Lady Gaga can't do anything or, more specifically wear anything, without the masses thinking that they can pick up a few pointers from the so-called trendsetting pop singer and jump on the "I'm so original because I can dress and look like Lady Gaga" bandwagon.
Lady Gaga is said to be constantly shocking, constantly keeping the masses who pay attention on their toes, and if you ask a numbered few, she is constantly ridiculous. The woman cannot even go to a business meeting without being seen walking the New York City streets wearing something that would more appropriately be seen on a stage at a burlesque show. But she is very well-marketed and that is why people are always paying attention to Lady Gaga.
Lady Gaga's music video for Bad Romance is not new, but there is a trend taken directly from the video that has countless women picking up contact lenses that do nothing but make your eyes look bigger. The circle contact lens covers part of the white area of the eyes and replaces it with a small, darker ring that extends further than where the iris normally ends. After placing the contact lens in your eye, it will give you a larger and "childlike" looking eye, leaving you looking like an Anime character.
These contacts are widely known in places like Korea, where they are used as fashion accessories, but the trend is gaining in popularity among other countries, specifically the US. However, they are not as easy to come by since it is illegal in the US to purchase contact lenses without a prescription. But Anime fanatics and people who desperately want to look like a character from a music video will not be denied! There are many forums dedicated to where people are purchasing the lenses, predominantly online, from companies that will ship to the US regardless of the fact that in doing so they are committing a crime.
There are also many YouTube tutorials showing you how to use these lenses and how to do your makeup to look like a version of Lady Gaga from the bathtub scene of the Bad Romance video. The most popular of tutorials has received nearly 10 million views and it's kind of troubling to me.
That is a ton of work to merely make yourself look like an unnatural caricature that has just stepped out of a comic book. Not only that, but the circle lenses have actually been linked to some pretty scary and dangerous stuff.
CBS Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton has come out and said that wearing these contact lenses without being properly fitted for them can increase your risk for infection. Since these lenses do not come with prescriptions and are being used solely as fashion accessories, you can't exactly get properly fitted for them and a lot of times, people are getting them in the wrong size where they are too tight or too loose and wearing them anyway, even though you can easily scratch your cornea. In some cases, it has been said that the infections can even lead to blindness.
Potential blindness in return for having "doe-like", drugged out-looking eyes? Um, no thanks!
As mentioned at the end of that video, Lady Gaga's huge eyes were done through computer generation. The Bad Romance music video was meant to be theatrical. It was not meant to be a look book for new trends and it wasn't the intention of the people behind this video for Lady Gaga's fans to actually want to look like she did in the video in their every day.
So, I'm sorry to burst anyone's bubble out there, but you were not meant to look like you just stumbled out of Adobe After Effects. It isn't fashionable and it isn't worth trying to be fashionable or feel like a trendsetter at the risk of going blind.
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