Don't it make my black eye blue

The injuries were more than cosmetic. Although he could still see, his permanently damaged iris could no longer act as a shutter, limiting the amount of light entering his right eye. He became extraordinarily sensitive to light.

In photographs, his dark eye appears a bright “Terminator-like” red because nothing blocks the light that reflected off the retina in the back of his eye.

“In natural daylight the size of the pupil might be two millimeters,” said Dr. Kevin Miller, an ophthalmologist at UCLA Medical Center. “He has essentially no iris, so his functional pupil size is 12 millimeters or 12.5 millimeters, so light just comes pouring into the eye.”