Circle and colour lenses are often used in fashion (especially in Japanese fashion sub styles ).
So it's often for people to buy them through the Internet since they are hard to find elsewhere.
The thing is that many buy the lenses without paying much attention to some details with result the lense to be uncomfortable and to not look the way they expected.
This is a guide to show you the steps to decide which contact lenses to buy (from the internet or not ) in order to be comfortable and give the effect you want .
Comfort
of course the colour and the diameter are important, but whats their point if your lenses turn out too uncomfortable to wear. That's why I put the comfort of the lease above its effect. Here are the things you should look into, to buy the most comfortable lenses possible
Water content: The larger the amount of the water content the less dry your lenses will get. A normal lens has 50-55% water content, a colour contact lens is usually less. Generally try to avoid anything below 38% . Except if you don't mind your eyes feeling dehydrated after half an hour.
Base Curve: Most people totally ignore this factor. The base curve has to do more or less with how effectively the lens fits your eye. Contact lens Base Curve refers to the inside curvature of a lens and should match your cornea to feel comfortable and allow for proper oxygen transmission. Except just comfort the base curve influence the movement of the lens on the eye. If base curve does not fit your eye properly then you might move your eye without the lens following. The larger the base curve the flatter the lens will appear. The smaller the base curve the more curved the lens will appear. The base curve can play an important role to your lens comfort so please ask a professional to tell you your eyes base curve before buying lenses
Diameter: Large diameters in lenses tend to be a bit less comfy but you get used to it soon. If you are new with putting on lenses in your eyes, its better not to take lenses with large diameter since they are harder to put on, start with the smaller diameter possible.
Color and Effect
Im finally going to discuss about how to get the color effect you want for your eyes.
It's impossible to consider every factor that affects the color and effect of the lens so I will try to cover as much as possible by making points.
- Your eye colour will mix with your lensh colour: if your eyes are dark coloured the colour of your lensh will look darker when you wear them. If your eyes are light coloured the lensh will mix up with the darker details of your eyes or lensh and eye colour will be combined.
- Small iris ring and details for a natural effect: If the iris ring for the lens is thin and the lens contains many details it won't look vibrant or impressive but more like a natural eye-color.
- Large iris ring and flat colour for and vibrant effect: Usually when the colour of the lens is flat without many details it covers most of the original eye colour and it looks unnatural. The large dark iris ring crates contrast and makes the lens will look even more vibrant.
Vibrant effect Natural effect
- Many black details hide the lens colour: If you buy a light coloured lens that has many black or dark details its likely it will turn out looking almost dark rather than light when you wear it.(But its always up to your eye colour )
- Don't trust the companies photos: Almost all the times the company of the lens will include a photo of a model wearing the lens in order to show how it looks when you wear it. But this photos are photoshopped to make the lens look more impressive and doesn't represent it's actual effect.
- Look at real-life photos before being: Most sites include photos of their buyers wearing the lens so checking their pictures is a good way to understand how the lens will look on you too, but be careful of the buyers eye colour and the lighting of the photo, look mostly of pictures with people who seem to have similar eye colour to yours, and be aware if they look directly into the light, looking directly makes the colour of the lens clear but not as it looks most of the time.
- Read reviews: Reviews of buyers usually contain a detailed description of the pros and cons of the lens all of his color, effect and comfort.
P.S. : All the pictures used were from pinky paradise.
