How To Make Light Brown Eyes Pop?
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Here is the last (but not least!) of our “Making Your Eyes Gorgeous” series. This time, we are going to talk about brown, hazel, and amber eyes. Brown is a mixture of the three primary colors: red, blue, and yellow. This makes it a perfect partner for any color! Making your brown eyes stand out is pretty easy if you follow these makeup tips.
You can have a sophisticated or simple makeup look thanks to the large palette of colors at your disposal. When you have brown eyes, the possibilities are endless! Lucky you 😉 Discover the perfect colors for an incredible look, our selection of ALL TIGERS eyeshadows, and a great tutorial for beginners.
You have green or blue eyes ? Discover all our tips to highlight your blue eyes or to highlight your green eyes, The Perfect Colors for Your Brown Eyes With such gorgeous brown eyes, both warm and cooler tones brighten up your look. So, play with both according to your mood, the occasion, and your tastes. For work, you can turn to more neutral and subtle tones, whereas for a night out, you can blend more unique colors for a wild, interesting look.
- Everything is about what you want! The range of makeup colors for brown eyes is huge.
- As previously mentioned, brown is a mixture of the primary colors red, yellow, and blue.
- So, any hue in the color wheel goes great with brown eyes! But of all the colors, blue tints are the most adapted for brown.
- We therefore suggest going for the different shades of blue if you want to add makeup to your brown eyes.
Electric blue, navy, stone, and even indigo will make your brown eyes shine. Discover the ALL TIGERS eyeshadows trio Tiger’s Brown Eyes – Blue and Grey Palette, But before you delve even further into our advice, let’s stop for a minute and study the color of your iris.
- Is it light or dark? (BTW, did you know that each iris is unique?! It’s like DNA).1.
- Light Brown Eyes The best bet for people with light brown eyes are golden, champagne, and bronze shades,
- But that’s not all! Other eyeshadow colors like taupe and brown go so well with your eyes, too.
- If truth be told, applying makeup to light brown eyes is child’s play.
Green, yellow, orange, and red hues also show off the beauty of brown eyes. And bold colors that pop are a safe bet. Green and purple brighten up light brown eyes. Light eyelids are perfect for making your eyes shine. You’ll glow like a goddess! Discover the ALL TIGERS Eyeshadows Trio Tiger’s Brown Eyes – Green and Gold Palette : that green tones palette will ferociously highlight your light brown eyes.
- So, have fun, play, test, and start over! Let your imagination and energy soar. Roar! 2.
- Dark Brown Eyes Darker shades of eyeshadow are ideal for dark brown eyes.
- Choose a charcoal gray, a sweet plum, or a fir green color,
- The aim is to turn up the notch of intensity to your look.
- And finish it off with a black, navy, or brown eyeliner,
This will add depth to your allure. Or, instead, are you a fan of light, pastel, summery colors? Well, go ahead! This is sure to make your brown eyes dazzle. So, to sum it up, the best eyeshadow colors for brown eyes are:
Pink to soften, Brown and plum to intensify your look, Blue shades (like electric blue or night blue ) to deepen your brown eyes and make them stand out, Green hues for a unique, luscious makeup look, Gold and copper to brighten your eyes.
Dare to wear intricate makeup, liner, shiny shades, and mascara. Simple makeup tip – When you’ve got brown eyes, you cannot go wrong with any color. But don’t forget to consider your skin and hair color. If you have a light complexion, opt for cooler eyeshadow shades.
What color makes light brown eyes pop?
Brown is a neutral color, so it’s not on the color wheel, meaning that brown eyes can pair with virtually any eyeshadow color on the market. However, some colors—such as purple, grey, and gold—make brown eyes pop.
What causes light brown eyes?
How do different shades of eye color happen? Like light or dark brown? This is a very interesting question! We know the what of your question but the why is still fuzzy. Eye color is the result of variations in the amount of melanin, a pigment found in the front part of the iris of the eye.
The lack of this pigment results in blue eyes, some pigment gives green and lots of pigment gives brown eyes. So light brown eyes just have a bit less melanin than darker brown eyes. All of the different shades of eye color happen the same way. Blue-green eyes have an amount of melanin between green and blue, hazel eyes have an amount of pigment between green and brown, etc.
