Contact lenses can change eye colour or enhance what you already have. However,be careful to get right fit and choose reputable brands. Contact lenses can correct many vision problems and allow you to ditch the glasses. But these small, plastic disks can also be used to change the colour of your iris and give you a whole new look.
There are various styles of coloured contacts to choose from, depending on how much of a change you’re looking for:
Subtle – These enhance your natural eye colour, usually deepening or adding vibrancy.
Colour-changing – These lenses give your iris the appearance of a totally different colour, and can look on even the darkest eye colours.
Light-filtering- Athletes like this type because these lenses improve colour vision, such as brightening the colour of the ball during a tennis match.
Party Lenses- These lenses completely change the iris or even the whole eye, to another, often unnatural, colour or pattern. This is typically used in the movies and for other theatrical uses.
Use FDA Approved Contacts Only
Contact lenses worn for cosmetic purposes must be fitted by eye care professional. Be wary of lenses you get without prescription as you don’t know whether it is sterile. If they are approved by the FDA or if they’re damaged. If you are getting coloured lenses, you need to have your eyes professionally measured and the lenses correctly fitted.
Follow the Recommended Lens-Wearing Schedule
Most eye doctors recommend that users were contact lenses for just a few hours a day during the first few days. Even if you are wearing coloured contact cosmetically. You should try out lenses for only a short period at first to make sure your eyes do not become overly irritated.
Care and maintenance of coloured contacts
The care and use of coloured contact is the same as for normal contact lenses. Basic contact lens hygiene tips are:
Always wash and rinse your hands with a mild soap before handling lenses
Clean and rinse with, and only with an approved sterile solution after taking them out and before putting them in. Don’t use tap or even bottled water since they aren’t sterile and have been linked to severe bacterial eye infections.
Keep fingernails short and smooth to avoid scratching your lenses.
Make sure your lens case is always clean
Inspect lenses for any foreign-particles, tears, or damage before inserting.
Apply cosmetics after inserting lenses
Don’t wear soft lenses when swimming
The only eye drops that can safely be used with soft contact lenses are re-wetting drops that your eye doctor recommends.
Finally, even if you don’t wear your coloured lenses on a regular basis, you still need to clean and place them in new solution every month. And remember to disinfect the lenses twenty-four (24) hours before wearing them. Trust me, if you follow the aforementioned simple care instructions, a fun, new look can be yours in a matter of minutes. What are you waiting for? Rush to any cosmetic shop and get yours!
