Colored Contact Lenses - Change or Enhance Your Eye Color!
Colored contact lenses enable you to accentuate and enhance your natural eye color to almost any shade you choose. Four different kinds of colored contacts are available. You can choose from visibility tints, enhancement tints, opaque color tints and light-filtering tints.
Colored contact lenses are prescribed to those who need vision correction but can also be worn by people who have no vision deficits. These are called 'plano' contact lenses. Colored contacts can be worn if you have astigmatism, need bifocal lenses, or want a disposable or frequent replacement contact lens. This means that most people can wear colored contacts. If you don't need vision correction, check with your state laws to find out whether you need to get a prescription.
Visibility tint contact lenses usually come in light blue or green pigments imbedded within the lens. This tint is just to help you see your lenses better when you use them. These colored contact lenses don't change or enhance your eye color in any way.
Enhancement tints are solid color tints that are slightly darker than a visibility tint. While these colored contact lenses are translucent they do change your eye color - but not dramatically. They are most suitable for people with light colored eyes as they increase the intensity of the eye color slightly.
If you want to change your natural eye color significantly you should opt for color tints. Color tints are deep, opaque tints that can change your eye color completely. They are composed of patterns of solid colors and can change light blue eyes or even brown eyes to a completely different color. These colored contact lenses are available in a variety of different colors such as hazel, green. blue, violet, amethyst and gray.
Colored contact lenses are designed to look as close to natural shades as possible. The pupil of the eye is made up of many colorful shapes and lines and colored contact lenses mimic this effect with a series of tiny colored dots. The middle of the lens remains clear so you can see through it.
Light-filtering colored contact lenses are designed for use by sportspeople. This is because they enhance specific colors. This aids in the visibility of tennis, golf, and some types of softballs. Other colors appear muted so the ball is more visible. They may also be used by those who watch certain sports. There is even a colored lens for golfers which enables them to see the different shades of green on the course more acutely.
Are there any disadvantages to wearing colored contact lenses? Yes, but only minor ones. Because the eye is not the same size in every person who wears them, the colored part of the lens might slide over the pupil during blinking. The pupil also becomes bigger and smaller depending on the time of day. This means that at night your pupil might become larger than the clear part of the lens and this might impair your vision.
Remember that you should never share your colored contact lenses with anybody else. Even though it may seem like fun, they are still medical devices which suit only the intended wearer. Avoid damaging your eyes by wearing contact lenses that could damage your eyes, maybe even permanently. If you're not sure which color to choose ask your eye doctor to let you try on a few pairs before you make a choice.