Some people have eyes that have different colored patches. For example, blue eyes with a green or brown circle around the pupil are pretty common. In these eyes, different parts of the iris make different amounts of melanin. The human eye has huge color variation.
What we don’t have yet is a good handle on how this all happens genetically. Scientists have a pretty good model based on two genes that can help explain blue, green, and brown eyes. This is a common model, which you’ll find in lots of on this site, but it definitely isn’t the complete story. Scientists have even found the key gene, OCA2, which can explain why some people have brown eyes and some people don’t.
Despite some work, scientists haven’t been able to find the key gene involved in green eyes. This is most likely because there is more than one gene. A has identified three new genes that affect eye color. Scientists don’t know what each of these genes exactly do and they don’t know how to use them in eye color predictions just yet.
- But given what we know about eye color, we can make some pretty good guesses about what these genes probably do.
- Most likely these genes are either responsible for making melanin themselves or they control how much melanin other genes make.
- Either way you end up with different shades of eye color based on the combination of genes that you have.
What I thought I’d do for the rest of the answer is first go through some background about genes. Then I’ll talk about the new genes scientists found and finally I’ll give a few examples of how these new genes can be involved in producing different shades of eye color.
What makes brown eyes pop?
With rich brown eyes, the contrast of shades like cobalt blue, teal and turquoise will make your eyes instantly pop. While coppery golden tones are great for highlighting and enhancing your natural brown eyes, particularly when paired with a neutral base.
Can light brown eyes change color?
Minor Changes Are Common – There is a possibility of minor changes in eye color as an adult. For example, long-term sun exposure may cause your eyes to darken slightly, while a small percentage of Caucasian people’s eyes lighten as they age. For the most part, though, your eye color will not actually change, and significant changes may be a sign of a larger problem.
Are light brown eyes dominant?
The Single Gene Trait – There is one genetic variation, a human trait that has a single gene governing it, and that is eye color which is blue or brown. Brown eyes are dominant and blue eyes recessive. Following the logic of yellow and green peas and making a Punnett square, it should be impossible for two blue-eyed parents to have a brown-eyed child but it would be possible for brown-eyed parents to have a blue-eyed child if both parents were a genetic mixture of one blue-eye and one brown-eye gene.
- In the single-gene paradigm, two blue-eyed parents have only blue-eye genes and can, therefore, produce only blue-eyed children.
- However, eyes are not just blue or brown but some people in the Asian population have eyes so dark that look almost black.
- There are blue-eyed Scandinavians, and groups with gray, green, violet, hazel, and a myriad of colors.
Learn more about the human characteristics that aren’t governed by a single gene,
Can light brown eyes turn blue?
Story highlights – Blue eyes have long been associated with movie star good looks, but why they make hearts throb is open to conjecture An estimated 17% of the world’s population has blue eyes. The color is an illusion created by light refracting in clear eyes Stroma Medical has developed a laser system that agitates the pigmentation in irises to reveal the clear blue eyes underneath While the company says tests have shown the treatment to be safe, critics say that there may be a risk of developing glaucoma CNN — From the piercing blue eyes of Paul Newman to the steely gaze of Daniel Craig, blue eyes have always been a measure of attractiveness.
But exactly why they make hearts throb and catapult actors and models to stardom is a point of conjecture. Theories range from evolutionary psychologists who say that blue-eyed women in Palaeolithic societies had a better chance of standing out in the crowd, others posit that pupil dilation – a signifier of attraction – is easier to see in lighter eyes.
Either way, just 17% of the world’s population has blue eyes. For the majority of the world’s population – an estimated 80% – those elusive movie star eyes can usually only be obtained with the aid of colored contact lenses. But today there’s a medical procedure that can permanently turn your brown eyes blue.
Pioneered by Stroma Medical, the laser procedure works by eliminating the brown melanin that’s present in the anterior layers of the iris. “The fundamental principle is that under every brown eye is a blue eye,” Dr Gregg Homer told CNN, adding that there is no actual blue pigmentation in the eye. “The only difference between a brown eye and a blue eye is this very thin layer of pigment on the surface.
