Types of Colored Eye Contacts
Posted on 05. Aug, 2010 by in Colored Contacts
There are three main types of colored eye contacts: visibility tints, enhancement tints and opaque color tints.
Visibility Tints
A visibility tint is a light blue or green tint that is added to a lens to make it easier to see when putting it on, taking it off or picking it up. A visibility tint does not affect the color of your eyes.
Enhancement Tints
An enhancement tint is a little darker than a visibility tint. While a visibility tint does not change your eye color, an enhancement tint does. In fact, these are specifically made to improve or enhance your eye color. For this reason, enhancement tints work well to intensify light colored eyes.
Opaque Color Tints
Opaque color tints are dark tints that can totally change the color of your eyes. Color tinted contacts are typically made of solid colors. This is because people with dark eye color may use color tinted contact lenses to change their eye color. These types of contact lenses come in many different colors, including green, blue, violet, amethyst and gray.
Theatrical contact lenses are also considered opaque color tints. These specialty colored eye contacts, long used in movie production, are now widely available for the public and can morph the lens wearer into an alien, jaguar, or other exotic creature .
Modeling The Nature of The Eye
Contact lens manufacturers have attempted to recreate the nature of the iris, the colored part, of the eye. In fact, some colored eye contacts have a collection of colored dots and lines on the lens to make them look more natural on the eye.
However, even with these contacts, the center of the lens (the part that lies over your pupil) is clear so that you can see.
