Colored Contact Lenses

Colored contact lenses come in four different types: visibility tints, enhancers, opaque lenses and light-filtering tints.

Most of these colored contacts are available to accommodate a variety of prescriptions, including plano (lenses without any vision correction, although a contact lens prescription and fitting is still required), standard spherical lenses (both RGP and soft lenses), toric colored contacts for people with astigmatism, and bifocal lenses.

Colored contacts are also available in a variety of wearing and replacement schedules, including disposable and frequent replacement lenses.

Visibility Tints
Visibility tints do not affect the color of the eye. The tint, usually a light blue or green, is added to aid in the insertion or removal of the lens, or to help locate a lens that has been dropped. Visibility tints are usually available in most soft contacts.

Enhancers
Enhancers are used, as the name suggests, to enhance your natural eye color. It is a solid, transparent tint that is only a little darker than visibility tints. This type of lens is normally used by people with light colored eyes who want to intensify their natural eye color through the use of colored contact lenses.

Opaque (or Color Contacts)
Opaque lenses, or what most people refer to as "color contacts", can essentially change the color of your eyes - temporarily, of course! These lenses have solid, deeper tints and usually have a series of shapes and lines to help re-create the natural appearance of the eye. You can find these lenses in a large assortment of colors, including blue, green, hazel, gray, violet and aqua.

Also available under the category of colored contact lenses are costume or novelty contact lenses. These are used to create special effects with a selection that extends from animal prints to sports team logos.

Light-filtering tints
Light-filtering tints are a fairly recent technological development in colored contact lenses. Designed primarily to enhance performance in certain sports, they are tinted in a way that intensifies certain colors (like the yellow of a tennis ball) by muting other extraneous colors. As a result, the target object, in this case a tennis ball, becomes more prominent against the background.

Caring for your colored contacts
Colored contacts, like regular contact lenses, require proper cleaning and disinfecting to maintain superior eye health. Your doctor can tell you which cleaning products are most suitable for your lenses.

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