Brown Eyes Turn Blue? Doctor Claims He Can Change The Color Of Your Iris (VIDEO)

There are a lot of different things people can change about themselves, but eye color typically isn't one of those.

Dr. Gregg Homer aims to change that.

According to KTLA, the doctor is nearing perfection of a method he's been working on for 10 years, which would allow brown-eyed people to change the color of their irises to blue. It seems that because even brown-eyed people have a layer of blue underneath, its possible to make the switch.

"We use a laser, and it's tuned to a specific frequency to remove the pigment from the surface of the iris," Homer told KTLA.

However, there's one huge catch. According to the Orange County Register, once you go blue, you can never go back.

CEO Doug Daniels thinks the company has a real shot at getting the company off the ground, citing the fact that 80 percent of humans have brown eyes and surveys that show 17 percent of those people would change their eye color to blue if they had the chance. Whether or not those numbers prove to be true remains to be seen.

Homer's Laguna Beach firm will be present on the process at OCTANe's 2011 Medical Device & Investor Forum in Orange County on November 15 and 16, according to the OCR. So far they have had limited human testing, but the company hopes to raise $50,000 to $750,000 for more trials. If all goes to plan, the firm hopes to ultimately raise $15 million in funding to start operations outside of the U.S. in as little as 18 months.

Currently, it's essentially impossible for eye color to change after it solidifies in infancy. While there are cases where disease has changed the pigment of melanin in the eyes, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune, only 10 to 15 percent of people at most see even a slight gradual change in color through adolescence.

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[m4165]

12:43 AM on 11/06/2011

I just noticed I made another typing mistake again, I meant in school.

[m4165]

12:43 AM on 11/06/2011

Also, I once asked my mother when I was a teenager if the portrait photographer's that my mother took my sister and I to get our portraits taken at department stores,from the time I was a baby until I was 6, ever said anything to her about me being that beautiful. And she yes they did, she said they said she's really a beautiful baby and child and she could really be a model.My mother also said that people were *SO* stupid,they would always come to me and say what a gorgeous baby and child I was,and then say to my sister,Oh you're cut too.When I was 9 I was in a supermarket with my grandmother and two grandmother age ladies came up to me,and said what a beautiful little girl,such big beautiful eyes and such beautiful color hair! My father said *everybody* always said that about you.

I had so many teenage boys and some men sexually attracted to me,and sexually harass me all through my teens and 20's. And when I was 15 a guy in scholl who was madly in love with me who had light blue eyes,always said I was so beautiful,and that I had big beautiful eyes,a cute nose and he loved my red hair.

[m4165]

12:37 AM on 11/06/2011

when I went out to dinner with my next door neighbor (who had the daughter who called herself ugly) and her husband and my parents when I was 19, she told my mother on the phone later that evening,that she thought I was the most beautiful child she's ever seen.

My mother told someone when I was a late teenager,that I was an unusually beautiful baby and child. My mother's friend from childhood and high school who went to college with my mother everyday in the same car from the time I was 9 until I was 13 told me that my mother would often tell her that she's an artist and she knows beauty and that I'm just perfect! She also told her that I was so beautiful,and that sometimes I look so extremely beautiful that when she looked at me she couldn't believe I was her daughter.

[m4165]

11:56 AM on 11/05/2011

I was considered by most people to be a strikingly beautiful baby, child and teenager. Many strangers would come up to me and my parents in public places and say what a gorgeous , beautiful baby and child. I never had big lips, I had /have normal size lips and a pretty delicate shaped mouth, and even as a baby and child I had high cheek bones, a small pretty shaped nose, an oval shaped face, very big dark brown beautiful deepset doe eyes ,(which many people mistakingly thought were black because of the contrast of my light red hair and skin) light skin, strawberries and cream complexion, no freckles and red blonde hair that was much redder than strawberry blonde.


My mother was an artist and she went to art school and she even sold some of her sculptures in a few local galleries. She drew me in pastels when I was 5, she sculpted my face when I was 7 and she drew me in charcoal pencil which I sat for when I was 18.

She never drew or sculpted my sister who is 4 years older though and was only considered very cute and average pretty and who looks nothing like me.My sister has green eyes,medium brown hair and doesn't have light skin like me.

