Colored Contact Lenses - How to Choose the Color That is Best for You
Posted: Thursday, August 11, 2005
by Tanya Turner
You want colored contact lenses but you aren’t sure which color would be best for you? Here are some tips that should help you select your best color.
First of all there are two major types of colored contacts - enhancement color lenses and opaque lenses. Enhancement lenses are suitable for people with light eyes only, and are designed to make your own color brighter or give it a slightly different hue. For example: a person with naturally green eyes can wear blue enhancement color lenses and get most beautiful aqua effect.
What type and color of colored lenses to select depends on the effect you want to achieve.
You want your eye color to get brighter, but you don’t want to startle everybody who knows you with a different color
- In this case, if you have light blue eyes, choose blue or aqua enhancement color contacts. You can also try Freshlook Radiance in Eden or Moonlight, which gives your eye an 'illuminated' effect.
- If your natural color is gray or blue-gray, try blue from Acuvue 2 Colors or Freshlook Dimensions, to get a beautiful ocean blue color. If you feel more adventurous, go for jade green. Green eyes are quite rare, so you can make a statement with your new color.
- If your eyes are brown, none of the enhancement color contacts would work for you. Try brown opaque lenses, which will make your color more defined, or hazel, which would make them lighter. You can also consider Freshlook Radiance Sunrise (lighter) or Autumn (darker), to add shimmer to your eyes.
Do you want to try something dramatically different from your natural color?
- In this case opaque color lenses like Freshlook Colorblends, Acuvue 2 Colors opaques or Illusions by Ciba Vision would be your best choice.
- If you have dark eyes and dark hair, try blue or amethyst colors, like True Sapphire or Amethyst from Freshlook Colorblends collection. Amethyst looks extremely daring and sophisticated, because this color is very rare in nature. You can also try green color contacts they would look especially good if your hair is red. For most people, green eyes are associated with sexiness and creativity.
- If your eyes are naturally a cool blue or gray color, try honey color contacts. Honey eyes are associated with intelligence, warmth and trustworthiness. You can reinforce the warm effect by wearing warm colors.
- Most people with dark skin naturally have brown eyes, so by selecting blue or green lenses you will attract a lot of attention.
To emphases the change, wear a new outfit, different in style and color from the clothes you usually wear. And to create a completely new image, change your hairstyle as well.
If you still not sure which color is best for you, ask your doctor to prescribe you disposable color lenses. Color contact lenses can be either annual replacement - you wear them for a year - or disposable - they come in boxes of six and you replace them every 2 weeks or every month. Disposable lenses are not very expensive - particularly if you buy them online - so you can try several different colors. The lenses mentioned in this article, Freshlook and Acuvue 2 Colors, are disposable color contact lenses.
Tanya Turner is a contact lens expert and a founder of Contact Lenses Consumer Guide, which provides you with information about all types of contact lenses including color contact lenses reviews and pictures
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More commentsmy eyes are naturally dark brown and I wear fresh look colorblend green. I've been wearing it for 5 years now and it's great. It looks totally natural and brown skinned.Ewww!!.. I hate when people are black and wear green contacts they look so fake..Your so pathetic! And thats rasis im dark skin and i wear green contacts and i look better than you......keep racial comments to yourself!!!!!! thats like me saying " I hate when white people where brown contacts they look so wanna be blackish"!!!not particularly racist! what makes you assume shes white? she could be middle eastern, asian, native american or hispanic! and as for black people, it obviously wont look natural with any other eye colour but brown! thats just common sense and a basic understanding of genetics!
Yah emma!! I bet you're jealous
My Eyes Are Dark Borwn and I Want Hazel Coloured Contacts...i dont think you need contacts at all if your eyes are dark brownWhy? Brown eyes are not ugly or anything by that. The problem with Brown eyes are like having a mustang in your garage(almost everybody has one). Todays contact technology you can actually change your look over to eye that is rarer than what almost everybody has
I just bought FreshKon Misty Grey contacts but it is not as comfortable as my clear lenses. What are the comfortable brands for colored contact lenses?
I have naturally green eyes which are sort of in the middle--not really light and not really dark either. I'm just wondering what type of colored contacts would be best for me--Freshlook ColorBlends or Freshlook Dimensions? So far I like honey from the ColorBlends line but I'm not sure which choice from the Freshlook line would be best for blues and/or greens. Any idea?
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well, i have browninsh yellow eyes and dark hair and dark brown hair... i dont know what colour to get or what brand. HELP!!!!!
I have dark brown eyes, and wear gray freshlook color contacts and they look great. people think its my real color.
do you have to have a curtain conatact lense size to fit your eye or does one size fit all?
actually i have brown eyes and always wear fresh look moonlightit can be worn with brown eyesim inerested in getting this too! and i have brown eyes as well... what do they look like and have u tried any of the others?
I like dark brown eyes, but everyone seems to have them. I would like gray contacts for the summer, but I wonder if it would look natural.
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