Dear Devs, can you let us know if the Aesthetician will allow Au Ra to change Limbal?

[NozomiKei]

Haven't bothered to read the thread but I have an easy explanation of why eyes could be changeable by the aesthetitian. Glamours are all over the realm right? Sylphs do them, voidsent do them, basically everyone has some capability with glamours even if they are easily breakable. Eye color can be changed by having Jandelaine cast a very minor glamor on your iris. Done, lore friendly as far as I can tell and everyone has more options!

[kyuven]

Eye color can be changed by having Jandelaine cast a very minor glamor on your iris. Done, lore friendly as far as I can tell and everyone has more options!

I wouldn't exactly call it lore friendly since he's displayed no mystical powers besides ninja-like reflexes. To put it another way, he uses all "practical effects."
Adding and removing scars can be done even in real life with adequately applied make-up, something an aesthetician like Jandelaine can be expected to do easily. Contact lenses, though...let's just say there's a reason the abhorrent idea of trying to inject dyes into peoples' eyes to change the colors was even considered before practical contact lenses were developed.
Hint: Didn't work.

Changing eye color at a barbershop is a really stupid idea. Just the thought makes me gag on the implications. >_> Sounds like a painful process.

Your options in a society that hasn't developed safe contacts is either needles jammed into your eyes, or tiny shards of glass stuck to your eye with either a beeswax like substance or a whim and a prayer.
Not suited for the battlefield. The worst that can happen with make-up and hair dye is it runs or smudges. Meanwhile remember what happens when a contact SLIGHTLY shifts in real life...
*escapes a billowing explosion* OH GOD MY CONTACT SHIFTED! CAN'T SEE!

[NozomiKei]

And why shouldn't we believe Jandelaine can use magic like just about everybody else?

[kyuven]

And why shouldn't we believe Jandelaine can use magic like just about everybody else?

What "everybody else"? Magic isn't all that common among the people, it just seems that way. Plenty of people have no magic aptitude at all. Part of the THM quest deals with that, and the CNJ quest makes a point that Raise is an exceptionally powerful and rare spell for non-Padjal. Lore-wise, there's only about 6 actual black mages, 2 Summoners, and about half a dozen White Mages including the player.
If body altering magic were at all common, we'd have spies all around us. So far the only beings we've seen use magic to alter physical bodies have been Primals, Sylphs, and certain Voidsent.

[Felis]

And why shouldn't we believe Jandelaine can use magic like just about everybody else?

Many of the "everybody else" use prisms, not magics.

[LineageRazor]

What "everybody else"? Magic isn't all that common among the people, it just seems that way. Plenty of people have no magic aptitude at all. Part of the THM quest deals with that, and the CNJ quest makes a point that Raise is an exceptionally powerful and rare spell for non-Padjal. Lore-wise, there's only about 6 actual black mages, 2 Summoners, and about half a dozen White Mages including the player.
If body altering magic were at all common, we'd have spies all around us. So far the only beings we've seen use magic to alter physical bodies have been Primals, Sylphs, and certain Voidsent.

Don't forget the dragons. Part of the reason the Ishgardians are so xenophobic and paranoid is because dragons DO regularly shapeshift and infiltrate them.

[Vejjiegirl]

Many of the "everybody else" use prisms, not magics.

Grade 1 Glamour Prism (Eyes)