Cosmetic eye color change procedure is going viral — but so are horror stories

“I wonder how that affects the eye with time,” mused someone else.

For one model, it cost her her precious vision.

Nadinne Bruna traveled to Colombia to change her hazel orbs to a bright gray, undergoing a different procedure that uses a silicone implant — only to lose 80% of her vision in her right eye and 50% in her left.

“Before this surgery, my eyes were completely healthy. They were in really good condition. I was so naïve,” she said in 2018, per Healthline.

Dr. Colin McCannel, a professor of clinical ophthalmology at the University of California, Los Angeles, told Healthline that it’s a “bad idea” to pursue “any unnecessary eye surgery” due to the risk of complications.

The complications of keratopigmentation — which is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration — include vision loss, blindness, glaucoma and uveitis, or eye inflammation.

“One of the main issues is that we don’t know enough about the procedure to say whether or not it will cause problems like glaucoma down the line,” Dr. Ivan Schwab, a clinical spokesperson for the American Academy of Ophthalmology, told Vision Center.