[m4165]

12:23 PM on 11/05/2011

My mother saw people feature by feature as an artist and I once asked her if she thought a soap actress was pretty and she said, no she has an ugly nose, and she did, her nose was kind of flat and kind of spread out shaped.

Several make up artists have said I have very beautiful eyes,and even a medical assistant recently said this to me.Chocolate is dark brown,and most people like chocolate a lot,it smells delicious,looks delicious and especially tastes delicious!Nobody thinks about cr*p or mud when they see,smell and taste chocolate even though they are the same colors!

Coffee is also dark brown and a lot of people like it too.And as Van Morrison wrote his song,Brown Eyed Girl,and Bachman Turner Overdrive's song,You Aint Seen Nothing Yet,they sing the line about,and then she looked at me with her big brown eyes.


And brown eyes actually have the *most* color in the iris,blue eyes actually have the least, and I read that blue eyes look blue because they have such little color that it's mostly the vains that make them look blue. I want to have the richest and deepest color in my iris *not* less!

[m4165]

01:12 PM on 11/05/2011

The only problem for me is, whenever I look in the mirror I crave delicious rich chocolate and I'm trying to keep my weight down.

When I was 11 and a half, a boy at scholl actually sang the line from You Aint Seen Nothing Yt, And she looked at me with her big brown eyes.

[isis]

09:34 AM on 11/05/2011

Ouch! I guess an advantage of this might be that blue eyes see better in the dark? Otherwise, why?

[Endogenous Light Nexus]

08:04 AM on 11/05/2011

This vulture of a doctor acts like he thinks he's helping people "open the windows to their souls" in some sort of guru fashion. Right. At $5,000 a pop for a 20-second job. I wonder if that's for one eye or both? Doesn't matter either way this character is looking to capitalize on vanity and peer pressure and neurosis in the same way unethical plastic surgeons do all the time with boob jobs and botox injections and all the other ways of reshaping perfectly healthy and beautiful people into cartoons of themselves, something they're not. It's valid in the cases of real medical necessity repairing damage after injury or surgery, correcting birth defects and so forth. It's not valid as an outlet for mental illness and culture-driven fads and doctors who indulge those things are guilty or should be guilty of malpractice IMO but it is a huge industry and growing just another example that goes to show money talks and ethics walks in medicine these days, like the national health care debate. It's not surprising this guy's in southern California, the most materialistic part of the most materialistic culture in recorded history.

[aaronrossi]

07:30 AM on 11/05/2011

although i have blue-grey eyes, my boyfriend has brown eyes and i absolutely love them. brown eyes are incredibly beautiful.

[qwerty6040]

06:27 AM on 11/05/2011

Brown eyes blue? That was one of Dr. Mengele's pet projects (really and truly).

[LandisJ]

11:26 PM on 11/04/2011

Ok that sounds scary. Will we all be blue eyed soon.

[riverhouse]

07:36 PM on 11/04/2011

Yes! And you can be a blue eyed blind person!

[Imzadi]

04:47 PM on 11/04/2011

We natural blue-eyed folks are not happy about this. Guess we should be flattered, though....

[Ashley L Coates]

02:46 PM on 11/04/2011

I have brown eyes, and I'm perfectly happy with that. I don't see why people are on this neverending quest to change themselves.

Not to mention, I've worn blue contacts- I enjoyed the temporary change, but it was more like wearing a costume for me. Many people told me that I looked strange with blue eyes, and that my brown ones were much more attractive.

http://textbooksandtofu.blogspot.com/

[ArChiMi]

02:33 PM on 11/04/2011

See the link below. If men didn't prefer blue eyes in women, this doctor wouldn't have needed to do all this. Nevertheless, I am keeping my brown eyes.

http://fashionetc.com/news/beauty/2849-men-brunettes-blue-eyes-survey

[Iain Banks]

01:45 PM on 11/04/2011

Even if it was free and completely harmless - with the ability to change back, I still wouldn't. I'm glad for my oddly spaced big brown eyes.

[Sarah H M Ajz]

12:54 PM on 11/04/2011

And we can already dye brown hair blonde. This should makes things just perfect. Forget cancer, this is the science we should be spending on.

[riverhouse]

07:37 PM on 11/04/2011

Stick with the blue contact lenses. They won't blind you.