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The article also has been amended to clarify details about Dr. 'What did she do?' Chynn asked the group.Įditor's Note: This story has been revised to reflect the fact that scissors, not a laser, were used in the procedure to insert the eyeball jewelry. When she feels down, she said she watches Miley Cyrus videos to remind herself that Cyrus is still happy despite the backlash from Cyrus' twerking and other scandalous behavior.

She said the negative attention she received this month made her empathize with Kim Kardashian. Luckayanko said she came to the United States five years ago and hopes to become a famous graphic designer. 'I figure out I need plastic surgery,' she said with a hint of sarcasm about what commenters have said about her. 'Don't take a steak knife and remove it yourself,' Chynn said.īut it hasn't been all positive attention for Luckayanko since a post-op photo of her eyeball went viral and commenters started criticizing her for getting the implant. She said she didn't have any tattoos because she didn't like that they're permanent. Luckayanko said she likes the eye jewelry because it's 'elegant' and only visible to the people she wants to be close to. The sound of the laser fills the waiting room with noises that resemble something between an old-fashioned toy gun and the Wheel of Fortune hitting the plastic rungs as it spins. Their chairs were arranged around a large, flat-screen television filled with a real-time eyeball on it as Chynn performed his laser eye surgeries. Upstairs, patients sit wearing blue surgical bonnets and foot covers in a small waiting room with paper lanterns and velvety curtains. Chynn's patient coordinator, Tarek Elnicklawy, called this room 'the dungeon.'

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He sat down next to Luckayanko for an interview with in the basement of his office as broken fluorescent lights blinked off and on every so often in another room full of surgical supplies. His wife search also went viral, which he talks about on his practice's website. For his part, Chynn has defended his ad as legitimate and said that critics have made it into something it was never intended to be. He was lampooned in headlines a few years ago one called him a 'creepy Craigslist doctor' after he posted an unusual ad offering to barter private accommodations in his Manhattan townhouse with a suitable woman who would, in exchange, serve as his personal assistant and also walk on his (ailing) back for an hour a day, cook for him, and help him find a wife. Hers was the first surgery of its kind in New York, and four other people have contacted Chynn to get eye jewelry, too.Ĭhynn is no stranger to being in the news. 'I guess it is something in my eye,' she said, with a smile and a surgically implanted twinkle. Luckayanko said it felt as if something was in her eye the first few days, but then she caught herself. The slit was so tiny it didn't even need stitches, he said. Chynn said he'd given her a Valium and some laughing gas to calm her nerves.Ĭhynn, whose bread and butter is laser vision correction, used tiny scissors to make a slit in the thin membrane covering the white of Luckayanko's eye and slipped the curved silvery heart into its pocket. Chynn operated in front of a floor-to-ceiling glass window so passersby could watch from the street.

Emil Chynn surgically implanted the eye jewelry a few weeks ago on Park Avenue in Manhattan for $3,000 as local news cameras captured the moment. 'I've got platinum in my eye.' The platinum heart glimmers from the corner of Luckayanko's right eye every time she looks up, allowing the light to catch it away from the shade of her long lashes.ĭr. 'Yeah,' the 25-year-old blonde responded in her native Russian accent. 26, 2013— - Lucy Luckayanko was at a night club in New York City when a man approached her and said, 'Oh, your eye is so shiny!'

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