“If you take that pigment away, then the light can enter the stroma – the little fibers that look like bicycle spokes in a light eye – and when the light scatters it only reflects back the shortest wavelengths and that’s the blue end of the spectrum.” He said the effect is similar to the Rayleigh scattering of sunlight in the sky – the physics that makes our sky appear blue.
- The company says it has developed a laser treatment that disrupts the layer of pigment, causing the body to begin removing the tissue naturally.
- While the procedure takes all of 20 seconds, the blue eyes lurking underneath do not emerge for several weeks.
- He said that Stroma Medical wanted to develop a procedure that was safer, cheaper and more convenient than any of the alternatives on the market.
While it has yet to get the green light from regulatory bodies in the United States, the company’s medical board has said that preliminary studies show the surgery is safe. So far, just 17 patients in Mexico and 20 in Costa Rica have undergone the treatment.
- It’s difficult to work out a way to injure someone with this laser because the energy is so low,” he said.
- The laser treats only the iris and does not enter the pupil or treat any portion of the inside of the eye where the nerves affecting the vision are located.
- The company is still in the fundraising stage but hopes to have completed clinical trials within several years.
And the cost of turning your brown eyes blue? Dr Homer says Stroma Medical would charge around $5,000 (£3,120) for the procedure. Industry reaction to the process has been muted. Ophthalmologists who deal with people’s eyes, Homer concedes, have every right to be skeptical for the simple fact they are dealing with one of the most sensitive organs in the human body.
Saj Khan, an ophthalmologist at the London Eye Hospital, told CNN the treatment raised some red flags. ‘The main concern with any procedure that involves releasing pigment inside the eye is that the pigment can clog up the normal drainage channels which can in turn cause the pressure inside the eye to go up,” he said.
“If that happens significantly enough, for long enough, it’s how patients develop glaucoma.” He said that while Stroma Medical claims that the particles released by the process are too fine to cause glaucoma – and that any complications were likely to be short-term and easily remedied – a risk still remains.
Theory has some sense to it, but without seeing long-term outcomes and without seeing patients that have been treated in this way I wouldn’t commit myself to it,” Khan said. In the meantime, Homer says there are no shortage of potential customers wanting to have the irreversible procedure. “It’s not a goal of our company to promote blue eyes,” he said.
“From my experience what most people are after is the translucence of the blue eye rather than the color of the blue eye. “The people who seem most vigilant about pursuing this always have a story about being young and in the presence of a sibling or a friend who had light eyes and the friend is being told how beautiful their eyes are and it sticks with them.
Does diet affect eye color?
Whether it’s in the morning eating toast, at work on my lunch break, or at night, when I’m unable to sleep and I spoon peanut butter from the jar like the disgusting mouth breather I am, you can guarantee I’ll be hypnotized by what some 17-year-old who still lives at home and is studying for her college entrance exams has consumed that day.
I spend too much time watching YouTube videos about vegan food. Like, every fucking day. It was only a matter of time, then, before I stumbled across a dark secret. The holy grail of HCLF (High Carb Low Fat) and raw veganism: the fabled full eye color change. The queen of this phenomenon is Fully Raw Kristina.
Her video in which she explains how her eyes changed from brown to blue-green on a raw vegan diet has over 2 million views. She went to an iridologist, who explained that each part of your body and organs is reflected in your eye. It’s like reflexology, where your body is mapped out on your foot, but with your eye.
- Using iridology, you can see if there are internal problems.
- If you’re immediately thinking that this strain of science sounds like bullshit, then let me share with you this video I found in a late night peanut butter wormhole, featuring elderly man Dr.
- Robert Morse, a revered natural doctor and iridologist, pointing at a little fleck on a picture of a woman’s eye with a laser pen and talking about what it says about her uterus, suggesting she “get in there” and strengthen the vaginal wall.
Yeah. This stuff gets deep. Anyway, young pre-raw Kristina was only going to the bathroom once a week and was very constipated, eating a poor, high-fat diet. She says her iridologist told her: If her colon was all bunged up with toxins and other shit, that gunk was literally reflected in her eyes. Kristina before Kristina after. Crazy, hey!? As odd as this is, she’s not the only one talking about it. There are forums on most HCLF blogs about it and a few videos of vloggers discussing changes to their eye color with FAQs—what to expect and what not to expect. It’s almost aspirational: a prize for those who commit their time and money into the extreme lifestyle.
