Historically, most people thought of contacts as being something that were purely functional. After all, if you do not have a problem with your vision, you do not wear contact lenses. You only wore them if you already wore glasses in the first place. Contacts were worn because glasses were cumbersome. Depending on what kind of job you had, they could pose a problem. For example, people who use microscopes. Over time, contact lenses became something that people with or without vision problems were using. Primarily, they were used not to correct vision but to color the eyes. Colored contacts soon became a trend when they were released almost 30 years ago.
The first color contacts were used to add a little bit of color to the eye color you already had. Over time, colors and designs and were embedded directly onto the contact lens. If you needed them for your vision to be corrected, you can have the color contact option. In addition to coming in a variety of natural looking colors, there are also many crazy and novelty options are available. You can have the designs and logos printed directly onto the lenses. You can also have a different colors to make you look like a zombie, vampire or cat. You can have special order contact lenses for just about any design that you choose.
But what if you want something like a purple contact lens? There are two options that you’ll be able to choose from. First of all, you can have natural looking or semi translucent color contacts. You can also get opaque contacts. This means that they will completely cover your old eye color. Depending on what kind of designs are embedded in the contacts, it can either look very wild or very natural. It is important to keep in mind that translucent color or semi translucent color contacts will work with your old eye color. If you have very dark brown eyes, you may find that they do not work.
One kind of contact lenses that is not available in translucent is black contacts. The contacts work to completely cover your old eye color. They’re becoming extremely popular because of different movies that have come out featuring this kind of look. Many people have used them in the past to look like an alien. There also popular with a vampire, anime, werewolf, and zombie look. Regardless of what kind of contacts that you choose and whether or not you have a problem with your vision, you will not be able to buy any color contacts without a prescription from an optometrist or ophthalmologist.