Get Blue Eyes

It's hard not to love a dazzling pair of baby blues. Unfortunately, unless if you were born with blue eyes, there is no natural way to be able to obtain your desired blue eyes. However, there are a few ways to create the illusion of blue eyes, or if you're feeling a bit risky, you can take surgical measures to get your lenses the hue you've always desired.

Steps

Understanding Eye Color

  1. Understand that your eye color is genetic. Just like your hair and skin color, the color of your iris’ is genetic. That means that unless you break down your genetic code or cell structure, your eye color cannot be changed permanently. The color of your eyes is determined by the amount of melanin that your iris’ contain: very little melanin gives blue eyes, while lots of melanin gives brown eyes.
    • All babies have blue eyes when they’re born, because their body hasn’t created very much melanin yet.
    • There are genetic mutations which cause some people to have two different colored eyes or both eyes with multiple colors.
  2. Know that changes in eye color may signify disease or illness. If you notice that your eyes are changing color on their own - especially from brown to blue - you should seek medical attention immediately. Changing eye color is a symptom of many illnesses, some of which may cause damage to your eyes leading to blindness. Although it may be exciting to have a new eye color, you should always contact an eye doctor if the change happens naturally.[1]
  3. Understand that you can’t permanently change your eye color. Although there are few surgeries available in some parts of the world that claim to change eye color, there is no strictly permanent way to change it. As a result of being genetic, you can only truly change your eye color by using superficial means. Surgery may alter it, but studies haven’t shown how long it actually lasts, and what the long-term health effects are.
    • Before taking any ‘permanent’ measures, you should always take some time to seriously consider the pros/cons.
    • Test out non-permanent blue eye options before doing something drastic, such as surgery.

Creating the Illusion of Blue Eyes

  1. Use Contact Lenses. The only safe and 100% proven way to get blue eyes is to use blue colored contact lenses. Contact lenses are thin sheets of plastic you wear in your eyes, to cover up the natural iris and give the illusion of a different color. The nice thing about contact lenses is that they are cheap, and come in many different shades of blue. This makes it easy to test-drive multiple colors and types of lenses to find the right ones for you.
    • Keep in mind that certain contacts and certain colors may blur your vision and make it foggy.
    • You will need to learn how to put in your contacts. Depending on whether they are hard or soft, the difficulty of putting them in varies from person to person, not to mention the type of contact.
    • If you wear prescription glasses or contacts, you have the option of getting prescription colored contacts.
  2. Change up your makeup. If you Wear Eye Makeup, you can change the colors you wear to either bring out natural blue undertones in your iris’, or add blue to your eyes if your eyes are dark. If you have some blue undertones in your eyes, look for a copper or gold eyeshadow. The warm hues of the bronze-y shadow will bring out the blue highlights in your iris’. If you have brown eyes, try wearing a cool blue eyeshadow; you’ll add the color near your eyes, which will create an illusion of blue-ish eyes from a distance.
    • Apply the eyeshadow using a shadow brush over your entire eyelid, and on the outer-corner of your lower lash-line.
    • You can use blue eyeliner for a similar effect.
  3. Photoshop your eyes blue. If you want to test out blue eyes to see what they would look like, or you’re just interested in making your eyes more blue in your photos, you can use photoshop to alter the color. Although this doesn’t technically change the color of your eyes in real life, it does give you the opportunity to show off baby blues in photos, and try on different shades to see if you like it.
    • You can use other photo editing programs outside of photoshop to change the color of your eyes.
  4. Change your emotional state. When you get angry, Look Sad or excited, your pupils will contract, which ‘enlarges’ the size of your iris’s. As a result, your eyes appear brighter and more colorful than they do when you’re simply contented. If you have any blue undertones in your eyes, working up your emotions will bring them out naturally. Plus, if you cry, your eyes will get slightly red which contrasts with the blue that might be present, giving your eyes more of a blue appearance.[2]
    • Any change in your hormones or pupil size will slightly alter the appearance of your eyes.
    • This technique will only make eyes appear blue if they’re green or hazel, and have a bit of blue in them already.

Physically Altering Your Eyes

  1. Know if Lasik Eye Surgery Is for You. Although it hasn’t been approved for use in the United States, there is a type of laser therapy on the market that will permanently make your eyes blue. The treatment works by using a laser to burn out the top layer of melanin in your eyes, revealing blue iris’ underneath. As a result of being a relatively new treatment, there is no word on what the long-time health effects of it is. However, using a laser on your eyes under any circumstances can be dangerous, and should be avoided if at all possible.[3]
    • Because no long-term studies have been conducted, it’s hard to know if the melanin that was removed every returns later in life.
  2. Get iris implants. A treatment originally developed for people suffering from serious eye problems, you can have a small silicon disc implanted over your iris to change the color of your eye. Almost like a permanent set of contact lenses, the colored disc will turn your eyes bright blue. However, there are serious downsides to the procedure: more than one person has gone blind as a result of seeking out the procedure for cosmetic reasons. Iris implants are typically only used on patients who are going blind or who have serious cataracts, and should be avoided for the sole purpose of changing your eye color.[4]
    • Iris implants aren’t available cosmetically inside the United States.
  3. Go on a bowel cleanse. Although this method hasn’t been scientifically proven, many people claim that cleansing their bowels has lead to a semi-permanent change in eye color. The theory is that when you change what you eat/drink and what your bowels take in, your hormones change, therefore altering the melanin production in your eyes. Talk to your doctor about finding a bowel cleanse that is healthy and safe based on your lifestyle.[5]
    • You should never do a bodily cleanse without first speaking to your physician about the possible outcomes.
    • Don’t drastically change your diet for the purpose of altering your eye color, as this could have other unintentional negative results.
  4. Wait it out. If you’ve ever looked at the eyes of someone who is quite old in age, you’ll notice that they all tend to be a milky blue-ish hue. That’s because as you age, your body doesn’t produce melanin as heavily as when you are young and in prime physical condition. As a result, eyes turn a dark blue color. If nothing else, waiting until you’re in the later years of your life will give you blue eyes that you otherwise might not have.

Tips

  • Colored contacts come in natural and dramatic styles, make sure the ones you buy are the style you want.

Warnings

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Sources and Citations

  1. ↑ http://www.webmd.com/eye-health/features/what-your-eyes-say-about-your-health
  2. ↑ http://natureshealthwatch.com/4-ways-to-change-your-eye-color-without-contacts
  3. ↑ http://www.stromamedical.com/page/about-us
  4. ↑ http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2013/10/woman-blind-surgery-change-eyes-green/
  5. ↑ http://www.essentialdayspa.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=20419
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