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Colored Contact Lenses - How to Choose the Color That is Best for You

You want colored contact lenses but you aren't sure which color would be best for you? Here are some tips that should help you select your best color. First of all there are two major types of colored contacts - enhancement color lenses and opaque lenses. Enhancement lenses are suitable for people with light eyes only, and are designed to make your own color brighter or give it a slightly different hue. For example: a person with naturally green eyes can wear blue enhancement color lenses and get most beautiful aqua effect.Opaque lenses are designed for a more dramatic change. Whether you have light or dark eyes, opaque lenses are not transparent, so they completely replace the natural color of your eyes with the color of the lens.What type and color of colored lenses to select depends on the effect you want to achieve.You want your eye color to get brighter, but you don't want to startle everybody who knows you with a different color

In this case, if you have light blue eyes, choose blue or aqua enhancement color contacts.
You can also try Freshlook Radiance in Eden or Moonlight, which gives your eye an 'illuminated' effect.
If your natural color is gray or blue-gray, try blue from Acuvue 2 Colors or Freshlook Dimensions, to get a beautiful ocean blue color. If you feel more adventurous, go for jade green. Green eyes are quite rare, so you can make a statement with your new color.
If your eyes are brown, none of the enhancement color contacts would work for you. Try brown opaque lenses, which will make your color more defined, or hazel, which would make them lighter. You can also consider Freshlook Radiance Sunrise (lighter) or Autumn (darker), to add shimmer to your eyes.

See pictures of people wearing colored contactsDo you want to try something dramatically different from your natural color?

In this case opaque color lenses like Freshlook Colorblends, Acuvue 2 Colors opaques or Illusions by Ciba Vision would be your best choice.
If you have dark eyes and dark hair, try blue or amethyst colors, like True Sapphire or Amethyst from Freshlook Colorblends collection.
Amethyst looks extremely daring and sophisticated, because this color is very rare in nature. You can also try green color contacts; they would look especially good if your hair is red. For most people, green eyes are associated with sexiness and creativity.
If your eyes are naturally a cool blue or gray color, try honey color contacts. Honey eyes are associated with intelligence, warmth and trustworthiness. You can reinforce the warm effect by wearing warm colors.
Most people with dark skin naturally have brown eyes, so by selecting blue or green lenses you will attract a lot of attention.

See examples of colored contact lensesTo emphases the change, wear a new outfit, different in style and color from the clothes you usually wear.

And to create a completely new image, change your hairstyle as well. If you still not sure which color is best for you, ask your doctor to prescribe you disposable color lenses. Color contact lenses can be either annual replacement - you wear them for a year - or disposable - they come in boxes of six and you replace them every 2 weeks or every month. Disposable lenses are not very expensive - particularly if you buy them online - so you can try several different colors. The lenses mentioned in this article, Freshlook and Acuvue 2 Colors, are disposable color contact lenses..

Tanya Turner is a contact lens expert and a founder of Contact Lenses Consumer Guide, which provides you with information about all types of contact lenses including color contact lenses reviews and pictures

Bifocal Contact Lenses ? Tell Me More

As we get older our eye can suffer from Presbyopia, this can occur when our eyes are unable to focus incoming light due to the loss and flexibility in our eye muscles. The unfortunate result is that trying to read close-up such as reading a book or newspaper or even trying to use computer screens can become blurred.Bifocal contact lenses add an extra layer of near vision correction to the actually lens give you the power to focus and see object's close-up. There is usually a far-vision layer also.There are three different types of bifocal contact lens designs.

Alternating
Concentric
Simultaneous

In Alternating or translating bifocal lenses, the near and far connective layers of the lens are distinct from each other. The near correction layer is usually placed at the bottom of the lens but if needed can be reversed. The intermediate layer can also be added and changed.In concentric bifocal lenses the near and far layers are arranged in rings, the near vision is in...

Bifocal Contact Lenses ? Tell Me More

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What You Should Know Before You Get Contact Lenses

There are a number of reasons why so many people around the world suffer from vision deterioration old age, disease of the retina, cornea to name but a few. To help with vision around 1284 in Italy, Salvino D'Armate inventing the first wearable eyeglasses but vision aids where around much longer D'Armate design was very similar to what is still available today.Who invented Contact Lenses?Leonardo da Vinci sketched and described several forms of contact lenses in 1508, and in 1632 Rene Descartes suggested the possibility of a corneal contact lens. Adolph Fick first thought of making glass contact lenses in 1888, but it took until 1948 when Kevin Tuohy invented the soft plastic lens for contacts to become a reality.What If I Want To Use ContactsIf you've been wearing spectacles and have never used contact lenses there are a number of things you need to do.

