Not all people are happy with the color of their eyes. Often a person wants to change it, make it brighter or, on the contrary, darker, or even completely, change it to some other shade. This can be done in different ways.
Main shades of eyes and their meaning
There are only three primary colors of the iris. It is brown, gray-blue and green. In addition to them, there are graphite, blue and even turquoise eyes. But all this - only special cases of the three most frequent shades.
For the color of the eyes and its saturation meets the coloring matter melanin and how tightly it is located in the iris. The less melanin - the shade is lighter, and the denser are its fibers, the brighter it is.
It is believed that the look of brown eyes burns, and the owners of such eyes belong to passionate and excitable people. Blue and gray eyes say they are cold.
Holders of this eye color are considered reasonable people, putting the calculation above emotions.
Green eyes are considered the most mysterious.
Those who got this color are often ranked as wizards not because they are really endowed with magic, but because such people can see the miraculous even in the most ordinary phenomena.
How to change eye color in Photoshop: instructions
You can make a different eye color in a photo in any graphic editor. Best of all for these purposes Photoshop.
After the photo was opened in the editor, you need to do a few simple steps:
- Using the tools Polygonal or Magnetic Lasso, Feather, Magic Wand or Figured Selection (by selecting the oval), you need to select the pupil zone.
This should be done very carefully so as not to capture the white of the eye or eyelid in the discharge. Select the best way that is more convenient in the work for this photo. Most often for this purpose they use the Rectilinear lasso, whose stop intervals for a more accurate contour are made in several pixels;
- The selected area needs to be transferred to a separate new layer. This can be done using the keys Ctrl + J;
- The layer with the pupils needs to be copied again - Ctrl + J;
- Then you need to enter the tone and saturation control settings - Ctrl + U;
- In the settings, you should choose the rendering, and then in the menu that opens, you can change the combination of colors to the desired. It is important to remember the digital indicators of the color, saturation and brightness that will be selected;
- After that, in the layer parameters, you need to change the overlay property to Overlap or Soft Light.
The layer transparency parameter can be set from 10 to 50%;
- Then the procedure must be repeated with the second pupil;
- Then you need to merge all the layers - Ctrl + E.
This should be done very carefully so as not to capture the white of the eye or eyelid in the discharge. Select the best way that is more convenient in the work for this photo. Most often for this purpose they use the Rectilinear lasso, whose stop intervals for a more accurate contour are made in several pixels;
The layer transparency parameter can be set from 10 to 50%;
With such processing of photos in the editor, only the color of the pupils of the eyes changes.
Lenses - the perfect way to quickly change eye color
The most reliable way to change the shade of the eyes was and remains colored lenses. And today they are released in three types:
- correcting vision and changing the shade of the eyes;
- changing color on any of the natural;
- lenses of unusual colors.
You can buy them in any optics or in special stores. The specialist will help you choose the most suitable lenses, based on the natural tone of the client's eyes. So, to make light eyes dark, it is enough to put on tint lenses. But to completely "repaint" dark eyes, you need lenses that have a rich color.
When wearing lenses in any case, you should follow the recommendations of ophthalmologists:
- they should be worn for no more than 8 consecutive hours;
- change lenses in time;
- use special eye drops when wearing them;
- wear lenses only with clean hands;
- get enough sleep.
In case of unpleasant sensations on the eyes, their redness and other allergic reactions, the lenses should be removed immediately.
How to change eye color without lenses with makeup and clothes
Independently change the shade of the eyes can be without lenses. To do this, it is enough to choose the right tone of clothing and makeup. At the same time, brown eyes change their shades more difficult than others, and light gray eyes are considered to be real chameleons.
