Popular Special Effects Lenses
January 13, 2009 by Amy Nutt
Filed under Eye Care Articles
Colored Contacts Without a doubt, the most popular theatrical lenses are also the simplest. These contacts just change the color of your eyes and are tremendously popular among young people in particular who enjoy testing new eye colors.
These colored contacts tend to work best with light colored eyes (blue, grey, green, etc.) but there are also versions created specifically for darker eyes that need more pigment. You can use common eye colors, like blue or green or you can try something a little creepier, perhaps red or yellow. A fun way to use colored lenses is to wear just one at a time, leaving the other eye natural.
Evil Eyes If you want something a little more sinister than just the eye color change, look for lenses that change the shape of your pupil. This can be a fun way to amp up the fear factor. These types of contacts come with vertical slit pupils, like a cat eye. You can usually buy them in a variety of colors, with red and yellow being the most common. These lenses need to be put in just so, however, to ensure that the pupil is facing the right way.
Party On If you hit the dance floor on a regular basis, then black light eyes are a must have. They glow in the black light and create a very interesting effect for parties and raves. These are still fairly new, but already extremely popular and in demand.
Movie Effects With movies like Twilight being so popular, vampire contacts and wolf lenses are all the rage. Vampire contacts are usually red, but allow for the pupil in the center, while a wolf eye is animal like and brown with streaks. These aren`t the only movie effect lenses you can get, though. Look for your favorite horror movie brought to life in your eyes with contacts that mimic the effects from movies like Hellraiser, Tempest and Jeepers Creepers.
There are plenty of options to turn you into the monster of your dreams.
White While these could technically be labeled as colored lenses, the fact is that white contact lenses actually cover up any existing color and make your eyes a fun white color, essentially eliminating the color. This type of contact lens is particularly popular if you are into zombies and want the blank, undead look.
Pictures While not quite as common as colored contact lenses, these fun lenses are found everywhere just the same. They come with images of everything from spiders, roaches or skulls on them to flowers, smiley faces and swirls; you just can’t get that look with glasses.
Having a picture in your eye can be a fun way to grab people`s attention and the variety of images available means that each person can choose the style that suits their personality.
Special effects contact lenses can be a fun way to change your look . . . subtly or in a rather obvious manner. They are also ideal for costume parties and Halloween when you need those special vampire eyes. The price tag can be a little high, especially if you are going for handpainted, so keep that in mind when buying for a special occasion.
These lenses aren`t meant for long term use usually, so you`ll need to take them out and clean them as you would with regular contacts before using again. With proper care, specialty lenses can last up to 4-5 months.
Theatrical and Colored Contact Lenses
January 11, 2009 by Sarah Blanch
Filed under Eye Care Articles
Contact lenses are a great way to look cool and at the same time view everything clearly. Contact lenses have been made to rectify vision problems and is now the most preferred form of treatment for the condition. But at the same time it is also becoming a craze among people with normal vision. With colored contact lenses, theatrical contact lenses, crazy contact lenses and the like being available in the market, more and more people are using contact lenses just for the heck of it.
The origin of contact lenses goes way back to the 1500’s. Leonardo da Vinci, the great scientist, sculptor, painter, and in short an extraordinary man, envisaged the contact lens in the year 1508. To his audience, he sketched and portrayed various types and forms of contact lenses, which he said would set right vision difficulties. The next document fact about contact lenses took place in 1632 when Rene Descartes of France envisioned the contact lens that could be placed on the cornea. In 1823, a British astronomer, by the name of Sir John Herschel, began experiments and suggested ways of creating a contact lens that could be placed in the eye. It was in 1887, that the first ever-contact lens was manufactured. A German named Muller manufactured it and he could wear the contact lens only for a short period of time. Sir John Herschel’s ideas inspired a Swiss physiologist, by the name of Fick, to come up with contact lenses made of glass. Though the lens was able to correct vision, it was difficult to wear as it was made of glass. In 1939, the Americans made the first contact lens created out of plastic. In the year 1948, contact lenses ware made to cover the cornea only. Earlier makes used to cover the whole eye. In 1971, the soft contact lenses were born and later in 1978, the rigid gas permeable lenses were created.
