Adeline's Colored Contact Lenses Insight

Colored Contact Lenses

Anyone who wants to change their eye color or appearance with colored contact lenses will likely find this site of interest. I have also included information for visitors who are interested in contact lenses for the club or industrial scene, acting, or costume creation. For those of you who aren't into the more theatrical end of it, consider the following scenario of a week in the life of a colored contact lens user:

You want to be green-eyed and bubbly when out for coffee with your friends on a Sunday night before starting your week. From Monday to Friday, you choose a grey eyed and serious look for class or work. Saturday rolls around and you decide to change and go blue and mysterious for a night of dancing (or purple if you want to really make a splash). Believe it or not, there are some attractive and neat-looking shades of violet out there to choose from, too. Look right to see what I mean. I would suggest getting colored contact lenses here.

Where does someone get the idea to change eye color with colored contact lenses in the first place?

The simplest answer to this is personal psychology, especially self image and esteem. People often feel judged by appearance in our society and they want to alter that appearance in a meaningful way. Here is an example from a friend of mine back in 1994. At this time, colored contact lenses were coming down in price and she decided to give them a try.

My friend, when I met her, had blue/grey eyes and a steady gaze. She was a thinker and someone who tended to look deeply into people. The problem was that she felt her appearance, and her eyes in specific, didn't really reflect who she was. She felt that people considered her to be cool and a bit detached because of her calm appearing eyes. She was an artist with a lot of creativity and wanted to let people know it in a subtle yet direct way.

Over the next year, she considered many different ways of changing her appearance, ranging from hair styles and dyes to plastic surgery. All of these methods were permanent to some degree (EG: Dye or hair styles take time to grow out, minor surgery involved expense and permanent changes to her features, etc.) Also, she was basically OK with the way she looked, it was just her eyes that she felt needed some kind of enhancement.

Finally she hit on the idea of colored contact lenses. She was a glasses wearer all her life (although she could function without them for close-up work) but had been wearing contacts since her late teens, so she knew what went into owning contacts. She had seen some information about colored contact lenses after a visit to her optometrist. Intrigued, she looked over the various shades of blue, green, hazel, and brown being offered. She settled upon a deep shade of green that she really liked and decided that it suited her face, her hair and her skin tones.

To my surprise I noticed the eye color change six months after she made it, and only after SHE pointed it out to me. She asked me what I thought of it and if it had changed my perception of her. When I thought back, I realized that since the time where she had first "gone green", I had thought of her as warmer and more approachable. Our talks together were the same, she was still the same sensitive, artsy person she always was, her sense of humor was still as quietly zany, but the eye color had subtly changed my view of her.

My friend opened my eyes (if you'll pardon the pun) to just how common the use of colored contact lenses is and that interested me enough to do research on what kind of lenses are out there and what goes into owning a pair of them.