Comments for The Bluest Eyes at http://blacklistedmag.com , comment 1 to 15 out of 15 comments http://blacklistedmag.com Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:45:16 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://blacklistedmag.com/features/38-2008/352-the-bluest-eyes#comment-315 If anyone wants to change the color of their eyes to blue, green, or whatever, I feel that's their "thing" and whatever makes them happy. I personally just couldn't imagine letting someone cut into my eyes unless it was absolutely necessary. As a black woman born with brown eyes, changing my eye color was fun (with contacts), but I like my brown eyes best. Changing eye color from brown to ice blue is drastic, and it will definitely stand out depending on skin tone. Before deciding on surgery, I would have experimented with ice blue contacts before paying that much money and later seeing that the color is all wrong. ;) - shani Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:38:44 +0100 http://blacklistedmag.com/features/38-2008/352-the-bluest-eyes#comment-199 THATS S0ME CRAZZZZY TYPE SHIT .. S0ME SHIT JUST ISNT F0R BLACK PE0PLE AND BLUE EYES R 0NE 0F TH0SE THINGS. SHE MESSED HER SELF UP. SUCKS T0 B HER AND ANY0NE ELSE STUPID EN0UGH T0 THE THAT T0 THEM SELF - ANNETTE_06 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:59:17 +0100 http://blacklistedmag.com/features/38-2008/352-the-bluest-eyes#comment-179 That girl is an idiot no matter how you tell the story.>:( - Concerned Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:21:14 +0100 http://blacklistedmag.com/features/38-2008/352-the-bluest-eyes#comment-165 **Disclaimer** I'm not Black. A friend of mine posted this on his facebook profile and after reading it, I'm utterly shocked. Not to generalize, but Black women (both friends and peers) have always seemed to be super confident with their appearance, even if that means embracing a little of the thickness they were blessed with. I really hope this is just some kind of fluke and not a growing trend because what a beautiful woman. We need more diverse images of beauty, not one. Love yourself, God made you in his image. - JC Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:16:39 +0100 http://blacklistedmag.com/features/38-2008/352-the-bluest-eyes#comment-164 I love my brown eyes, but I do think blue eyes are really pretty on some people (brown eyes can look amazing on others as well). Often times what we like reflects what's available and what's familiar to us. I don't think there is anything wrong with wanting to change something about you, but it's the intensity of the intension and motives driving you to want these changes that determines the healthiness of these particular ambitions. If you're a black women who wants straight golden hair because you aspire to be a white women.... that's just 'confused' and shallow. But if you want to have golden blond hair because you genuinely think it looks amazing, who am I to judge. Of course we are influenced by society... We will always be influenced... and that [i]isn't[/i] always a bad thing. Just like when all the girls decided to [b]Go 'natural'[/b]... Some people genuinely wanted to and I'm sure some girls felt pressured into doing it ([i]back to your roots sista[/i])--- or worse, felt accomplished because they went natural. Someone is always telling you what to do--- on both sides of the isle. Self-confidence, and self-esteem starts with SELF. This is a very complicated issues because we natural thrive on the acceptance of others. We have to start loving ourselves and living our own lives. Let people make there own mistakes and evaluate the benefits of their actions. What would we say if she loved her new eye color? We should also stop looking at every individual incident as a win for a particular viewpoint... there are always contradictions because everyone is different. - black male student Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:02:33 +0100 http://blacklistedmag.com/features/38-2008/352-the-bluest-eyes#comment-162 People wear colored contacts all the time. People get their breast enlarged and any other part of their body they can imagine altered. This operation is on the way extreme end of things, but it speaks to something greater. The problem is that in America we allow the image of beauty to be narrowly defined and determined by a media that sees only one thing as beautiful: blond, blue-eyed, and size 0. - Crystal Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:43:04 +0100 http://blacklistedmag.com/features/38-2008/352-the-bluest-eyes#comment-161 Laterra, you're a beautiful woman with brown eyes! I hope you're vision is okay now. I'm so sorry you felt you'd have more confidence by changing something in your outward appearance. You seem to be a very confident woman, you speak well and you have a lot going for you just the way God made you. Please don't change anything else. It's not worth the risk. - Betsy Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:13:36 +0100 http://blacklistedmag.com/features/38-2008/352-the-bluest-eyes#comment-160 What a beautiful woman Laterra is. I'm so sad she thought risking her eye sight was worth the change in her beauty. Laterra, please don't change anything else! A little makeup is okay, but you're gorgeous already! - Betsy Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:07:15 +0100 http://blacklistedmag.com/features/38-2008/352-the-bluest-eyes#comment-159 "the striking color of her newly blue eyes remained a considerable contrast to her brown skin". Was she color blind? She didn't think that would look strange? - Stephanie B Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:16:52 +0100 http://blacklistedmag.com/features/38-2008/352-the-bluest-eyes#comment-158 This problem has also affected the Black community in the UK please see the link. [url]http://www.ligali.org/article.php?id=1980[/url] - James Wood Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:21:27 +0100 http://blacklistedmag.com/features/38-2008/352-the-bluest-eyes#comment-157 Wooooooooooooow. First of all, before the criticisms start flying her way people should realize that this you woman is the victim. Everybody needs to stop and pray for her. But as the person said above me I do wonder if she would have felt this way if things had gone the way she wanted them. I don't know if you asked her, but does she regret the surgery or the side effects? - PreeaJ Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:39:52 +0100 http://blacklistedmag.com/features/38-2008/352-the-bluest-eyes#comment-156 This is sad but unsurprising. I didnt know this procedure existed, but I expect it to become very popular *sigh*. The Bluest Eyes huh? When you willingly get a procedure like this done, and it goes wrong you have to ask yourself what was it all for. If it hadn't went wrong would she have even thought anything was wrong with getting this procedure? - knaayo Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:09:19 +0100 http://blacklistedmag.com/features/38-2008/352-the-bluest-eyes#comment-155 This is the saddest story. Why are black people (black women mainly) willing to go to such lengths to change their appearance? What's going to be next, a chemical that permanently changes the texture of a black woman's hair? Wait a second. - nicole Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:15:50 +0100 http://blacklistedmag.com/features/38-2008/352-the-bluest-eyes#comment-154 I guess it wont be inappropriate to say that 'beauty is in the EYEs of the beholder'. Sigh. - E-man Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:35:28 +0100 http://blacklistedmag.com/features/38-2008/352-the-bluest-eyes#comment-153 I'm amazed yet again at the lengths people will go to to achieve a "look". But the complicity of the U.S. beauty myths shouldn't be ignored. Laterra states everyone has something they would like to change about themselves; her issue only happened to be her eyes. This is an absolute fallacy. The entertainment industry and all media and our society engages all women in feeling 'less than' from birth until death. But it is especially hard on women of color, who can never fit the archetypal blond haired, blue-eyed vision. It is no accident that light-skinned and 'mixed' women are at such a high premium in the black community; they are the women who most closely mirror this image within the race. The question is how much longer we are going to believe these lies and harm ourselves to attain a false ideals. This new surgery is a good example but what about the hundreds of thousands right here in America blinding themselves wearing unnecessary color contacts? Poisoning themselves with bleaching creams filled with mercury and perms that take out our hair and fill our heads with chemical burns? Not getting the exercise we need so we won't sweat out those same perms? Giving ourselves headaches with too tight braids and weaves? Let's stop the madness people and appreciate the innate beauty given to us by God. - The anon Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:40:56 +0100