Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Mate, we would have the best R-rated podcast, but we'd get cancelled and our husbands would leave us.
I know. Yeah. I'm so scared if I ever lost my phone and someone could break into it and just saw Beck and Jess's thread. Our texts back and forth. Oh, my God. Anyway. Anyway, maybe, yeah, maybe in the future. Just delete as we go. It's nothing like, it's nothing bad. It's just like, it's just so funny. It's so funny.
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Chapter 2: What is the viral eye colour trend and why is it controversial?
So, yeah. So I've got an ICL, which is, if no one heard the first episode we did on my eyes and laser and stuff, I've got, it's like a permanent contact that's been placed into my eye for vision. Can you do like coloured contacts and like kind of do what I've done and put it into the eye but with a colour?
That's kind of what they're doing, except that your contact is behind your iris on top of your human lens. Okay. These are on top of the iris. Right.
So this is like a permanent contact?
No.
Which one? Hers is a permanent contact. Mine's permanent. The nude, the implant. But it's a permanent contact that goes on top of the iris. Top of the iris.
And the problem with that is that the edges of the iris are your drainage system for the eye. There's like a spongy system on the edges of the iris that absorb the fluid because your eye is constantly making fluid and absorbing it. And it blocks it off. Right. It blocks it off. It permanently scars it and leaves you with debilitating glaucoma and blindness.
Right.
What is a glaucoma? Elevated eye pressure that then damages the optic nerve.
Okay.
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Chapter 3: How do eye colour-changing procedures work?
So that was like in my algorithm. I so got targeted, bought them. And then when I got it, there was no recipe. Like there was no instructions. No, no, no. I didn't know what was in it. Oh, ingredients. There was no ingredients. There was no ingredients. Yeah. So like I had no idea what was in it. And I still did it. I was like, when I commit to something, I'm like, yep, I'm doing it.
So anyway, so I got them and I looked at the box. There was no ingredients on the packet, not on the thing. Anyway, it couldn't change your eye color. It kind of just made it lighter. I did want to go from blue to brown. I want it to be just like a real light blue.
Brighter blue, yeah.
So I started doing them and I actually did take some before and afters and we'll pop it up onto my Instagram. Not much to change, let's be honest. Probably my vision. You're just half blind. You were blind anyway. I was blind anyway at this point. Did you notice them go bluer? Did they go brighter? Yes. Really? Yeah. Get out of here. They do. I don't know if I'm allowed to say that.
It's an objective question. When you use these eye drops that I'm guessing, Lana, are not approved. Not approved.
Definitely not approved.
You got on the internet with no ingredients and you put them in your eyes.
Yeah. And what else did you notice? So I did it over a course of seven days because I didn't even know the instructions. I didn't have any instructions either. Yes. So I just was like, oh, seven days. I just did it every day and I did take some before and afters. But then I noticed that they were going lighter. But then when I kind of stopped, my eye colour was back to the same.
That's exactly right. Yeah. So they're just like a stain type thing.
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Chapter 4: Why are eye colour-changing surgeries not approved in Australia?
And it's meant to make change your eye colour.
You got it. What the hell?
And what are they saying the ingredient is?
They won't tell you. Oh. But what they say is that these drugs edit the genes that express pigment in your iris. I'm like, really?
Yeah.
And it gets absorbed through your tear trough skin. None of this is making any, you know, medical sense to me.
Yeah. And the eye cream I put under my eyes doesn't end up in my eyeball.
No. Through my skin. I'll happily use it if it's going to make my eyes lighter and get rid of wrinkles.
Yeah.
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Chapter 5: What are the risks associated with keratopigmentation?
Exactly. But what's even worse than that is that as the colour fades, you don't return to a cornea that's clear. The cornea that remains and slowly depigments is cloudy.
Yeah, a bit murky. Yes.
And so they say that about 10% of people require more pigment at about five years. But, you know, these are the people that are doing it. So who knows if that's true. I don't know if I believe anything they say.
Yeah. They're cowboys. It's kind of a new thing. It's probably hasn't even been around for five years. Yeah. We don't have any long-term data. Yeah.
So laser depigmentation is basically lifelong. The pigment ain't going to come back.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
The iris implants, well, they last for as long as the implant can be tolerated. And the studies basically show that the longer it is in there, the more damage it does. And so I looked at it and the time to explantate, so, you know, a lot of these are explanted at the hospital where I used to work in London. So you've seen a lot of this. Some of them. Yeah.
And so the explantations, the average time to explantation is just under four years. By then, the damage is so great that although you can reverse the eye color, you can't reverse the damage done to the eye. The irreversible damage to the cornea, irreversible damage to the drainage pathway, the glaucoma, everything that happens, the cataracts.
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Chapter 6: What are the complications of laser depigmentation?
So you want silicon hydrogel or hydrogel. What has the most proven safety? The ones that are silicon hydrogel. They breathe better. In terms of safety, you want daily contact lenses.
Yeah.
So if you're putting it in and throwing it out at the end of the day, you should be all good.
Yeah.
There's little time for fungus and bacteria to get on into that corner.
I don't want to ever tell you how I kept my contact lenses. I hope it wasn't. I believe it. I've seen you do some grotty things. I hope it wasn't in tap water.
Was it in tap water?
No, I've done that a few times. No, mine's more and that burns. Tap water is terrible. Yeah. It's actually not clean.
I know. It's full of acanthamoeba. So it's full of like little me, little like tiny little parasites.
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Chapter 7: How do iris implants pose risks to eye health?
Blue-eyed boy meets a brown-eyed girl. No, I don't know that song. That was pretty much written about me and my husband.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
You know, you too. The sweetest thing. Yes, that's what it is. Yeah, the sweetest thing. No, and then the other thing I was going to say is, you know what really makes me so angry? It's when I see two brown-eyed people.
With a blue-eyed child.
With blue-eyed children. I sit there just going like. The rage, the jealousy, the envy. The envy. I literally said to Val, we are going to keep having kids until I get a blue-eyed baby. Because Val's parents are both brown-eyes. And they've got four kids and they've got two blue and two brown. And they're dark eyes.
And then my grandmother and grandfather, so my mum and her siblings, so my grandparents had brown eyes and they all had two blue eyes and two brown eyes, same thing. So you've got blue-eyed genes on both sides, same as me.
And then...
Time for another. Yep.
Time for another.
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