Make an appointment with your eye care specialised, a regular eye test can help detect eye diseases before you notice the effect...

What You Should Know Before You Get Contact Lenses

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Colored Contact Lenses - How to Choose the Color That is Best for You

In this case, if you have light blue...

Colored Contact Lenses - How to Choose the Color That is Best for You

Contact lenses > Colored Contact Lenses - How to Choose the Color That is Best for You

Contact Lenses A Better Vision Option

There are over 34 million contact wearers in America. The idea of contact lenses has been around for hundreds of years. It is said that the first person to conceptualize the idea of contact lenses was Leonardo da Vinci in the early 1500's. It wasn't until 1971 that soft contact lenses entered the market, followed by GP or gas permeable contact lenses in 1978. Extended wear contacts received FDA approval in 1981 and disposable contacts were introduced in 1987.Today's contact lenses do more than improve vision.

Some contacts are specifically manufactured to change eye color only. With dozens of different colors available some contact lens wearers change their eye color slightly, and some go for a totally different look, such as brown eye to green or blue eye to brown. There are contacts that have special effect lenses that produce effects on the eye such as jaguar and zebra stripes, a yellow cat eye with a vertical pupil, black spiral, stars & stripes and fire. The FDA considers...

Contact Lenses A Better Vision Option

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Contact Lenses in Silicone Hydrogel ? the Vision of the Future?

YEARS IN DEVELOPMENT

The concept of lenses made from silicone hydrogel was first proposed over 20 years ago. The potential benefits were clear but the technological challenge was as difficult as needing to combine oil and water to produce an optically clear product. Researcher organizations have to date invested considerable academic and financial resources to achieve the high performance soft lenses of today. They have done this quite simply because they see this material as the way forward and the ultimate standard of the future.

At the time of writing, silicone hydrogel lenses are available in the USA from four manufacturers: "Night & Day" and "O2OPTIX" from CIBA Vision, "Pure Vision" from Bausch & Lomb,
and "Acuvue OASYS" and "Advance" from J&J Vision Care.

OXYGEN TRANSPORT

So what's so special about silicone hydrogel as a lens material? Essentially, the great benefit of this material is it's ability to transport...

Contact Lenses in Silicone Hydrogel ? the Vision of the Future?

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How To Wear Contact Lenses In The Allergy Season

The allergy seasons are a real challenge, especially if youwear contact lenses. A chronic allergy to mold, pet danderor other environmental allergens can create a year-rounddilemma. No matter what the cause, seasonal allergies makeyour eyes hypersensitive and irritated. Ordinary softcontact lenses often make them feel even worse. There's a lot you can do to reduce the misery of allergyseason.

Keep your contacts as clean as you can whether youhave to use lubricating drops to rinse your eyes outregularly. Remove your contacts and clean them in asolution throughout the day, if they are not 'one-per-day'type lenses. Allergy induced conjunctivitis, a condition that causespainful swelling and redness of the eyes, can make wearingyour contacts a real pain. If this becomes a real issue,it's best to consult your optometrist. Disposable lensesallow you a more comfortable lens that you can trash at theend of the day.

You'll have no more worries about makingsure all the dust and pollen...

How To Wear Contact Lenses In The Allergy Season

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Color Contact Lenses - Are They Safe?

Do you want to find out how you would look with blue, green or amethyst eyes? But you have heard that color contact lenses might cause problems? Here we will discuss how color contacts can affect the health of your eyes, and give you simple tips to follow so your color lenses never give you any troubles.There are two main reasons why color contacts cause your eye problems, and both are easily avoidable. The first cause is buying color contacts of inferior quality without a doctor's prescription; and the second is not caring properly for your color lenses.Sometimes you see color contacts for sale in beauty salons and even in flea markets! You should never buy your lenses in these places. Color contacts aren't fashion jewelry: most paints are very toxic, so the lenses should be properly manufactured, to avoid direct contact between the paint and the sensitive surface of your eye. Most color lenses sold without a doctor's prescription fail to meet these requirements. They might look good...

Color Contact Lenses - Are They Safe?

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Colored Contact Lenses - How to Choose the Color That is Best for You

In this case, if you have light blue...

Colored Contact Lenses - How to Choose the Color That is Best for You

Contact lenses > Colored Contact Lenses - How to Choose the Color That is Best for You