Showing posts with label Diamond Contact Lenses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diamond Contact Lenses. Show all posts

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Diamond Contact Lenses

I've been wearing glasses ever since I discovered I can no longer order at fast food chains and coffee shops by looking up at their menu.

I wore glasses for a few months then decided to give contacts a go because I've been looking oh so nerdy in pictures. I used to wear clear ones, but since I can hardly tell if it's still on my eyes, I decided that since I need to wear contacts, I might as well enjoy it.



The first online purchase that I made was a pair of doll eyes contacts  from Korea:
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 Then after a year, I got the blue teary-eyed one:
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This is my eye wearing it:

I'm having such a good time enjoying colored contacts until one day in grad school, it's getting unnecessary attention during the first day of class introduction rituals, so now I am wearing a subtle gray one. Then I saw this:
According to this site:

They may sound like a hoax, but the Today Show blog, Wired, and Gizmodo are reporting on gold-plated, diamond-encrusted lenses from Shekhar Eye Research Center in India. Forget bling on your finger, now you can have eyes that literally light up a room for a whopping $15,000.Creator Dr. Chandrashekhar Chawan told Today he got the idea for diamond contact lenses after his wife had the precious stones implanted in her teeth. His new La Ser eye jewelry line features contacts with 18 diamonds adorning a yellow or white gold ring around the lenses. He uses Boston Scleral lenses, which are typically used to treat eye illnesses, to prevent the lenses from touching the cornea. Only 3,996 sets will be made, and Chawan hopes to sell them outside of India. Experts, however, are skeptical about their safety.





I wonder if it's heavy on the eyes? I don't think I can wear it. Talk about BLINGING it  on!