Contact Lenses - the Latest Trends
Have you been wearing the same contact lenses for the last few
years? If so, it might be time for a change.
Contact lens manufacturers constantly work on improving contact
lenses. The goal is to produce lenses that you can wear all day
long without any danger or discomfort to your eyes. Contact lens
quality has seriously improved over the last few years. See how
modern contact lenses can help your eyes to feel and see
better.
30 days wear contact lenses
How would you like to put your contact lenses in your eyes in
the morning and not worrying about them for the next 30 days?
Sounds almost too good to be true, but there are contacts that
you can safely wear for a month.
Most contact lenses can be worn for no longer than 8-10 hours in
a row because the lens blocks the flow of oxygen to your eyes.
This can cause irritation and promote bacterial infection.
However, the new generation of lenses, made from a different
material (silicone hydrogel lenses), have much higher oxygen
permeability. For example, Focus Day and Night lets through 6
times more oxygen than conventional contacts. With more oxygen
reaching your eyes, wearing contact lenses for 30 days becomes a
safe option.
There are two lenses that are FDA approved for continuous wear
for up to 30 days - Focus Night and Day by Ciba Vision and Pure
Vision by Bausch & Lomb.
The downside of extended wear contacts is that if you live or
work in a dusty or smoky environment, tiny particles will get
into your eyes, so the lenses won't feel comfortable for several
days.
Silicon-hydrogel contacts
Discomfort and dry eyes are constant complaints among contact
lens wearers. Contact lens manufacturers worked very hard on
developing lenses that don't dry your eyes, even by the end of
the day. The result of this research is silicon hydrogel contact
lenses. You can wear them from the early morning till midnight
and they feel comfortable all day long.
One of the most successful silicone hydrogel contacts is new
Acuvue Oasis. It is made of senofilcon A, which is a new
silicone hydrogel material that - according to the manufacturer
- is 50 percent smoother than other silicone hydrogel contacts.
There is also a special moisture-rich wetting agent, called
Hydraclear Plus, for additional comfort.
Another comfortable silicon hydrogel contact lens is O2Optix. It
is a 2 week disposable lens which you can occasionally leave in
overnight. O2Optix is also quite affordable - especially if you
buy it online with a discount.
1 day disposable contact lenses
Even though cleaning contact lenses takes only a minute, many
people find it a hassle. Now, when the production costs of
contact lenses has significantly decreased, daily disposable
contacts have become affordable and very popular.
Daily disposable lenses have a number of advantages:
- the lens is fresh and sterile every morning, when you put it
in
- there is no hassle with cleaning and storing your
contact lenses
- no storage or cleaning solution is
required, so you save on contact lens caring products
- there is no protein build ups on the lens
- they are
ideal for people with allergies
The majority of contact lens manufacturers have lines of daily
disposable contacts. The most popular disposable lenses are 1
Day Acuvue and Focus Dailies.
If you are generally happy with the lenses you wear now, but
wish for even more comfort and less hassle, ask your doctor if
he or she can switch you to daily disposable contacts from the
same brand.
Find out more about daily disposable contacts , compare and
review different brands
Color contact lenses - the most popular contacts on the
market
Did you ever think that you can kill two birds with one stone,
and change your eye color while correcting your vision? If you
have to wear contact lenses anyway, try color contacts. Recently
developed color contact lenses can give you a vivid, yet
natural, look.
You can get two types of color contacts - enhancement color
lenses, which are half transparent and designed to enrich your
natural color; and opaque lenses, which can change your color
completely, even if you have dark eyes.
Modern color contacts even come as 2 week and 1 month
disposables.
The most popular color lens collections are:
- Freshlook Colorblends to change color of dark or light
eyes
- Freshlook Radiance - enhancement lenses to make
your eyes sparkly
- Acuvue 2 Color opaque and enhancement
lenses
- Focus Softcolors (2 weeks and monthly
disposable) - enhancement lenses to brighten light eyes and give
them a tint of blue, green or aqua
See pictures of people wearing exciting color contacts