Nicole Kidman, Patrick Dempsey, Brad Pitt… The list of blue-eyed beauties and celebrities is practically endless.
But why in our culture this feature is considered so fascinating and seductive.
According to researchers, the magnetism of pure eyes is found in their ambiguity, writes the Italian scientific journal Focus.
On the one hand, the blue eye represents a beauty ideal that has been exported worldwide for decades.
Beautiful and at the same time "cursed"
On the other hand, in many cultures, this somatic feature is attributed to cold and ruthless people and, in general, synonymous with evil: in many legends of the ancient Aegean populations, demons and evil spirits are often depicted with big eyes. blu.
And in invading America, Europeans were called "blue-eyed demons" by indigenous peoples because their passage was associated with the spread of unknown diseases and often with massacres and looting.
Science seems to confirm it: no matter how attractive it is, the blue eye does not inspire confidence.
However, this negative connotation in no way affected the charm of the sea-colored eye.
There are many people who get pork to the point of spending several thousand euros to conquer, under the knife, a new iris.
The surgery was performed a few years ago by Gregg Homer, a California plastic surgeon and founder of Stroma Medical who used laser beams to destroy the thin layers of pigmentation present in the iris pigmented area, which within a few weeks, thus returns from dark to clear.
However, surgery is not without risks: it can increase eye pressure and permanently enlarge the pupil. In short, it is not like dyeing your hair.
However, from an evolutionary point of view, the clear eye is a defect. It is caused by a reduced amount of melanin which brings unfiltered light directly to the back of the eye.
Here a small part is absorbed, but the rest is reflected throughout the iris, giving it its characteristic blue color.