Daughter changing her eye colour?

Has the OP still not told us how old her daughter is after several posters asking?

Frankly she is being ridiculous and sickenly self-indulgent. I would be very disappointed if it were my DD.

Utterly stupid and idiotic.
She clearly has more money than sense.

She definitely needs to take out insurance and if she cannot get insurance specific to this procedure as well as usual travel insurance then that says a lot.

I imagine any ‘usual travel insurance’ would be invalidated it you travelled to have a medical/cosmetic procedure done.

What is it with this bizarre MN response type - that once your child hits 18 you shouldn’t have any interest in what they do or express concern/try to dissuade them from harmful decisions?

NRTFT
Another who had never heard of this.
My eye colour was hazel and I loved it. With age the colour has faded/changed to a bluey grey. I don’t like it but I’d never have surgery to change it.
However, in your situation I would just say that whilst I don’t agree with it she is an adult and it’s up to her. She definitely needs to take out insurance and if she cannot get insurance specific to this procedure as well as usual travel insurance then that says a lot.

Yikes - can’t she use coloured contact lenses instead - then she could change her eye colour often.

Another asking how old is she?
That is such a risk to take, you couldn't pay me enough.
An infamous nazi doctor did this sort of thing with eyes. I know that's not the case here but even so.
You can't stop her ,but be there for her if things don't work out as she hopes.

she could buy contact lenses and change her eye colour that way. I know someone with amazing blue eyes and she told me they were her contact lenses.

Actors do this all the time- use CL to change eye colour- ones that aren't actually 'real' CL.

I can sort of understand the urge, as someone with dark brown eyes due to my ethnicity. Brown eyes are not celebrated in literature, the heroine rarely is brown eyed unless one of her features is dowdiness. When I was growing up, they weren't celebrated as a beauty feature in advertising (although thankfully that's no longer the case - I was so pleasantly surprised when the Nivea ads started featuring brown eyed women). And unless your brown eyes are lighter going into an amber or hazel shade, they are just, well brown. No flecks of interesting pigments or changing of colour in the light. DD would get so upset as a young girl about having brown eyes when all her friends had blue or green. Whenever I see someone of Asian or African decent with non brown eyes, I am hypnotised! There's a reason Aishwarya Rai is considered especially beautiful. It's her eyes.

But no way on earth would I allow anyone to operate on mine or my childrens' eyes for cosmetic reasons. That's absolute madness.

I'm so sorry. It must be really frightening. Your daughter, honestly, sounds mentally ill. We have normalised extreme self harm through plastic surgery, and it leads people to believe that their bodies are a kind of malleable flesh lego set. But all surgery carries risks, and this one carries a risk of profound loss - blindness. Is there a way you can speak to her, in a way she can hear, about how worried you are for her mental health? Can you find some access to therapy?

https://www.aao.org/newsroom/news-releases/detail/academy-issues-warning-on-eye-color-procedures#:~:text=Keratopigmentation%20involves%20using%20a%20needle,the%20natural%20iris%20color%20inside.

Huge risk for little reward.

HOW OLD IS SHE?!

I absolutely agree. No surgeon of any kind is coming near me unless its essential!! but I wonder how many people who are so shocked on here would have other kinds of cosmetic surgery all of which carry risks, some lesser and some greater. Its all in where you draw the line.

She is being reckless and ridiculous but since she is an adult (I presume) she doesn't need your permission or your approval so all you can do is cross your fingers and hope for the best.

Yes.
I was just gonna say something similar.
Fortunately, I have green eyes, but to be really shallow, wouldn't want brown ones.
No particular reason.
Contact lenses should do, though.

This has made me feel nauseous. Why so people dislike themselves so much.

If she won't listen to reason then I would be very stern that if things go awry, I wouldn't be her caregiver. Ask her to take out disability insurance and ask her how she would afford carers, rehab, etc. should the worst occur. This is not the time to coddle her and spare her feelings; I would consider this an emergency.

Self-harm, attention seeking, reckless behaviour.

No parent could ever take this attitude to someone wnating to undergo extremely risky surgery for no reason whatsoever.

And who do you think picks up the pieces if blindness is the result?

Bloody hell these people will end up with nothing real in the end. Fake hair, fake eyebrows, fake eyelashes, fake lips, fake teeth, fake boobs and now fake eyes. Stop the world I wanna get off.

Nothing is worth risking your eyesight over, absolutely nothing.

There is probably nothing you can do to stop her except for explain the risks, do extensive research and get your argument together, then pose it to her

Just look at some pics. The befores look so much better 😂

I would be so worried op. Can you contact her friends to talk to her? They’ll think she is unwise I’m sure.

What colour does she want? Blue, green or a crazy colour?

Please send her this link OP

That's actually a good point.

How's her mh generally @begoodorbegone ?