In this day and age you can turn your eyes pretty much any color you can think up. No matter what color eyes you were born with, it won’t stop you from turning them the color you always wanted.
It’s important that you understand how the world of colored contacts work, before you start spending money and buying contacts.
There are many people who have always wanted green eyes but were born with darker eyes, or even blue. It’s true that for some people the grass is always “greener” on the other side. In this case, the eye is always greener on the other side.
The good news for them is that with a little research and money you can turn your eyes green pretty easily.
It’s important to know what kind of green colored contacts to buy beforehand though. Colored contacts are not all made the same, and sometimes the shade you are looking for might not be best, or work for you like you planned.
There are essentially three types of green contact lenses that you can find. Here we will go over a brief explanation of them.
The first type of green colored contact lens is going to be the tinted style. This style of green contacts is actually not designed to color your eyes when you are wearing them. They are actually tinted in a way that helps you find them when you are either taking them out of the case, putting them in, or if you lose or drop them.
With clear contacts it can be nearly impossible to locate them in certain situations, which you might have run into if you’ve ever dropped yours and had everybody freeze, as to not step on them. Well, this situation while might completely avoidable, can certainly be helped if the contact lenses have a certain tint which helps you find them quicker and easier. The green in these tinted contacts again, is simply for visibility and not for any eye color changing effects.
The second style of green contacts will be the type that changes your eyes to a natural green tint. This will always work better with lighter eyes, but there are some styles out now that can change darker eyes to a natural green tint as well. Light brown will work better than dark brown, and blue and hazel colored eyes even better.
If you’ve ever noticed someones green eyes really stood out and got your attention, if you noticed anything different about that shade of green, there is a good chance that it was a green colored contact lens. The darker the persons eyes, the darker tint they will typically need to get their eyes to turn that color.
The third style, which isn’t quiet as popular for the color green, is the theatrical, or costume green contact lenses. These are the easiest to use for those with dark eyes, because they really don’t take into account what color your natural eyes are before turning them green, because they are basically a solid tint.
Anytime you see someone with a dark colored eye of an unnatural color, usually in a movie, possibly playing some sort of supernatural creature, they will be wearing these types of contacts. You can change your entire eye, just the iris or the sclera, depending on what type of effect you are going for.
Most places that you buy green contacts from will show you a chart of what that specific contact can do for your eye. This helps to prevent someone with dark brown eyes buying a light colored green contacts assuming that it will change their eye color with no complications. Fortunately this helps inform people first, which prevents unneeded purchases and hopes being shattered. It’s important to notice that no matter what color your eyes are now, you can find a good green contact lens to change it, but you just need to do your research.
It helps to find guides, like this one, that go into specifics of each color, because you might actually find out you want to go with a different color then you set out to get. Like I stated earlier, you can basically find any color you can think of these days, so if you do find that you might have better luck with another color you should go for it.
I know people who have a lot of different colored contact lenses, and they change them out every day just like clothes. I believe that in the near future all of these colors are going to get more and more popular and people will start wearing them like they do sunglasses.
You should know that you can easily get green contact lenses for prescriptions as well. This makes a big difference for those who want their eyes to be a different color, but also already wear contact lenses for vision correction. In green this is usually the case, as opposed to other colors you might find.