The Ruling on Dyeing Hair, Eyebrows, and Contact Lenses
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The questioner : Yes. A woman asks: What is the ruling on what some women do in our current time regarding dyeing the hair of the head and the eyebrows?
The Shaykh : From one who is patient.
The questioner : From one who dyes the hair of the head and the eyebrows with the same color, what is the ruling on removing the hair from the face?
The Shaykh : Yes. As for dyeing with what suits the skin, I do not know of a methodology in this, because this is one of the ways of beautification. As for plucking the eyebrows or other hair from the face, it is not permissible because it is *nams* (plucking the eyebrows), and it is among the strange things. I do not know if it is true or not, but some people told me that some women, due to their foolishness, use colored contact lenses and choose the color that matches the garment.
So if she wears a green garment, she chooses a green lens, and if she wears yellow, she chooses a yellow lens, and if she chooses a white garment, she chooses a white lens, and she becomes as if she is in a state of *'awrah* (nakedness), and so on. I do not know if this is a reality or not? It is a reality, *Subhan Allah* (Glory be to Allah), meaning the foolishness of women has reached this extent. Yes. And if she does not have weak eyesight, meaning the situation has reached this extent, and I do not know, perhaps if she wears a green garment she dyes her face green. This is possible, since she wants to be all green. Therefore, I hope my sisters, the women, will leave these nonsense things and be reasonable in what they do. I say that colored contact lenses, if the color is of the kind of women’s eyes, meaning human eyes, but for example there is a blur in her eye and she wants to put in this lens to beautify the eye and make it, for example, honey-colored, then there is no harm in it, and it is not from changing the creation of Allah, because these lenses are removed. They are not like tattooing, for which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the one who tattoos and the one who gets tattooed. So there is no harm in it. But if the woman goes to this extent and says, "What about the clothes? Bring us contact lenses like the clothes," and the like of that, then no.
The Shaykh : From one who is patient.
The questioner : From one who dyes the hair of the head and the eyebrows with the same color, what is the ruling on removing the hair from the face?
The Shaykh : Yes. As for dyeing with what suits the skin, I do not know of a methodology in this, because this is one of the ways of beautification. As for plucking the eyebrows or other hair from the face, it is not permissible because it is *nams* (plucking the eyebrows), and it is among the strange things. I do not know if it is true or not, but some people told me that some women, due to their foolishness, use colored contact lenses and choose the color that matches the garment.
So if she wears a green garment, she chooses a green lens, and if she wears yellow, she chooses a yellow lens, and if she chooses a white garment, she chooses a white lens, and she becomes as if she is in a state of *'awrah* (nakedness), and so on. I do not know if this is a reality or not? It is a reality, *Subhan Allah* (Glory be to Allah), meaning the foolishness of women has reached this extent. Yes. And if she does not have weak eyesight, meaning the situation has reached this extent, and I do not know, perhaps if she wears a green garment she dyes her face green. This is possible, since she wants to be all green. Therefore, I hope my sisters, the women, will leave these nonsense things and be reasonable in what they do. I say that colored contact lenses, if the color is of the kind of women’s eyes, meaning human eyes, but for example there is a blur in her eye and she wants to put in this lens to beautify the eye and make it, for example, honey-colored, then there is no harm in it, and it is not from changing the creation of Allah, because these lenses are removed. They are not like tattooing, for which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the one who tattoos and the one who gets tattooed. So there is no harm in it. But if the woman goes to this extent and says, "What about the clothes? Bring us contact lenses like the clothes," and the like of that, then no.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، حكم صبغ الشعر والحواجب والعدسات للعين — youtube.com
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