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.Sy
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My friend showed me an article out of a magazine from a relative about Japan making contect lenses (primarily for girls) that made the wearer look like he/she had anime style eyes. They make the eye look completely brown with a light spot in one corner. Has anyone heard anything more about this? Now at future cons maybe we can see people using these along with Garnier Fructis Style Manga Head gel...
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ANN_Bamboo
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 Posts: 3904 Location: CO |
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=/ I've always wanted red contacts for cosplay, but it's way too much of a hassle to get cosmetic contacts with the contact lens prescription I have. Unfair.
 I'd ask my doctor to get them for me, but I'm scared of what the price would turn out to be.
Anyway, as for the anime contacts you were talking about, here's what a quick search turned up. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.05/play.html?pg=4 |
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.Sy
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Yeah that's the one. Thanks. I was discussing this with my friend during gym. (while swinging my golfclub around like a sword...)
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Cloe
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Hee hee... what I've done (I wouldn't recommend it, though; I'm not sure it's 100% safe...) is dyed my contact lenses overnight in cleaning solution mixed with red food coloring (disposable contacts, of course... when they're almost ready to be thrown away anyway). It looked great when I cosplayed as Yukino, but the dye began to fade after a couple of hours and my irises turned purple. (Natural eye color=blue).  That was... hmm... almost two years ago, and my eyeballs haven't popped out yet. 
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ANN_Bamboo
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Woah... and it didn't like, scorch your eyes or anything? Man, if it works, it's pretty ingenius, but boy that's sketchy. Though I guess that probably wouldn't work for me, since my eyes are black to begin with. (Well, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark brown, but unless a light is being shone at the right angle, they're black. ;p) But I'm surprised your eyes didn't burn like sin. I mean, it hurts enough when I accidentally get lotion in my eyes. I can't imagine getting vegetable dyes in there as well. Have you heard about those really gross JewelEye extraocular implants where people can get shiny things implanted under the top layer of their eye whites? Totally sick. |
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Kazuki-san
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Perhaps because it's diluted in the solution, and the amount of wet dye touching the eye is minimal. But yes, if you were to do something like just squirt some food coloring in your eye, it would most assuredly burn like hell.
That's just... I'm not sure if there is a word for it... |
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Godaistudios
Posts: 2075 Location: Albuquerque, NM (the land of entrapment) |
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Wow... I'm almost at a loss for words. That is pretty gross. I guess it doesn't surprise me though - this is the age where beautification is somehow reliant on the one's willingness to deface their own body. Tattoos, brandings, piercings, etc., it's been going on for awhile now. |
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.Sy
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 ...blargh, those shiny implants are close to the grossest things I've ever seen. The anime contact lenses look a lot safer. They could have at least shown a less disturbing picture.
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Cloe
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Posts: 2728 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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My eye began to ache a little when I saw the picture on that website. That's really the most disturbed/fascinated I've been ever since I first saw those under-the-skin-metal-ball implants. Something about a bumpy forearm just unsettles me.
My eyes didn't sting at all; like Kazuki-san hypothesized, I suspect the fact that the ratio of solution to red food coloring was pretty substantial had something to do with it. I still feel kinda dumb for actually doing it, though. ^^; Who knows what could have happened? And my eyesight is pretty important to me. |
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Kazuki-san
Posts: 2251 Location: Houston, TX |
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This: 
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hawkscorpion
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The best treatment for Radioactive Cesium or Thalium poisoning is administration of an industrial dye known as "prussian blue" which was used to color everything from cloths to cosmetics.
It causes all your bodily fluids to turn bright blue. Including your tears and sweat until you manage to sweat it out of your system. (It takes the thalium with it through your sweat glands) Wierd huh? |
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mitora
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Wow...
Are your irises still purple?If so then you have achieved anime eyes for real. I wear contacts and it would scare the crap out of me to try that.
Is it just me or does that close up pic of that girls eye(I think it that was with the contact) look just like Spike Spiegels eyes from Cowboy Bebop? :wink:If so then I would kill for these contacts!! |
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Mexicanime86
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After seeing that JewelEye thing all I can say is
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I am interested in buying colored lenses, so that I can cosplay as Saito (Rurouni Kenshin version) with the yellow or blue eyes. I still can't decide since his iris colors are different in many pics and scenes of him. Any advice as to any place where I can get great ones for low prices... please help this noob cosplayer...!!! 
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Cloe
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Ha ha, no, they're still the same shade of blue they're always been. That's a fun concept though... iris dye! To be honest, I began wearing my contacts a little less frequently after that, for fear of causing damage to my eyes. They're completely unharmed, however. |
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taconinja
 Posts: 28 Location: Uranus, USA |
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Tee hee.. how could someone get lotion in their eyes?
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