Does it deflect light coming into the eye to make things not appear to be so bright?

The Myth Busters already tested this one

and.......?

I forget if they named it plausible or confirmed. It does reduce the reflected light a little bit if I'm not mistaken.

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Originally posted by rmwright1979:
I forget if they named it plausible or confirmed. It does reduce the reflected light a little bit if I'm not mistaken.

Plausible if I'm not mistaken.. It did reduce the glare, together with the cap..


"Adam and Jamie put black eye paint under their eyes and took an eye exam, then repeated with lighter, peach colored eye paint. Their scores were the same each time.

Adam then set up a light meter in a dummy's eye and recorded the lux reading in the eye with and without the paint, but the results were not very different.

Adam then put a baseball cap on the dummy and repeated it again, and noticed that with the black eye paint on, the lux reading significantly dropped.

The theory behind this is that, while the cap is able to block most of the direct light, there's still plenty of light being reflected off of one's cheeks and into the eye; the eye black could be meant to reduce this reflected light."

Awesome thx guys!

It wasn't peach colored eye paint, it was makeup.

/looks at rmwright1979 suspiciously.

Semantics is commonly used to refer to a trivial point or distinction that revolves around mere words rather than significant issues: "To argue whether the medication killed the patient or contributed to her death is to argue over semantics."

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Originally posted by Thomas_Aquinas:
/looks at rmwright1979 suspiciously.

"To argue whether the medication killed the patient or contributed to her death is to argue over semantics."

Not to the manufacturer, doctors, and lawyers, whose paychecks depend on it not being lethal to patients. It's only semantics to the [dead] patient.