So You Want To Change Your Hair Color – Now What?

We all need a change from time to time, a way to freshen up our hair and change our look just a bit to keep it updated and interesting. Not only does this involve changing up your haircut, but it can also easily involve changing up the entire color of your hair. Whether you are a natural blond, brunette, or have jet black hair naturally, there will undoubtedly come a time when you want to change up your hair color.
Below are some of the most common ways that women and men both want to change up their hair color to give themselves a whole new look, as well as the considerations you should take to heart prior to making these decisions.

How to Lighten your Hair
A lot of people associate lightening your hair with bleach, and bleach is associated with being bad for our hair. Bleach in itself is not bad for our hair; it’s the frequency and the potency in which it is used that causes damage to our hair. Bleach is not the enemy here, but you may be to your own hair.

If you have just had your hair dyed recently, as in within the past 8 weeks and you are unsatisfied with the color, you can perhaps have your hair dresser use a color reducer on your hair to help remove the color.

If your hair color is too dark and it was dyed over 8 weeks ago, there are still some options available to you. One would be to simply have lighter colored streaks placed in your hair to help lighten up your entire color. You may also opt to have a chemical treatment that will strip away the hair color, but this is extremely damaging to the hair and is not appropriate for all hair types.

If you dyed your hair with a semi-permanent hair color and want to lighten it up, the quickest and easiest way to do so is to continuously shampoo your hair over and over until you reach your desired shade. Your hair will feel a bit dried out, so make sure you use a deep conditioner and perhaps a hot oil treatment to try and help restore your hair’s moisture.

How to Darken your Hair
This is obviously far more easily achieved than trying to lighten your hair. Some ways on how you can darken your ‘do is:

Use a semi permanent hair color to help darken up your color. This is particularly great for anyone who wants their hair to gradually fade back to its lighter state. Women who prefer to have darker hair in the winter months and lighter hair in the summer months often use this method.

Red hair can be a real challenge. If you do have naturally red hair, or had permanently dyed your hair red before, then the color you apply may have a red tinge to it, regardless of what color you apply over top. The best thing to do is to go to a professional hair dresser to have your color changed.

If you are blonde and you want to dye your hair red, take particular are while dying it. Otherwise you may end up with a pink head of hair!

Best Makeup Colors For Your Eyes

It said that the eyes are the window to one’s soul. In order to enhance their beauty, you should know what makeup will create a harmonius contrast with the color of your eyes. If you are not sure what colors work best for your eye makeup, check out a few basic tips on finding the most flattering color palette.

Whenever applying makeup you should never forget that light colors brighten and make eyes appear bigger, while dark colors frame and define. Also, if you want to place emphasis on your eyes, always keep the rest of your makeup more natural choosing neutral shades for the lips and cheekbones.

Black works for every eye color, as well as khaki and navy blue that are used to boost the color of the iris. These shades will create a dark frame that will bring out both the white of the eyes and the lighter color flecks of the iris, creating a universally flattering contrast on all eye colors and skin types.

Brown eyes are better emphasized by shades of green and blue, but also bronze, gray and dark violet. Your hues are: blue and brown, plum, vanilla, shades of purple and violet. A soft smokey eyes makeup using tones of bronze, brown and pinks will make your eyes pop.

For subtle daytime makeup looks choose lighter shades such as light pinks, peach, taupe or brown that will open up and bring luminosity to your eyes. Finish off the look with a soft brown eyeliner and a brown/clear mascara. For more drama, darker eyeshadows and glittery eyeliners in silver, gold or purple would be the best choice.

A brown eyeliner makes Olivia Wilde's blue-grey eyes really pop.

To bring out the best from your brown colored iris, avoid turquoise and blue-green tones. Instead, go for matte sky- or navy-blues. Vibrant, deep blues will enhance the golden flecks found in the pigmentation of your iris. Avoid all black smokey eyes and soften up dark makeup using browns, plum tones or charcoal. For smokey eyes use gray eyeshadows.

To bring out green colored eyes, shades of brown, plums, lilac or dark greens work beautifully. Taupe or gold is a good choice for evening makeup for green eyes. Blues, some tones of pink, white and silver won’t do anything in particular for green eyes. Jet black eyeliners are universally flattering on all irises, but for green eyes warm colors, such as brown, gold, bronze, plum or dark gray can be a great alternative to black liner.

