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3 Tips To Keep In Mind While Buying Colored Contact Lenses

By: Pinki Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:24:18

3 Tips To Keep in Mind While Buying Colored Contact Lenses

Many bespectacled people of this millennia have switched to contact lenses for multiple reasons. Over the decades, people started opting for coloured lenses. While some prefer a dramatic transformation, others are happier with a more subtle eye colours. If you are intending to buy a pair or two of coloured contact lenses and are confused as to which ones to opt for, fret not. Here is a guide to help you choose well.

* 3 Types Of Tints

- Visibility Tint


They are relatively lighter in colour and do not affect your natural eye-colour.

- Enhancement Tint

Much darker than visibility tinted colour contacts but translucent, these coloured contact lenses look best on light-coloured eyes and make them look more intense.

- Opaque Tint

Just as the adjective suggests, opaque tinted coloured contact lenses can change your eye-colour completely. People with darker skin tones should opt for these. They are also used for special effects for dramatic appearances in theater, movie, etc.

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* Custom Tinted Contact Lenses

Not everyone uses coloured contacts lenses for cosmetic reasons. Nowadays, they are increasingly popular among athletes and professional sportspersons to enhance their vision during performances. For example, a green tint contact lens can help a lawn-tennis player see the tennis ball more clearly on the green court. These contact lenses enhance vision by creating contrast vision sensitivity and heightened depth perception.

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* Choosing According To Skin Tones

While choosing the right coloured contact lenses you must also take your skin tone and undertone in consideration.

- Fair Skin – Blue and Grey

- Tanned/Medium Skin – Hazel, Green, Honey, Dark Grey and Dark Blue (Sapphire/Navy)

- Darker Skin – Warm Brown, Hazel, and Deep Honey

- For better effect, make sure they are of slightly different shade than your eyeshadow, mascara, kajal, liner, etc. This will make your irises stand out perfectly.

Remember: The darker the skin tone, the deeper the contact lenses’ shade.

- Warm Undertone: Go for natural browns, deep greys or warm honey hues. Avoid blues and greens.

- Medium Undertone: Go for browns, hazel, honey, greens, greys, and even violets.

- Cool Undertone: Go for relatively brighter hazel, light blues, and greens, even ambers, turquoise, aqua blue and violets.

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