If you are playing someone else in a play or musical, the goal is to look as much like that person and as little like yourself as possible. You’ll do this by using makeup and costume and hair styles or wigs, but you can also do it by using coloured contact lenses. It’s actually pretty amazing how different a new eye colour can make your face look, so you may want to consider using coloured contact lenses when you’re playing a character.
If you have an eye colour that you think suits your character, you can make the colour deeper and more noticeable from the stage with coloured contact lenses. If, for instance, you’re playing an innocent, blue-eyed, blond-haired beauty, you can make your natural blue eyes more prominent by wearing turquoise or ice blue coloured contact lenses. If you’re playing a dark-eyed villain, your brown or hazel eyes can be deepened to almost black by using coloured contact lenses.
Even if you have a completely different eye colour from the one you picture your character with, you can easily change your entire look with coloured contact lenses. Changing light eyes to different colours or darker colours is simply done, but nowadays, many coloured contact lenses come in bolder colours for dark eyes. Even people with dark brown eyes can have blue or green eyes with these lenses; you just have to know where to shop around to get the lenses that will turn your dark eyes light.
