# The whites of model's eyes. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 17, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671 "2008-04-17T01:00:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671/1 "2008-04-17T01:00:36Z")
Do models do something to make the whites of their eyes look so white? I’ve noticed that they always look pure white, even when their eyes are turned, so I (discreetly) looked at the whites of people I’m normally around, and _none_ had that level of whiteness. Everyone, even youngsters, had at least some redness and/or and off-white coloration. Maurine won’t do it. I guess it could be done by photo editing? mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671/2 "2008-04-17T01:15:59Z")
Photoshop. Their teeth aren’t so white, either. There’s a website I’m looking for now, but I probably won’t make the edit window. Gimmie a few minutes. [Found it!](http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/digital.html) ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671/3 "2008-04-17T01:19:11Z")
Not Murine or Visine, but [French eyedrops.](http://thebeautybrains.com/?s=visine&x=0&y=0) ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671/4 "2008-04-17T02:16:18Z")
[QUOTE=postcards] Photoshop. Their teeth aren’t so white, either. There’s a website I’m looking for now, but I probably won’t make the edit window. Gimmie a few minutes. [Found it!](http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/digital.html) [/QUOTE] Dayummm. It’s like black magic. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671/5 "2008-04-17T02:19:22Z")
I thought so. The business(s) is very phony, isn’t it? I don’t mean that as an extreme criticism, but more a “shakehead” observation. They provide what we want. Who can blame them. I’ve lately heard criticism of people who _don’t_ bleach their teeth! Even though their teeth are healthy, straight, and naturally white. Sheesh! Glad to be homely. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671/6 "2008-04-17T05:41:29Z")
[Yeesh!](http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/blonde/blonde1.html) ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671/7 "2008-04-17T07:20:37Z")
[QUOTE=Oslo Ostragoth] [Yeesh!](http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/blonde/blonde1.html) [/QUOTE] [Double yeesh!!](http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/bikini/bikini2.html) ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671/8 "2008-04-17T07:32:28Z")
I think this should win the yeeesh battle. eyeball tattoo’s anyone? [Linky](http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article853274.ece) ---
**Author:** ![Giant\_Hairy\_Nevus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/848f3c/32.png) [@Giant\_Hairy\_Nevus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Hairy_Nevus)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671/9 "2008-04-17T08:50:08Z")
Yeeesh. I need some eye bleach. Eye bleach, get it? I can’t believe I’m the first one to mention _eye bleach_ in this thread… ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671/10 "2008-04-17T09:30:06Z")
[QUOTE=One And Only Wanderers] I think this should win the yeeesh battle. eyeball tattoo’s anyone? [Linky](http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article853274.ece) [/QUOTE] I dunno…Double yeesh was a surprise, but the first yeesh…since it was a close up…GOOD GOOGLEY GOO! It was like one of those “Turn someone into a zombie” pics at [Worth 1000.](http://www.worth1000.com/default.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671/11 "2008-04-17T09:50:47Z")
It’s quite enlightening looking at that re-touching site. You know in the back of your mind that all magazine style photos of models have this sameness, and air of unreality to them. But until I did that mouseover trick and appreciated exactly what is done and how much is done, I just didn’t quite grok the enormity of it. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671/12 "2008-04-17T10:08:45Z")
[QUOTE=postcards] Photoshop. … [Found it!](http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/digital.html) [/QUOTE] Jeez! If you look at the photoshop of the blonde’s eye, you can see the photographer reflected! ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671/13 "2008-04-17T10:31:22Z")
[http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/toy/toy1.html](http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/toy/toy1.html) Even Buzz Lightyear gets help from computer trickery? Talk about shattering my illusions! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Giant\_Hairy\_Nevus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/848f3c/32.png) [@Giant\_Hairy\_Nevus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Hairy_Nevus)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671/14 "2008-04-17T10:36:26Z")
[QUOTE=gotpasswords] Not Murine or Visine, but [French eyedrops.](http://thebeautybrains.com/?s=visine&x=0&y=0) [/QUOTE] The active ingredient seems to be CI42051, Acid Blue No. 3. An oxidative keratin colorant for dyeing hair? Yeeesh. Those models really must be desperate. Or make lots of money. The perceived whitening would be due to an effect similar to [laundry bluing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluing_(fabric)). I wonder if this stuff fluorescences too, and if it was chosen specifically on how it appears in the light of a camera flash? Anyway, probably some of them take it before important live appearances, but for the bread-and-butter part I’d still wager it’s good old photoshop magic. This artificial white-eye crazyness, by the way, is why I don’t like Playboy images. Those girls just look creeeepy, as if someone cut their eyes out and shone a light through the sockets. (_Aside_ from the fact that even today’s cheapest 3D software is capable of rendering a more natural and _better looking_ skin texture than that. If I wanted to look at bleach-eyed pseudo meat puppets I might just as well watch computer rendered images. Maybe that’s where we’re going. We’ll reach a point where, no matter how they try to enhance themselves, models won’t be able to satisfy the fashion ideal anymore, and it will all be computer generated anyway.) [QUOTE=Quartz] Jeez! If you look at the photoshop of the blonde’s eye, you can see the photographer reflected! [/QUOTE] Isn’t it weird that exactly _this_ has to look totally photoshopped. The irony! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671/15 "2008-04-17T13:16:13Z")
[QUOTE=Giant Hairy Nevus] This artificial white-eye crazyness, by the way, is why I don’t like Playboy images. Those girls just look creeeepy, as if someone cut their eyes out and shone a light through the sockets. [/QUOTE] You’re looking at their _eyes_? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Giant\_Hairy\_Nevus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/848f3c/32.png) [@Giant\_Hairy\_Nevus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Hairy_Nevus)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671/16 "2008-04-17T14:34:41Z")
Can’t help it. They’re so distracting from… um… _the nose_. Yeah. The nose. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671/17 "2008-04-17T14:53:23Z")
[QUOTE=CookingWithGas] You’re looking at their _eyes_? 😕 [/QUOTE] You can’t believe any of the rest, either. I read that they don’t even use ice cubes anymore. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671/18 "2008-04-17T15:01:27Z")
Don’t fire the models until you see the whites of their eyes! (I can’t believe nobody said that before this!) ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671/19 "2008-04-17T15:03:57Z")
[QUOTE=postcards] Photoshop. Their teeth aren’t so white, either. There’s a website I’m looking for now, but I probably won’t make the edit window. Gimmie a few minutes. [Found it!](http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/digital.html) [/QUOTE] I saw a site similar to that once, but which had originals and retouched versions of photos of celebrities. Anyone seen this and know where it is? -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671/20 "2008-04-17T15:10:48Z")
[QUOTE=One And Only Wanderers] I think this should win the yeeesh battle. eyeball tattoo’s anyone? [Linky](http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article853274.ece) [/QUOTE] Blurgh. And I made the mistake of clicking through the photo gallery. While trying to eat breakfast at my desk. I think it is well-established now that I’m an idiot. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whites-of-models-eyes/445671.md?page=2)