The technology is still being studied and efforts are being made to provide a solution, which is not only comfortable but also reliable.
Theatrical Contact Lenses
In days of yore, people could see vivid types of eyes only in movies, but nowadays with the availability of theatrical contact lenses, crazy contact lenses, etc, everybody can utilize them and scare people, get noticed etc. These lenses are available with logos of your favorite team and you can wear them to cheer them. You can wear really scary and crazy contact lenses and frighten people at Halloween. Theatrical contact lenses can be worn by anyone and is available for people who need vision correction and for people who do not need any vision correction. However, even if you do not need any vision correction, a prescription from an eye doctor is required to acquire the lenses in the United States.
While these contact lenses are made for the purpose of fun, it is advised to take proper care of the lenses. No two persons should use the same theatrical contact lenses as it could prove harmful to the eyes and the chances of infection is also high. The cleaning process of theatrical and crazy contact lenses is the same as the normal contact lenses. You need to keep your theatrical and crazy contact lenses in the solution provided by your eye physician. It is advised not to sleep with your theatrical contact lenses on, as the risk of damage to the eye is high. It is also never recommended to go for a swim with contact lenses on as the lens could be washed away or lost. It is always recommended to buy theatrical contact lenses from a registered dealer, as they will fit you with contact lens that fit your eye cornea properly. It is advised to always take extra care of your contact lenses.
Various other brands are also available in the market but the famous ones are the ones mentioned earlier. Theatrical lenses are available in many designs and colors. You can experiment with the way your eyes look by inserting theatrical contact lenses. Gone are the days when you wanted to have eyes like a cat and could not because theatrical contact lenses were available only for persons involved in theatre. Now your eyes can look like a cat by just inserting a theatrical contact lens known as Cat Eye. Cat eye is yellow in color and has a black streak, which passes off as the pupil. Let us now look at what your can do to your eyes using theatrical contact lenses. The following are proving to be a craze among the masses:
A contact lens known as Red Hot has caught the imagination of quite a few. On wearing this lens, the color of the eyes change to a blood red.
You can make the cornea invisible. For this you have to wear white theatrical lenses. It will look as though you are coming right out of a horror movie. It is recommended for scaring everybody at Halloween.
For those interested in hypnotism a theatrical contact lens is available which will make you look as though you are under a spell of hypnotism.
You can also make your eyes totally black by using theatrical contact lenses known as black out.
If you like fire, you can wear lenses that depict a fire burning. It will have a sensational effect on your audience it will look as though your eyes are burning.
On Independence Day, you can create a fan following of sorts by wearing contact lens depicting the stars and stripes.
Nowadays, you can also find a lot of theatrical contact lenses, which have the logo of the football teams. If you are an avid fan, you can go to a football game wearing lenses that contain the logo of your team. Theatrical contact lenses have impressed many. It is being used mostly during Halloween or during matches. However, the day is not far when wearing theatrical contact lenses would mean making a fashion statement.
Considering Bifocal Contacts
January 5, 2009 by Dr. Eric Stamper, O.D.
Filed under Eye Care Articles
First off, if you’re under the age of 40 you can stop reading now. BiFocals are not for you. starting at age 40, many require assistance in seeing things up close. Yes, that means you.
For everyone else who is wearing reading glasses, bifocals, or just plain struggling to read the newspaper (or this article for that matter), bifocal contact lenses are an exciting option with some new advances, but they definitely aren’t for everyone.
First let’s start off by qualifying a few details of the article. In the article, I am only talking about soft contact lenses. Next, when I refer to BiFocal contact lens fittings, this will only refer totrue bifocal contact lenses ( as seen on TV), this also shall refer to monovision ( one lens for distance and one lens for near), and every possible combination.
Here are a few things that would make you a good candidate for bifocal contact lenses, though keep in mind not a single one of these is an absolute requirement: a strong desire to not wear glasses, a willingness to accept vision that isn’t quite perfect in exchange for adequate vision at all distances, being closer to age 40 than to age 60, prior contact lens experience, long-time glasses use, and an understanding that reading glasses may still be needed from time to time for small print or poor lighting conditions.
