Jeepers, creepers, where’d you get those peepers?
Where?
From an online site that sells circle contact lenses, that’s where.
Apparently, normal-sized irises are no longer big enough. Colored contacts that cover not only only the iris itself, but part of the white of the eye, are becoming tres popular for achieving that doe-eyed look characteristic of Japanese anime heroines. The contacts are most popular with Asian women, as you can see if you ask Google for images of “circle contact lenses.” But the fad has been catching on with young women of diverse ethnicities in this country:
Now that circle lenses have gone mainstream in Japan, Singapore and South Korea, they are turning up in American high schools and on college campuses. “In the past year, there’s been a sharp increase in interest here in the U.S.,” said Joyce Kim, a founder of Soompi.com, an Asian pop fan site with a forum devoted to circle lenses. “Once early adopters have adequately posted about it, discussed it and reviewed them, it’s now available to everyone.”
Ms. Kim, who lives in San Francisco and is 31, said that some friends her age wear circle lenses almost every day. “It’s like wearing mascara or eyeliner,” she said.
Well, not quite. But the desire to “improve” the human body marches on.
Last year I got a pair of really freaky red/black “owl eye” contacts that I wear out occasionally. It’s really fun to look people right in the eye and have them freak out. Good times going thru airport security too. I see better in the owl eyes than i do in my regular contacts.
“Innocent doll” look has been very fashionable in historical periods when women engaged in fiercest competition for catching a man – in most decadent times, like 1900s (“Catholic School nymphet” of Colette), or French Gallant century (before 1789).
E. Fuchs says in his “Illustrated History of Morals”: “Virginity was valued higher when it became so rare”
I like my cats’ eyes.
Some people assume that the pupils of cat’s eyes are vertical slits, but that’s only true in direct sunlight. Indoors, under normal room light, they are big and round. They look very much like human eyes, only bigger.
On the surface, all attempts to “improve” upon the human body consist of addressing self-esteem issues in attractiveness to the opposite sex.
Dig deeper however and all of those variations center upon being “more perfect”.
Which leads to the very heart of the matter.
Perfectionism, in whatever form it may take is just another attempt at reconnection with the Divine…
THE primary concern for humanity, mostly unconscious, ever since that ‘incident’ in the garden…
“Well, not quite. But the desire to “improve” the human body marches on.”
An apple blocking one’s face runs counter to this, no?
Mark: apple is blocking perfection already achieved
Jeepers, peepers, where’d you get those CREEPERS!
Yeeesh.
Larger pupils indicate greater interest. Once you can fake sincerity, the world is your oyster.
Wow, that’s kinda creepy looking, actually.
Who’s willing to predict the over/under for when this fad will pass?
Rant time:
I could care less whether the seller is “convinced” of their safety. Until someone in the medical field speaks up, I consider any pronouncement towards that issue to be bunk.
… and I just discovered that the <ul> tags don’t work here…. whoops. Sorry for the funny line returns; that was supposed to be a bullet-pointed list.
Wish there was a preview feature with this software. 🙁
AVI … What he said!
Well, I used to think the Bratz dolls and all of their assorted knock-offs were harmless, but maybe I was wrong.
http://www.bratz.com/
To me, this weird new trend in “eyewear” looks like an attempt to transfer this look to humans (“living dolls?”)
The “look” also reminds me of all of the endless permutations of the Japanese anime characters, which may explain it’s popularity over there.
Not sure what all this might mean, but it can’t be healthy.
I wonder how much of this isn’t so much an attempt to improve human features, but more an attempt to look unnatural or exotic…
KRB
Also, there is a certain irony here …
Historically, one of the reasons the Japanese thought Westerners were ugly was because of our eyes — they called them “dog eyes” — now they’re trying to turn their own eyes into cartoons of our eyes.
A (female) caddy working for our foursome at one of the local golf courses recently wore a pair of bright blue circle contacts. Except that she’s a brown-skinned Sundanese girl (West Java), so even though she’s quite pretty, the effect was rather jarring. She did get our attention, though.
Contact lens biomods seem to be both uncomfortable and potentially dangerous for a few–I can’t wear contact lenses which I wish I could wear instead of glasses.
They seem less severe than transsexualism, buttock or breast implants, cheek or chin implants, tattoos, piercings, et. al., but more dangerous than cross-dressing, temporary tattoos or dyed hair.