Halloween Contact Lenses - the Most Important Part of Your Costume

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Halloween Contact Lenses - the Most Important Part of Your Costume

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Want your eyes to look different? Halloween contact lenses can make this happen. Discover what are your options and how to find lenses that are safe for your eyes and are garanteed to make you look stunning.

Selection of Halloween color lenses

There are two brands of costume lenses that make the great variety of contacts - Crazy Lenses by Cooper Vision and Wild Eyes by Ciba Vision. Both companies are major manufacturers of prescription contacts, including corrective lenses, color contacts for dark eyes and theatrical lenses. So if you go with Wild Eyes or Crazy Lenses, you can be sure you are paying for best Halloween contacts .

Heare are some of the most popular costume contacts

Cat’s Eye - yellow, white, green or red, with a vertical black pupil just like a real cat
Complete white lens - makes your eye white, good for a zombie effect
Black-out - makes your eye completely black
Vampire Red - for red vampire eyes
Spirals - red, yellow and white, create a crazy effect
Lenses with Fire effect - bright yellow flames on a red background, around your pupil
Bloodshot - red blood vessels over white background, very scary

Here are pics of costume contacts.

There are also many smaller companies and individual artists, who offer different designs for costume contact lenses. You can even get custom made lenses, with any design you like.

Costume contacts safety

You might have heard that Halloween contacts can be dangerous your eyes. You shouldn’t worry; though, because high quality color lenses are absolutely safe; only improper care of them can cause problems. If you already wear contact lenses for vision correction, care for costume contact lenses is absolutely the same as for ordinary contacts.

If you are new to contact lenses, though, be sure to consult your eye doctor before you order yourself a pair of Halloween contacts. All contact lenses come with instructions on how to care for them. Be sure to read and follow these instructions - caring for your contact lenses is really easy.

Things to remember:

don’t wear your color lenses for longer than 8 hours and never sleep in them
only use contact lens solution to store and disinfect your color lenses, never use tap water
wash your hands before handling your contacts
never wear a lens that is torn
take your costume lenses off if they irritate your eyes
never give your contact lenses to other people

Where can I get costume contact lenses?

Close to Halloween, you have probably seen these colorful boxes for sale everywhere - beauty salons, flea markets, even gas stations. However, it is not a good idea to buy your theatrical contact lenses from these places. Most of them sell no-brand costume contacts, so you can’t know where they were manufactured or from what materials. Remember, the surface of your eye is very delicate, and using paints that are not designed for contact lenses (as is the case with the majority of lenses available on the streets) can damage your eyes.

There are two safe ways to get costume contacts. One is to visit an eye doctor, get a prescription and order contacts through your doctor’s office. Another option is to order your costume lenses online from trusted contact lens retailers. This way, you can get a discount. As with most online orders, your contacts will usually arrive in about a week, so you should place your order in advance.

Like the idea of costume contacts? They are great fun and, with variety of designs, everyone can get contactsto match your costume perfectly.

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