If you want to change your eye color, your best and safest bet is to be fitted for color contacts by a licensed Ophthalmologist. The procedure is currently in clinical trials and not commercially available anywhere in the world. "The "Parti or Zone" coloued L'is. How? The inner or blue zone on the other hand is a mere thin membrane, sharply defined from the outer zone by a step down as it were in thickness on the anterior surface of the iris. Ask a science question, get a science answer. The Western or Arfak Parotia, Parotia sefilata, is a medium-sized, approximately 33cm long, bird of paradise with a medium-length tail. But Homer said he did not plan to pursue FDA approval in the U.S. until next year. “I am extremely concerned about the advertising on the company’s website that seems to suggest that not having blue eyes is simply a matter of ‘extra pigment’ that can easily be removed.”. Two pairs of spatulate wires come out of her hair, one in each side, partially mimicking real parotias (which have three pairs). At the back of the eye there is a layer of reflective pigment called the choroid layer. Now Strōma Medical Corp. of Laguna Beach, California, has developed a new technique to change eye color. They promise a younger, more attractive, self. (2) The absence of anterior yellow pigment cells in the inner zone. “There is always ‘another choice,’ which is to have no cosmetic enhancement at all. “Underneath every brown eye is a blue eye,” said Gregg Homer, the inventor of the first noninvasive cosmetic surgery that transforms brown eyes to blue by low-energy laser. These elongated cells lie over the muscle fibre cells, and if the anterior surface of the iris in this situation be examined under a low power the parallel fibrillae bring about a diffraction grating effect. 18. If a vertical section of the iris taken at right angles to the surface be examined under a low power the iris in the outer or yellow zone will be found to be four or five times thicker than in the inner or blue zone. This mirrorlike layer reflects available light and allows dogs to see well even in very dim light. Thus, in the case of Lawes' Bird of Paradise a brilliant colour effect is produced by a combination of three factors: (1) Thinness and translucency of iris tissue allowing the uveal pigment to shine through. However, that idea didn't sit right of me because in this shot you can clearly see the pupil isn't dilated, it's contracted to a tiny spot. He argued that under this ethicist’s view, there would be no hair transplants because of the non-surgical toupee option, liposuction (girdles), breast implants (padded bras), laser skin resurfacing (makeup), or LASIK (glasses). For years, people have changed their eye color with contact lenses and even invasive surgery. The new procedure, known as Stroma, is raising questions about potential side effects from the technique as well the ethics of performing an elective procedure to change eye color for cosmetic reasons. With this our best guess was the following: I think that when the iris expands to shrink the pupil, the blue is compressed around the pupil and "disappears". This co]our effect is brought about in two ways. It would be interesting to extend this enquiry to other species of Birds of Paradise and to individual birds of both sexes at different ages.". https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2010/12/14/bird-of-paradise-creates-colourful-dance-with-microscopic-mirrors-in-its-feathers/. “They speak to women’s insecurities. I would say that these cosmetic surgeons don’t actually have ‘patients.’ They have ‘clients,’” Sheldon said. Homer said that pigmentary glaucoma had not proved to be a problem so far. These lipids allow for various coloration and pigmentation of the eye, and enhanced visual perceptions. The thinness and translucency of the tissues in this inner zone readily allow the black uveal pigment to shine through. , which Strōma’s website compares to the attractiveness of green eyes of Sharbat Gula, the Afghan woman featured on the famed cover of a 1985 issue of National Geographic Magazine. At certain angles the blue effect is produced quite independently of the posterior black pigment and can indeed be obtained after this has been removed. That article explains the feather properties but doesn’t explain how the bird changes eye color from blue to yellow. They are ‘selling’ things, not responding to circumstances of human beings who are dealing with illness, disease and suffering. Instead, he expected Strōma to seek the CE (Conformité Européenne, meaning European Conformity, a symbol of free marketability in the European Economic Area) this year.