Last week I had to go for my annual eye exam. Thankfully, the last few times I've been to see the optometrist, my eyes haven't gotten worse and my prescription has stayed pretty consistent. Since there wasn't any hullaballoo about getting new glasses this year, I decided to ask about possibly getting some colored contacts in addition to my regular ones. If you've ever seen me up close, you know my eyes are a dark, chocolate brown. Actually, it's kind of weird, because my dad had light blue eyes and my mom has greenish, hazel eyes. My brother and sister both have blue eyes. I am the family abberation (in more ways than one, probably. ) So let's give it up for whatever recessive trait I inherited!
I've been told I have nice eyes, and I'm glad some people think so, but still...I've had brown ones all my life. I wanted a little change and this was the least permanent thing I could think of. The contacts lady at the eye doc was super helpful and she ordered me 4 boxes of non-prescription colored contacts to try out to see which color I would want. While I was hoping for a big change, the colored contacts didn't make a huge difference because my eyes are so dark. You could see a bit of difference, but on the whole, it was subtle. I tried to take a picture of my eyes to see which one I liked the best, but the pictures were a bit blurry. Apparently my iPhone doesn't like close ups. Sorry about the quality, but here is what I got:
Here are the blue ones. They are only blue around the edges and they aren't that noticeable.
Ignore the black circles under my eye, friend. I haven't been sleeping well.
These are the green ones. I really like them because they make my eyes look like my mom's. :)
Still not that different, but different enough.
These are the gray ones. I actually have two of them in one eye so that the color would show up better, so this is not what my eyes would look like if I wore the gray contacts, but I thought it was neat looking anyway.
I'm staring into your soul right now.
None of these are the weird thing I wanted you to see, though. Since I was having so much trouble getting a picture of my eye in focus, I got out my macro lens and asked Steve to take a picture of my eye. He obliged and this was the result:
Borg? Cylon? From Westworld? You pick.
You may have to embiggen the picture to see what is so weird about it, but the macro lens picked up the dot matrix coloring of the contact and you can even see the word "demo" that is stamped onto it. It looks like I have cyborg eyes! It freaked me out a little. I'd never seen what a colored contact on an eyeball looked like up close. Now we both have! Haha!
Look into my eyes! RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!
Sorry about all the eye closeups, if eyes freak you out. Just know that these eyes have a lot of love, laughter and compassion in them. Well, usually. In light of full disclosure I've been told there is a bit of devilry in them, too. :)
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