Daughter changing her eye colour?

This is bonkers. Any surgical procedure carries a risk of infection/bleeding, and infection or bleeding in your eyes can make you blind.

Honestly, if a friend or family member told me that they were going to do such a risky thing merely to change their appearance, I would consider it a mental health crisis and attempt to stage some sort of intervention. The amount of self-loathing one must have to risk blindness is off the charts.

Yes, its to get light eyes

In my immediate family I have dark brown eyes, DH hazel, DS1 Brown, DD Green, DS2 Dark Brown and DS3 So dark brown they border on black.

However, my DM, her DS and DM all had/have green eyes and there Mum's Grandmother had blue eyes.
I have brown via my Dad, but Mums side adored my eyes .. to them it was a change from green or blue or, in a great Grandfathers case, grey.
Personally I used coloured lenses for a while as imo blue eyes and dark hair is stunning but do you know what ? So is blonde hair and brown eyes.
Part of my silvering hair is growing out as a honey blonde colour and it looks lovely with dark eyes

OP I would recommend your DD uses decent cosmetic lenses. . Far safer.

Omg just looked. Seems it's mainly people going for lighter eyes?

What's wrong with dark brown eyes? They're stunning.

I can't believe what the world has come to 🙈

I vaguely remember a short story about a craze among teenage school girls for changing eye colour. The story was set in the future and involved interference in the person’s genes. I assume that’s not what we’re talking about here?? Makes me wonder how far we are from radical cosmetic changes. I suppose the science isn’t there yet, but sooner or later cosmetics will morph into/fuse with genetic modification. Will people be able to change their skin colour? The shape of their lips and nose? I’m genuinely asking (as someone who is very, very bad at science).

I assume we’ll just get better and better and better at tampering with our genes. Isn’t that what Crispr is all about? Frankly, as an ugly woman who has suffered her entire life from looking this way, I say bring it on. If we can help people change into looking exactly as they want, would that be so bad? Being ugly or deformed, or simply not looking the way you wish, brings SO much pain and misery. My teenage years were a living hell. I wouldn’t wish that on any young girl.

I agree with this

The most lovely cosmetic lenses I ever had were Blue.
I don't know if it reacted to my own brown but they were the lovliest dark blue.
I got a bit of grit behind one once and couldn't get it out , hence I stopped wearing them but they are very good these days imh

OP make her check out local eye hospitals. In London I've been to Moorfields and Western Eye hospitals - they are fairly crowded with people with eye sight problems - glaucoma, cataract, macular degeneration etc - no cure for glaucoma. Your DD should value her eye sight and not do this.

I have heard of it but only to blue

Apparently, according to what I read, underneath brown eyes at least (I have dark brown) is blue. Basically they laser away the melanin to reveal the blue.
I doubted it was real but if the OPs daughter has looked into it, it must be
V Dr Mengle in its way though

has she thought about how her passport photo will not match her new eye colour and she might not be allowed back on the plane?

As somebody who has been short sighted most of her life and now faces the prospect of cataract surgery which, I've been told in my specific case, holds real danger of complications, I can't even contemplate the stupidity of someone having unnecessary cosmetic surgery on their eyes.
My own father had glaucoma all his adult life and then lost his sight totally in his 50s through another issue. So I saw him struggle to adapt to blindness for the last 25 years of his life. I didn't like him very much but it was awful to see him experience this.
So I think having this operation is madness and makes me question what kind of world we live in. Especially as it's easy enough to wear contact lenses to change the colour of your eyes if you really are obsessed with something so immaterial.

I've had a lifetime of sight issues, some needing surgery and laser. She's being a total idiot to risk this but even if it were completely safe (which it isn't) the "after photos" I've just seen are not impressive, everyone looks better with their natural colour.

You know what, now I've taken the time to read a bit more into it, I take back my comment on this point. I had assumed that the risks would be very low (as with LASIK), but apparently it's shockingly high risk for something that's purely cosmetic.

This changed my mind: Cosmetic Change of the Apparent Color of the Eye: A Review on Surgical Alternatives, Outcomes and Complications - PMC

The very real risk of ending up with blurred vision for life, or possibly going blind, does not seem that bad to you. Interesting.

Lol is it worth damaging your relationship with your daughter who may end up being blind & needing care the rest of her life if this goes wrong.

I'm all for live & let live but really who wants to take care of a disabled adult who just didn't like their eye colour ?

I have a relative who is a pilot. The men/women who fly to Turkey are known as Turkey Twizzlers, and the source of much hilarity at times.

IS there?? *admires brown eyes in the mirror

OP, jhave you said how old she is and do you support her financially?

I swear I need to come off this site - I no longer believe a damn thing I read on here.

You can’t stop her.
but you can withdraw further financial support of such child.
what a bloody huge waste of money.
and potentially dangerous
you’ve seen this, but has she?
www.aao.org/newsroom/news-releases/detail/academy-issues-warning-on-eye-color-procedures

I agree. Never google "Turkey teeth". There are so many horror stories of people absolutely destroying their mouth because of a instagram trend.

But compared to a lot of these surgeries, messing with eye colour doesn't seem that bad to me, even though it's also completely unnecessary.

Apologies if these have already been posted, just a few from a simple Google search. There are a couple of methods used but I think they are pretty much covered.

There’s a plethora of potential adverse outcomes . Whilst she is an adult it sounds from your post that there’s been little research 🧐

https://www.aao.org/newsroom/news-releases/detail/academy-issues-warning-on-eye-color-procedures

https://www.webmd.com/eye-health/eye-color-change-surgery-is-it-safe

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/cosmetic-eye-color-surgery-leaves-instagram-model-partially-blind

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8927577/

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/dangers-of-eye-color-change-surgery

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/18/eye-tattooing-experts-warn-about-risks-of-colour-changing-surgery

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35061240/

https://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prevention/change-eye-color-surgery-eyedrops-safety-risk

You are correct regarding disastrous outcomes. Iv just had revision breast surgery (explant and uplift) which has cost me 9k to fix. Doing things to your body unnecessarily will eventually catch up with you. Risk towards your health but also financially. There is always a need for future surgeries in any cosmetic procedure. That includes replacement or revision. People dont realise that nothing is ever permenant and you can actually be left scarred for life if you have to rectify anything.

Sorry to hear about your complications..I hope your back gets better x

The same could be said for any type of non life saving surgery. Even having breast implants etc could have disastrous outcomes for some women. Undergoing a GA for non life saving procedures, in my mind, is a very unwise thing to do.