Why you might not be a good candidate: having an eye that doesn’t see welleven with the best correction, need for Crystal clear vision, very dry eyes, high amounts of astigmatism, and intends the year of touching your eyes.
There are a couple of things every person should understand prior to trying on any type of bifocal contact lens. 1) Your vision cannot be as clear with bifocal contact lenses as it could be with bifocal glasses, and 2) every person experiences bifocal contact lenses differently and therefore it may take several fittings with vastly different lens combinations before finding the lenses that work best for you.
The reason those two points are true is because bifocal contact lenses do not work in the same way as bifocal glasses. With bifocal glasses both eyes look through the distance portion of the glasses to see far away and both eyes look through the near portion of the glasses to see up close. With glasses, both eyes are always perfectly focused for whatever distance they are viewing. This is not possible with soft contact lenses – you cannot look through just one part of the lens at a time. Therefore, with contact lenses part of your vision is ALWAYS focused at a distance and part of your vision is ALWAYS focused up close. When you are looking at a distance your brain learns to concentrate on the part of your vision that is focused at a distance and block out the part that is focused up close, and vice versa when you look up close. Because part of your vision is always focused at the wrong location bifocal contacts cannot be as perfect as bifocal glasses. And because it is the brain that interprets what we see through bifocal contacts, every person experiences bifocal contacts differently and therefore the same type of fitting does not work for all people.
In my opinion the biggest factor of whether someone will successfully be fit with bifocal contact lenses is the doctor who fits them. Bifocal contact lenses require a firm understanding of how the different lenses work, a doctor must know what changes to make based on each patient’s responses to the lenses, the doctor must him- or herself be very patient, and the doctor must set appropriate expectations through proper education. Fitting bifocal contact lenses properly is a challenge.,
Contact a local eye doctor for your specific requirements with bifocal contact lenses and to see if bifocal contact lenses are right for you.
Discerning The Facts About Laser Eyer Surgery Can Educate You For The Operation
January 2, 2009 by AMED
Filed under Eye Care Articles
Individuals who get weary of wearing eyeglasses or feel they look best when their not wearing them might look to corrective surgery applying laser technology to rejuvenate their vision. If you are really thinking of taking the alternative of laser eye surgery then you truly require getting all of the lastest and most dependable information available on the subject.. Lasik vision surgery isn’t for everyone and you can quickly decide whether or not you qualify beforehand by reading all of the relevant facts. After seeing all of the facts about the process you can then move on, if you so determine,being a well educated patient
There are several laser eye surgery facts that likewise point to the success rate of the procedure. Studying what can be anticipated before the surgical procedure, during the operation and the proper follow through care is an all important portion of the decision-making process and the laser eye surgery facts can assist in providing that info as well. One of the key facts is that most insurance policies do not underwrite the surgery if it is desired only for aesthetic purposes.
Individuals who wear contacts may have to postpone while their eyes return to their regular form before receiving the surgery, implying they will be required to wear specs until the day of the procedure. They may likewise have to don glasses to rectify the sight in the one eye that is not fixed according to the obtainable laser eye surgery facts.
Success Rates Are In Potential Patients’ Favor
In spite of the chances affiliated with laser surgery, the lasik eye surgery statistics are in favor of the patients as there are many more success stories than there are of surgeries that go horribly wrong. While the danger elements are enclosed in the lasik eye surgery facts, the experience and knowledge of the surgeon doing the surgery will greatly increase the chances of success.
The patient will be under localized anesthetic only with a localized sedative for the eyeball on which the procedure is being performed. In most cases, the patient will leave the clinic the same day to set about the healing process and with the appropriate follow up maintenance, after their recuperation they will be blessed with much better sight than they had pre-op.
The cost of the procedure is rather discouraging for most people, but when the cost of optic exams and contacts over their lifetime is estimated, the laser eye surgery facts call to attention that it can be a respectable cost savings over the years succeeding the surgery.
