Halloween Contact Lenses - the Most Important Part of Your Costume

Want your eyes to look different? Halloween contacts will help you to achieve your goal. Find out which lenses are out there on the market and where you can get contacts that don't interfere with your vision and will make everybody’s head turn.

Color costume contacts - what aare your options?

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

Top selling 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
• Red Hot - for red vampire eyes
• Spiral contacts of different color - red, yellow and white, create a crazy effect
• Fire - 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.

How to make sure your lenses are safe

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

If it's your first time wearing contacts, though, be sure to consult your eye doctor before you order yourself a pair of theatrical contacts. All contact lenses come with instructions on how to care for them. Be sure to read and follow these instructions - taking care of your lenses takes only a couple minutes.

Things to remember:

• don’t wear your contacts for longer than 8 hours and never sleep in them
• only use contact lens solution to store and disinfect your contact 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

Buying your Halloween contacts

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 contact lenses through your doctor’s office. Another option is to order your costume lenses online from trusted contact lens retailers. This way, you can save a lot. 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 the range of lenses on the market, you can find contact lensesto that you will love.