Now you can have a sparkle in your eyes, literally! All you need to do is implant a piece of metal jewellery in your eye.
Lucy Luckayanko, from New York, underwent a surgical procedure, to implant a shiny piece of heart-shaped platinum in her right eye. "It's going to be a conversation maker," Luckayanko told My Fox New York. "I will be able to tell people. It will be unique. It will be sort of my unique factor."
As though all the makeup to beautify the eyes was not enough, this latest fashion trend has taken Europeans by storm. After impressing people in Los Angeles, this eye-jewellery arrived in New York. "It's really small, really tiny, really cute," Luckayanko said.
According to Dr Emil Chynn, who performed the surgical procedure on Luckayank's eye, to get the implant done the eyes are kept open with a speculum. Then a small incision between the sclera (the white part of the eye) and the conjunctiva (the clear membrane that covers the sclera) is done after which the jewellery is placed, Dr Chynn told My Fox New York. He is the medical director of Park Avenue Laser Vision.
"It's a very thin piece of platinum that's designed for insertion on the top of the eye, it's not in the eye so there's no risk of blindness or anything at all," he said. "She (Luckayanko) could have a little bit of local bleeding. That could go away in a couple days or couple weeks. She could have an infection but we'll prevent that with antibiotics."
This piece of jewellery will cost you a good amount. The procedure costs $3, 000. And if one gets bored with the design they can change it for $1,000 and it can be removed for free within the first year or for $300 after that period.
Dr Chynn assured that the implant will cause no harm to the eyes "there is absolutely no risk of going blind or any visual loss."
However, health experts are apprehensive about the eye jewellery. It has not received a nod from the FDA.
The American Academy of Ophthalmology "has not identified sufficient evidence to support the safety or therapeutic value of this procedure." They further requested people to "avoid placing in the eye any foreign body or material that is not proven to be medically safe or approved by the FDA."
