2/28 The Eye Color Tattoo Trend

Toby and Chilli talk about the eye color tattoo trend, or eye color tattooing, involves injecting ink into the white part of the eye to permanently change its color. While some seek this for aesthetic reasons, the procedure carries significant risks, including infections, inflammation, light sensitivity, and even vision loss or blindness. Additionally, it is irreversible and may not achieve the desired natural look, as it affects the sclera rather than the iris. ​Toby and Chilli share thoughts

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Friday morning at ninety seven point one, watch FM Toby
and Chilly in the morning. The numbers eight sixty six,
nine two, seven, forty three sixty one. We're in here
in the studio talking about eye tattooing. Apparently this is
a trend where you can change your eye color now
with the tattoo on the cornea. Now, don't worry. The
tattoo is not something you would do. It's something a

(00:21):
doctor would get. But the fact that people are getting
their eye color changed via tattoo and they're paying for this,
to me, seems a little bit drastic. I don't think.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm not shocked at all. I mean, first of all,
it's expensive, it's twelve thousand dollars. But you remember was
it in the nineties. It was like trendy for those
color contacts that people would buy and.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Change their eye color contacts.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Right, But the fact that somebody would want their eye
color changed, they would do this procedure. They use filters
on Snapchat to change their eye color and they see
what they would look like and it makes them go, God,
I wish I had green eyes or I wish I
had blue eyes. I could see people doing this, especially

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because this doctor who offers it on TikTok says it's
as safe as getting a Lasik prosa.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Okay, look, I've had Lasik. I will tell you that
Lasik got rid of my ability to need glass or
my need for glass. Yeah, you know what I mean.
But I did not, at any given time think that
I wanted to change my eye color. I think it
is one thing to correct your vision, yes, because glasses
do the same thing, and maybe you don't want to
wear glasses. They have science for that medicine. But tattoos

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of the eyes, that just seems I'm like, I'm having
a hard time wrapping my head around.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
I would do this if I was that unhappy with
my eye color, especially, but yeah if I didn't if
I was unhappy. This is like and any other augmentation
of your body botox, breast augmentation, knows job. I mean,
it's just another thing to change your appearance. If you
want to do it, I guess, go for it. This
guy saying that it's not much, not a lot of

(02:01):
whole side effects or anything.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Well, if as long as there's not any side effects,
because the eye is the eye, right, I agree. You
only have two of them God willing, you know, I mean,
I don't know, but you know what, perhaps maybe I
could come around to it.