Hazel eyes are a combination of brown and green with golden or even blue flecks scattered in the iris. Hazel eyes seem to change their color influenced by the different colors placed next to them. There are many makeup colors suitable for hazel eyes, but it really depends on which colors you want to bring out from the eyes themselves. To enhance the browns, use colors suitable for brown irises, and bring out the green use the color palette for green eyes.

Blue eyes don’t need any artificial means to emphasize their beauty, but the best choices is various shades derived from the color orange. Blue eyes are best brought out also using shades that come in contrast with your eye color such dark browns, gray, taupe, charcoal, pink, violet, lilac, silver or gold. Be bold and choose yellow in order to really brighten up the eyes.

Avoid using blue eyeshadows unless they’re dark; same applies when choosing eyeliner shades. Tones of charcoal, dark green, brown or dark blue are the best options for pretty blue eyes.

It said that black eyes are rare and are often taken for dark brown eyes. If you have black eyes, you are the luckiest girl ever as you can play with pretty much the whole color spectrum. Feel free to experiment with soft pinks during the day and bold and bright looks in the evening. Enhance your black eyes using dark colors such as navy-blue, dark gray, dark mauve or black. Still, if you are not into dark eyeshadow colors, you can choose any shade you like as the chromatics of the iris, eyelashes and eyebrows allows you to.

If black eyes are rare, gray eyes are exceptions. Make gray eyes pop by wearing dark gray, charcoal and silver eyeshadows. For more youthful eye makeup opt for blue, turquoise, pink or lilac. 

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Reasons For Breast Augmentation

Breast augmentation is a bit curious in that it is one of the most popular, but also one of the most commonly misunderstood types of plastic surgery. The popularity, of course, is due in large part to many women’s desire to alter or enhance their breasts for physical and aesthetic reasons, and the misunderstanding stems from a basic social concept that “breast augmentation” always implies that a woman is getting implants.
In fact, however, depending on each individual procedure, the physical difference before and after breast augmentation does not have to reflect enhancement or drastic change, but rather just difference.
There are many different reasons that women look into plastic surgery for their breasts, not all of which are geared toward making them larger. In fact, in most cases proportion and shape are more important to women than simply size.
Breast Reduction Surgery
You may also have heard about breast reduction surgery, which is technically in the same category of plastic surgery as enlargement or augmentation. These procedures are actually very common in women with naturally large breasts who find them uncomfortable, cumbersome, or unattractive. Some of these women even suffer from some physical effects of the weight of their breasts (back problems, for example, are not uncommon, and neck pain and even skin ulcers can also occur), and so this surgery can actually be quite necessary in certain instances.
Doctors can expertly reduce the size of your breasts, resulting in smaller and shapelier breasts that give you a more proportional frame and more comfortable body.

Reconstructive Breast Augmentation
Breast augmentation surgeries are also used frequently in a reconstructive way. There are various diseases, most notably breast cancer, that can result in a woman losing some or all of one or both of their breasts, which can clearly leave a lasting physical consequence.
This can often be a large burden on even the emotional and psychological recovery after such a disease, which is why many women in this situation turn to plastic surgery to get small implants, or to get help reshaping their breasts to regain their form from before the ailment.
Regaining breasts that are similar to those you may have had before your illness can go a long way toward making you feel comfortable with yourself, and also making you feel as if you have truly beaten whatever illness you fought.
Breast Enlargement
Of course, enlargement for the sake of enlargement is also still a very popular procedure, and one that is performed thousands of times each year, for a variety of different reasons. Many women still aspire to have larger breasts than they are naturally gifted with. Ultimately, the fact is that modern surgical methods and experienced doctors are now able to alter the body in very subtle but also very effective ways, meaning that the reasons and circumstances for having breast augmentation are expanding rapidly.

Contact a Local Surgeon
If you are considering undergoing a procedure for any of the reasons listed above, simply contact a surgeon in your area and discuss the details – you will likely be on your way to a very effective change in the near future, and one that can help you to be more comfortable with yourself physically and more pleased with yourself aesthetically.
This is a guest post by AboutPlasticSurgery.com. See their before and after breast augmentation photos.