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
