How Eye Color Totally Transformed The Way These Celebrities Look

Eye color is such a minor trait, you may not think it would really affect the way someone looks too much. Sure, eye color is something others take note of, but usually only if the hue is quite striking — otherwise it's something that goes largely unnoticed. But as it turns out, it can totally transform the way someone looks, and the following celebrities are proof of that. 

Most stars are known for switching up their looks — dying and/or cutting their hair, trying out a new style when it comes to their clothing, even getting plastic surgery — so it's not exactly surprising that they would be open to playing around with their eye color as well. Some A-listers have tried out colored contacts, and it's always interesting to see when they do. A new color can make someone look like a completely different person, and the results are pretty shocking. Take a look at the celebrities who totally transformed their look by changing their eye color.

Paris Hilton has been famous for a long time, but it's quite possible that you've actually never seen the star's natural eye color — she always wears colored contacts. In fact, Hilton wears her blue contacts so often that she actually looks different with her natural brown eyes. You can see them in an Instagram photo she posted from when she was 13-years-old. In most other photos of Hilton, you'll notice her eyes are a light blue or sometimes dark blue, in the case of this Instagram photo. 

So why is she so committed to the blue-eyed look? Hilton hasn't publicly talked about her eye color swap, so we can't be sure. But it might actually be affecting her eye health. In 2007, an anonymous source told Page Six that Hilton's tinted contacts were drying out her eyes, saying, "She's ignoring her doctors' orders to not wear her tinted contacts." Nonetheless, her peepers appear to be going strong! 

Robert Pattinson is one celebrity who didn't just try out colored contacts for fun — instead, he had to wear them for his role as Edward Cullen in the Twilight movies. Since Pattinson played a vampire, he had to look the part, and that included wearing contacts that look amber or red, depending on the light. And, as it turns out, he really did not enjoy wearing them. 

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Pattinson said, "My God, I'll be glad to see the last of those. I actually want to get some kind of plastic explosive. I want to reanimate them into something so I can kill them." He also explained that he had trouble putting them in his eye, saying, "It's so embarrassing for me — after so many years, it's still a process every single morning. Everybody else has figured out how to do it, and then there's two people holding me down because I can't do it myself." At least he's done with that role and doesn't have to wear them ever again! 

Paris Jackson is one of the few celebrities out there who decided to change up her eye color by going from light blue to darker brown. In fact, Jackson's natural eye color — a light, icy blue — is similar to contacts worn by Jenner and West. So fans were pretty surprised when Jackson showed off a darker eye color in May 2018. Teen Vogue reported that she wore them to attend the Dior Cruise 2019 show in Chantilly, France. Jackson's makeup artist Jo Baker posted a photo on Instagram of Jackson looking notably different with golden brown eyes and a softer makeup look than she normally wears. 

As Baker once revealed to Teen Vogue, Jackson has a rare eye condition that causes her eyes to be as light as they naturally are. Still, the icy blue is usually quite striking, and really stands out. Her darker eye color definitely made her look a little older and more subdued. 

Jenner isn't the only member of her family to play around with different eye colors. Kim Kardashian does the same thing, and has been photographed wearing two different colored contacts before. In one Instagram shot, Kardashian almost looks unrecognizable wearing a pair of very light blue/gray contacts — she almost looks more like Megan Fox than herself! 

Kardashian has also been known to wear amber-colored contacts to some big events in the past. For the 2018 Met Gala, Kardashian showed up in a gold dress with striking amber contacts that really stood out. In a post on her app (via Allure), Kardashian explained that she wanted her "glam" to complement her "'90s-inspired gold Versace dress." She worked with her makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic to come up with her bronze smokey eye and contact combo. She wrote, "We chose honey-colored contacts that weren't too far off from my natural eye color, just a bit brighter. We can sometimes achieve this color when I wear a golden eyeliner and the lighting is right, but I wanted to really go for it on the red carpet."