my love affair with circle lenses: photographic evidence of my dearly departed lenses

Very, very long wait for the continuation to my previous post on circle lenses. In September of 2010 I took the plunge and bought my first pair of circle lenses. There are soooooo many different varieties to choose from. You have different brands, different colors, different patterns, different diamaters...it can be very overwhelming. Lenses aren't going to look on the same everyone, especially since they're manufactured for consumers who have darker eyes. It's been a journey to see what looks best with my own eyes!

I should preface this entire post by giving you a disclaimer in the fact that I'm pretty boring when it comes to lenses. I don't like crazy and outrageous colors and patterns, and tend to favor lenses that will compliment my medium brown eyes. As I mentioned before, circle lenses are mostly worn in Asian countries. In my trials with these lenses, I've learned that many lenses look best on a dark eye. I've purchased lenses, thinking they would look so amazing, but it turned out that my brown eyes were too light to see some of the patterns! They just look bigger and muddy, but not as cool as I was hoping they'd be :(

For example, many lenses give me the appearance of having a peep hole in my eyes. Which I don't like. When your eyes are dilated in low light you don't notice it as much, but if you're inside with bright lights you can normally see parts of your iris (in my case the brown part) in the small pupil hole. The darker your eyes are, the less noticeable this is, but it's always been something that bothers me when I'm wearing lenses.

Here's my "peep hole" with a pair of Fresh Look color contacts. Regular color contacts usually look fine because they tend to have a translucent color towards the edge, so it's not so obvious. With that out of the way, it helps to better describe why I prefer one lens over another, though they might have the same color and similar patterns. I try to avoid that scary vacant stare at all costs.

Now on to the lenses! 

Swamp Queen Hair

Attaining green hair has always been a goal of mine, but for reasons I will not write here, I cannot have the hair of my dreams. Fortunately, I stumbled upon an assortment of make your own wig tutorials and came up with the next best thing. A WIG THAT RESEMBLES THE COLOR OF GREEN ALGAE! The kind you often see on the surface of a swamp land, or nasty pools that need to be hit with some chlorine.

My perfect shade!

My perfect shade in yarn!

I didn't have a pool of my own to reference when dyeing hair, but I did look to the image above. Most of the dyes I looked at were too bright for my liking, or they had too much blue making it more of a teal green, which I did not want. 

While I've had wonderful results with the Adore dye that I use on my own hair, in Violet Gem, their Forest green was still too light when I went searching for pictures on how it actually looks on hair, not just going by the hair swatch provided at the beauty store. So I settled for what I already had: Adore Blue Indigo and Adore Sunny Yellow, which I'd previously mixed for a nice soft shade of green to go with my blonde hair that I had last year.

Here's what came out of that combination:

Blue Indigo over a pack of yellow hair, and the Blue Indigo and Sunny Yellow over a pack of honey blonde hair. The yellow hair is the splotchier hair on the left. I didn't mind that it came out that way, because it will look nice when it's curled.

I ended up having to sew each weft to three different wig caps, because it was my first time trying to make a wig and the third time was a charm. The first two were on wig caps that were too small for me once all of the hair was sewn on :( But I finally got it right and this is how it turned out:

Not completely done, but you get the picture. Swamp Queen, here I come!

magical girl hair

Dyed some hair that will be added to a wig I'm creating. Originally inspired by some of the hydrangeas in my yard and read a wonder tutorial for shades of pastel hair over on Bobby Pin Blog. Threw in some teal that washed out to a beautiful sea foam green! I can't wait to see how it's going to come out!

My Inspiration:

and the wonderful, CREAMY MAMI!