blind allegiance
even though her look was digitally created for her bad romance video, fans are buying contacts that will make them look like her. according to the new york times, the look she wore in the video can be made possible through contacts that first became popular in asia. the eye fashion “give wearers a childlike, doe-eyed appearance [and the resulting] look is characteristic of Japanese anime and is also popular in Korea. Fame-seekers there called “ulzzang girls” post cute but sexy head shots of themselves online, nearly always wearing circle lenses to accentuate their eyes.”
the trend has become all the rage with u.s. teens who don them for facebook profile picts. take melody vue, a north carolina teen for example, she says “I’ve noticed a lot of girls in my town have started to wear them a lot.” vue herself owns 22 pairs of the things and wears them often.
so what’s the problem?
the f.d.a. warns that they oxygen cutting eye gear can cause serious damage, if not blindness and that’s why they’re illegal here in the u.s. so an allegiance to gaga could in fact be a blind one. and to think i thought that the eye jewelry we told you about was bad.
[nytimes, photo via nymag via lady gaga]
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