seems to notice unless I am wearing a green shirt and then I get compliments on my green eyes.

These people look freakish for the most part in their after photos

[quote]i have green eyes, and i would never change them. like [R68], when i cry my eyes turn a vivid emerald color. i used to think green was the rarest color (2% of world population), but it turns out that there are "gray" eyes, which i didn't know, which is the rarest (1%). i've gotten compliments on my eyes my entire life. my natural hair color is a chestnut-red color (now getting gray though).

Same here on both eye and hair. The hair color is referred to as chestnut auburn. I still have a full head of it at 60 with a few streaks of grey.

R114 Ugly just ugly.

I have brown eyes that look green in the sunlight. I have thick dark eyebrows and thick dark long lashes and don't need to wear sunglasses really, unless somewhere with mad sun like the Maldives. I would hate to be saddled with sunglasses all the time.

Those people at R114's link look like they need an exorcism.

No, bright brown eyes are best.

I had blue eyes as a child and now they're hazel. Although I like the hazel color., I'd love to have my blue eyes back because I have dark features.

Weird how genetics work out. My mother and my brothers have blue eyes. My father, my sister, and I have brown eyes. Mine have gotten more hazel the older I’ve gotten.

I hate blue eyes. They aren't gentle like other eye colours. They're harsh looking while also looking washed out.

No. I have Emerald green eyes. Staying as is. I think Brown Eyes are warm and gorgeous.

They should call this the Dorothy Syndrome from when she was having her day of beauty in Emerald City and asked them to dye her eyes to match her gown “Jolly good town!”

R65 - I know what you mean. This picture and the knowledge that those spectacular, liquid brown eyes and their ability to see were lost to AIDS made me cry. Most beautiful brown eyes I ever saw.

I have brown eyes and have always wanted my mom's Paul Newman eyes that got raves all her life. But yeah, some blue eyes aren't all that but those few that are, look amazing. Also, it's interesting what a different eye color can do for someone. Sick of the endless fogging of my glasses due to masks, I went to an optical store with my roommate to get some spray that helps keep them from fogging (really works, especially in this climate where you go from humid and cold outside into the store and it is humid and hot). My roommate also has brown eyes and she got a sample of those steel gray contacts which, over dark brown eyes TOTALLY changed her appearance. On our Zoom meeting happy hour, our older boss from Santa Barbara was saying he sees Joan Collins. I personally haven't tried any colored contacts and the images at R114 look grotesque, especially what they did to the African-American eyes which is far too artificial. The rest look like a murky blue which is also nothing special.

I have very dark brown eyes. I've never even had the idea of changing the colour cross my mind. I get complimented on them a lot, but even if I didn't, I can't imagine thinking about changing them.

Everyone's features are what makes them who they are. All these people changing themselves to fit a fad are just making themselves boring and uninteresting and everyday. And then the fad will change, and where will they be then? Letting Dr Frankenstein practice on their bodies again, no doubt.

R127 - personally, I think that is a healthy attitude. I love brown eyes.

"17 percent of the world population possess this eye color." I just don't find this believable. 17% of the white population, maybe. But whole world population? No. How would that be possible?

I inherited my mom's dark brown eyes, and no, I wouldn't change them. My dad's eyes are a really nice, light shade of green, but I still wouldn't want them—my eye color "fits" me, I guess. I don't know if there is a correlation or not, but I also tend to like men with dark eyes; in a lot of cases, blue eyes are a turn-off for me. Weirdly, the ultimate double-whammy is a natural blond with brown eyes, which you rarely see. I don't know why, but that combination sends my libido through the roof.

My brother has hazel eyes (which often look green) and his wife has dark brown eyes and somehow both their kids have bright blue eyes. Isn't that supposed to be impossible?

I have green/blue eyes and have always wanted dark eyes. Guess grass is always greener theory, no? My husband has beautiful brown eyes and I love them.

Don't it make your brown eyes blue?

I remember being in high school in Glendale, California and how there was a time when all the minority kids would get blue or green contacts. It was crazy. Back then, they looked particularly artificial and did them no favors. Their own natural eyes were much prettier. Sure, the Armenians got called "Armos" but look at what the Kardashians (and I hate them too) did for Armenian eyes...you just have to be astute enough to understand how to do you but better. An old shop bottom I dated back in the day did make-up and I swear, even after he retired, women would call him to do their makeup for weddings and other things and it was his line "you, but better". He would play up Armenian and Persian women's huge eyes and lashes, and use gorgeous warm hues on olive skin that were subtle....literally his before and after pictures were amazing simply by playing up what nature made and not hiding it. Obviously, things like acne and such are different.

r134 why don't people put fake eyelashes on pimples?

Love these sad old queens trying to talk about how their eyes are special in some way...

My eyes are pale green. I wouldn't change them.

My eyes changed color rather suddenly when I aged, my eye doctor was the first one to point it out. When I hit about 40 they went from mostly brown to mostly green. So apparently is not unheard of with people who have hazel eyes.

This guy looks better, but the color looks fake.

Besides violet eyes being rare, I love the dark blue shade which looks almost teal.

Everyone I knew who had that dark blue shade eyes, they weren't wearing contacts. One was an older Hispanic woman who worked at my doctor's office, she had pale skin. The other, was a man I did visual display with, he had an olive complexion.

i wonder what my fair skin with chestnut auburn hair would look like with brown eyes? that's a combo you don't see often.

I have teal eyes but not really dark.

R141, that describes me, funnily enough. Auburn hair, fair skin, brown eyes. I guess it is quite rare, people point out it's rarity to me quite a bit.

Hazel grey for me please.

Dear God, you can even get a Groupon for $1,000 off the procedure