In most people, the color of their eyelashes and the color of their hair is generally very similar usually does not vary by more than a few shades. Considering the hormone levels change as we age, the eyelashes can darken in color as well.
Matching it to your hair colour – Although it doesn't need to be an exact match, your eyelashes should coordinate with your brows and hair. As a rule, dark blues, blacks and other dark colours work well if you are a brunette. While dark browns and blonde are best for blondes and chestnut or dark brown for redheads.
Blondes tend to have short bottom lashes that can vary in color from brown to white.
Eyelashes are made out of the same components as hair—and just as your hair gets dirty, so do your eyelashes.
If the blond person gets a lot of sun, their skin can become darker than their brows/lashes. Some people with naturally darker hair lighten it but leave the lashes and brows dark.
But some children with light hair, including towhead blonds, strawberry blonds, dishwater blonds and redheads, see their hair go dark brown by their 10th birthday. The reason for this change is because the amount of eumelanin in your hair increases as you mature, according to some research.
Blonde fact #4: Not all blondes have blue eyes
That's why so many people around the world have black strands and brown eyes. Lighter tint gives rise to lighter coloured eyes, including blue, but also varying tones of green and grey. So, just because you have blonde hair, it doesn't mean that you have blue eyes too.
Keep your hands off your lashes at all costs. Not only can they accidentally be plucked out, but bacteria can clog the follicles, which prevents new lash growth.
It's natural to wonder if they will ever grow back. But, just like hair on your head, eyelashes grow, fall out, and regrow again in a natural cycle.
No eyelash extension procedures use human hair, and no technician will be able to offer that. The confusion comes from the fact that some salons mistakenly advertise the lashes as being human hair.
There's a little genetic tweak that makes the combination of red hair and blue eyes the rarest of them all. The same Nature study mentioned above found that another gene variant, HERC2, interacts with both the MC1R gene and the OCA2 gene—and it can shut off the redhead gene while expressing blue eyes and blonde hair.
While the study concluded that the average age for a woman to go grey is 33, it found redheads lose their colour at 30, brunettes at 32 and blondes at 35. For one in 10 women, those first grey hairs appear by the time they reach 21-years-old, while one in four women find their first grey by the age of 25.
As the population grows and people have babies, the genes for less melanin will become more common. That makes the link between lighter eyes, hair, and skin tighter. So that's why you see people with blond hair typically have blue eyes!
With the Genome-wide Complex Trait Analysis software package, we found strong genetic correlations between various combinations of hair and eye colors.
Other scientists have found eyelashes — particularly darkened ones, perhaps with eyelash enhancers like mascara and eyeliner — help emphasize the sclera (the whites of the eyes, the brightness of which can indicate health and youth) and the limbal ring (the dark ring around the iris of the eye).
A nude or transparent band color will look more natural, whereas a black band color will add some more definition to your eyes. Regardless of which color you choose, if you want your lashes to look even more natural, Hernandez advises to “camouflage the lash band by applying black gel or liquid liner.”
Despite hair being pulled out, healthy hair follicles will continue to grow hair. So, new eyelashes should slowly regrow and replace pulled-out hairs within a few months.
It will typically take about 6 weeks for the eyelash to grow back in if it's cut or burned but there's no damage to the follicle or eyelid. But if you pull an eyelash out, it can be a different story. It can take longer for the eyelash to grow back.
Just like the hair on your head, eyelashes naturally fall out and replace themselves in a natural cycle every six to 10 weeks, so it's totally normal to lose between one and five eyelashes each day.
It's okay to: Wear mascara. You may have read that mascara dries lashes, and as a result, it inhibits lash growth. That's simply not true.
However, wearing mascara everyday can also be damaging for your delicate lashes. In an attempt to make your peepers look prettier you might actually be damaging your lashes.
Lighter features typically indicate a paler skin tone, which—as previously noted—is more prone to sun damage (the number-one risk factor for fast-tracked aging.) “Having less melanin in your skin may also predispose you to premature aging due to photodamage,” says Dr. Preminger.
There are plenty of blue-eyed Asians. This probably happens when the traditional blue-eyed allele comes into a family from a (possibly very distant) European ancestor. Blue eyes then resurface in a child generations later if they inherit the allele from both parents.
While only 1 in 5 Caucasian adults have blue eyes in the United States, most are born blue-eyed. Their irises change from blue to hazel or brown during infancy.