NYT: What Big Eyes You Have, Dear, but Are Those Contacts Risky?
What Big Eyes You Have, Dear, but Are Those Contacts Risky?
Young women have been copying Lady Gaga’s wider-than-life eyes, but the contact lenses are contraband, and doctors are concerned.
I cannot imagine wanting to alter my body in this way (esp. with possible health risks) but I've seen the impulse with so many friends that I understand it, at least intellectually. Also, when you wear contacts that are patently unreal - like the Dominican brother I saw with tiger eyes on the subway a while back - people stare, and some people LOVE that kind of attention. I know *he* did.
Young women have been copying Lady Gaga’s wider-than-life eyes, but the contact lenses are contraband, and doctors are concerned.
I cannot imagine wanting to alter my body in this way (esp. with possible health risks) but I've seen the impulse with so many friends that I understand it, at least intellectually. Also, when you wear contacts that are patently unreal - like the Dominican brother I saw with tiger eyes on the subway a while back - people stare, and some people LOVE that kind of attention. I know *he* did.