Is It Ever OK to Change Your Eye Color to Match Your Dress? Deena from Jersey Shore Shows Us How It's Done

There's a lot of debate in beauty circles about how matchy-matchy you should get with your makeup and your outfit. Paz de la Huerta took some criticism for seemingly always matching her lipstick to her dress, which we actually think looks pretty good. And there's an old school ladylike trend happening this fall, where we'll see more matching lipstick and nail polish. The beauty of makeup is that you can change it, and women have a long history of wanting to change what nature has given them. But can you--or rather, should you--change the actual color of your features?
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There's a lot of debate in beauty circles about how matchy-matchy you should get with your makeup and your outfit.

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