EEEWWWWW - Eyeball Jewelry All The Rage

[matcom]

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Body piercing and tattoos make way. The latest fashion trend to hit the Netherlands is eyeball jewelry.

Dutch eye surgeons have implanted tiny pieces of jewelry called "JewelEye" in the mucous membrane of the eyes of six women and one man in cosmetic surgery pioneered by an ophthalmic surgery research and development institute in Rotterdam.

The procedure involves inserting a 3.5 mm (0.13 inch) wide 1 piece of specially developed jewelry -- the range includes a glittering half-moon or heart -- into the eye's mucous membrane under local anaesthetic at a cost of 500 to 1,000 euros ($1,232).

"In my view it is a little more subtle than (body) piercing. It is a bit of a fun thing and a very personal thing for people," said Gerrit Melles, director of the Netherlands Institute for Innovative Ocular Surgery (www.NIIOC.nl).

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=2&u=/nm/20040407/od_nm/odd_eye_dc

[GOPisEvil]

1. As someone who wears contacts...EEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW

Who thought this would be a good idea? :scared:

[cheezus]

9. heh. as someone who wears glasses, that's what I think about contacts

ewww. man, I can hardly even watch anyone put their contacts in


but if it's medically safe and done correctly and doesn't impact vision, why not?

[Warpy]

2. There was a bit on local news last night

...about women surgically mutilating their feet so they could wear ultra high Jimmy Choo spike heeled shoes without pain.

The women and the idiot doctor were all blonde, coincidentally.

[Fenris]

3. Sick!

I find tattoos and piercings lame, but this is just disgusting.

[matcom]

10. careful

i love my tattoo :D

[KissMyAsscroft]

4. Oh man...

I went to get my haircut yesterday and there was this seriously hot girl working the counter, but she had these crazy eyelash extensions that were really think and her eyes looked INSANE. I couldn't even look at her face, she looked crazy. Bug googly blue eyes and four huge seperated eyelashes above each pupil.

Absolutely crazy looking.

[Debi]

5. It's all fun and games

until someone gets their eye pierced...gross!

[LynneSin]

6. In so many ways that is so freaking WRONG

WRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONG

[NightTrain]

7. Fuck that!

:hurts:

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

8. I won't be happy till I can get my trepanned hole pierced

:crazy:

[commander bunnypants]

11. It just looks painful

and remember Galen a roman physician was doing cataract sugery 2000 years ago. Seriously, I saw a special on it. Pretty darn gross.

DDQM

[KamaAina]

12. Dateline: Amsterdam. They must have some good stuff there...

...and I don't mean eyeball piercings... :smoke:

[KinkyDem]

13. Even for me, this is a bit over the top

Look, don't get me wrong, so long as these people aren't hitting the dole cause of this then more power to 'em but ewwwwww...

This goes right up there trepaning (sp) and penis splitting and tongue splitting and erotic amputations and ewwww ....

It looks pretty cool so long as you don't think about it too much.

[EstimatedProphet]

16. What's trepaning?

Never heard of it.

[everythingsxen]

14. Gee sign me up...

I have never had anything pierced, so let me just run right out and get shit shoved in my eye..

:eyes:

Thanks but no thanks.

[EstimatedProphet]

15. I'll stick with my tattoos, thanks.

I draw the line at permanently implanting metal things in my mucous membranes.

[Book Lover]

17. Well, soak the rich, I say

because you can't get poor folks to pay for shit like this!

[BlueJazz]

18. Gee...Let me see.....Should I buy

that new 21" plasma Monitor or get a piece of silver STUCK IN MY EYE!!

Decisions, Decisions

[Ediacara]

19. I have a big enough problem with contacts!

Screw THAT!

[Exultant Democracy]

20. I know I am alone here, but I think it is f#@king cool

I'm not into body modification on , but I love them on other people.