Eye Study

I'll save you from the "portal to the soul" analogies by summing up my opinion quickly. I don't think eyes are a portal to anything. I'll go against the prevailing opinion and say that I don't think you can tell much of anything from the eyes themselves. For me, they are fascinatingly intricate spidery creations. The pupil, the blood vessels, the work of muscles expanding and contracting. But as for portals- not really. I consider myself a fine reader of peoples faces. I think its important to be able to able to ascertain, at least to some extent, the experience others are having as they simultaneously experience you experiencing them. (Or others). But this is a talent that involves interpreting a number of facial clues, and not just eyeballs themselves.

I remember chemistry class in high school where a demonstration on the necessity of safety glasses was performed on a severed cow eyeball. One moment the eye was the strange not-people-ness that a cow eye has, and a few seconds and a couple drops of hydrochloric acid later- just a clouded over grey white gelatinous orb.

Okay. So maybe you did not need to know that. Instead, enjoy the eye of one of my makeup artists.