- If the color of the iris contains blue and gray, then when using gray eye makeup, the color will become bluer, and, accordingly, vice versa;
- If the owner of gray-blue, gray-green or eyes of another bright shade wears clothes of a rich bright color (for example, blue or green), then the eyes will become closer to that color in shade. In this way, light gray eyes can be "repainted" in bright blue or dark green;
- Brown eyes will become darker and more saturated if their owner has a smoky dark makeup, made in a brown-nut tones;
- Brown mascara and clothing in violet-lilac gamut will help to make green eyes darker;
- Brown and green shades will help to make green eyes from gray eyes, and shades of all sandy-yellow shades will turn them into dark blue;
- Highlight the bright blue eyes will help pale pink and purple shades of shadow, as well as silver and gold.
At the same time there are several universal colors in makeup and clothing that will help make the color of the eyes brighter, regardless of their hue. For blue tones, these are all orange shades, and for brown eyes - burgundy and blue.
Other ways to change eye color at home
How else can you change eye color? There are other ways to change their color. Thus, drugs containing the hormone prostaglandin F2a, can contribute to such changes.
This medicine is usually prescribed to reduce intraocular pressure with diagnoses such as glaucoma. Prolonged use of this drug changes the color of blue, gray or green eyes to nutty or hazel.
But to use hormone-containing drugs in order to change the tone of the eyes, in any case impossible. After all, the consequences of such a technique can be unpredictable. Moreover, after some time after refusing the medicine, the color of the patient's eyes again becomes the same.
With his help, according to a special technique of Gregg Hommer, part of the upper layer of the cornea is burned, which is why the amount of melanin decreases and several weeks after the procedure brown eyes become bright blue for the rest of their lives. 
But to return back to the old color is no longer possible.
The method of changing eye color with a laser is currently being actively studied in California. Gregg Homer worked on its creation for more than ten years.
He argues that the procedure has no side effects, but still it is worth thinking carefully before deciding on such effects on the cornea of the eye. In addition, changing the color of the eyes in this way is very expensive. The approximate cost of the procedure is about 5,000 dollars.
Is it possible to change eye color forever
Today, however, plastic surgery offers its patients a variety of services to improve the body and eliminate its shortcomings. A few years ago, an eye color correction service appeared among them. The patent for its implementation was received by the surgeon-ophthalmologist Delari Alberto Can.
Before that, he had removed cataracts and glaucoma for more than fifteen years, did operations to eliminate colobomas, albinism and other defects of heterochromia, and also implanted implants.
Over time, he developed his own method, in which the risk of negative consequences, which may occur after changing the color of the patient's eyes, is minimized. As a result, today this surgeon deals mainly with cosmetic operations and the demand for his services is very large.
According to his method, iris of a different color is placed in patients:
- The operation is done under local anesthesia;
- Each eye is operated no more than 15 minutes;
- An artificial iris is inserted over its own;
- The process is reversible, since the implant can always be removed or replaced with a new one using the same procedure.
Recovery of vision after this operation takes a couple of weeks.
Eyes dramatically changed color - is this normal?
The human eye can independently change its color. As a rule, such changes are associated with the manifestation of hereditary genes. And usually changing the color of the eyes from light to dark are only in childhood. Also with age, the eye color becomes more pale.
But if, in an adult, the iris suddenly began to change its color - this is a reason to immediately consult a doctor. As a rule, such changes are associated with serious diseases.
For example, Posner-Schlossman and Fuchs syndrome. In this case, often the color changes only the eye affected by the disease. Therefore, any heterochromic change in the shades of the iris should be alerted.
Safety Precautions and Tips
If you are not satisfied with the color of your eyes, you should not immediately rush to correct the situation surgically or with a laser. It is likely that after some time, criticality in assessing your own appearance will go away, and it will be extremely difficult or absolutely impossible to correct the consequences of changing eye color.
Also, in no case should you try to change the color of your eyes with the help of hormonal drops. Such drugs can seriously harm human health.
To meet the need to change the color of the eyes will help colored lenses. To find the most suitable for quality, it is best to consult with your doctor and get a prescription for them.
What determines the color of the eyes, you can learn from the following video.
