Verdantify by Stu
November 6th, 2007 3:35 PMSo I figured I'd have to turn a lens (or something near a lens) green. And that meant staining my eye green (isn't broken logic fun?). Here are pictures of my eye before the dye:
I did some research online. There are a bunch of people who have dyed their eyes with food coloring (you can find a few on youtube who did it in the most awkward ways possible), and though that doesn't mean it's okay, it means maybe it wasn't likely to kill me. Then I looked up the ingredients of food dyes. They didn't look so bad. I thought back on all the times I'd stained my hands, mouth, and body with food coloring, and how I hadn't had any bad reactions. Here's the cute green dropper:
Then I opened an old physiology text book and asked it about eyes. The cornea and sclera in general are meant to protect the eye, and they regenerate/heal reasonably well, especially in the face of small irritants. In addition, those irritants are part of why we have tears.
Still, I knew it would be stupid to drop a whole drop of potentially harmful material into my eye, so I tried a little bit first. I took a Q-tip, got it wet with water, and dropped some green food coloring onto it. I touched this gently to my eye. The sclera stained a little, but the green washed away pretty quickly. I had no noticeable bad reaction, so I decided to let diffusion do the job for me. I made myself tear up a little, dropped a bit more green onto the Q-tip, and touched the Q-tip to my eye again. It worked pretty well: the color swam its way through my tears and stained my cornea/sclera:
Unfortunately, it didn't turn everything green (though I was pretty sure it wouldn't and that it'd just make my eye look a little funny). There was a slight green tint to white walls, and that faded pretty quickly, as did the dye from my eye.
Before. Blue iris, white sclera.
Blurry, but it's my eye.
My eyes make me look tired today.
Maybe I should take a nap.
Food coloring.
Apply to Q-tip before eye! Don't try this at home, kids.
After.
Not as dramatic as I'd hoped, but pretty good.
Closer.
Green is pretty.
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Meta: Thanks! I felt about the same way.
Torsten: I did do a little hoppy dance when I saw it. I probably looked a bit goblinesque.
Why does this task keep making me sick. Vote!
I love this task.
When I first read it, I didn't think of any of these cool things people are coming up with.
This is especially awesome.
Say no: If it's any help, it does go away pretty quickly.
Lincoln: Thank you. My first thought was making a tissue green with boogers, so it did take a while to get to this.
Wow...I would be terrified to put that stuff in my eyes!!!
I wasn't exactly courageous, but I'll admit that testing out a small amount was what made me okay with trying it out on my whole eye.
Oh, and people with contacts should not do this even more than other people should not do this.
This is disgusting and terrifies me on your behalf. If that isn't worth a vote, I don't know what is.
Duckmonster: That's probably the appropriate reaction (the disgust and terror). Thanks for the vote.
Isobel: I probably am, and thank you.
we looked we looked we kept looking but it never stopped imagine it the seeping burst of growth of vines over the ould windows the walls forgetting themselves! forgetting! swish swish the currents whisk
Burn: and then they bleed it away, the vines retreat. The currents are just currents, and what they bring they take away. All is water and all of that Thales foo.
So like um, tell me your eye is not still green.
My eye is not still green. It became un-green pretty quickly (within maybe 15 minutes? with only a little green left in the corner for another 15, perhaps), though I'm sort of tempted to try it again. See if I can get slightly greener (or more even) results.
I think I went the right way with this when I did Q-tip+tears instead of drop+eye.
Oh man, this is great! It never even occurred to me that this could be safe - but now I want to colorize my eyes everytime I go out for any sort of event!
I'd hate to copy your take on a task, but I really want to try this for my own amusement, if nothing else!
I appreciated your methodical reasoning and how it allowed you to test & then achieve what totally first struck me as flat-out crazy.
I shall recall this technique for my Call of Cthulhu LARP in February.
5 points for putting shit in your eye. Verily, I will award 5 points to anyone who completes tasks by sticking things in their eyes, specifically things which do not belong in the eyes.
You were initially thinking boogers and I was initially thinking puke for mine. We should have collaborated.
Hooray for green body parts! This actually makes me think about having dye injected into my veins and then having photographs done of the insides of my eyes.
FZ!: Imitation is flattery and all that. Go for it! Be sure to be careful and test a small amount first, and remember that it fades. I say that only because it'd suck for a friend of mine to get hurt, and I'd feel particularly guilty if it was due to my luck at not getting hurt.
Entropy: I like to at least know what I'm getting myself into, hence the research. As for the LARP, have fun! Do two different colors! Freak people out!
Ora: May your eyes find comfort in the fact that mine are now fine.
Wulfgang: My foe! I have only red eyes for you.
Miss: YES. We should collaborate at some point. And the dye sounds amazing. I recommend collaborating with a doctor. Your pictures are truly inspiring--I love the green saliva.
This is scary tasking, and that's awesome!
Vote for you!
Gubznf: Danke.
Megabee: I know. Just remember, I'm you. Sort of. So it's like YOUR eye was green, too.
That is, well, freaky!
Did it hurt? Really..?
Rik: It honestly didn't hurt. Touching something to one's eye can always be irritating, but it was about as irritating as touching my eye with my finger (which is to say, not much). It lasted maybe 30 minutes, fading over time. It was totally gone after an hour. I want to do it again.
Vote for the voluntary physical endangerment with no better justification than "doing it for SF0".
Fish: That reason's plenty good enough for me. Hell, I did it with no better justification than "it might look neat."
If this ain't the scariest completion of this taske yet, I'm a trivet.
Dude--a trivet? Damn. That'd be either a ton of fun or really, really painful.
And to think, I shudder at putting CONTACTS in my eyes...
Some people are eye-squicky, some aren't. I bet you put your fingers in something that I will not touch. Well, maybe, though I'm having a hard time figuring out what (besides some really toxic, caustic thing) I would never touch.
For anyone who's come back to read this, I'd like to share that I tried it again recently, this time with one eye green and one eye blue. It faded much faster this time, and was nearly undetectable within about a minute. Just a very light tint. That may quash some of your plans for wearing color out, but it was neat for the one minute or so. The blue was darker, and I saw my vision darken when I blued my eye (which lasted only a minute or so). The blue and green tears stained my skin a bit longer, though it wasn't terribly noticeable.
This is by far one of the most reckless looking things I've seen done on SFØ. That said, I have to try it out now.
Kudos!
Thank you, Sam. It was fun, and I am glad I did it.
I should really start to play again. I miss this.
Oh my god that is terrifying. But pretty.
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