Things to Know About Colored Contact Lens

You don’t have to be long-sighted or short-sighted for enjoying a new eye color. Colored lens can be used for completely changing appearance of your eye or just to add a little touch, making your eyes look more interesting.

• Plano color contrast

It is worn purely for changing the appearance. These lenses have no power for vision correction.

• Prescription color contacts

These lenses correct your hyperopia, astigmatism or myopia, and help enhance or completely change the appearance of the wearer.

Different types of colored lens

Colored contact lenses come in three kinds of tints – opaque, visibility tint and enhancement colors.

• Visibility tint

Light blue or green tint is added to lens, just to help you see these lenses during removal and insertion. In addition to this, addition of little light tint helps you find these lenses if you drop it. They are relatively faint in color and do not affect your eye color.

• Opaque tint

Basically, these are non-transparent tint, which can change the color of your eye completely. These lenses are ideal for people with dark eyes who want to change the color for their eyes. Hazel, green, blue, grey, brown, violet and amethyst are some of the most popular colors for colored contact lens that you can choose from.

• Enhancement tint

It is a solid but see-through tint, which is a little darker than a visibility tint. These types of colored contact lenses are only meant to enhance the natural color of your eye. It is ideal for people with light colored eye and those who wish to make their eye color more intense.

• Who can use colored lens?

If the color of your eye is light then you can wear any kind of colored lens, depending on the effect you want. Whereas, people with dark colored lens can only use opaque color and people with light colored eye can use only enhancement tints.

• Conclusion

The type of colored contact lenses that will best suit different skin tones and hair colors. Depending on the kind of look you want to achieve, you can choose either enhancement or opaque contact lens.