This eye jewelry craze is an eye implant called the "Safesight jewelry" procedure. It is currently offered by Dr. Emil Chynn of Park Avenue Laser Vision in New York. The procedure includes making an incision in your sclera and implanting the platinum jewelry into your eye.
The Safesight jewelry procedure uses platinum implants, because platinum is more dormant than gold -- which may move once it is placed in the eye.
Dr. Chynn maintains there is little to no risk in getting a platinum eye implant, stating on his website: "If eye jewelry carried any risk of visual loss, we would not perform it".
This procedure is clearly not for everyone. It is for those who truly want to stand out or make a statement, and for those risk-takers who are willing to take a chance, all in the name of style.
Why This Trend Is Growing
- Surgically Implanted Eye Jewelry
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create a line of customizable surgical eye jewelry implants using different materials and designs.
- Body Modification Procedures
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop new and safer body modification procedures that appeal to individuals seeking unique and extreme forms of self-expression.
- Extreme Fashion Trends
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create a fashion line that incorporates extreme body modifications like surgically implanted eye jewelry.
Industries Being Reshaped
- Cosmetic Surgery
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Integrate eye jewelry procedures as an alternative or addition to traditional cosmetic surgery options.
- Fashion and Accessories
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Collaborate with designers to create avant-garde fashion accessories that merge body modifications and high fashion.
- Health and Wellness
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop new technologies or procedures that enhance the safety and minimize the risks associated with body modification practices.
