The Tyranny of Fashion
So, large contact lenses that makes your eyes look extra big are so in right now. I read this and slipped into despair:
Nina Nguyen, a 19-year-old Rutgers student from Bridgewater, N.J., said she was wary at first. “Our eyes are precious,” she said. “I wasn’t going to put any type of thing in my eyes.”
But after she saw how many students at Rutgers had circle lenses — and the groundswell of users online — she relented. Now she describes herself as “a circle lens addict.”
“What made me comfortable is so many girls out there wearing them,” Ms. Nguyen said.
I hopelessly forged on to the end of the article. Where I read this:
Ms. Vue was 14 when she begged her parents to get her first pair, she said. These days, however, she is having second thoughts about them — but not for health or safety reasons.
Circle lenses have just grown too popular, Ms. Vue said. “It kind of makes me not want to wear them anymore, because everyone is wearing them,” she said.
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May '10
Re: The Tyranny of Fashion
Pretty much every fashion trend is a mystery to me... but this is downright creepy.
Jul '10
Re: The Tyranny of Fashion
I am creeped out by the idea of touching my eyes. I can't start to put contacts in, and if my glasses are a clue it is just as well as who would put contact lenses as thick as coke bottle bases into their eyes? Well, fashionable young ladies!
Jun '10
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In the sixties this sort of fashion accessory would have got you arrested. Sigh, I guess the world has just become a lot more comfortable with. . . (This being a family web site I thought I'd leave the last word to the imaginations of readers.) "Honest! officer, it's the contacts, and that smell has nothing to do with anything, cough, cough."
May '10
Re: The Tyranny of Fashion
It doesn't surprise me, considering Asia's aesthetics in that regard. I expect we'll eventually see a divergence in the type of aesthetic contacts worn here and there.
I have no problem with it. But men get in enough trouble for not noticing when women change their hair. If anyone would fail to notice that Amy's eyes are green today when they were blue yesterday, it would be me.
If government regulators would step back to allow the market to sell aesthetic contacts without a precription, the contacts would inevitably be tested and fitted for each individual's eye safety. Really, the legality debate should be over with. American performers and party-goers have been using aesthetic contacts for years. It just took this long for producers to realize they could sell more if they make the effects less extravagant.