(soft instrumental music) - As far as my eyes go, I feel like people don't really pay them any mind. - I've never gotten any
compliments on my eyes. - I always feel invisible
with my blue eyes. I feel really clear looking. (logo whooshes)
(hinge squeaks) - I've totally wanted to try blue eyes. Playing with color is always cool. - Growing up in the South,
like having light skin, light eyes is very celebrated so growing up, I always
wanted to have light eyes. - I'm the only one in my
family that has blue eyes. I have six siblings. I always wanted brown eyes
just 'cause everybody else in my family has them. - Today what we're going to do is change the eye color of three different patients. Now the fitting of contact
lenses, whether they be just purely for cosmetic purposes or for the correction of vision, it's still a medical device
and one needs to be examined by an eye doctor to be fit appropriately. - I'm going to be trying blue eyes. - I'm going to be trying out green eyes. - And I'm going to be trying brown eyes. - So Kane, we've got both lenses in now. (Kane sighs heavily)
Check it out. - [Kane] Whoa! - Oh my geez! - [Kuwilileni] Whoa! - It feels like I put
someone's eyeball into my head. - Who am I? - I expected to hate this,
but actually kind of love it. - I feel like the reaction
is going to be positive because it's such a cool thing to change. - I am a little bit nervous
about wearing colored contacts 'cause I'm worried that people will think that I don't think that my own brown eyes, as they are, are beautiful enough. - I assume people will
notice that something on my face is darker. The guy who helped me put
the lenses in was like, "You look like a completely
different person." I do look like the rest of my family. - I feel just like augmenting
one part of my body has made me feel like more beautiful. I think I'm going to become really vain, like even now I'm like, "Hey, girl." - I look less like a cyborg
today and more like a cat. - So I just put 'em in
for the second time. I feel like I've acclimated to them and they just look like my
normal eyes but they kinda hurt. I don't understand how
people do this every morning. - I feel like a lot bolder. I like being another person. I feel like people look at me different. - Whoa, you look like a demon.
(whimsical instrumental music) - I don't know what my
boyfriend will feel, like will he dump me? I don't know, we'll see. - Whoa. I'm very used to you with the blue eyes. I don't know, they're like piercing. - Say some people some
time to get used to it but, yeah, I totally dig it. - You look like a mutant from X-Men. - They're entrancing, I'm entranced. - I think it's going to
be weird for my boyfriend. - Is this a trick? - [Kane] Do you notice
something different? My eyes? - Uh-huh, yeah, your eyes are different. Ah, nu-uh! (laughs) Are they blue? - [Kane] Yeah.
(laughs) - Oh my gosh! - One of the things I've
noticed about wearing them is I'm always wondering if
people are going to notice. - They kind of fit. - They're like brighter, it
like hits you in the face. - Ah, gotcha! Going in the trash! Bye, no more contacts. I enjoyed the experience a lot, of just seeing what I would look like but it was a lot of torture to get there. - I was shocked when I put them in that I actually liked them. I was apprehensive because
having come into myself and really celebrating and loving myself, I was afraid society would
think that I was trying to hide my African heritage. - It totally made my dreams come true. Do I look like a part of my family now? I think they're like, "Finally." - One of the most powerful
lessons I've learned in life is living your body as it is,
as it changes, as it grows, like loving it for what it is. - And once I died, the
mortician will be like, "Oh, this is weird," like, (hacks) "This 90-year-old woman has
contacts in." (chuckles)
