Green Contact Lenses - Where To Buy + Cautions & Considerations 

For a fun change in your life, you could try some green contact lenses. These let you change your appearance without having to spend extraordinary amounts of money or put on tons of makeup. Green eyes are very desirable because they are rare and striking. If you were not born with them, you can fake your way through with green contact lenses.  If you require vision correction, you can ask your eye doctor for colored contacts. If you do not require your contacts to have strength, you can order them online or find them at a costume specialty shop.

Where To Buy

If you normally wear glasses or contacts, as previously mentioned, you can ask your eye doctor for green contact lenses. You can also buy them, with a prescription, online from places like 1 800 Contacts, Vision Direct, or Lens Shopper. Without a prescription, purely decorative contacts can be found online at places like Exotic Color Contacts, Color Vue, or Colored Contacts. With or without a prescription, you can expect to pay approximately $15 to $30 per pair.

If it is around Halloween, you are more likely to find green contact lenses in a store. Places like Walmart and Target have eye care centers where colored contacts are offered. However, in some of these locations, the contacts are prescription only. Costume shops and Halloween specialty stores often have different colors of contacts available for purchase. When buying your contacts, you also need to consider buying a contact case, contact solution, and rewetting drops.

Wearing and caring for your green contact lenses

You should exercise extreme caution if you are sticking anything in your eye, and that includes contact lenses. Before you even open the package that contains the contacts, you should wash your hands thoroughly then dry them with a towel that does not leave fuzzies behind on your hands. Be sure you are in front of a mirror, and open the package with extreme care. Each contact will be in a separate container. If you plan on wearing the contacts repeatedly, you should always put the same side in first. For example, if you start by putting in the right contact the first time you wear them, you should continue putting in the right contact first each subsequent time you wear them. This will help keep you from accidentally putting the wrong lens in the wrong eye.

Before taking your contacts out for the day, you should again wash and dry your hands with care. Then, you will want to once again start with the same eye. If you put the right contact in first, you will also want to take it out first. As you take your contacts out, you should put them into a contact lens case that has the right and left clearly marked. Often, your lenses or your contact solution will come with a case. Sometimes, there will be a big R or L marked on one side of the case and sometimes one side will be a different color. If you get a plain case, you should find a permanent marker and mark one side with an R and the other side with an L so you will be sure to know which contact goes where. When storing your contacts in a case, you will want to be sure you have plenty of contact solution in the case so your contacts stay moist. If they get too dry, you will not be able to use them. Store the case in a room temperature location. Do not let the contacts get too cold or too hot.

Cautions

If your eyes start feeling dry, you should use rewetting drops to help keep your contacts and your eyes moist. If that does not work, you should remove the contacts, as you do not want them to damage your eyes. Similarly, if your eyes begin to burn, sting, or itch, you should remove the lenses immediately. When wearing contacts, it is very easy to scratch your cornea. Tiny pieces of dirt or dust can get trapped between the contact and your eye, and if you rub your eyes too much, you may scratch the cornea, which is a painful thing to have happen. It is also quite dangerous, as scratches in the eye can easily become infected. Serious infections can lead to severe eye problems and can, in rare cases, even cause blindness. That is why, at the first sign of discomfort, you need to take immediate action.

You also want to be sure to take your contacts out overnight. Leaving them in can lead to excessive dryness in the eyes. In addition, be sure to follow the manufacturer's recommendations for the green contact lenses. Some contacts should only be worn for a certain number of hours at a time. Be sure you give your eyes time to breathe. Be careful to wash your hands before and after touching your contacts.

It is important to note that once you have worn the contacts, you may be able to wear them again. But, no one else should ever wear them. Trying to put in contacts that have been worn by someone else is incredibly dangerous.

If you are uneasy about putting contacts in your eyes, you may want to make an appointment with your eye doctor. He or she can give you detailed instructions and show you how to put the contacts in. He or she can also suggest brands you should look into and brands you should stay away from. You may also find that buying colored contacts at your eye doctor's office is the best option. In fact, sometimes, you can even get a free trial pair of contacts from your doctor. This would be ideal if you had never worn contacts before and you wanted to just see how it looked and felt to wear them.

When and where to wear your green contact lenses

If you are looking for a change to your every day appearance, you might choose green contact lenses to change things up a bit. You can also give variety to your day to day by changing the color of your contacts or even the designs on the contacts. There are many different variations of colors to choose from. If you are looking for just a slight change, you can get contacts that blend your natural eye color in with the green color. If you already have green eyes, a slightly tinted contact can help intensify the color. For eyes that really stand out, you can go with an intense green. If you want to add even more to the effect, check out contacts with special effects like Exotic Color Contact's Azalea 3 tone collection in green.

There are also people who are interested in colored contacts for special occasions. These occasions could include stage plays, Halloween, costume parties or contests, other parties, and, especially for green contacts, St. Patrick's Day. You can really put your Halloween costume over the top with colored contacts. A witch with green eyes looks extra evil! A green eyed vampire is sure to capture attention. You could also center your costume around the contacts. For example, you could be the green eyed monster or a green bean.

Overall, green contact lenses can come in handy at many different times during many different occasions. They can enhance your daily look, or they can give you a little something extra during special celebrations. As long as you are careful, follow the manufacturer's directions, and take good care of your contacts, you will definitely be pleased with the results of your new look. Whether you're wearing them to a party, to a club, or even to work, you can rest assured that your green contact lensesare going to draw attention to your striking new eyes.