Are you considering trying contact lenses for the very first time? If you’ve been happy wearing glasses up until now you may wonder what wearing contacts can do for you. After all, your frames are a reliable way to correct your vision that’s worked up until now.
There are many benefits to wearing contacts including the many cosmetic advantages associated with lenses. For example, if you have very bad eyesight it is likely that you will have deep lenses in your glasses. Contacts are all the same thickness and you will lose that magnified effect that others see through your glasses – you can even change your eye colour if you wish!
Most suppliers of
contact lenses, including those online such as Vision Direct, keep a wide range of colour enhancing contact lenses to choose from check out what’s available in your prescription type and let rip.
Wearing contacts means that not only will you get an instant make over, but that your ability to play with people’s expectations of the “old you” opens up a wealth of opportunity. Soft contact lens ranges include disposable lenses such as solid colour (red, black, white) lenses as well as patterned and pictured ones. Imagine your friends’ surprise as you arrive to meet them with no glasses and they exclaim, “I always thought you had blue eyes!”
Glasses are a practical way to correct imperfect vision but they also have a high incidence of breakages compared to contacts. Simply removing them will not only change the way you look it will also improve your peripheral vision immediately too! Contacts do not require cleaning as often as glasses either. Most lenses are cleaned at the end of the day, but a slight drizzle or a steamy crowded room will no longer have any bearing on what you can see as you travel through your day.
There could be many reasons why you haven’t looked into contact lenses previously - if you suffer from astigmatism or aging of the eye, you’re likely to have been told at some point that there is no lens to suit your problem. All this has changed in recent years.
Developments in the structure of the silicone hydrogels, that make up every lens mean that not only can they help you to see, but they can help with the problem too. For example the problem of astigmatism is unevenness in the cornea. This irregularity has previously meant that a contact would revolve on the eye, resulting in the wearer passing through moments of blurry vision until the lens corrected itself again.
New toric lenses now come with an inbuilt mechanism to stabilise this movement on the eye so that the lens would stay in place no matter what the wearer was doing. Causing a revolution in eyewear, these developments are just the tip of the iceberg and demonstrate how far technology and lenses themselves have come in recent years. Look online for the cheapest options for your individual contact lenses and remember, bigger stores such as ASDA Contact Lenses may sell their
contact lenses cheaper than traditional opticians.
You can find out more about the latest advances in contact lenses at
Contactlenses.co.uk or visit your local Opticians.