Posts Tagged ‘eye colour.’

Blue Eyed Boy?

Friday, November 18th, 2011

Unlike hair colour and style, body shape and size, and skin tone, eye colour is something we are born with that we rarely change. A few adventurous clients choose coloured contact lenses, but generally eye colour is probably the most constant part of our appearance. And although eyes can be brown, hazel, green or grey, it’s those flashing baby blues that get the most attention……..

Caucasian children often begin life with blue eyes, which then change to green or brown during the first months of their life. By their first birthday eye colour is often fixed, although sometimes it can still alter up to age three. As adorable little puppies and kittens have the same trait we connect blue eyes with soft, fluffy, baby vulnerability and angelic purity! If you think this is the look for you then you may need to ask your optician about cosmetic contact lenses. These can be one solid colour that totally changes your eye colour, or for a more subtle effect you can alter your own eye tone to a different shade. Some have interesting patterns built in such as a defining darker colour around the iris or enhanced striation. Most can be non-prescription or have your corrective power built in.

So blue eyes are associated with children, innocence and an classic standard of beauty. The colour can range from lightest clear pale blue to a darker shade of grey-blue. Eyes look blue because they lack or have reduced amounts of melanin, the pigment that provides eye colour. As there is no pigment present the eyes take colour from underlying layers, which is a potential problem as the eyes have no natural protection from UV. If you have blue eyes it’s more important for you to wear good quality sun protection – all year round. Overcast days in summer and low sun conditions in winter can all give rise to high UV levels even on days when you think the sun isn’t strong. This is also important if you are around super bright conditions like the beach or the snow. Protect and make the most of your delicate colouring and be the perfect blue eyed boy – or girl!

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Set the Tone

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Colour is creeping in everywhere as Spring starts to make it’s presence felt. Just as tiny green buds are appearing on the trees, hints of colour are appearing in our High Street shops and in new optical collections. If you’ve been playing it safe with neutral shades of black, white and tortoiseshell, this may be the time to splash out and find yourself the right colour to life your spirits ready for summer.

When going for colour the right tone for you is all important. Lots of us can wear red, but it has to be the right red for your skin, hair and eye colour. If you’ve got a cool, English rose skin tone, then a blue red will complement your complexion and bring out the Snow White in you! If you have more olive hints to your skin, then your perfect red is more towards the orange end of the spectrum. If you’re not brave enough for full on colour, then try a coloured lining or touch of detail on a neutral frame.

Green is a fab colour that many of us are frightened of trying, but again it’s all about the correct mix of blue/green/yellow within that green, against your colouring. Lime is gorgeous on tanned blondes – but then what doesn’t suit them!! If you’ve got green eyes, match the frame colour to your green, to avoid looking sludgy. Olive or khaki is fab on darker skins, note Michele Obama who adores green in her clothing. Bright greens can be less daunting if mixed with rich chocolate brown!

Blue and grey are neutral, and can bring out the silver fox in you! They will tone down florid faces, and add emphasis to blue eyes. As with green, match the shade to your eye colour to give the most flattering effect. You need dark blue eyes to cope with navy, but softer blues will suit an array of baby blue peepers.

There is a shade of purple and pink to flatter any face, and the mix of blue/red within the tone is again the key to finding the one for you. Blue toned pinks if your cheeks are rosy, hotter red tones if you’re pale and interesting! Just don’t be afraid to experiment. Take careful note of what the frame does to your skin – do you look brighter, younger, fresher with that colour on? Then there’s no reason not to try it is there?!!

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Brown Eyed Girl

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Coming from a family of people who all have brown eyes, I’ve been wearing coloured contacts for about ten years now. I’ve had great fun experimenting with different looks and effects thanks to the vast array of coloured lens formats. There are solid colours or patterned lenses, ones that enhance your eye colour or ones that totally change it.

Over the years I’ve had honey coloured light brown eyes, bright and rather startling blue eyes, and an odd shade of green that made me look like an extra from Doctor Who! Then one year for Halloween I had a kind of spiral effect that really freaked people out! A recurrent bout of conjunctivitis has curtailed all this excitement for now however, and I’m returning to the world of chocolate brown eyes.

As I’ve had blue eyes for the past two years, the change had been quite weird. I’ve had to re-think my make up, and even had different colour slices in my hair as they no longer look right. My new specs have been the most exciting change, and in the years since I seriously wore glasses I’m loving the bright, bold chunky plastics I’ve got to feed my wild eye wear passion! I’m an Oscar & Fitch girl now – they are the coolest styles and their website is totally hilarious! I’ve got two new pairs, a black one with cute little metal hoops on the side, and a bright pink pair with a retro cut out pattern side. I actually feel really at home with my brown eyes now, I don’t have to work so hard with my clothes/hair/make up colours, now that my eyes match me properly. Sadly no one seems to have really noticed the difference, so thinking my brown eyes were boring was clearly a waste of time and effort! Everyone has however noted my funky new specs, so if I wanted to get noticed that was all it took, and all that messing about with solutions was in vain too!

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Baby Blues!

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Of all the eye colours that we humans could have, blue eyes are probably the most mythical and celebrated. Would Paul Newman have got where he did without those piercing blue eyes? We flash our baby blues, suggesting innocence and purity, while for many they are the beauty ideal of a starlet or aspiring model. Princess Diana was famous for hers, Frank Sinatra made a name for himself out of his, so if you’re a blue eyed girl or boy, what does this mean for you?

Paul Newman Peircing blue eyes

Paul Newman Peircing blue eyes

In European children a baby’s eyes will often start off blue and gradually darken to green or brown as pigment develops during the first few months of life. The eye colour change will usually occur around the age of one, although it may still be altering up to the age of three. So we associate big blue eyes with child like vulnerability as they are more commonly seen in the very young. They are a genetically recessive trait, and are most common in people of the British Isles, Scandinavian countries, and areas of northern Europe.

Blue eyes are only blue because they have lower levels of melanin, the pigment that gives us our eye colour. The blue colour is from the underlying layers of pigmentation and the fibrous tissue beneath the outer layer of the iris. This lack of pigment leaves your eyes susceptible to UV damage, and the paler your eyes the more you need to protect them. Wear full protection sunglasses in bright sun, and especially if you’re in high UV situations like the snow or sea

If you fancy a change blue eyes are the most easily enhanced or changed with coloured contact lenses. If your blue veers more towards grey, contact lenses can bring our your true blue potential!

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