Color Contacts

Colored contacts are more and more popular with today's contact lens wearers. This is true for all ages. The increased selection of brands and colors, as well as the increased ability of colored contacts to address a variety of prescription requirements, have combined to make colored lenses a popular choice.

Colored contact lenses are manufactured as soft lenses, providing outstanding comfort, and can be purchased with or without prescription vision correction.

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Colorful contact lenses are now available in a multitude of colors, from popular blues and grays, to sparkling greens. The biggest lens manufacturers, such as Ciba Vision, Bausch and Lomb, and Acuvue, all carry lines of excellent quality colored lenses. Colored contacts are available to enhance natural eye color, or to completely transform eye color. Those lenses designed to enhance eye color are uniquely designed to be suited to either dark eyes or light colored eyes. Colored lenses are now available as extended wear lenses or daily disposable contacts, allowing choice and flexibility to lens wearers.

The pricing of colored contacts can vary significantly. Cost variations depend largely on the brand chosen, and the type of wear schedule desired. Regular colored lenses range in price from about $30 to up to $100. If you are considering purchasing colored contacts, check online for discount and bargains. In addition, cheaper prices are typically available when purchasing more than one pair.

There are a myriad of color selections to choose from. Every lens manufacturer offers colors including blue, green, brown, gray and hazel; however, these manufacturers offer a variety of shades of all of these colors. In addition, decide whether you want to enhance your eye color or change it altogether before you start shopping of colored lenses. Your decision will impact the type of colored contacts you choose.

Most Popular Brands of Colored Contacts

If you're selection colored lenses for the first time, it is useful to know what brands are the best selling colored contacts on the market. Below is an outline of the most popular colored contacts.

Acuvue 2 Enhancers

Acuvue 2 Enhancers are specially designed to enhance the color of light eyes. Available colors include aqua, blue, and green.

Acuvue 2 Colors Opaques

Acuvue 2 Colors Opaques are designed with quality and comfort in mind. These lenses come in blue, honey, gray, and green.

Focus Monthly Softcolors

These colored lenses are monthly replacement contacts. Colors available include evergreen, aqua, and royal blue.

Focus 1-2 week Softcolors NewVues

Focus NewVues are designed to enhance the natural color of light eyes. They are also called tinted contacts.

Freshlook Colorblends

Freshlook Colorblends are considered by many to be the best selling colored contacts on the market today. Colorblends are available in many colors, such as green, grey, brown, amethyst, turquoise, honey, blue, pure hazel, and true sapphire.

Freshlook Colors Opaques

Freshlook Opaques contacts look extremely natural due to their unique dot matrix design. Colors available include blue, violet, hazel, and green.

Freshlook Colorblends Toric

Freshlook Colorblends Toric are designed for people with astigmatism. Colors available include grey, blue, honey, and green.

Freshlook Dimensions

Freshlook Dimensions are designed to naturally enhance eye color. Available shades include sea green, pacific blue, and Caribbean aqua.

Expressions Colors

Expression Colors contacts are available in colors including gray, green, blue, hazel, and aqua.

CibaSoft Softcolors

CibaVision's CibaSoft Colors are designed to bring out the natural color of light eyes. Colors available include green, amber, blue, evergreen, royal blue, and aqua.

Durasoft 2 Colors

These contacts are specially designed for light colored eyes, and come in colors that include aqua, sky blue, violet blue, and jade green.

Durasoft 2 Colors (Opaques)

Durasoft Opaques are designed for use by people with dark colored eyes. Available colors include hazel, green, gray, and blue.

Durasoft 2 Colorblends

This is the most recent colored lens product offered by Durasoft. They provide very natural looking color in shades including grey, green, blue, and brown.

Durasoft 3 Complements

Durasoft 3 Complements are designed to provide a natural change in color for dark colored eyes. Colors available include blue, blue violet, green, shadow grey, and brown.

Durasoft 3 Colorblends

Durasoft Colorblends are among the best selling colored lenses on the market. They offer very natural looking color, in shades that include blue, green, turquoise, grey, honey, and brown.

Durasoft 3 Colors (Opaques)

These Opaques are available in many colors, including emerald green, jade green, baby blue, sapphire blue, misty green, aqua, hazel, and chestnut brown.

Elegance Opaques

Elegance Opaques are offering in colors including dark green, light green, gray, light blue, dark blue, and hazel.

Illusions Opaques

Illusions lets you choose between highly natural colors, such as dark green, soft amber, gray, soft blue, dark blue, and soft green.

Natural Touch Colors

Natural Touch Colors live up to their name, providing for very natural looking color change. Choose between colors including sultry gray, hazel, willow green, aqua seas, baby blue, and sophisticated blue.

Other Types of Color Contacts

Increasing in popularity today are colored contact lenses called special effects contacts, or novelty lenses. These lenses used to be used for stage productions and theatrical events. They have now come into the public domain and are increasingly popular, particularly among teens, for completely transforming the look of the eyes. The lenses do not offer vision correction, but are simply worn for the intense special effects they offer. From sports team logos, to stars and stripes, to intense effects such as fire, or wildcats, these are colored lenses manufactured only for the purpose of the effects they produce. As you can imagine, these colored contacts are especially popular around Halloween, and can be extremely effective at putting the finishing touch on any costume. It is worth noting that the FDA has issued some advisories about the use of these colored contacts, as cheaper, poorly produced versions of special fx lenses have been linked to eye irritations, infections, and even permanent damage to the eyes. Those interested in wearing special fx lenses are urged to purchase only the best designed colored lenses, such as Wild Eyes and Crazy Contacts.

In addition, don't wear special effects contacts without first discussing your decision with your eye care practitioner. It is important to understand fully the potential risks involved, including impaired vision, corneal abrasion, and conjunctivitis.

Learn more from the FDA.

The FDA has advice for consumers who want to wear colored contacts. This advice includes, ensuring that you buy lenses only from reputable lens stores, avoiding the colored lenses sold at dollar and discount stores, and checking to be sure that the colored contacts you buy are manufactured by reputable lens manufacturers including Acuvue, Ciba Vision, and Bausch and Lomb. By following these simple tips, you can be confident that you're buying quality colored lenses.