{"id":26914,"date":"2025-05-01T04:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26914"},"modified":"2025-05-01T04:23:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T04:23:29","slug":"christina-leitzels-fun-prosthetic-eyes-are-designed-to-stand-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26914","title":{"rendered":"Christina Leitzel\u2019s \u2018Fun\u2019 Prosthetic Eyes are Designed to Stand Out"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As a maker of prosthetic eyes, Christina Leitzel was told as an apprentice to treat her craft much as an expert art forger would: create a perfect match of one of nature\u2019s most intricate canvases.<\/p>\n

But just as there are many ways to lose an eye \u2014 to cancer or to a fall; to a broom that strikes the wrong part of the brow \u2014 Leitzel wants to show there are many ways to gain one.<\/p>\n

On a damp afternoon in Portland, Ore., a man in his 30s who had recently lost his eye to a BB gun stepped out of her office with a grin. His eyes matched his forest green beanie. But in his left, a shimmering gold vortex swirled within the pupil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Leitzel, also known as \u201cChristina Oculara\u201d on TikTok<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>, creates what she calls \u201cfun eyes.\u201d Her designs include pupils painted in the shape of a sunflower and the <\/strong>diamond slit <\/strong>of <\/strong>a beloved cat. She has fulfilled requests as strange as they are touching: A man who arrived with a box of ashes, wishing for his late wife to \u201csee everything that he did.\u201d A woman adorned in piercings who thought, Why not a pierced iris, too?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Christina Leitzel, also known as \u201cChristina Oculara\u201d on TikTok and Instagram, has designed \u201cfun eyes\u201d that include pupils painted as sunflowers and diamond-shaped irises that matched those of a beloved cat. <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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That one, Leitzel said, turned out to be her favorite. The resulting TikTok<\/a> was so popular that eye doctors felt compelled to post warnings against piercing actual eyeballs.<\/p>\n

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As a maker of prosthetic eyes, Christina Leitzel was told as an apprentice to treat her craft much as an expert art forger would: create a perfect match of one of nature\u2019s most intricate canvases.But just as there are many ways to lose an eye \u2014 to cancer or to a fall; to a broom that strikes the wrong part of the brow \u2014 Leitzel wants to show there are many ways to gain one.On a damp afternoon in Portland, Ore., a man in his 30s who had recently lost his eye to a BB gun stepped out of her office with a grin. His eyes matched his forest green beanie. But in his left, a shimmering gold vortex swirled within the pupil.Leitzel, also known as \u201cChristina Oculara\u201d on TikTok and Instagram, creates what she calls \u201cfun eyes.\u201d Her designs include pupils painted in the shape of a sunflower and the diamond slit of a beloved cat. She has fulfilled requests as strange as they are touching: A man who arrived with a box of ashes, wishing for his late wife to \u201csee everything that he did.\u201d A woman adorned in piercings who thought, Why not a pierced iris, too?Christina Leitzel, also known as \u201cChristina Oculara\u201d on TikTok and Instagram, has designed \u201cfun eyes\u201d that include pupils painted as sunflowers and diamond-shaped irises that matched those of a beloved cat. That one, Leitzel said, turned out to be her favorite. The resulting TikTok was so popular that eye doctors felt compelled to post warnings against piercing actual eyeballs.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26916,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26917,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26914\/revisions\/26917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}