In response to all those people out there using contacts to get blue eyes, Gregg Homer has created a laser that claims to turn brown eyes blue. Apparently, he says, we all have blue eyes deep down, it's just a matter of getting to them. In a recent interview with KTLA, which you can see in the video below, embedded at the end of the article, Homer speaks of the procedure he took 10 years to develop.
He's still far from perfecting it but he hopes to do so in a matter of months – 18 tops, we're to understand.
He says underneath the brown pigment in the eye is also blue one so, by using a particular kind of laser, he can remove the first layer of pigment and “dig out” the blue one.
Homer says his team of ophthalmologists are working overtime to ensure the procedure doesn't pose serious risks even though he can't promise further complications won't surface farther down the road.
The procedure is brief and painless, the inventor says. The laser acts upon the first layer of pigment, which will be removed from the eye in a matter of a couple of weeks.
There is no scarring left and we're to understand there's no pain or risk either. At the end of this period, a brown-eyed person could have blue eyes.
Asked about why he thought people all over the world are willing to do anything to have blue eyes (he's already receiving thousands of emails, even if he's not done perfecting the procedure just yet), Homer says it has to do with the old saying of the eyes being the window to the soul.
“A blue eye is not opaque. You can see deeply into it. A brown eye is opaque,” he explains.
Once the laser procedure becomes available, it will probably cost $5,000 (€3,638) to get.
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