Latisse: Q&A
Ask a QuestionUsing Latisse As an Eye Drop to Darken Eye Color?
I have light brown eyes, and I've always wanted them a little darker. Can I darken my eye color by using Latisse as an eye drop?
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Better to darken eye color with tinted contacts than Latisse
This, at first blush, sounds like a clever idea. However, I can foresee four difficulties with this approach.
By placing Latisse into the eye itself you might cause darkening of the skin surrounding the eye. Also, results can be tricky. Your iris might become darker than you would like. This would be a difficult drug for you to titrate its effect.
Unlike the change to the surrounding skin which is reversible, Latisse into the iris would act much like a tattoo. The results are permanent....
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Latisse: changing your eye color
This is an inconsistent an unpredictable side effect of Latisse. Therefore it will not reliably change or darken the color of the iris. However, it does have a greater tendency to darken the eyelid skin
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Don't use Latisse for trying to darken eye color
Latisse is a topical product prescribed by a physician for lash growth. Actually, the "side effect" of the active ingredient, Bimatoprost, was the catalyst for the development of the product Latisse. Although the true purpose is to prolong the hair growth cycle for those who have insufficient lashes, it is being marketed as a cosmetic treatment to increase lash length and fullness for those who do not have eye disease or certain health issues.
To get to the original purpose of...
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Try Lumigan if you want to darken eye color
I am not sure WHY you would want to do that. Eye color is a wonderful source of individuality and reducing them to black makes it a tad boring and ordinary.
BUT if you insisted on doing this crazy thing, you may consider having your PCP prescribe for you LUMIGAN, the glaucoma (eyeball pressure reducing) medication which WAS meant to be used as eye drops and is associated with darkening of the eye. Latisse is the same compound packaged differently in a small concentration for the cosmetic...
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