If your pupils are open, then you should be wearing sun glasses all the time. You could damage your eyes! Sharon C.
-----Original Message----- From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behalf Of Purple Kat Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 7:39 AM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] Hair and Reenacting Re: sunglasses... IIRC during one period of history people wore green lensed glasses to 'ward off / cure" one type of VD.. I know - not what you want to portray, but a solution off the top of my head. As for the red in your hair... I have seen some 'natural' red heads that are brilliant red and some that are soooo orange / red that I have to look at their eyebrows to confirm that is their natural color. Katheryne On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Sharon Phillips <vintagealternat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you to everyone who had offered ideas for head coverings and > ideas for starting points for reasearched. I haven't done any > costuming in the last five years or so and I'm struggling to remember > what I had learnt before then. > > I guess I'm also stressing a little because I'm already self-concious > about drawing attention to my face at events when I'm not wearing > sunglasses. My medication paralyse my eye muscles and pupils open, > and I usually I hide that behind Ray-Bans. I dyed my hair to add > colour to my face. The henna colour in some lights is a metallic > wine-red and in other lights the colour matches a piece of burnt > sienna coating I have. I don't remember seeing that shade of red as a natural hair colour but I could be wrong. > > Sharon Phillips _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
