Prescription Color Contact Lenses

A Quick Walk-Through on Different Types of Colored Contact Lenses Contact lenses are first recognized in the year 1945 by the American Optometric Association. It is estimated that over 40 million people wear contact lenses in the US alone. The number of people wearing contact lenses is estimated to be more than 150 million. Color contact lenses are used to enhance or completely change the appearance of wearers’ eye color.

Colored contact lenses You can change the color of your eye and create a look that is bold, subtle or anywhere in between.

Color contacts are an ideal choice whether you want to enhance your everyday look or want a crazy or scary eye for Halloween special

occasions.

These

contacts

prescriptions as well as Plano forms.

are

available

or in

other both

1. Plano color contacts These contacts are worn by people who only want lenses for cosmetic purposes for enhancing or completely changing the color of their eye. Wearers must understand that these lenses have no lens power for vision correction purposes.

2. Prescription contact lenses Prescription color contact lenses correct

the

hyperopia

(farsightedness) and myopia (nearsightedness) or even astigmatism as well as completely changing or enhancing

the

appearance

of

wearers’ eye.

As compared to regular contacts, the cost of color contacts is significantly higher. But for many wearers in the United States of America, the ability of colored contacts to change the appearance of their eyes is well worth the high price.

Different types of color contacts All the colored contacts are designed for the purpose of mimicking the natural look and color of the colored part of the eye, which is called as the iris. Some lenses feature a series of tiny colored dots and radially arranged colored lines for the purpose of helping the lenses look more natural in the eye of the wearer.

Three kinds of tints used in colored contacts are briefly discussed below.

Visibility Tint It is usually a light green or blue tint which is added to a lens for helping the wearer to see it better during removal and insertion of the lens. Such tints are comparatively very faint and do not actually affect the eye color.

Enhancement tint

It is little darker than a visibility tint and is a solid but translucent tint. Such type of color contact lenses is designed for enhancing the natural color of your eyes. The enhancement tint is ideal for

people who have light colored eyes and want to make the color of their eye more intense.

Opaque tint It is a non-transparent tint that can change the eye color completely. Users will need this type of color contact lenses for changing the color of wearers’ eye if they have dark eyes.

Costume or theatrical contact lenses It also falls into the category of opaque color tints. Such types of lenses are popularly used in different movies such as the man fell to earth, the Twilight series, and avatar.

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