Changing Your Look with Contact Lenses
Have you been considering reinventing your style? Do you want to change your look without spending a lot of money to do it? Does a new, noticeable eye colour sound fun for a night out? If you can answer yes to any of these questions, chances are, the thing for you are coloured contact lenses! coloured contact lenses offer a change in appearance that you can control. You can have a very dramatic change, or go for something a little more subtle to enhance the natural beauty of your existing eye colour.
One of the first things you’ll need to do if you are thinking about giving coloured contact lenses a try is schedule an eye exam with an eye care professional. Contact lenses of any kind should not be worn without a prescription written by a doctor. Even if you have no need for prescription correction, you will still need to have a contact lens exam and fitting before ordering your coloured contact lenses. When you visit your doctor, either the doctor, or a member of the staff will go over the procedure for insertion and removal of your contact lenses.
If you feel comfortable with insertion and removal, you will, in most cases, be able to try a variety of colours on while you are at the doctor’s office. They may also allow you to take several colour trial samples home to try, if you do not have time to try them on while you are at your appointment.
Don't Borrow Contact Lenses
Never, ever try on a friend’s lenses. This can cause cross contamination, and can lead to serious eye infections, and damage to the cornea. Your contact lenses shouldn’t be ordered anywhere except an eye care professional’s office, or from a reputable online retailer. coloured contact lenses, just like any other type of contact lenses are a medical device, and must be used properly in order to avoid future issues.
After you’ve seen your eye doctor, and been approved for contact lens wear, you get to decide what colour you’d like your eyes to be! This can be one of the most fun parts of contact lens wear, because there are so many options to choose from. There are even programs available online that allow you to upload a picture of yourself, or choose from a model’s face that has similar eye and hair colour to yours, and then try different hair/eye colour combinations even before you are evaluated and fit for contact lenses.
There are many manufacturers of coloured contact lenses. Among them, two of the most popular manufacturers are Ciba Vision and Johnson & Johnson. Both companies offer a wide selection of coloured contact lenses that can do everything from enhance your natural eye colour to lenses that completely mask your natural eye colour for a dramatic change.
Experiment with Colours Virtually
Ciba Vision offers a line of coloured contact lenses called Freshlook. Freshlook colourblends don’t mask the entire iris, or coloured part of your eye. They are called blends, because the lenses create a kind of highlight for your eye! Freshlook colourblends are available in many colours. Ciba Vision also offers three varieties of colours to enhance a naturally light 
eye. Experiment with any of these colours at their website. You can even get a recommendation of what colours you should try if you are having trouble making up your mind.
This very helpful website also helps you choose what eye colour would look the best with the makeup tones that you currently use. This way, you can experiment with different combinations without having to insert and remove several coloured lenses and re-do your makeup several times!
Johnson & Johnson’s Acuvue 2 colours coloured contact lenses offer lenses in ten different colours that enhance the colour of a naturally light eye, or can change the colour of even the darkest eye. Like the other coloured contact lens manufacturer above, the Acuvue website offers an interactive way for you to view different colours on an eye colour similar to your natural colour. Of all of the different Acuvue 2 colours coloured contact lenses, three are specifically designed for a contact lens wearer with naturally light eyes. The remaining seven colours can be used by anyone, no matter if they have the lightest blue eyes, or the deepest brown!
If you are looking for a more subtle change from your natural eye colour, you may try something that is close to your natural eye colour. Different combinations of hair and eye colour can create looks from the very toned down and demure, to bold and dramatic! Changing the colour of your eye with coloured contact lenses is much more effortless and less permanent than changing the colour of your hair, so you can have many looks to choose from.
One of the most appealing and popular hair and eye colour combinations is blond hair and blue eyes. If you are already blond with blue eyes, you can use an enhancing coloured contact lens to make your eyes really stand out! You could also change your baby blues to a striking green or turquoise for a more dramatic change.
If you have naturally dark hair, and a dark eyes, an opaque coloured contact will give you the most noticeable eye colour change.There are many colours to choose from, ranging from honeys and hazels to bright blues, greens, even violet!
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