Physical, visible confirmation—besides the usual emphasis on weight loss—that what they are doing must be the good and right way to live life. There’s definitely something problematic somewhere deep in there about how blue or light eyes are used to signify a clean “pure” body, while people of color question whether it can happen for them in comment sections.
ANYWAY. Let’s get down to it. Is it a truckload of horse shit? A thorough Google search will tell you there is little proof that raw fruit and veg can change the color of your eyes. In fact, there’s no evidence that suggests a change of eye color can ever be a good thing, but there is evidence that it can indicate something bad: Horner’s syndrome and pigment dispersion syndrome, for example.
All five iridologists I asked said the idea sounded weird. Yorkshire-based iridologist John Andrews said: “Alas, it is a misconception that eyes change color with diet. It is a scientific impossibility.” Yvonne Davis, an iridologist from London, was similarly skeptical but explained how the color change could potentially have happened.
“Most iridologists believe the color of your eyes really can’t and doesn’t change that much. By the late teens to early 20s, your eyes are how they will last until you die. But until that point, they’re still changing; depending on your age, it might just be this, rather than anything to do with your diet.
“Sometimes when people are older, in their 40s and 50s, if they’ve had a toxic lifestyle and then go total detox—we’re talking for at least a year—their eyes might appear lighter. When you get older, you also might get some more pigmentation in them.” I showed her the video of Fully Raw Kristina for reference.
“If someone does detox or eats vegan, some colors and signs in your eyes can change—slightly. But it’s very, very rare for eyes to go from brown to blue-hazel like this. I find it highly suspect.” Yvonne did, however, suggest that in Kristina’s case, it could be down to the digestive problems she describes on-camera.
- In iridology, the stomach area is represented just outside the pupil.
- If people have real digestive problems, that can make this area appear more a bit more brown.
- She’s cleared up her diet, and that pigmentation could have gotten a bit lighter and shown the blue hazel she’d already got underneath.
- It could be something like that, but I’m really not sure.
I’m still suspicious.” It could be more about people having initial digestive problems than the raw veganism working magic on your eyeballs. Someone who disagrees vehemently with these eye experts, though, is Ondrej Matej, a vegan dietician and personal trainer.
“Absolutely, diet can change your eye color. That’s been known for a little while.” He explained that his eyes had in fact changed on raw food. “They went from a very dark brown to a light brown with very slight green circle around it. You can tell eyes get lighter depending on what you eat.” He started talking about iridology stuff, too.
“You have little dots in your eyes, and each one is connected to organs in your body. They show the health of your organs. Healthy means clearer.” If this is legit, then should people—mostly girls, it should be said—talking about it online expect this physical change? “It’s not like one day they’re brown, then they’re blue.
- It’s a process that takes years,” he said.
- Pushed harder, he admitted that not everyone would see the change.
- It’ll be down to genetics as well.
- It’s a very difficult subject.
- It’s not something that’d happen every time, and it might just be your eyes will become more open and clear.” Ondrej believes that people might be noticing this now because raw veganism or HCLF is a recent trend.
Additionally, it takes a long time to see these results, so if it was real—as he insists it is—we would only really be finding out about it now. “People might not believe it now, but this could be something that might be recurring a lot more in the future.” More and more people are going veggie or vegan and Rawtil4 and HCLF is attracting plenty of people for health or weight loss reasons.
But the bottom line is: No one really seems to know if it’s bollocks or not—although my bullshitometer is firmly swinging toward the iridologists’ hot take on this one. Until a future where each one of us is gnawing on 20 bananas for breakfast and spiraled courgettes for lunch, maybe we will never know the truth.
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Can brown eyes be special?
They Are Less Prone to Certain Eye Diseases – The sun can cause severe eye damage and result in eye diseases like cataracts and macular degeneration. But because brown eyes have more melanin, it’s safe to say that if you have brown eyes, you are less likely to get these types of eye diseases.